Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-29
MINERS IN CONVENTION
Called to Order at INDIANAPOLIS
Today
BY PRESIDENT MITCHELL
To Take Final Action on the Wage
Question.
SCALE COMMITTEE INDORSED
Action Adopted by the Delegates and
Adjournment to Meet Opera
tors This Afternoon.
SCALE COMMITTEE INDoRsED

| national convention of the United Mine
| Workers of America was called to order
today President Mitchell said
This convention is called that you may
| determine what action to take on the wage
| question. In the central competitive dis
| trict the operators have offered the present
scale. This was defeated by the miners
| In the joint conference is pending my mo-
ton to restore the scale of 1903 for two
years.
'In the southwest district the delegates
have proposed settlement on the basis of
| the scale OF 1903, with an advance of cents
a ton in mining scale at the basing points.
What is the pleasure OF the conventon?''
On motion the action of the scale COM
| mttees was indorsed
After being in convention a short time
and indorSing the action of the scale COM
mttees, the miners adjourned to meet in
joint conference with the operators at 2
pm. today.
Anthracite Meeting Called
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 29-Pres-
ident Mitchell of the United Mine Workers
of America today called a meeting of the
anthracite committee for this evening at
7:3O o'clock. This committee consists of
executive boards of the three anthracite
districts and President Mitchell. The COM
The failure of the miners in convention to
take any action toward declaring whether
the Ryan resolution prohibiting the signing
by separate districts would be enforced. or
whether the miners Of western Pennsylva-
MIA and other states where the advance in
wages Is offered would be allowed to work
while the mines of operators refusing to
pay the advance remain idle left the situa-
ton unchanged prior to the assembling of
the joint conference this afternoon at the
German House.
Action Mere Formality.
The action taken by the miners conven-
ton was a mere formality necessary under
the rules of their organization, In order
that the miners, delegates in the joint
conference, could cast their votes in favor
of the Mitchell motion to restore the wage
scale of 1903, which is still pending before
the joint conference. 1t was anticipated
that this motion would be defeated when
the vote was taken, as the operators Of
Illinois, Indiana and Ohio have throughout
adhered positively to their position that no
advance would be paid them. AS to what
step would be taken following the defeat of
the Mitchell motion in joint conference, any
prediction would have been nothing more
than a guess.
Regarding the significance of the action Of
the convention President Mitchell said:
The Endorsement Of the action of the
scale committee today simply gave the
miners the right TO vote in joint conference
on my motion to restore the wage scale of
1903. Before any final action is taken there
must be another meeting of the miners
convention
The Iowa Miners
DES MONIES, Iowa March 29-Edwin
Perry, secretary of the Iowa mine workers,
who convened here today, stated that un-
less orders to the contrary were received
from indianapolis the Iowa miners would
go out at midnight Saturday.