The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-05
TO PREPARE STRIKE
 ORDER IMMEDIATELY
INITIATION AT HEADQUARTERS OF THE UNIFIED MINE
 WORKERS.

Action to Avoid Reassembling of the
 Executive Board of the Coal Miners
 Order to be Made Effective April 1---
 Discussion of Per Capita Tax of $1
 Week for Defense Fund--COIlieries
 Throughout Anthracite Region Orr
 dered to Operate at Full Capacity
 from Now On.
 Indianapolis, Ind, Feb. At was in- timated at the International headquar- ters of the United Mine Workers of America to-day that before the ad journment of the present session of the executive board, Secretary w. B, Will son would be instructed to prepare 9 formal strike order, effective on April i, in order to avoid the reassembling of the board after the adjournment of the present session.
 No meeting of the board was held to- day. The question of the per capita tax of $1 a week for the establishment of a national defense fund which was informally discussed just before the ad- journment of the board meeting Satur- day evening is expected to be the first subject taken up wilen that body re- sumes it's meeting Monday morning. As all of the members of the board are anxious to depart for their homes an effort will be made to adjourn the board meeting some time tomorrow President Mitchell will leave immedi- ately for the east to prepare for the meeting with the operators of the an- | thracite field February 15.
 An interesting situation in this con- nection has come about as a result of the resolution passed by the national convention providing that no district shall sign any wage agreement until l all have obtained satisfactory settle- ments This resolution has been defin- itely explained by w D. Ryan, secre- tary and treasurer of the Illinois dis trict who proposed it, by Vice Presi- dent Tom l.. Lewis, who spoke in favor of it's passage, and by President Mitch ell, who placed the motion before the convention to include "every district under the jurisdiction of the United | Mine Workers of America, whether an- thracite, bituminous or block coal re- gions, in the United States and Cana 1 da."
 Under this ruling the wage scale con- mittee appointed by the anthracite miners in their Shamokin convention early in December will have no power | to sign a contract, even if their Ge- mands are acceded to by the anthracite | operators unless the miners of all oth- CT districts effect an agreement with their employers.
 Mahoney City Pa, Feb. 1.-The col lieries throughout the anthracite regior have orders to operate at full capacity from now until next April. A number of washeries in the Schuylkill fielt that have been closed, will resume oper. ations tomorrow on full time. Tn, companies expected to add 3OO0,00t tons of coal to their storage stock 1T the next eight weeks.
 Scranton, Pa, Feb. 4-On being shown the Mahoney City dispatch tt the effect that all collieries in the an thracite region have been ordered o1 full time. a leading coal operator sait the report was foolish, and that it i absolutely without truth. The milo winter has caused glut of large size and the companies will have to curtal production.
 A story that gains credence here is t, the effect that the operators are con templating the shutting down of all tn eollieries during March as a means 0 curtailing stocks and incidentally hin dering the mine workers in the follow ing of Mitchelps advice to store III money for April l.