Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1903 — THUDS IRE OUT [ARTICLE]

THUDS IRE OUT

Result of the Demand for Nin# 1 Hours in the Mines on ■f Saturdays. » WILL PROBABLY GO BACK TO WORK John Mitchell Returning to Indiannpolia—West Virginia Men Advised to Resume Digging. FottsvHle, Pa., April 23.—-Abnounce-ment was made here that the 30,000 mine workers who were locked out by the Reading company because of their refusal to work nine hours on Saturday will be permitted to return to the mines providing they pledge themselves to work full time Saturdays. General Superintendent Luther says the company insists on compliance with this regulation. Not Allowed to Bosoms. Following the Instructions by President Mitchell the miners employed by the Reading company at Mahanoy City, Ashland. Mount Oafftnel and other towns In the Schuylkill region reported for work, but were told by the superintendent that no orders to resume operations had been received. At Shenandoah none of the locked out men appeared at the oolllerilee. They announced their intention of remaining away from the mine* until the return of the district officials from Wilke*barm It la expected, however, that they will accept the company’s term* and return to work to await the result of the conciliation boards action. MdtebeU Returning Ifssk Wilkes barre, Pa., April 23.—President Mitchell, of the mine worker* who has been in consultation with the three anthracite district presidents In this city for the last three days, left here for his headquarters In Indianapolis. He would make no statement as to what was accomplished at the conference other than that the mine workers hoped for a satisfactory solution of existing troubles. Mitchell telegraphed to the presidents of all the coel companies notifying them of the appointment of the miners’ conciliation board provided for by the strike commission and requesting them to take similar action. Advtsod to Go Basok to Work. Columbus, 0.. April 23.—The executive board of the Ohio Mine Workers decided to recommend to the miners In the Panhandle district of West Virginia that they accept the proposition of the operators ajid immediately return to work. Five hundred men struck because of a difference over screen conditions. The men have been out since April 1.

PABBY BBPLIEt TO THE SENATOR Makes Comparisons with Now and 1896, and Thinks Thom Strange. Indianapolis, April 23. —“Mr. Hanna’s rushing to the rescue of organized labor is, when you come to think of it, a somewhat astonishing spectacle,” said D. M. Parry, when asked few bis opinion as to the attack made upon his labor position by Senator Hanna at the banquet of the Amalgamated Steel Workers at Columbus. “Of course, I have no personal feeling whatever against Mr. Hanna and 1 am glad to note that he has none against me. I must confess that it is with some surprise that I* read his declaration that 1 display ignorance in my report ..*•*• 4 “In the campaign of 1896 the very men that Mr. Hanna now extols as the able leaders of organized labor Issued a circular demanding In the name of ‘all the wealth producers of the country* the remonetization of silver, and because he, as chairman of the national Republican committee, did all he could in support of the gold standard he was lampooned and abused worse perhaps than any man before or since by these very men whose friendship he now so assiduously seeks. "The Genesis of Mr. Hanna from an energetic business man with a labor record not particularly distinguished for leniency, into a political leader and finally a United States senator who is the leading spirit. If not the founder, of the Civic Federation, ia a remarkable instance of wbat the political bee will make a man do when It gets to buzzing in bis bonnet • •••»•* “Of course, I am aware that all this is not argument but then there was very little argument in Mr. Hanna’s speech. He takes up a paper which has met the indorsement of 98 per cent, of the manufacturers of the country as being a fair exposition of the socialistic tendency and what Carroll D. Wright calls ‘the damnable practices of trades unionism’ and makes what 1 think the country will hold as a poor attempt to answer it. “He reads a section from this paper then denies it is true, and turns around after sneering at the writer and says in the manner of the ordinary stump speaker. ‘Boys, isn’t that so?’ ” Parry then proceeded to reply to Hanna’s criticism of the New Orleans address and maintain the truth and accuracy of wbat he therein said. AGAINST TBI OPERATIVES Strike Arbitration Board Soys Boy Mato Mlllc Caaaot Par Mora. Boston, April 28.—According to the report of the state board of arbitration And conciliation, just presented to GovBates, the textile corporations in Lowell Involved In the present strike of 17,800 operatives, with, a single exception.

cannot afford to pay their heft> (ha 10 per cent increase In wages depended by organized labor. Hie opinion of the board is corroborated by a statement from a state statistician baaed on the figures of an accountant employed to make an examination of the financial condition of the seven mills In question. The exception is the Lawrence Manufacturing company, the books of which, according to ths report, show that tt is able to grant the advance demanded. The board shows by statistics that the cost of living In 1902 is 15.37 if* cent, higher than In 1897, and the wages in cotton mills in Lowell have been raised 16 per cent in the same period. The books of the Massachusetts mills show Increase In wages since 1898, ranging from 14 to 23.3 per cent