Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1904 — MINE WORKERS ARE DONE [ARTICLE]

MINE WORKERS ARE DONE

Joint Conference Comes Next Mitchell Detent* a Raise la Hl* Own Salary. Indianapolis, Jan. 27. The United Mine Workers have completed the work of the fifteenth annual convention. Having no more committee reports or matters of importance to consider before meeting the operators in the joint wage conference, which begins tomorrow, the convention adjourned until this afternoon, when Mrs. Virginia Barlow Leroy, of Streator, 111., will address the delegates. In the election of officers Mitchell, Lewis and Wilson were re-elected. Mitchell defeated a proposition to raise his salary to $5,000 a year by ignoring a call for a division after he bad declared a palpable “aye” vote lost. Appropriate action was taken relative to the Harwlck mine disaster. „ The Joint wage conferences generally last about one week. It Is thought that it will take that long this year to reach an agreement over the demands for the run-of-mine basis and the differential. The operators will make the assertion that while the miners are not asking for an increase in the mining scale now in effect, the run-of-mine basis and the differential of 7 cents flat would mean a heavy incraese.