Arizona republican., 1906-05-06
THE AWARD
 CONTINUED
Ihere'II be No Anthracite
 Strike This Year
The Only Question is Whether the Agreement Shall Last I've fears or Longer.

Scranton, Pa, May Son the ad- vice of President Mitchell, represent ing the subscale committee. the min CTS committee today unanimously vo-
 ted to adopt the first proposition of
 the operators, a continuation of the award of the anthracite coal commis-
 sion, with the modification that the term for which it is to continue shall
 be mutually agreed upon. The apera- tors suggestion was that it should be at least three. years.
 The action of the convention. to- gether with a request for a confer ence on Monday was telegrapned by President Mitchell to Chairman Geo.
 F. Baer of the operators committee. and an answer was received agreeing 10 a meeting at ? o'clock Monday af- ternoon at the Jersey Central offices in this city. The only matters to be discussed at the conference are the length of time the award shall con tinue and the provision that there shall be no discrimination against the
 men who obeyed the Mine Workers
 suspension order.
 It is practically certain that the shippers will not accede to any sug-
 gestion for a two-year agreement as that would throw the next conference into presidential year, and as the ! miners will not want a long term agreement, the chances are that a three-year agreement will be eventu- ally entered upon. An intimation has reached here from President Baer 1 that the operators will not discrimi- nate against miners now on suspen- sion, and the local representatives of i the coal companies say the same thing. 1 It looks, therefore, as if a strike has 1 been averted, and the miners will re-
 turn to work probably on Monday, i May 14.
 | In his address to the convention. in ! presenting the report of the scale com
 mittee, MT. Mitchell said: q am in l favor of raising the low priced men to ! the standard of the high paid men. 1 During the six of seven years that have been in the movement in the an 1 thracite region, I have learned to know
 much about conditions here. I want to assure you that I am not at all pleased with the wages or conditions.
 l believe they should be improved. 'In considering the policy of the or ganization, We must consider it's possi- bilities. If I were sure a strike would be successful. that you would win, that you would stand together I would advise you to strike, and stay away from the mines until we got better conditions.
 But from the information I have received from all parts of the region,
 l am fearful that our people are not in shape for strike. I know that there are many among us who are not in sympathy with a strike movement. We must retain what We have. rather than
 lose what We have gained in the last two strikes.
 Tn deciding this question, may ask you to do it without passion or sentiment, but with due regard to what is best now. Whatever your decision Is, whether it be to strike or whether it be to work, I ask you to stand to- sether. accepting without reservation, the conclusion of the majority
 The news that the convention had decreed against a strike was received with great joy throughout the region. Since the delegates began to arrive in Scranton on Wednesday, it was felt that the result of the convention would be the transforming of the suspension into a strike and that the strike, when It did come, would be a long one, at tended by much disorder It was not until last night that indications point ed to even a possibility of peace. To the miners, the news is very satisfac- tory. They were willing to strike if John Mitchell thought they ought to- but they were glad that he decided otherwise.
 Anent the rumor of the possibilities