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Show ARMY OF MINERS ON STRIKE Operators and Workmen Ctnnot Agre and Thirty Thousand Men Are Without Employment. Kansas City, Mo. Negotiations between be-tween miners and coal operators of the southwestern territory, which have dragged along over a perior of exactly four months, wore brought to an end on Monday, A general strike order will he issued immediately, according to George Manuel, secretary of the Missouri district, and 30,000 or more miners who have not worked since the expiration of the old contract, April 1, will he formally on strike. The conclusion of negotiations came after the miners had been in session the greater part of the day, and had wailed for the operators to agree to their proposition to hold a joint session, ses-sion, at which a wage scale based upon what is known as the Cincinnati demand could be discussed. Of the number of miners affected by the strike order, about 9.500 are in Kansas, about 8,500 in Missouri, 9,000 in Oklahoma and about 30,000 in Arkansas. Ar-kansas. Some 5,000 miners in Texas, though in another district, will be indirectly in-directly affected by the strike order, and this, too, will have an indirect bearing upon the miners in Colorado and other western states. |
