Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-10
NEW PLAN DRAFTED
Anthracite Operators Will Present Counter
Proposition to Miners Today.
ARBITRATION ALONG OTHER LINES
Scheme Will Cover Several Years and Ap-
ply to New Grievances Only,
MAY ASK ROOSEVELT TO INTERVENE
Rumor That Operators Will Request Presi-
dent to Appoint Commission.
WORK GENERALLY RESUMED At PITT TSBURG
All the Operators In THAT District
Have Signed the scaIe-JOint
Convention I'm Ohio in
Session.
Scheme Will Cover Several Years and APP
ply to New Grievances Only,
MAY ASK ROOSEVELT TO INTERVENE
Rumor That Operators Will Request Presi-
dent to Appoint Commission,
WORK GENERALLY RESUMED At PTTSBURC

NEW YORK, April e.--At the joint con-
ference Of the kub-committees Of the an
thracite coal mine owners and their en-
ployes TO be held here tomorrow the opera
tors will decline to accept the arbitration
plan as presented last week by the mine
workers and will in its stead present
counter proposition. which If agreed to by
President Mitchell and his men. will bind
each side for more than two years. The
operators have been working on the new
plan ever since the adjournment Of the
Joint conference of last Thursday and the
Inability Of the presidents OF the hard coal
carrying railroads to complete minor de-
tails caused a postponement of twenty-fuur
hours of the conference scheduled for to-
day II is said that the offer to be made
involves an arbitration plan, one that will
call for the settlement of only new griev-
ances that after an impartial investiga-
tion may be found TO exist. The operators
stil maintain the position that the miners
in their demands have not called atten-
ton TO anything that has not already been
passed upon by the anthracite coal COM
mission.
May Ask for Commission.
There is a strong impression among the
miners committee that the operators will
propose that President Roosevelt be re-
AutHAtu 10 dppOiut u StIlht commission u
end the strike controversy. They decline.
however, to indicate how they would re-
ceive the suggestion.
The operators representatives were In
close conference most of the day and
promise that unless something unforeseen
should occur. they will be ready with their
answer to the miners arbitration plan to-
morrow
President Mitchell announced this eve
ming that the last OF the bitumlnous oper-
ators in the Pittsburg district who had
held out against the 1903 wage agreement.
signed the scale today. This action, he
said, clears up the western Pennsylvania
territory and means that 10000 men i'm that
territory who produce from 95,O0O,Glo TO o.
10000 tons OF soft coal year, win rc.
ccive an increase OF 55.5 per cent In w.lyes
Many Miners Are fdic.
PHILADELPHIA April 9.-Reports re-
ceiyed today from the anthracite coal re-
gions state that the beginning OF the
second week Of the suspension OF coal min
ing shows practically the same conditions
as existed one week ago. All of the mines
In the lower and middle district are idle
while in the Lackawanna and Wyoming
fields few hundred men have returned Z
work
Mine workers throughout the anthracite
region express the belief that the actor
OF the operators requesting postpone
ment OF the New York conference until to
morrow is an indication that while Presi
dent Mitohelrs arbitration plan may no
he accepted as presented the operator
themselves will have a proposition tina
will open the way for an amcable set
tlement of existing din6rences. Their,
seems to be little hone in tho coal fields
however. that the negotiations will resul
In an immediate termination of the sus
pension Of Nmlning Should the operator
present a counter proposition at tomor
rows meeting It is regarded as certain
that President Mitchell will ask for an
other adjournment in order to enable hir
20 discuss its terms with the miners com
mttee and 20 frame an answer to tn
operators. The developments today in Ne,
York have created a more hopeful feelin
among the idle miners
Meeting Called for wheeling.
WHEELING. w Va. April "a ca
was issued today by the mine workeri
union for convention I'm this city mex
Thursday OF delegates representing vel
mines in eastern Ohio and West Vlrgini
TO consider plans for settlement of III
strike. Prospects seem bright for adius
ment OF the district. Twenty thousan
miners arc affected.
COLUMBUS, o.. April 9-The first sui
district Ohio miners and Ohio operators
convention today discussed the wage sea
for the Hooking Valley field, the basin
point for the scale In the entire competiti,
bituminous field.
Conditions In Kansas.
PITTSBURG, Kan. April "A CONVEX
ton of miners. members in this district
the United Mine Workers Association
America, called 20 consider the strike 81
uation, convened today with lSO delegat,
present The first thing accomplished wa
the adoption Of resolutions strongly col
denning the action of the Italian mine
who on Saturday forced union men fro
the mine OF the la Belle Coal compan
which had signed the scale. The mil
workers promised protection TO all mine
whose employers have signed the scale
they desire TO return TO work The /
Belle mine resumed operations today wi
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