The Oskaloosa herald., 1907-11-28
BANKS GIVE CASH;
MINE STRIKE ENDS
DEs MONIES CLEARING HOUSE
ARRANGEs PAY ROLL.
MINERS UNION WAS FIRM.
Decided At the Mass Meeting Yester-
day to Refuse Certificates
Overrode Advice and Plea
of President White.
Special to Daily Herald.

Special to Daily Herald.
Des Moines, Nov. 27.-To prevent
the disastrous complications that
might possibly follow prolongatlon of
the strike of the coal miners of the
Des Mofnes district at this time, the
Des Moines Clearing House association
yesterday afternoon made, arrange
ments to furnish the currency required
to meet all pay rolls due last Saturday
entirely in cash. This action was TAX
en- after a mass meeting in the Odd
Fellows hall of the 1000 idle miners
who had rejected all advice and re-
quests and declared that they would
strike until they were paid in cash.
The affected operators also met and
arranged to pay the miners in cash
today so that work will be resumed at
once. About $5O,P00 in addition to the
half previously raised will be required
The following is the resolution pass
ed by the clearing house committee
which ended the trouble:
Resolved, That in view of the fact
that the miners of this district have,
in 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 disaster result
ing from such action, will redeem in
cash from the operators the certifi.
Gates furnished the coal operators with
which to meet the pay rolls on Satur-
day last"
The following resolutions were
adopted at a meeting of the operators
of the Des Moines district at meet
ing in the Savery 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 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 it
Resolved, First, That we thank the
clearing house committee for saving
the public from a coal strike.
Second, That all operators will pay
the miners and resume operations as
soon as possible"
Ignored Whites Wishes.
The mass meeting of the miners Of
the Des Moines district was absolutely
dominated by the radical ones who ex-
erted such an influence over the 500
or 700 miners assembled that the ad-
vice of President John P. White was
absolutely ignored when 1t 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 to the community to
aid in tiding over the present difficulty
lest it be transformed from a 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 were deter
mined before the meeting opened that
they would stand for cash only and
we're in no mood to be argued or
reasoned with. Mr.. White did not de-
spair even when his own followers
turned him down and in his anxiety
to avert a 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.