Show S Sail Laker In flew York ITUIBUNE SPECIAL New York Oct 13J Joslyn of Salt Lake Is a guest of the St Denis 0 ISTRIKE NOT SETTLED Every Indication Now is for a ProlongS t 1 a Contest Between the Strikers and S I S the MineOwners S I S I Convention of Miners at Scranton Decidesto Accept the 10 Per Cent Increase in WageS Offered Providing Operators Will Continue I Payment of the Advance Until Next April and Abolish Sliding ScaleArbitration is Also Suggested 5S I Scranton Pa Octo 13The anthracite anthra-cite coal miners now on strike after a two days convention late this afternoon after-noon decided to accept the 10 per cent net Increase In wages offered by the mineowners providing they will continue con-tinue the payment of the advance until un-til next AprIl and will abolish the sliding slid-ing scale If the operators consider the proposition unacceptable the miners are willing to arbitrate the questions at Issue They also decided to contulue the strike until the operators opera-tors agree to the conventions proposition proposi-tion The resolution Is as follows We your committee respectfully submit sub-mit tho lollowlrip preamble and resolutions resolu-tions for your consideration Whereas The anthracltp cord operators have posted notices offering an advance of 10 per cent over wages formerly paid and have signified their willingness to adjust ad-just grievances with th employees Whereas They have failed to specify the length of time this ndvunce would remain In force and havo also Jailed to abolish tho sliding scald method of determining de-termining wages we would rccommondr That tnls convention accept an advance of 10 per cent providing tho operators will contInuo Its payment until April 1 1M1 and will abolish tile iilldlrg scale In the Lchlgh alvd Schuylklll regions the scale of wages in the tw6 lastnamed districts dis-tricts to remain stationary at 10 per cent above tlid present basis price and that tho companies will agree to adjust other grievances complained of with committees of their own employees Should this proposition be unacceptable to the operator we recommend that tho convention propose that all questions at Issue be submitted to a fair and Impartial Impar-tial board of arbitration We woild further recommend that under un-der no circumstances whatever should there bo resumption of work at any of the collieries until the operators signify their acceptance of this proposition and that the strIko you aro notllled officially la ended and all return to work in a body on tho same dayLONG day-LONG CONTEST LIKELY Judging by the unanimity of the miners In accepting the above resolution resolu-tion and by the determined stan taken ta-ken by the operators it Is generally be Jlevcd that a long contest between the I atviIter3nnd tlioJniinU0 > hers Js nqL unliKely There was great enthusiasm In the convention when the counter proposition to the operators was car i Med and three cheers Averc given for 1 1 President Mitchell The resolutions were drafted by a committee of thirteen thir-teen appointed at the morning session of which the national president was chairman I MITCHELLS OPINION Mr Mitchell in an interview with a representative of the Associated Press on the outcome of the convention said Tho action of the delegates In convention con-vention today in accepting an advance of 10 per cent providing they receive assurances that the advance will continue con-tinue in force until April next year demonstrates that the miners arc considerate con-siderate of the public interest Involved and are disposed to be conciliatory and yet the mineowners refuse to Join hands with the miners in bringing the strike to a close The responsibility for the suffering that will entail on the poor in the large Eastern cities will rest entirely with tho operators OPPORTUNITY FOR OPERATORS The operators have now had an opportunity op-portunity to prove that the proposition offered by them was made in good faith It they areS milling to pay 10 per cent advance they certainly ought to continue to pay for six months The mineworkers will all remain on strike until they are officially notified by the ofllccrs of the union that the strike Is declared at an end There will be no exception to this rule I cannot understand any good reason rea-son why the operators should not accept ac-cept tho conditions named In the miners mi-ners resolutions I of course hope that there will be a epeedy termination of this contest and I believe that In the future the operators will be disposed dis-posed to treat with more consideration their employees than they have in the past pastJ am entirely satisfied with the action ac-tion taken by the miners They did not decide the question with a view of pleasing me but took the step because It satisfied them It was in their hands and they showed an extraordinary spirit of fairness When Mr Mitchell was asked in what manner tho operators would be notified as they do not recognize tho United MineWorkers he said the employers em-ployers would probably find It out through the newspapers Wo gather most of our Information as to what the operators arc doing he said from tho papers and I nuppose that they are doing the same thing SESSIONS WERE SECRET Both of todays sessions were again held In secret At the morning session the entire wage scale was discussed In all its phases and in order that something some-thing tangible could be brought beforetime before-time convention a committee of thirteen was appointed for the purpose of drafting Into resolutions the suggestions sugges-tions made by the delegates This committee consisted of President Mitchell the presidents of districts No 1 and No 9 the secretary of district No 7 and three delegates from each of the three districts thirteen In all AID FROM BITUMINOUS WORK Ens Before the convention took Its noon recess W D Ryan secretary and treasurer of the United MineWorkers of Illinois and Mother Mary Jones mado addresses Mr Ryan Informed the delegates that the bituminous miners of Illinois were in thorough sympathy with tholr Eastern brothers and that If financial aid was needed he felt sure that the Western miners would send It In any quantity TELEGRAM FROM MITCHELL The following telegram was sent tonight to-night to the MineWorkers of the anthracite an-thracite region Reports arc being circulated In some sections that the strike Is settled and that the men are expected to return to I Work You are hereby notified that no Fcttlcment has been made and no attention at-tention should be paid to any reports of this kind When a settlement Is effected ef-fected you will be notified by circular under the seal of our organization and signed by the national and district of I ficers JOHN MITCHELL I President United MlncWorkers of America S |