Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-03
mines and miners in Iowa will be idle.
Mining Operations Cease.

Mining Operations Cease.
Fort Dodge, March Sword from
Lehigh is to the effect that mining OPP
erations will ease there tonight and
q general suspension Of work will be
~inaugurated under arrangements made
between miners and operators, but a
strike will not be declared at once.
The feeling between the miners and
operators is of the best and no trouble
is anticipated beyond inconvenience
incident to a tie-up.
Abba Is Gloomy.
Abba, March 31.-The big mines of
Monroe county, which produce one
third of all Iowa's coal, will be idle aft
er Saturday night when the miners ex-
pect to bring out their tools and do no
work until the new scale is made. AS
over 5000 miners are employed in this
county, their loss in wages will be
nearly $500, 900 pei month.
The business men in Abba are
gloomy over the outlook. Both miners
and operators say they regret the sus-
pension and hope 1t will be but a short
one. Most of the mines are known
as railroad mines.
CentervilIe Out Ut Coal.
Centerville, March 31-Coal has rails
ed in price all the "a from 49, 0 to
S., the price last week being $3.50.
About 5000 men will strike from his
county, and there is practically no
coal on hand. Merchants have been
preparing and protecting themselves
for months. 1t is expected that some
stores will close until after matters
are settled.
oskaIoosa Well Supplied.
Oskaloosa, March 31.-The Iowa
district employs about $4,000 miners.
The coal fields about Oskaloosa, have
5000. The railways have been stor-
ing coal at all available places for the
last thirty days and have a sufficient
supply to last sixty to ninety days.
At some points in Iowa the CALI sup.
ply Is short and the price has advance
ed. ALI large consumers have forti.
fed themselves with from forty to
sixty days supply. The local supply
will equal all demands.
No Electric Lights.
Fairfield, March 31.-(Special.)-
Owing to the threatened strike and
shortage of coal 1t has been decided
to use the electric street lights only
on a Saturday night.
Henry Phillips Talks.
"The question of a strike in the coal
fields of Iowa beginning tonight re-
mains just as probable as it did a week
ago, for no action whatever, with re-
gard to the restoration of the 1908
scale was taken at the operators meet
ing in Des Moines," said Henry Phil
lips, one of the principal operators in
Wapello county, this morning. Mr..
Phillips returned last night from Des
Moines and he says he has knowledge
of every action taken by the operators.
When queried as to the effect the
Perry resolution will have upon the
Iowa situation, Mr.. Phillips replied
he was not prepared to state. He did
say, however, that the Iowa miners
have made no demand upon the opera
tors and that the latter body would
cross no bridges until they were
reached. Mr.. Phillips also said that a
joint convention of the miners and op-
orators would probably be called next
Tuesday or Wednesday,, at which SEES
sion the scale committees of both bod
les would get together and probably
agree upon a scale. He contended,
however, that as yet no action with ref
erence to the restoration of the 1903
scale had been taken, and that tonight
a suspension of operations in Iowa
mines will begin.