Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-27
Des Moines Bankers Come to
Aid OF Operators and Miners
Will Receive Cash
UNION MEN STOOD FIRM
Ignored Advice of President White and
Ordered Strike-Work Resumed To-
day When Cash Was forthcoming
Didn't Like Color of Clearing House
Certificates.
Special to T;mes-Republlcan.


ers' strike in district IS has been
averted. To prevent the disastrous
complications that might possibly fol-
low prolongation of the strike of the
coal miners of the Des Moines district
at this time, the Des Moines clearing
house association late yesterday after
noon made arrangements to furnish
the currency required to meet all pay
rolls due last Saturday entirely in cash.
meeting in the Odd Fellows hall of the
1000 idle miners who had rejected
all advice and requests and declared
that they would strike until they We're
paid in cash. The affected operators
also met and arranged to pay the min
ers in cash today SO that work will be
resumed some time today. About $780,
900 in addition to the half previously
raised will be required.
The following is the resolution
passed by the clearing house commit
tee which ended the trouble:
Resolved, That in view of the fact
that the miners in this district have, in
a mass meeting, refused to accept
clearing house certificates for any
part of their wages. and decided to
close the mines until they received
cash, the banks of Des Moines, at the
request of the operators, to avert dis
aster resulting from such action, will
redeem in cash from the operators the
certificates furnished the coal opera
tors with which to meet the pay rolls
on Saturday last.
TIL following resolutions were adopt
ed at a meeting of the operators or
the Des Moines district at meeting
in the Slavery yesterday afternoon
In view of the fact that the miners
of the Des Moines district have re-
fused to accept the advice of the joint
board and accept a part of their pay
in clearing house certificates, and
Whereas, The Des Moines clearing
house committee has agreed to fur
nish the Des Moines district operators
sufficient cash to meet their pay rolls
due last Saturday, therefore be 1T
Resolved, First, that we thank the
clearing house committee for saving
Second that all operators will pay
the miners and resume operations as
soon as possible.
No provision has been made for the
pay roll due week from next Sat
urday, but as it is the belief of bank
ers and f1nanciers that the lid" will
be taken off before that time and the
normal business basis restored, there
is little worry concerning it. If the re-
covery should not be rapid within the
next week, ii is likely that President
John P. White and the other officers
of the Iowa United Mine Workers I'M
ion will call a state convention of the
organization to determine whether or
not the union will cooperate in the
endeavor to preserve business activity
during the financial stringency. A res
olution to urge the officers of the I'M
ion to call this convention was voted
down at yesterdays massmeeting.
The mass meeting of the miners Of
the Des Moines district was absolutely
dominated by the radical ones who
exerted such an influence over the 600
or 700 miners assembled that the ad-
vice of President John P. White was
absolutely ignored when it came to a
vote. Mr.. White argued and pleaded
that the men allow their better judg-
ment to govern and urged that it was
the duty Of the miners to cooperate
in stemming the present financial
stringency. He said that the miners
had a greater duty now than merely
to see that the agreement and Iowa
statute which provided that they be
paid in cash be strictly lived up to
that they owed II to the community to
aid in tiding over the present difficult
.ty lest it be transformed from brief
crisis to one Of long duration which
would be bound to effect the miners
personally. However, his appeal was
all in vain. The miners We're determ-
lined before the meeting opened that
they would stand for cash only and
were in no mood to be argued or reas-
oned with. However, Mr.. White did
not despair even when his own follow
ers turned him down and in his anx-
iety to avert strike and the disaster
it would bring, he is said to have urged
the operators to make a final effort to
secure currency and pay the men,
which they did.
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