New-York tribune., 1906-04-03
MITCHELL, HERE, NUN.
Hard Coal Miners and Operators to
Meet TO-ddB.

The conference between President Mitchell
and the representatives Of the United Mine
Workers and the committee Of of the
anthracite operators VIII begin at noon to-day
IN the Jersey Central Building. al No 1f2 Lher-
y street President Baer or the Philadelphia
& Reading chairman of the committee of opera
tors. viii preside
Mitchell with part OF his committee, arrived
last night TO attend the conference. which the
operators agreed 10 al his request, and reached
the Ashland House shortly after r. m. The
committee OF the Anthracite Mine Workers, con-
sisted Of Mitchell and the presidents and score
taries Of Tie three anthracite districts
Only the members of his committee arrived
with him. They were T. D. Nichols and p. 7.
Dempsey president and secretary respectively.
Of District No l. Adam Rys Cubbage. vice
president Of District No 1, ard Thomas Hag-
gerty. a member Of the national executive COM
Tnittee, neither of whom is a member of the COM
mittee. came with Mitchell John Fahy. presi-
dent os Distlic- No. ., arrived several hours
later. and the balance Of the committee will ar
rive early this morning.
Mitchell his arrival announced that he
probably would have statement TO make at
$50 n. m AT that hour he was in his room,
and of his followers would undertake to
disturb him Some time after 10 o'clock word
came that lie had decided TO make no statement.
II Was Sdlu last llSIll, Oh beIIGll OF lIe Opc.-
ators that they would not grant the increase in
wages demanded. the eight-hour workday. the
closed shop. the check system. which is practi-
sally the closed shop. any modification of the
methods OF the Cancellation committee formed
under the award Of the anthracite strike COM
mission. Neither will ghey grant the demand for
a uniform wage scale,
The coal carrying companies and the coal
dealers aTTayed against each other the
question Of VeTacity. The operators said tnat
there was no excuse for raising the price of do
mestic anthracite TO consumers The dealers
the increase.
II stated that the operators are trying
hard 10 secure even distribution of the coal
on hand. The price Of freight has not been
raised and no charge is made by the operators
for the cost II storage UnofIically IL was stated
that the operators viii deal summarily with
dealers who Try 10 gel coal for speculative pur-
/. poses.
N The dealers challenged any one 20 prove that
N coal was plentiful They said that the sales
agents OF the companies were not delivering coal
10 them except in small quantities and TO sat
isfy customers dealers had buy coal AT a
premium from other dealers who had accunu-
lated stocks FOR such emergencies. According
20 the dealers the independent operators were
raising prices every day, while the companies
which had not raised the prices were holding
coal back
An advertisement appeared I'm some of the
newspapers that "watchmen" were wanted and
asking 81 applicants for jobs as watchmen to
apply al 10. III Broadway. Many applied at the
ADDRESS yesterday. and when they came out
some OF them said they were wanted 10 Dreser,re
me s'Tlhe' ana were sworn in as special police
men