The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-23
MINERS ID DEMAND A
 SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE
WILL ASK OPERATORS FOR TWELVE AND ONE-HALF
 PER GENT.

To Meet Them Some Time in February
 Sensational Scene in C0nventiOn--
 Echo of Attack Made on John Mitch
 ell by Robert Randall Year Ago
 Miners Leader Declares Statement
 That He Sold Out Colorado Men is a
 Lie--Civic Federation.
 Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 22,-The gen. eral scale committee of the United Mine Workers convention at o'clock this afternoon made its report to the convention. The report will be taken up for consideration tomorrow morn ing. It demands the admission to the union of certain districts, whose oper- ators are willing to participate, q gen. eral advance of F 1-2 per cent. over the present scale; run of mine basis, that the differential between pick and machine mining shall be seven cents; a uniform outside day wage scale; that all yardage and dead work be advanc- ed the 12 1-2 per cent; that no boy under sixteen years of age shall be employed in or around the mines; that eight hours shall constitute a days s work, and that when the men go into the mines in the morning they shall be entitled to two hours pay whether or not the mine works the full two hours. This contract is to become effective April 1, 1907
 After the noon recess President Mitchell made the announcement that the committee consisting of the execu- tive board and of officers of three an- thracite districts appointed at Chicago during the December convention would meet the presidents of the coal carry ing railroads and the representatives of the Indiana Independent Operators association on February 15 at such place as may hereafter be designated. There was a sensational scene in the convention to-day, which was an echo of the attack made on John Mitchell by Robert Randall of Deitz, Wyo., in last years convention. Randall charged Mitchell at that time with having sold 1 out the miners in the Colorado strike, and Mitchell made reply claiming the l statement to be a lie. Randall was ex- pelled from the organization.
 To-day delegate named Germane of Mount Olive, H., made the charge that some of Randall's statements last year were correct.
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 He presented a letter from Secretary Heywood, of the Western Federation O | Miners, in which Haywood denied thu statement made in Mitchells address Q, | Saturday last that the Western Fedora ton members were taking the places Q l the United Mine Workers on strike.
 MT. Mitchell made reply to this in ; very heated statement, denouncinL Randall's action last year, branding Heywood's statements as false and cit ing the places where Western Fedora ton miners had taken the places of tn l United Mine Workers on strike. H. named several places In Colorado ant cited districts Nos. 2 and 14, and part l of Washington state.
 President Mitchell again referred t the charge that he had sold out tn Colorado strike and was strong in hi denunciation of those making tn charge. He was loudly cheered.
 MT. Mitchell said that the association he had with the members of the Civi Federation had always been turned t l the advantage of the United Min | Workers of America. He had not com l mitted the organization to anything The Civic Federation was composed Q twelve honorable gentlemen, themselve 1 employees of Union labor. The cardina principle of the Civic Federation, h said, was to maintain friendly relation with organized labor. The Civic Fed eration had favored the trade agree ment and in recognizing the trad agreement had recognized organized la bor. True" he said, Tt has men lik MT. Eliot, but if we all thought alik there would be no organized labor an no mine workers organization. Ther would be no necessity for them
 John H. Walker, socialist leader was recognized by Mir Mitchell He sai the argument was tending to widen tn breach between the mine workers an the Federation of Westernt Miners. H urged harmony.
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