Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-01-23
President Mitchell RepeIs
Attack Before Mine
Workers.
CONVENTION WITH HIM
Scale Committee Submits Re.
port Which Is Under
Consideration.

Indianapolis. Jan. 23.-At the after
noon session of the United Mine Work
ers. President Mitchell announced that
he had arranged for a meeting of the
presidents of coal carrying roads and
Indiana mine operators with a commit
tee of mine workers. appointed at the
Chicago convention last month. on Feb
Is. to consider relations after the ex
piration of the anthracite coal commits
sion The place of the meeting has
not been decided.
Makes heated Denial.
President Mitchell made a heated
denial in the miners convention yes
terday to the reiterated charge that he
had sold out the Colorado strike He
branded the statement as a lie. He
was loudly cheered for his rigorous
denunciation of his accusers. The SEN
timent of the convention is strongly
on the side of President Mitchell.
The sensational scene came as a re-
suit of the attack made on President
Mitchell by Robert Randall. of Dietz.
Wyo-. in last years convention. Ran
dali charged Mitchell at the time with
having sold out the miners in the Col
branding the statement as false Ran
dali was expelled from the organiza-
tiOn as a result.
Brought Up Again.
Yesterday a delegate named A. F.
Germoi. of Mount Olive. ILL.,. made the
charge that some of Randalls state
ments Were correct last year He pre-
sented a letter from Secretary Hey
wood, Of the Western Federation of
Miners. in which Haywood denied the
statement made in MitchelIs address
of Saturday that Western Federation
members were taking the places of the
United Mineworkers on strike.
Mr.. Mitchell made reply to this. de-
and branding Heywood's charges as
false, and citing the places where
Western Federation miners had taken
the strikers places.
Scale Under Consideration.
Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 23.-The gen.
eral scale committee of the United
Mine Workers of America at 4 o'clock
yesterday afternoon made its report to
the convention. The report was taken
up for consideration this morning.
The report is as follows:
I'VE, your committee on scale. after
careful consideration, submit the fol-
lowing report:
'First-We demand that districts
Il, 81, "a and 25 be admitted to the
joint conference; also the admission of
the outlying districts whose operators
are willing TO participate.
''Second-We demand a general ad-
vance of 12k per cent over the pres
ent scale.
Run-Of-Mine Basis.
''Third-We demand run-ofmine
basis.
"Fourth-We demand that the diff
ferential between pick and machine
mining shall be z cents.
"Fffth-We demand uniform out
side day wage scale
At the joint convention of districts
]. Z and held at Shamokin, Pa. Dec.
14-16, 1905. the following recommends
tion from the scale committee was
adopted:
I'VE have examined carefully all of
the resolutions referred TO us and in
addition. thereto we have considered
and discussed the policy the pursuit
of which we believed would prove
most advantageous TO our constitu-
ents and which, il adopted, would con-
duce to the best interests of all de
pendent upon the anthracite industry.
Recommendation Made.
in pursuance thereof We recommend
that committee consisting of the Off
GERS and executive boards of Districts
i. z and be delegated and instructed
to confer with the representatives of
the various mining companies for the
purpose of formulating an agreement
to govern wages. hours of labor, and
other conditions of employment; such
agreement to be effective beginning
April 1, 1906, the date upon which the
award of the anthracite coal strike
expires"
The scale committee desires to re-
the following resolution to
the convention:
"That the same relative advance and
changes of conditions that may be
secured by this convention for the dis
tricts which are not represented in the
said joint convention and that the
instruct the incoming ex-