Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-03-23
SMALL HOPE IN
SECOND SESSION..
Rituminous Mine Owners Honor Pres1-
dent Roosevelt's Request ana
See Unions.

NEW YORK, March 20.-(Bulletin)
President Baer of the anthracite own
ers' committee of seven this afternoon
sent to President Mitchell Of the miners
union an acceptance of the proposition "
meet in a second wages conference.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March u
The bituminous operators late MONDAY
agreed TO meet the miners once more III
q final effort to avert strike. Ilelo
was little in the move that PROMISES
peace. Strike sentiment continued 10
grow.
Honor Presidents Request.
The decision to go into a joint CONFER
ence with the miners and reopen lhe SUI
ject of the disputed wage scale meahe
simply the honoring of the request Vi
President Roosevelt. 90
The new conference began Ut -'-o
o'clock this afternoon.
AS usual the operators were given the
privilege of choosing the chairman ma 10 OIL
the joint conference. w. b.. llson,
secretary of the miners. was selected as
principal secretary of the conference
Mitchell and Lewis Battle.
There has been new lining up OF the
Mitchell and Lewis factions IN the NH
ers' fight among themselves. inns mas ie
suited in Lewis gaining control ol ~ u.
of the miners sixteen votes to De casl III
Joint conferences and joint scale sessions
and there are strong indications tnat nt
can get four more-the Pittsburg district
yote-should he wish to carry out any
policies different from those advocated
by President Mitchell. 1t has also re-
suited in w. II. Haskins rendering ms
resignation as president OF the Onio
miners to take effect Thursday: ,
f,.in of
ell, and when the Ohio delegation elected
Vice President T. l.. Lewis spokesman
of the Ohio scale committeeman, placing
in his hands the Ohio miners four Votes
to be cast as a unit, Hasklns regarded II
as an intrusion of his rights, it being Gus
tomary for the district president TO cast
the vote.
Work of New Gathering.
According to custom all OF the oper-
ators' and miners delegates first organ
lied. Scale committees to represent eth
err side were announced, and then re-
tired to take up the wage question and
frame a report to the joint convention.
Under the rules of the interstate con-
ference it is necessary for both oper-
ators and miners to ratify any agree
ment by unanimous vote.
The unit rule prevails with the oper-
ators. This was decided upon at Mon
states involved four men were chosen as
conference representatives. This makes
sixteen in the operators committee. The
miners have like number of representa-
tives.
Southwest Stands Out.
Southwestern operators in separate
convention voted to oppose an increase
i'll wages to miners.
President Mitchell announced last
night he had not yet received response
to his letter addressed TO Mr.. Baer re-
garding the anthracite question.
Town Confscates Railway Coal
BUSHNELL, H., March 20-Resi-
dents of BUSHNELL headed by Mayor J.
e. Harris, took a carload of coal that
was standing on 4 sidetrack of the Bur-
lington railroad in this city and, dividing
it, took it to their homes. For the last
two weeks impossible roads have pre-
vented the delivery of coal in the city
from the country coal banks. Fear of a
strike has caused the railroad company
to confscate coal intended for local deal
ers and the result is that many persons
here are out Of fuel and are unable to
keep warm.
Over Fifty Thousand to Strike.
Lens, France, March 2O.-The miners
congress is expected to reject the opera
tors terms. The strikers now number
81 900 men. Several affrays, but none of
them serious. occurred between the strik-
ers and the troops. Fire continues in the
lateral galleries of the Courrieres mine,
where hundreds of bodies remain