The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-03-26
DiSsentiOn Among the Coal
Operators.
ONE WANTS TO ADVANCE.
But Is Kept Back by Unit Vote Joint
Scale Committee of Central District
Likely to Report Disagree
nlent Today.

indianapolis, March 26.--Coal opera
tors and miners Of the central COMPETE
tive district and Of the southwestern
district after beiI-g in joint conference
through committees since Tuesday after
noon, were no nearer an agreement Sat
urday night on wage scale 10 40 into
effect on April than they were when
the former Joint conference adjourned IN
disagreement on February 2. The pres
.ent wage scale will expire next Saturday,
and unless an agreement is reached by
miners and operators before that time
22Sy0c0 union bituininous miners will.
il is said by the union miners, be called
from the mines in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
western Pennsylvania, Missouri, Kansas,
Texas, Arkansas and Indian Territory
The joint seals committee Of the cen-
trial competitive district adjourned Sat
urday afternoon to meet this morning,
when motion To report disagreement
viii be offered, with the probability that
it win be carried. The session OF the
Joint conference to receive this commit
tee report win, according to the present
program, be called to meet this after
noon. During the four days the com.
mittees have been in conference not
every proposal offered BIZ either side on
the wage scale has been fatty refused
The operators have been confronted with
serious dissensions in their own Yanka
4. u. Robbins OF the western Pennsyl-
yania operators has agreed 10 pay an
advances Of 5.55 per eeut, which is the
demand made by the miners, but the OPP
orators of Illinois. Indiana and OHIO
have firmly refused 10 pay any Advsnee
Under the rule of the Joint committee.
the votes of both operators and miners
must be recorded as units, and this d.
vision Of the operators has resulted in
the defeat OF every motion not favorable
10 all OF them. The meetings of the
joint scale committee have been marked
By bitter words hurled By operators at
each other. AIR. Robbins has announced
that he intends to pay the increase in
wages asked by the miners, not only in
the mines Of the Pittsburg coal com
pany, OF which he IL president, but also
in his own mines in western Pensyl.
vania, Ohio and Illinois Independent
operators in western Pennsylvania rep
resented by G. a. MaRoon have an.
uounced that they viii pay the advance
III Mr.. Robbins does
\. President Mitchell 81 the mine work.
ers has firmly declared that no settle
ment will be made unless an advance in
wages is given. Whether the officers
of the mine workers win allow the
miners 20 sign the scale and 70 to work
in districts where the advance is al
lowed, while other miners strike, is a
question that the operators have tried in
vain TO get President Mitchell TO answer.
The only expression Mr.. Mitchell has
made on the subject was made Saturday,
when he remarked in the committee
meeting that the course the operators
were taking might bring that situation
about.
The statement was made Saturday by
a national officer Of the United Mine
workers that, according To the construc-
ton by President Mitchell Of the BY.
laws governing the central states agree
ment no contract can be signed with
fewer than half OF the individual OPP
orators.