The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-30

14EAtE4 WQulQ UE CQIIDEEGQ TO pay the
scale. 1t referred to union mines only
and not 10 nonunion mines Mr. Lewis
said within ten miles of Pittsburg were
mines called nOnuniOn, because the
miners rights had been refused them.
He said these mines were working be-
/ low the scale rates and other union
conditions were denied.
If this convention favors the rate
and may favor it myself when get
more light said he, does the resO-
luton mean that we still acknowledge
that at these mines our rights viii be
denied as they have in the past?'
Mr. Perry said the resolution CON
ferred to unions rights as they had
heretofore existed.
Tn reply to a question. Mr.. Mitchell
said the Ryan resolution had never
been formally rescinded but the re-
port of the scale committee had vir-
tually nullified it.
Paper Mills Close.
Appleton, Wis, March 30.-As a re-
suit Of the coal strike every paper mill
in Wisconsin has been forced TO shut
down considerable portion of the sum
mer on account of lack of fuel The
mills have hu4 small amount of coal
in sight. Water power is Inadequate to
operate them alone. Manufacturers
say the coal question is more important
than the decision of the supreme court
regarding the General Paper company.
Forty mills win be affected.
Baer Wants 10 know.
New York March 30.-The following
message sem by President George +.
Baer Of the Philadelphia & Reading
Railwsy company TO President Mitchell,
of the United Mine Workers of America,
was made public at the Offices of the
represent of the anthracite coal
roads in this city today:
philadelphia. March 80.
John Mitchell, Indianapolis, Ind
is it true that, pending negotiations,
ordered your followers not to work in
the anthracite mines after April u
GEORGE T. BAER."
NTitcheIIs Reply
Indianapolis, Ind, March 30-PTesi-
dent Mitchell said to the Associated
Press today that he had not received
the message IF President Baer asking
if it was true that he had ordered the
anthracite miners out pending negotia-
tions.
when do" said he. .I win send
him a copy of the statement given to
the Associated Press last night an
nouneing That such action had been ta-
ken
Coal Enough for sixty Days.
Chicago, March 30-ChfcagO dealers
and editors Of journals in touch with
the coal trade last night, viewed the
strike situation with equanimity. They
said there was enough coal on hand to
last perhaps 90 days, and that there
would be large quantities coming in
during the strike period from the non
union mines in Pennsylvania and the
south.
They admitted that prices would be
higher. but with one or two exceptions
none of them anticipated famine,
even If the strike should last all sum-
mer.
VIII Countine to Work
Greensburg, Pa. March 3O.-EigIt
thousand miners in the employ of the
Keystone Coal & Coke company and
the Jamison Coal & Coke company in
this loealfty have decided to coatiuae
regardless OF the action OF the Indian
apclia convention Both companies viii
nay the advance demanded. although
the miners are now getting a tril1e more
than paid to the river miners and those
in the Irwin district.
Joint Statement Issued.
Indianapolis. Ind. March 30.-A
statement was issued last night to the
Associated Press by F. /. Robbins of
the operators, which was endorsed by
President John Mitchell of the United
Mine Workers OF America. as follows;
The meeting of the operators IN the
ClaypOOl building assembled under the
following call Operators of Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and western Pennsyl-
vania, who are opposed to advancing
mining wages will meet tonight Palm
room 8 o'clock did not represent one
half Of the total tonnage of such states.
The remaining one-half of the tonnage
is produced by the operators who are
willing to restore the scale of 1903, for
n period of two years which is a COM
promise between the demands of the
The percentage of tonnage represented
by the operators who are willing to
agree TO this compromise is sufficient to
avert a national calamity"