Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-08-27

The wage question for the Eastern
ohio miners is now in the hands OF a
scale committee-comp eight
miners and eight operators-whose de-
liherations will be Witnessed by com
.mittee of three from the business men
~ Wheeling, and Belmont and Jeffer-
son Counties ~
forence called to order Thursday after
noon at $3.50, in the Market Audltor-
Inn at Wheeling Mo other business
+. was transacted at the convention, anu
after the naming of the committee Dy
both sides the convention ad1ourneo
to meet at the call of the Scale Com
m;ttee. 1t is. the general impression
hat the committee will be ready to
renort Saturday, and the conference
will meet again to ratify or reject the
report
The conference was called practical
" nv the business men OF Eastern
Ohio. as a result of the persistent
ooifation. for some time past OF the
Joint Harmony Committee of Wheel
mg-Chairman Will H. Colvig OF that
oTganization having been indefatlgu-
able The business men induced the
onerators to call for another CONFER
ence and the miners promptly acs
cepted.
The meeting was called to order at
3.2O in the afternoon by Charles j..
Albasin. president of the Sub-Dlstr1ct
miners. He called for nominations TOT
permanent chairman and T. X Manner
was nominated without opposition, re-
presenting the operators. Frank Led
yinka, of the miners, was then maze
secretary, and John Zalenka, repre-
senting the operators, assistant sec
rotary. The officials were the same
as those acting atsthe last conference
held in Wheeling.
Maurer Speaks.
Immediately after the calling to Or
der Mr.. C. e. Maurer, of the operators,
took the floor and talked briefly OF the
situation, reviewing the steps OF the
business men leading up to the call
ing5of the present conference and con-
Guided by moving that scale commit
tee be appointed to consider the wage
question and report back to the con-
ference. 4
President Albasin Speaks.
He was followed by President Al
basin, who statet shat the calling OF
the conference found the miners ready
and willing to meet; that they always
were, and would meet with the opera
tors in Wheeling, Kansas City OF san
Francisco, if there was posslDlilty Oh
accomplishing airy good.
He thought tn motion 10 create
Joint scale committee might pc pre-
mature but that he saw no oDJectlon
to it, for it might result in the repre-
sentatives of the miners and operators
putting their stomachs up against the
same table and begin to tell the truth
about each other, as some one mao
said. though he would not admit that
the miners had not always been truth
full.
There was some objection IN the
crowd against the appointment OF the
committee and this brought out very
clearly the fact that the strike was
not one of the Officials" as had been
charged. but that the rank and file
we're standing behind everything that
had been done. Men arose in various
parts of the hall and told OF great
sufferings on the part of the 1amnles
of the miners, but all declared that
they would stay on strike for two
years, or as long as necessary to WIN
since it was impossible for them to
work and live under AZ cents, and that
if they we're to starve to death work
ing they might as well starye to death
idle. 's H{
Committee Named.
In the end the committee was oe
cided on by unanimous vote OF DOLE