The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-05-12
CONVENTION OPENED vEsrER.
DAY AND 10 CONSIDERING
AGREEMENT.
Mary Operators Preparing 20 Open
Mines Early Next Week W.
VS. Attempt Demonstration.

The first days meeting OF the min
ers' delegates OF eastern Ohio TO con
slider the new scale recently adopted
at Cleveland BY the coal operators and
miners representatives 70 take each
section and paragraph OF the Official
mining scale. was held yesterday In
the Carroll club. The session con
yened AZ 10 o'clock with los dele
gates representing IS local unions In
the sub-district
The meeting lasted nearly eight
hours and harmony prevailed. There
were nearly 500 miners present. In
mediately after the days adjournment.
shortly after O'Clock last evening. an
lntelligencer man briefly interviewed
several OF the more prominent officials
OF the miners union. and to a man
every one expressed himself as being
nrmly OF the opinion that within a
week all the striking miners viii have
returned To work. that the scale will
be ratified and all the mines in the
eastern Ohio district will be- In full
operation and the proverbial wolf
hhail be driven from the door OF thou
sands OF the $1,000 miners homes who
came out on the strike April ]. 1914.
Adjournment Expected Today.
The meeting win reconvene this
morning at . o'clock in the Carroll
Club, and Il Is expected that by late
this afternoon adjournment will be
taken, after completion OF discussing
the new mining scale by sections. The
meeting IL for the purpose OF having
the various locals OF the subdivision
thoroughly understand the agreement
as framed In Cleveland about ten days
ago between the operators and miners
officials. Following this meeting each
local will Immediately meet and furth-
or discuss the agreement and vote
upon its adoption as a whole or re-
Jet H. This will probably be done
within the next two days. A general
mass meeting OF the miners will then
be at once held when the scale will be
ratified. IL is believed that this can
all be finished by Saturday evening
and the miners resume work early
next week. There is little, IL any,
doubt that everything will move quick
ly and satisfactorily TO that end.
The meeting yesterday was opened
shortly after IL o'clock with District
President G. J. Albasin presiding. lie
delivered a brief address, telling why
the meeting had been called. The new
scale was read by Vice President VIII
. liam Roy. international President
John p. White. OF Indianapolis, de-
livered the principal speech OF the
day, speaking in the most optimistic
terms: congratulating the men for
their loyal stand for the union, when
poverty was staring them and their
families In the face. mo strike in
the history OF labor has been conduct
ed In such a splendid manner as yours.
IL has been a long and hard tight with
all kinds OF difficulties with which TO
contend. Even the legislature OF Ohio
has been hostile. With all that. you
men have fought a good fight; the vic.
tory has come and you have won your
fight by getting AZ cents for run of
mine coal II has been the hardest
fight In % years for the miners. But
none OF you lost heart" said President
White. His speech was loudly ap-
plauded.
Discussed by Sections.
The remainder OF the morning ses
sion was devoted to a general discus
sion among the men. The entire az
ternoon session was spent In explain
ing the new scale, section by section
paragraph by paragraph. There were
scores OF delegates to arise and dis
cuss and ask questions relative to Ger
tain sections. They were in every
case answered satisfactorily by Presi
dent Albasin or other officials who
were present at the conference 4
Cleveland, when the scale was drawn
up by the miners representatives and
the operators.
The following sections. beginning al
the first. were taken up yesterday and
discussed and satisfactorily agreed
upon by the delegation: General Rules
for Pick and Machine Mining: Man
agement of Mines, Hours of Labor
Discipline and Preparation Of Coal
The following sections will be taker
up today for discussion: Dead Work
Pieces. Miscellaneous Rules. PicE
Mining Scale. Room Turning Entry
prices, Outside Day Wage Scale. Ma
chine Mining Scale-Pick. Cut and
Drilling
The new agreement "a lengthy am
complicated. containing "a rules and