Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1900 — CONVENTION CALL OUT [ARTICLE]

CONVENTION CALL OUT

Miners Are to Melt Oh to Consider the Proposals of the Operators. /_ f PLAGE OF MEETING IS SOBANTON. General Belief la That the Gathering Will End the Strike and Accept thebter. Philadelphia, Oct. 9. President Mitchell issued his call yesterday for the much-talked-of miners’ convention to consider the operators’ offer of a 10 per cent, increase in wages. The convention will be held at Scranton, and will open on Friday next Representation in convention will be on_ the basis p»f one delegate with one vste sos each 100 persons 6n ‘strike. It'is the general expectation that the decision of the convention will be to accept the.increase and return to work. Quietness prevqdled throughput the anthracite regions yesterday, the call for the convention being generally accepted as a signal for cessation of hostilities all around. There were many expressions of satisfaction by miners and operators and by merchants and others in the mining section yesterday over the prospects of an early settlement of the troubles. Will Be Held In Muelc Hall. Music hall, a -theatre adjoining, the , district headquarters, and capable of seating 1,000 people, has been secured for the convention. The national headquarters will be at the St Oh*rips hotel, a block and a half away. PresOdent Mitchell and his stuff will go t* Scranton tonight or early tomorrow morning, and the probabilities are that the headquarters will be maintained in Scranton until the strike is over, as it is the metropolis of the anthracite region. The big demonstration at Scranton tomorrow afternoon being concluded, the work of arranging the preliminaries of the convention will be attacked. It is generally, believed that n complete programme will lx- mapped out at a conference on Thursday, and that tfiis programme will lit* followed at the convention the following day. Mlnrr* K*i>i*cte«l to Accept the Ualie, The general feeling at Scranton I* thaOb<?jlO pyr cent, offer will be accepted ns it stands, and that the matter of substituting a fixed scale for a sliding' Wale in the -lower districts will be lefo. to the affected miners settle when they come to treat with their respective employers mifltr provision of. the offer guaranteeing adjustment of any grievances the employes may present. The matter of yearly conferences to fix a new scale may also Ih> dealt with in the same manner, each set of employes sending a committee to their employer and then reporting back to a convention conducted under the auspices of the United Mine Workers.