Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-08-13
Operators Ada1nant
Conference Failure;
Strike Will Continue

without an agreement having beer
coached the joint-conventioR OF Goa
miners and operators of eastern Ohio
ad;ourned Thursday afternoon at 80
after being in session practically q day
and a half. in the Market Auditor ium
rho convention was to have been held
IN the Trades and Labor Assem- IDLY
hall on Market street, near sixteenth
hut when the joint delegations wer on
hand itwas seen that the old hall
would not accommodate them, so the
Auditorium was chosen.
Thursday mornings session was
called at 9:15-T. K. Maher, of G eve
land. Ohio, being in the chair. Mr.
Maher was one of the representa- ives
of the Purseglove interests.
Secretary Frank Ledvinka read the
minutes of the first days session, and
after they had ben acted upon, Gilajr-
man Maher opened the real business
Al. the second session with a short adj
dress. in which he reviewed the OF era
Tors side of the controversy, taking
the position that the proposition sub
mitted Wednesday in behalf of the
operators was strictly within the min
ing law limit of the state of Ohio.
The chairman was followed, in be-
half of the miners, by Vice-PresiC ent
William Roy, of Bridgeport, who took
occasion to roundly score the 9proI osi-
ton submitted by the operators, pro
yiding for Alp for machine cutting
and loading on the mine run ba sis;
1915 for screened coal. This, he charg-
ed waSta plain evasion Of the spirit of
the law. r. e.
Exception to this statement vas
taken by Charles Mahrer, Of the op era
tors association, and it is said warm
debate ensued between the two.
The miners are demanding Al cents
per ton for machine cut and loa1ed
coal, and 67.6 for pick coal.
All addresses had been delivered by
ii o'clock, at which time vote on the
matter at issue was called for; the
proposition of the operators was put
first and the miners, voted to a nan,
to reject it-while the operators voted
to accept it. When the proposition of
the miners was presented, the opera
tors solidly voted to REJECT it, the min
ers for it's acceptance.
Continues WrangIe.
The convention was in Wran gle
practically from the first to the last,
and it was seen at the start that tn ere
was very little hope for a satisfact Dry
settlement to be made, and it sec ms
now that the strikers and operators
are just as far apart as ever, and that
the strike will continue indefinitely.
The miners are holding out well,
and with the generous assistance being
given them by both theft internatio nal
Organization and other labor boo les
throughout this section, there is no
boubt butwhat they will be well taken
care Of They are determined not to
: give In an inch.
Operators Solid
The operators were practically a
unit, too, on their proposition, and
were especially bitter against he
"Checkoff" and said that under no cir
cumstances would they consider FRO
position which even suggested he
retention of the proposition, which
they claim is in violation of the mining
laws Of the state Of Ohio.
Officers Leave.
Vice-President Roy, Executive Board
Member Jones, and several other Off
GERS of the miners, left Friday morn ing
for the Anthricite region of Pennsyl-
yania, where they will solicit funds
for the miners.