Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-01
WAR rs ON" SAYS WINDER.
Indications of General Strike in
Ohio,

COLUMBUS. Ohio. March 31.-As Satur-
day afternoons half holiday with the coal
miners of Ohio and next Monday is a
miners holiday, the extent of the coal
miners strike in Ohio will not fully de-
velop until Tuesday. The indications point
to a general suspension pending decision
by the Ohio mine workers organization on
the question whether the mine workers will
stand as unit for the 1903 scale or
whether individual contracts will be per
United, as favored by the national leaders
The peace conference is now over, and
the war is on" declared John H. Winder
chairman of the operators organization
who returned today from Indianapolis.
I'VE stand today just where we stood
when we went back last week" said Mr.
Winder.
We are still opposing the advance In the
scale, and will continue to do So We have
with us the great majority of the oper-
ators of the state and expect to stand pat.
None of our mines will sign the scale and
our reports show that aside from the in
terests dominated by the Pittsburg Coal
Company and two or three additional on
orators the other operators in Ohio win
close their mines.
out of production of $4,000, COO tons Of
coal, not over 2,000, 600 tons are represented
on the other side. l have heard from
northeastern Ohio, and every operator will
stay with us, The Jackson field will stand
aBdliisl any increase. 90 not believe the
miners of Ohio will disrupt their organiZa-
ton by permitting the signing of scale
by individual operators. but this is a mat
ter which is wholly up to the officers of the
state organizations of miners, and with
which no one else has anything to do. The
advance is not justified, and I do not be-
lieve that 1t will be granted by more than
a few of the operators.
The interstate agreement Is broken off
for good, in my opinion. At indianapolis
the miners and operators of Ohio were leg
islated for by miners from all sections of
the country, and on conditions which are
strictly local to this state. Had the matter
been left to the miners of Ohio the result
would have been different. The vote which
precipitated the present trouble was car
ried by the votes of the delegates from the
anthracite district, which has not an inter-
est in common with the Ohio fields If we
can prevent 1t the interstate agreement
Will never be restored"
Out of the nineteen coal companies hay-
ing offices in Columbus there are six which
say they will sign the scale of 1903
MASSILLON, Ohio, March 31.-One thou
sand men in the mines in the Massillon
district quit work tonight There was no
tll-feeiing exhibited and on the contrary
the miners and operators are on the most
friendly terms. The expectation is that
mines will be reopened in June but the
operators declined to commit themselves
on the question of whether they will agree
to a restoration of the 1903 scale. The
closing of the Massillon mines usually comes
a little later than this each season. and
for that reason the strike will not have
an important effect In the district
STEUBENvILLE, Ohio. March 31-The
union miners at the thirty-one big coal
mines in Jefferson county went out on
strike tonight. Nearly 5000 men are en-
ployed at these mines