Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1912 — WHITE IN FAVOR OF PEACE [ARTICLE]

WHITE IN FAVOR OF PEACE

President Urges Miners to Accept Agreement as Organization Is Not Prepared fora Strike. Wilkesbarre, Pa., May 17. —President John P. White of the United Mine Workers spoke to the miners here urging them to accept the agreement recently submitted from the operators. Mr. White told the men plainly that the organization was not prepared for a strike. He pointed out that there are a few less than 30,000 out of the 170,000 men in the anthracite fields who are members of the Mine Workers' union. He also told his hearers that from nearly one and a half million dollars In funds in 1902, the treasury was now about bare. The speech had a marked effect on the men and it is believed that the men will vote to accept the agreement