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dent and general manager Clearfield Bituminous there was no agreement to hold another. This
Coal Cor., Clearfield, Pa.; W. R. Craig, chief en­ would seem to be disposed of by the motion passed
gineer and acting general superintendent Shaw­ during the closing hours of the Cleveland agreemut
Mining Co., St. Marys, Pa.; F. H. Wigton, ment. This motion, which was made by John
president Morrisdale Coal Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; Walker of the Illinois miners, is as follows:
I. A. Boucher, general manager Logan Coal Co., "I move you that, there be a committee of eight
Beaverdale, Pa.; J. R. Caseley, Buffalo & Sus­ representing each side of this movement, together
quehanna Coal & Coke Co., Du Bois, Pa.; Horace with the International officers of our organiza­
A. Tompkins, president Portage Coal Mining Co., tion, meet some time in January prior to our next
Portage, Pa.
annual convention for the purpose of considering
the question of whether or not we will continue
working pending negotiations for the next agree­
TIME AND PLACE OF NEXT INTERSTATE
WAGE CONFERENCE AND QUESTION OF
WORKING AFTER MARCH 31 WITHOUT
A CONTRACT ARE BEFORE A SUB-COM­
MITTEE MEETING AT INDIANAPOLIS-
HARD NUTS TO CRACK JUST NOW—
MINERS' CONVENTION.
ment, and at the same time consider the question
of arrangements for the next joint conference
which will meet to negotiate the next contract,
the committee to have something ready in the way
of a report on this matter to be submitted to our
next international convention."
It will be practically impossible for the sub­
A sub-committee meeting begins at Indianapolis committee to reach an agreement satisfactory to
the morning ot January loth to determine when all parties on the question of continuing at work.
This matter will probably have to be left open.
and where the next Interstate Wage Conference is
In face of existing conditions in the trade, the sub­
to take place and if the mines are to continue at
committee will hardly prove to be a cut-and-dried
work after the end of March in the event ol an affair as there will be differences on all the busi­
agreement not being reached by that time. The ness before it.
wage agreements in practically all the bituminous The Pittsburgh operators will be represented
districts expire at that time. The current anthracite
agreement continues until the end of
March, 1910.
by President XV. K. Field, or Vice President John
Donaldson, or General Manager G. W. Schluederberg
of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., and Mr. J. H. Sanford
of the Carnegie Coal Co. representing the inde­
The sub-committee will meet in conformity to pendent operators. The Ohio operators will be
a motion passed at the last Interstate Wage Con­ represented by either Mr. E. A. Cole or Mr. G. C.
ference in Cleveland in March, 1912. The committee
is to be composed of two representatives
from each side from each of the four districts
Weitzell from the Hocking district, and Mr. C. E.
Maurer from Eastern Ohio. The Indiana operators
will be represented by Mr. Hugh Shirkey,
president of their association, and Mr. Phil H.
parties to the Interstate wage agreement, these Penna, their secretary. The Illinois operators
being Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and will lie represented by Mr. H. N. Taylor, or Mr.
Illinois. The international officers of the mineis' A. J. .Moorshead. or Mr. G. W. Traer of the Illinois
organization will also participate. The miners Coal Operators' Association, and by Mr. John Reese
of the several districts will be represented by or Mr. R. W. Ropiequet of the Fifth and Ninth
their presidents and vice presidents or secretaries, districts of Illinois.
while the operators will be represented in the The international executive board of the United
main by the spokesmen of the several districts Mine Workers of America will meet at headquar­
who were members of the sub-scale committee at ters on the 16th, the idea being to be on hand for
Cleveland.
any developments of the sub-committee meeting
With prospect of mine-run legislation being
enacted in Ohio by the legislature which convenes
and also to make arrangements for the international
convention of (he union which opens on the
the 19th and the chances that the mine-run ques- 20th. This convention will lie the largest in the
tion will be the issue at the forthcoming wage con­ union's history, it having been already announced
ference, some of the operators have been averse
to going into an interstate conference. This is
especially ti ue of the Ohio interests who are facing
the mine-run legislation, whic-h is imperilling the
very life of their industry. These operators at
at the organization's headquarters, where the tellers
are at work, that there will be over 1,750 delegates.
The paid-up membership of the U. M. W.
of A. on January 1st is announced to be 415,142.
first objected to going into the sub-committee pre­ The Elizabeth plant of the Unity-Connellsville
liminary meeting, contending that the last inter­ Coke Co., near Latrobe, Pa., is having a big crusher
state conference had adjourned sine die, and that and washer installed.