The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-02
AGREEMENT IS
OUT OF QUESTION
Miners and Operators Dead-Locked
at Indianapolis Over the at
ter Of Wages.
STRIKE SEEMS PROBABLE
UNION MEN ASSESSED A DOLLAR
A WEEK.

Indianapolis, Feb 1.-The joint scale
committee Of the central competitive
district, consisting Of western Penn
sylvania, Illinois, Ohio end Indiana,
came to a final disagreement today,
after baing in session two hours 1t
was decided to report the disagree
nlent to the joint conference to be held
at O'Clock Before the committee ad-
journed the operators submitted a
final proposition, which was to con-
tinue the present scale with its pres
ent conditions. The Illinois operators
insisted upon an additional clause
Facing on the miners the additional
cost of mining coal caused by shot
firers, bills and other legislation. The
miners, voting by states, rejected the
proposition unanimously, and stood
united against any proposition that
does not give an increase in wages.
Do Not Expect Agreement.
AT noon President Mitchell, of the
miners, said a meeting Of the Miners
convention would be held in all prob
ability Immediately following the ses-
sion of the joint conference. Neither
the officers Of the operators nor of the
miners expect an agreement in Indi-
annapolis at this time, and the general
feeling is that an adjournment with
out an agreement win be taken to-
morrow.
A proposition to have the joint con-
ference appoint a. sub-scale committee
is being considered, but neither side
has much faith in such a committee
being able to accomplish anything.
The joint conference of miners and
operators was called to order by the
chairman at 2:30 o. m, and after a
twenty minutes session adjourned to
meet tomorrow morning a 3 o'clock.
Miners in Convention.
President Mitchell Immediately
called the miners to meet in cOnven-
ton. The report Of the scale commit
tee announcing a disagreement was re-
ceiVed and made Of record. President
Mitchell then asked the operators if
they had any other proposition to
make, and F. L. Robbins replied for
the operators that they had not, and
that conditions justified d decrease IN
wages. but the operators would con-
sent to a continuance of the present
scale
President Mitchell replied at some
length, urging THAI conditions justified
an increase, and that present prosper
lty should be shared with the miners,
after which an adjournment was
taken and the miners went into ses-
sion.
All or None.
W. D. Ryan, chairman of the Joint
conference Of the central district and
secretary of the Illinois miners, re-
ported to the Miners convention the
situation and moved to refuse the
proposition of tbs operators and that
10 agreement would be signed by any
district unless an agreement was
signed in all the districts. The reso-
luton was unanimously adopted.
Secretary Wilson said:
According to my understanding the
adoption Of this motion means
strike
Mr.. Wilson said that the finances of
the national organization were not at
present in a condition to take care of
the entire membership in a long strike,
and he moved an assessment per cap
tia Of one dollar per week till April ].
and that each district take care of its
dependents for the first six weeks
after which time he believed the ma
tional organization would be able To
take care Of the strike
After the motion had been amend
ed TO provide that the districts should
take care of their dependents for ten
weeks instead OF six weeks, the mat
ter was referred to the national execU-
tive board with power to act. The
convention then adjourned sine die