Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-13
MITCHELL GOES TO NEW YORK
Miners President Preparing to Meet
Anthracite Operators Thursday.
DECLINES TO DISCUSS DoLAN MFMF
He IL too Busy ProtectinE Interests
of Men To Aid In Further
Dividing Their
strength.

| NEW YORK, Feb 12--President John
Mitchell of the United Mine Workers OF
America, who arrived here Sunday night
| TO prepare for the conference on Thursday
| between the mine workers of the anthra-
| cite region and their employers. spent
busy day at the headquarters in the Ash
land house. arranging his program for the
meeting. The miners president brought
with him from indianapolis a large trunk
| filled with documents and statistics relat-
! ing to the hard coal industry in Pennsyl-
| vania, which he will use at the conference.
| Mr. Mitchell declined to discuss the anthra-
| cite coal situation so far as II related to
the miners union in advance of the meet
ing with the operators. Neither would he
talk OF the conditions In the west.
Mr.. Mitchell was in conference tonight
| with the presidents OF the three anthracite
districts Messrs. r. D. Nichols, William
II. Dettrey and John Fahy. who will take
| up most of his time between and
| Thursday in the work of perfecting the
demands or proposition to be laid before
the coal mine owners
! No inkling of the exact nature of the
| demands has leaked out and 1t is improb-
| able that they will become public property
until the conference shall have adjourned.
! President George T. Baer OF the Phila-
| delphia & Reading Coal and Iron company
viii be here tomorrow for his usual weekly
| conference with officers of the Central
Jersey and Lehigh Valley and Wilkesbarre
Coal company OF which corporal lions he s
the head. 1t is understood that while here
! Mr.. Baer will meet some of the officers of
/ the other coal carrying railroads
, Declines to Discuss DoInn.
Mr. Mitchell was much interested today
| In the statement given out by District
President Patrick Dolan OF Pttsburg.
! When first approached on the subject he
declined to discuss the matter. but later I'm
! the day he dictated the following state
ment:
! [ do not propose to be drawn into a news
! paper controversy with Mr. Dolan or any
| one else. At the proper time and in the
| proper way will make answer. At pres
! ranks of the miners and protecting their
interests to say anything that would assist
| hopes and to divide their strength
Among those who called upon Mr..
/ Mitchell tonight were Ralph NJ Easley,
| secretary of the National Civic federation.
and Louis n. Hanmerlng of Wilkesbarre.
| Pa. Secretary Easley's visit had nothing
| TO do with the coming conference. He
| called on 8ir Mitchell merely to talk over
/ some OF the plans for the coming annual
meeting of the civic federation Of which
! the miners leader'is member Mr. Ham
merling will remain in New York the
greater part of the week on matters per-
! tanning to the conference The three dis
! trict presidents and their secretaries had
! nothing to say tonight prior to going
into conference with their chief, beyond
stating that the situation in the anthracite
region, from a union point of view. is
! satisfactory.
- Mitchell VIII Take Action.
PlrTsBURG6 Feb 12.-From kilograms re-
! ceived here tonight by members Of the ma
tienal executive board of the United Mine
! Workers of America it is learned that John
! Mitchell. president of the mine workers is
preparing TO take some action on the state
nentj issued yesterday by Patrick Dolan of
the LEGAL district of the mine workers In
which he declared that Mitchell had never
won soft coal strike. and criticized the
action of the national convention in de-
| claring that no district can make an agree
ment with operators unless all districts
| sign IT,
Mitchell telegraphed tonight to William
! Little, member OF the national executive
board. and William Mckay, national organ
! izer who are in this city, summoning them
! to New York to, meet Mitchell at the Ash
| land house
! Little and Mckay regarding the action to
| be taken I'm court Wednesday morning when
the hearing on Dolan's Injunction against
! the delegates OF district No. is heard
Dolan announced today that he would
issue another statement, but late tonight
said he would withhold II. awaiting any ac-
ton President Mitchell mighttake
! "All | will say Dolan said. lis that |
meant Just exactly what said, and that
the statement | made was absolutely cor
rect"
CIearheId Trouble Settled
DUBOIS, Pa, FEB 12.--At mass meetings
held at PunXsutawney and Reynodsville
today the terms of settlement reached by
officials OF the United Mine Workers and
General Manager L. w. Robinson of the
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg coal inter
csts at conferences held at Punxsutawney
on Friday and Saturday, were ratified and
the employees of sixteen operations of the
company will resume work tomorrow morn
ing. The miners went on strike the first of
last week, alleging the operators were not
living up to the agreements embodied i'm
the Altoona scale. This settlement was
reached on the assurance by the representa-
tive Of the coal companies that an agree
ment would be observed in every respect.
Production of Anthracite Coal.
WlIIK BARRE Pa, Feb l2-The an
nual report of Mine Inspector James Mar
tin Of the seventh anthracite district G.u-
zerne county, for the year 1905 shows that
the production of coal amounted to 5,445.9es
tons, nearly 10000 tons more than was pro-
duced in the year 1904 and little more than
5OO,00O tons more than was mined in 1905
The report also shows that sixty zone lives
were lost in the district during the year.
ffty-three OF which were inside and eight
outside the mines.
The production of coal per life lost dur
ing the year was IO2, 755 tons, In the district
there twenty collieries and ffty-one
mines; persons employed inside OF mines.
s,4s4 persons employed outside, 1913
Expect strike in Kansas.
PITTSBURG, Kan. Feb. l2.-The coal
operators of this district have concluded
that all thought of an agreement between
the miners and operators has vanished. and
i'm anticipation OF conflict President w. G.
Perry of the Southwestern Interstate Coal
Operators association has issued a general