The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-28
JOINT COMMITTEE GETS
TOGETHER AT CLEVELAND
BOTH SIDES AGREE INDICA-
TTONS POINT TO END OF
long STRUGGLE.
Little Given Out on negotiations.
Miners Hold Out For AZ Cents
But Make Concessions.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, April IL
Efforts TO settle the year-lono
strike In the Eastern Ohio coal
heids which has forced 5000 men
Into idieness. were resumed today
~ the conference between oper-
stors and miners. held here at the
While II was reported that q
majority OF the coal operators
favored eoneedlna to the miners
their demand for AZ cents per ton
ss wage basis on q run Of mine
scale, others were unwilling 70
eoneede the demand and a recess
was taken until tomorrow, when
the neaotistlons will be resumed.
The miners expressed them
selves az determined to stand by
the ~ cent scale but were willing
TO make concessions az to the
operating conditions and mining
methods asked by the operators.
" any settlement 10 reached, u 10
believed that II will be upon the
~ cent basis. 81 think the wage
scale will be signed and the East
Ohio coal strike will be ended be-
fore this conference adJourns,"
was the declaration OF John NJ.
Roam, chief mine Inspector and
personal representative Of Cover
nor Willis tonight. after the first
session had adjourned.
I'VE did not get down TO the
question Of scale. but are still dis
dent John Moore. al am more
hopeful OF settlement, however,
than ! have been at any time"
Present Old Rate.
The coal operators offered 10
-
each Of the numerous conferences
they have had with the miners
within the last year, and u is ex-
peeted that they again will pre-
sent this rate as the basis for a
settlement. The mlne<s now are
determined, their officials say, 20
hold out for the 47-eent rate. The
settlement OF the strike az the
present time apparently hinges
upon the question Of whether
concessions offered by the miners
az 10 working conditions win ba
sufficient 70 Induce the operators
70 grant the 47-eent scale. The
Joint scale committee, comprising
seven Representatives Of the min
ners and seven OF the forty-two
operators, will convene again at 9
o'clock this morning. The ses-
sions are held In pariors on the
second floor OF the Holleuden ho-
tel, and are open only 10 the
members OF the Joint committee,
which was named at Canton last
week at the suggestion Of Gov
ernor Willis.
Representative of both sides wer
reluctant to discuss the days pr,
ceedinRs. Nothing done" was the
comment. They denied. howeve
that there had been any exceptional
heated discussion on any point. NJ
tional President White was not pa
optimistic. We shall atic
by our demands for a 47-cent seal
mine run" said he. I'VE shall ce
tainly try in every way possible fC
a settlement. but we are not givin
our hand away. We are disposed [
be fair and want to do the best "
can. Nothing would make us happit
than TO be able to iron out our dif
culties. Nothing has really been a
complished so far"
White Non-committaI.
White refused to say what IN
present attitude OF the miners wa
toward two conditions known a
"deadwood" and 'yardage" II wa
said at Canton unofficially that IN
operators might concede the ~ Ger
rate IN the miners would cut the
price for "deadwood" labor PEI
formed other than in direct produ,
tion OF coaD In two and eliminate a
together the demand for "yardaRe
tan allowance for mining in room
less than "a feet wide).
A secret session OF the sub-scal
committee OF the miners was neI
here today. but President White an
others refused TO say what its pui
pose was OF N aught had been don
affecting the joint conference. BOT
operators and miners are guardin
the nature OF the concessions to h
made. Some OF these concessions Ar
known 70 be a change from. the bloc
10 the pillar system OF mining. as IN
result OF which the mines will produc
more coal with the same number Z
men. William Green. national seer
tary OF the miners. admitted pro
poets were bright for a settlemen
The strike looks nearer an en
now" Green said.
Some operators expressed the san
belief While no written offers mar