Show AND MINERS DISAGREE Conference Adjourns Sine Die Without Agreeing on o Wage Scale STATES WERE BADLY DIVIDED Voted for It Still Sti Insists I n IMs Must I IcAn lie Ic lieAn An Indianapolis Polls Feb 2 Joint con conference ference of the operators nail and miners of ot both bolh the great central competitive and southwest districts adjourned today sine die without any Iny agreement on the theeo wa wage eo scale Time The adjournment was wis Im lam Immediately immediately mediately followed for a u call cal of ot the annual meeting of o the thc United Miners ln rs of ot America by 2 A resolution by b F 1 lt L I time the spokesman for tIme the operators timid that the present Wage scale be bo continued was lost as It required under the rules a a unanimous vote to carry any oC or the proposition Operators of Ohio and voted for the tho motion Illinois operators declined to In vote The miners of Ohio Indiana Indium and amid Illinois voted voled against the tho proposition ant Patrick Dolan Dohan president of ot the time Ienn lenn sylvania miners mines voted his suite state for tOl the time proposition I which caused an nn uproar among the miners Ills Ils right to vote the time miners miner for tor the con comi continuance of ot the present scale In spite of the tact fact that the convention had voted for an Increase wal dial chal challenged len ed by several other Pennsylvania miners hut but on an an In appeal to 10 time the tie chair the vote vOle was as so recorded re ordel I The motion molon to adjourn sine sino die wag as made 1111 by F I IJ Jj ii J HobbIns Immediately following the tho announcement that the proposition of the operators as embodied In his hi mo iwo mon tion ti n had been defeated President Mitchell hums has hal declared declare that lint under no rio circumstances would the min nun miners mIners ers era accept any allY agreement ment that did not carry with It I an H Increase e In wages and time tho has 1111 unanimously mouly with the thi exception of three votes vole Indorsed the action of the time Joint scale ecale committee imich refused the proposition of ot the operators that lint the tIme present wage continued THE Indianapolis hid Ind Feb eh 2 The coa coal operators operate and miners of ot the central competitive und timid Ind southwest t districts district met mt metIn In Joint conference today to 10 finally set settle settie el elte tie tle te the question as lS to whether an meat ment was Wail possible President Mitchell of o tho the announced that the ers era er had hod refused ed to accept a continuance of the th present ent scale P F 1 L 1 I Robbins of ot moved that the thu present scale be will ith the same prices price and amid conditions for ti UI time year beginning April Apri 10 Mr Taylor an nn au Illinois operator opera lor mao I ed an nn a amendment was WIS time the same proposition that had been previously of offered offered and ant rejected The rime amendment was lost 1081 time the operators and Ind miner vet vot ot Ing lag solidly F f I L Bobbins then took the floor noor He lie le said he Ime wanted to 10 go on record as a It deemed time the future of ot time the Interstate movement was uLis WI in peril Mr lr Hobbins reviewed the difference In Iii the tho condition of the miners Inen now an and ant when the Interstate and amuil Ind joint confer conler conference dice ence movement went Into effect You have advanced wages a I nil shorter hours said sold he without ar or argument Ir and amid In the face of ot all al fall fairness ness you ou yesterday mot met anti and repudiated a t fair proposition I J want to go on tee Ioe ord as ns protesting against t such methods i Yesterday coal Fold rold In Chicago at a I dollar a ton Ion carrying an In SO cent cen freIght rate rale because the railroads I c were de tIe demanding manding the cars and yet you ou refuse to allow one district to sign an nil agree agreement ment unless we propose to 10 deal with will our miners even handed with the sam sante representation on each side You pro propose poso pose to have miners miner of other states state with wih conditions condition entirely different from ours to t dictate as IS to time the settlement o of our affairs In our district Your proposition adopted yesterday Is IR absurd nb 4 A Alite little lite section up In Michigan could re refuse r fuse tuso a ii I settlement and tie te up the whole country You have a conference time thu anthracite operators coming If I I Ier were er an 1 anthracite operator I would refuse refus to deal d nl with wih you President Mitchell took tho the hoer Hoor In reply rep said sai It I Is kind I nd of Mr Ir Robbins Bobbins to say that tha we le e have presented no n argument Wo Vi e refused to allow the operators operator to have havethe the final say as u to whether we have presented any an argument or not Vo Wo have shown that list con cOlI coal Is selling at the time mines mimics at It train from 35 33 to 10 to CO cents u mm 1 ton high higher er or than It wa wal seven selen months ago We showed this by b their own circulars circular We Ve have shown by ly their circulars that tha the condition of or their own oIn grade I Is highly prosperous The Time country Is U In Inthe Inthe Inthe the highest highet degree of ot prosperity Stocks Stok and bonds bonts are telling selling higher than thon eve ever before And yet et notwithstanding this situation we are ore asked to 10 continue u n lower wage scale than we had hat two years ago ngo And Mr Ir will wi r rt member that two tO years nur ago ngo when we f accepted a n lower wage scale on account of ot an In unfortunate situation existing a lt at I that time he promised ed that the reduction tion ference ton would be ice restored at the next con conference conference conference Mr Ir Mitchell reiterated his arguments I for tor an nn Increase In wages and In doe clos closing cOI doeing ing said Ild saide We e have hue conic come to the lie parting of ot the ways I and It teem seems to me mime the only tIming thing thin left to 10 do Is II to go homo home anti and there try to the seemingly Insurmountable able We deeply regret tha time necessity for such ch a n step but le we tc tee foci I that the time time has haB come conic when you YOI can cal give us UI an advance In wages without damaging your property Interests to touny nay any considerable extent pail paid IV I 1 H I IL Penna an Indiana operator It U looks loks as R though a 1 m split Is Inevitable able Ihle and thit tnt tin the tho Joint conference movement has hO failed Mr argued the wage question with some ome figures on the time products nail the selling price of coal The Tho lion tim of ot Indiana 1110 coal conI he said Bald had Md de lie decreased creased from roam 7 to 0 8 per cent during the tIme pant year ear earU If U thin huts Institution has hn to break up lP said he lu antI and It 1 has lias come lome to 10 the point that lint one party must control the thu mines mine of this country that party will wi he the part party that owns own the property propel There will wil be hardship but the owners owner of ot property must control It itrIce Vice rIce President T r U Li L Lewis wll of ot the thene Mine ne Workers told said the time miners realize that thai while tho the movement had been beneficIal they hey were opposed to any proposition that would deny deay a It rightful wage scale ecole walO And nd If It that Is I denied us UD said uld he then Ih n the tho responsibility for an Indus Industrial trial trip war w must Jut rt tilt where It i blon |