The Cairo bulletin., 1906-04-04

New York, April Subcommittee,
repre- eating the anthracite operators
and the mine workers of Eastern
pennsylvania held their first toins
meeting here today, aai aItar nearly
three hours session adjoHuea antii
p. ~. Thursday without coming 10
an agreement
Zach side refused to maize roe slight.
ost concession, and the whole owes
zion apparently is as far from Il .u.u-
lion as 10 was before today confer
ence began.
Meantime the tie-up of the anthra-
cite industry remains as complete as
II was yesterday without any indica-
tionS that the resumption of mining
VIII occur very soon. wthstanding
the lrultless session and the apparent
~ hopeleya deadlock between the
WCtkmen and their employers, rlmors |
are current tha' way will be found |
'hat viii enable the operators ana |
miners 10 stand on common ground |
ana settle their differences.
After the conference. the following
statement was given by a representa-.
i've OF the operators: The conference
began at noon with President Z. r.
Thomas. Of the Lehigh Valley com.
pany in the chair Mitchell made a
long speech, detailing why in his judg
ment the original demands OF the
miners ought 10 be granted. He wa.
followed by Nichols president of the
Lackawana-Wyoming district of the
miners union, who supported Nit.
chels argument. There We're other {
speeches. by representatives of the I
miners. In fact that side did nearly I
all of the talking. c
There was no disposit on on either |
side to recede from its original posi- \
ton or 10 accept any modification of "
me original demands. Mitchell's atti. g
'ude indicated that the counter promo. T.
sition made by the operators for a re, a
newal of the work ng agreement
trafted by the anthracite strike com.
mission was not acceptable TO the
miners.
On motion Of Mitchell the confer b
'nce adjourned until Thursday. The W
'ntire situation remains the same as n
'efore the meeting. The suspension Of cs
work in the anthracite mines will con. II
nue., pending the negotiation" NJ
Each member of the operators com. m
nittee giving further details of the te
leeting, but none OF them cared 10
ny anything beyond what was con.
aimed in the statement of President III
aer who is chairman of the opera.
,rs' subcommittee He said: We ID
IMPLY had long talk which was in
he nature of glittering generalities.
r&ctically nothing was accomplished. AA
The members of the miners com.
ittee including Mitchell. absolutely
fused to talk of the conference. The
iners' president also refused to ey.
ess an opinion as to whether the
nation was hopeful or d,scouraeing sal
lm his view point.
lhe report. from the anthracite
Ids according 10 the labor leaders
satisfactory to them. No breaks
reported IN the rauks of the
nere Rrt non, arc gNp.rgi G
'i t"eii 3'-oa .u- 'l" situation .u N.'
"t1Iainou. fields said b.. has -., po
'rd large uumtar ~ telegram. "'e
lfuE fae uay from fh, .oH COAL con
l- which satisfied bm thst np| hts
flIs ~ those regions an, working haa
.msrl'cs 0g, iue' d. Hc had an dIsr
paied- Thousands vi mtn br sald. %.
urned TO work today under the has
lie of 1873 which gives them an i'm. Dcy
ase Of 5.55 per cent over the wages offic
eived during the last two years. has
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