Show ANTHRACITE WAR SEEMS CERTAIN GERTAIN Reply of Operators Emphatic Refusal to Consider t e Proposals DECLARE FOR OPEN SHOP Would have Ha Awards of or Strike Commission Com Com- mission Continue lt in lii Porco S i Three Yla Years S j 1 11 1 New c York March farch 11 It 11 It looks like war S S. S In these wor words one cue of or the leaders of or i ithe the time United Mine Workers of or America summed up tho ho situation after he ho had hOll Iru perused e el the tho lit answer of the time anthracite operators l to the workers which was delivered t to Pre President hl nt John Mitchell anti and the members of or the lie scale committee commit commit- tee today The rite answer i is a sore die dis disappointment lR- lR appointment to the time work workers as they thy had hoped that lint the operators would woul show a disposition to treat with their men but the time answer Is lx the time nut and direct refusal of every demand of ut tho the thomen men Not Mot ot only Is this tills so o but he the operators op 01 op- op orators have ha gone out of their way to tn slap sial- at nt the union They declare Slap at nt Union We e stand unalterably for Cor the thi open v shop and anti again decline to make maliC an agreement with the ti-me United Mine MineWorkers MineWorkers Workers of or America an organization controlled 1 by a rival Industry u The pre present ent con constitution of tho the United Mine Workers of or America does doe I not nol present the tile most Inviting hinting inducements induce Induce- m ments monts to the operators to enter Into trite contracts with the organization S Miners are arc represented In conven- conven ions lons called for the con consideration o of strikes cs While hill hays boys do she not go a as delegates dele 1 gates gatos atos only tine one cause has haa been noted i i they hey send sent delegates to such conven conventions n- n ions and tho time boys bOs In the anthracite field constitute about 20 per cent o ot of othe the he members present It lt Is easily seen that their thell deputies who may bo be ob- ob ell to act on instructions Instruction may have ha havethe havethe the balance of power and antl thus carr carry I the time vote otc for a strike where the tile more moro conservative o and experienced members might be opposed to It It S Emphasize Their Refusal al This latter paragraph from the time re report re- re port pott of the anthracite strike commission commis sion slon Is solved seized upon b by the tiit operators to emphasize their refusal of recognition l of or tho time unions A All li II of the other de demands tie tie- mands o of the union are arc refused In the some same specific terms cram and then the tho ep- ep operators op 01 orators mako 1 a n counter proposition which would perpetuate the award ot oC commission cOmmission lon for aro i ed oil i In time the S. S Our proposition I f that the tho awards made m b by the lie anthracite coal strike and the principles upon which time the they were OC established h by the commission and the he methods c established establish ed HI ci for 01 or carrying out their thell findings findinG's and amid awards n shall be continued for 0 three y years ars from fromn the 11 rat do da of April It t had been our hope and amid W we trusted rusted the public expectation as OS well 11 that the effect of oC the exhaustive Investigation n fn Ion tion and anti findings findIng's of ot the tho distinguished citizens n who constituted the ho cit strike commission would bo to toe e establish a n just an and amid permanent ad adjustment ad- ad tm nt of the time r relations between the tho operators and their thell es Yearly Contention Undesirable We Ye e therefore regret your our our suggestions SUI suggestions eo- eo that an entirely new anti and untried agreement ag be made which Is Iii to only last Jast for one year ear It Is not to tho time In Interest In- In terest lerest of employers or oi or to the time public to have o the thc mining business as well as the time comfort of ot th the people seriously e d 1st n d by 1 these the e yearly contentions Neither elther can stand these progressive anti and enormous Increase In Inthe inthe th the cost ost of production of anthracite coal eoal fol followed hewed necessarily iy be corresponding corre Increase In Jim Its price It I IM Ix peculiarly peculiarly pe pe- pe- pe fortunate therefore that ex- ex suit of arbitration b by third pcr persons onH so cb that hat hiat neither party parly can an say lay that It did ild not miot have due consideration There can b be no doubt that t the good of or all concerned will be he served be best t b by ad adhering ad- ad heln hering to the results th thus u reached II The Time operators make public all au of the thc correspondence demands s and counter propositions and amid the time whole makes s an ami Interesting chapter of or events ent S Coal ui Companies t t Ready FIt Freeland Pa March 1 It Coal Coal Coal companies in this vicinity m flit are preparing InS ing jn for tor time the miners miners' strike e at York York- own whore who the gangs of or tl deputies were vere quartered during Juring the last laRt strike The Ilio big big- stockades are being rebuilt and arul arrangements mn made e for fo care caro of workmen who might aught not go out anti and the lie strike breakers to be brought In Iii Mother Jones of ot strike fame hn has In iii conference appeared here and 1101 been with the union officials l. The Time coal companies show r e every l e evidence of oC d determined de tie- spirit |