The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-02
MINERS AND OPERATORS
 REACH A DISAGREEMENT
FORMER STAND UNITED FOR AN INCREASE IN
 WAGES.

VIII Not Consider Any Proposition that
 Does Not Grant It-The Disagree
 ment Final and Great Strike Is Inn
 minent-MitcheH Speaks of the Cray
 ity of the situation and All Districts
 Decide to Stand TOgether--Arbitra-
 lion Suggested by Some of the Oper-
 atOrs.
 Indianapolis, Feb. 1.-The joint scale committee of the central competitive district, consisting of western Penn sylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and lndlana' came to a final disagreement to-day. Before the committee adjourned the operators submitted a final proposition, which was to continue the present scale with it's present conditions. The Illinois operators insisted upon an ad- ditional clause, placing on the miners the additional cost of mining coal caus- ed by short firers bills and other leg1s- lation.
 The miners rejected the proposition unanimously and stood united against any proposition that did not give an increase in wages.
 The committee made it's report to the joint conference of this afternoon, and after twenty-minutes session the con- ference adjourned to meet tomorrow morning. After the report of the scale committee announcing a. disagreement had been read, President Mitchell ask ed the operators if they had any other proposition to make, and F. l., Roo- bins replied for the operators that they had not.
 Following adjournment the miners went into executive session.
 w. D. Ryan, chairman of the Jo1nt conference of the central district and secretary of the Illinois miners, moved ito urge that no agreement be signed by any district unless agreements were signed in all the districts.
 An amendment was offered giving any district power to sign an agree ment independent of the national or ganization. This was opposed by Vice President Lewis.
 President Mitchell took the floor and said: There is no man who better ap- preciates the gravity of this question than myself and when you vote want you to do it with the full appreciation of the responsibilities that rests on you."
 The amendment was defeated by a standing vote and the Ryan stand was unanimously endorsed. Patrick Dolan asked leave to be recorded against the resolution and was greeted with misses in some parts of the hall.
 Secretary Wilson said: According to my understanding the adoption of this motion means str1ke--an indus trial war" MT. 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 assess ment per capita of one dollar per week till April 1, and that each district take care of it's dependents for the first six weeks, after which time he believed the national organization would be able to take care of the strike. Delegate Ger mer favored an immediate strike
 After the motion of MT. Wilson had been amended to provide that the dis tricts should take care of its depend- ents for ten weeks instead of six weeks on motion of w. D. Ryan of Illinois, the matter was referred to the national executive board with power to act. The convention then adjourned till to-mor- row morning.
 In caucus to-day the operators of the southwest district agreed to submit the matter of new wage agreement arbitration, the arbitrators to consist of one member of the supreme courts of the states of Missouri Kansas, Ar- kansas Texas and the Indian Territory. This proposition was submitted to a joint conference of the miners and op- orators of the district. Adjournment was taken until tomorrow to give the miners an opportunity to consider the proposition"