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Coal Strike
Averted; Men
Accept Award
Operators and Miners Agree
to Make 27 Per Cent In?
crease Effective April 1,
Pending a New Contract
Take Up Terms To-day
Workers Throughout Nation
Notified of Decision and
Urged to Continue on Job
The possibility of a soft coal miners'
strike was averted last night by the
action of the joint conference of
operators and miners at the Waldorf
Astoria, when a resolution was adopted
unanimously making effective April 1
the wage increases recommended by the
Federal Bituminous Coal Commission
and approved by President Wilson.
The mines will continue in operation
pending the working out of a new
agreement. The award contained in
the majority report of the President's
coal commission provided for a wage
increase of 27 per cent. . ?,
The final drawing up and signing o.\
both the miners and operators* of an
agreement embodying the. new scales
is*the work now before the conference.
This work, it is understood, cannot be
completed before April 1, wnen the
present agreement expires. -S?v?raJ :
district organizations of the United ;
Mine Workers had signified their in?
tention of striking on April 1 because |
of thi? fact, particularly the Illinois ?
and Kansas districts. Frank Farring- j
ton. president of the United Mine!
Workers of Illinois, was particularly
emphatic in the declaration that a
strike in his state was certain.
Men Informed of Decision
John T.. Lewis, president, of the
United Mine Workers of America, who
heads the miners' representatives at
the conference at the Waldorf-Astoria,
sent out. telegrams last night to the
miners* locals throughout the country
informing them of the decision of the
conference and urging them to con?
tinue work after April 1. A formal,
statement, it was announced, signed by
all the officers of the United Mine
Workers, will follow.
"This action will avoid the necessi-y
of a strike," said Mr. Lewis last night,
"and will fully protect the public by
continuing the coal supply. I believe
this is a wise and logical action and it
will be adhered to by miners through?
out the country." , ?
The conference last night appointed
? sub-committee consisting of eight
miners and their international officers
and eight operators to work out the
terms of the new agreement on the
basis of the Federal commissions
award. On completing its work this
sub-committee will report back to the
conference and the work of signing
and ratifying the new agreement will
follow.
Sab-Committee Meets To-day
The sub-committee consists of the
'01 lowing:
For the miners: John L. Lewis, in?
ternational president; Philip Murray,
international vice-president; William
? irren, international secretary-treas?
urer, *nd international officers John
Moore and G. W. Savage, Ohio; Robert
Gibbons and William Hargcst, -western
Pennsylvania: Fd Steward and William
Mitch, Indiana, and R. Williams and
Richard McAllister, Illinois.
For the operators: P. H. Penna and
M. L. Gould, Indiana; J. II. Donaldson
and William Henderson, western Penn?
sylvania; C. E. Maurer and Michael
Gallagher, Ohio, and F. C. Searles and
Herman Perry. Illinois.
The sub-committee will hold its first
session this morning at the Waldorf
Astoria.
There was no conference, yesterday
of the anthracite sub-committee of
miners and operators appointed to ne?
gotiate a new agreement for tho hard
coal workers.
Award Read to Workers
Prior to the joint conference, one
hundred delegates of the bituminous
coal miners assembled at Bryant Hall
to hear the award of the President's
coal commission on the question of
wage increases. Mr. Lewis presided.
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It was the first opportunity the mine
workers had to go over the award, a
copy of which was brought with him
from Washington and presented to the
delegates by Mr. Lewis. IIo went over
the award paragraph by paragraph, ex?
plaining each provision and discussing
the award, as a whole, with the men.
While the miners have been de?
manding an advance in wages of at
least 81 per cent and a seven-hour
day a general attitude toward accept?
ance o? the award was displayed at
the meeting. The temporary agree?
ment reached later at the conference
at the Waldorf-Astoria was the con?
crete expression of this feeling. At
the conference Mr. Lewis declared ho
will ond?avor, when argument for a
final agreement isvin progress, to have
the operators agree to increase the
commission's award of one dollar a
day for day laborers to $1.35 cents a
day. That, he said, would mako the
gain of the day laborers more com?
mensurate with that of the pick and
machine miner, who will get an in?
crease of -?1 cents on each ton of coal
he mines.
Adjustment Pleases White
John P. White, former president of
the United Mine Workers, who filed the
minority report for the coal commis?
sion as a member of the commission,
was present at the meeting at Bryan
Hall. He expressed himself as being
pleased with the prospect of an emer?
gency wage adjustment on the basis
of the ? commission's award. Ho de?
clared the 27 per cent advance for the
miners of the central competitive field
will mean virtually a 36 per cent ad
yance for those employed in the. south?
ern district.
SYDNEY. N. S., March 29.?Wage in?
creases of at least 25 p.cr cent will be
soughs by the miners of Nova Scotia
after the coming convention of United
Mine Workers at Truro, N. S., it was
announced to-day by Silby Barrett, a
member of the international board of
the union, increases in the price of coal
would put Nova Scotia operators in a
better position to pay increased wages,
he said.
a
British Miners to Vote
On Government's Offer
Result Will Determine the Ac?
ceptance of 20 Per Cent
Raise or a Strike
LONDON; March 29.?The mine work
| crs' delegates, in conference here, de
i cided to-day upon a ballot of the men
! as to whether the government's offer
| of a 20 per cent increase on gros, earn
! ing.s should be accepted or a strike
! ?ajled for the three shillings minimum
, increase deniunded. *
This decision was arrived at after
[?consideration of the government's new
i proposal of a _0 per cent increase:on
? gross earnings, with a minimum flat
; advance of two shillings for all work
| crs over eighteen years of age, one
! shilline; for workers between sixteen
> and eighteen years and a nine-pence
I for workers under sixteen years.
| Workers Win First Case in
Kansas Industrial Court
TOPEKA, Kan., March 29.?The first
i wage petition tried before the new
! Kansas Industrial Relations Court re
: suited in a victory for the workers.
! Decision No. 1 was handed down by
i the court to-day, granting an increase
! in wages to linemen of the Topeka
Edison Company, from 60 to 67% cents
i an hour. The company had offered
j an increase of two cents.
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'Big Four' Rail
Brotherhoods
Join A. F. of Le
Two Will Amalgamate at
Council Meeting in May,
Others Later; Conserva?
tive Victory, Says Gompers
"Gain" Satisfies Radicals
Action Preliminary to Tri?
umvirate With Farmers;
15,000,000 Union Aim
i ?
Two of the "Big Four" railway
brotherhoods controlling the railway
industry of the United States will af?
filiate with the American Federation of
Labor at tho meeting of the executive
council of the Federation in May. This
was announced yesterday by Samuel
Gompers, president of the American ?
?Federation of Labor. They arc the!
i Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, j
' with a membership of GO,000, and the i
j Brotherhood of Firemen' and Engine- j
j men, with a,membership of 70,000. Mr. ;
| Gom,,ers added that, the other two o?
the "Big Four"- the Brotherhood of
1 Railway Trainmen and the Order
: of Railway Conductors?undoubtedly
: would follow.
With the amalgamation of the rail
: way brotherhoods and the American
; Federation- of Labor there will arise
'. the most powerful labor organization
j in-the world, with a total membership
of nearly 5,000,000.
These figures were given by Mr,
j Gompers yesterday.
"We now have about 4,500,000 mem
I bers." said Mr. Gompers. The brother
? hoojls will raise our membership to
i 5.000,000. Our goal then will be ?,000,
! 000."
"Healthful Evolution," He Says
"Does this new movement," Mr.
I Gompers was asked, "foreshadow a
stronger and more progressive policy?"
"I think it is a healthful evolution,"
said Mr. Gompers. "I believe the pres?
ent solidarity in the ranks of labor is
sound."
More than 2,000 locals and seventeen
; different railway organizations will en?
ter the American Federation of Labor
? when the final amalgamation with all
! the four brotherhoods is completed.
Mr. Gompers will thereby become ex
; offi ci o head of all the railway workers
1 of the United States and will represent
them in all controversies between the
brotherhoods and the railway com?
panies.
Persons close to the labor movement
regarded the forthcoming amalgamation
as tho most important event in tho his
i tory of the movement in the last dec?
ade. It comes as a culmination of a
year of bitter labor conflicts, during
which tho radicals within the Ameri?
can F?deration of Labor have admit
1 tedly gained much ground. While in
some circles it. was asserted that the
: addition of the railway workers to
the federation would tend to strength?
en the hands of the conservatives be
; cause of the noted conservative char
i acter of the railway brotherhoods, who
I have always been counted among "tho
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amalgamation, it was declared, will be
greeted with satisfaction by the radical
elements as indicating a strong tend?
ency toward closer organization with?
in the labor movement. Only recently
all the railway union organizations
have combined for common action.
At Odds for Years
The "Big Four" and the federation
have been at odds for years Many
'?(forts have been made- to bring about
their union with the federation, but
these efforts failed because of the many
jurisdictional disputes within the rail
way organizations in which the execu?
tive council, under the A. F. of L. consti?
tution, would irftvitably 'have taken a
hand. The "Big Four" have persistent?
ly refused to submit to any control by
the executive council and have re
mained outside of the federation even
after the other railway brotherhoods
had -joined.
More amicable relations between the
A. F. of L. and the "Big Four" began
to develop, however, in 1916, when,
with tho aid and cooperation of tho
Federation, the brotherhoods succeeded
in putting upon the statute books of
the United Slates tho Adamson eight
hour-day law. These relations grew
particularly strong during 1019 in thu
fight for continuad government con?
trol of the railways, the promulgation
of the Plumb plan for railway owner?
ship, tho failure of tho President's
original industrial conference and the
bitterness aroused as a result of the
coal and steel strikes. Theso develop?
ments, it is contended, have facilitated
th" amalgamation.
The union was foreshadowed in Octo?
ber, 1910, when, following the failure
of the President's industrial conference
the executive council of the American
Federation of Labor and the chiefs?
of the four railway brotherhoods issued
a joint call for a conference of union
chiefs in Washington.
In that call it was said that "funda
mental principles" upon which organ?
ized labor may combat "grave dangers
affecting the very foundations of it.?
structure" were to bo discussed. Farm
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era' organizations also were invited t
attend. This conference, which cor
vened December 13, promulgated "
bill of rights" in which it denounce
tho government's injunction agains
the miners in the coal strike, demando
continuation of tho government's con
trol of railways for another two year
and assailed bitterly nny and all pro
posais for curtailment of the right t
strike, One hundred and nineteen, intei
Rational unions were represented. Bu
while the session was distinctly aggros
sivo as far as the things the union
represented stood for were concerner
it also took decisive action in r?solu
tions adopted against the I. W. W. an
Bolshevik elements both in and out o
the American Federation of Labor.
It was at that session that the do
cisive step was mado for tho amalgam*
tion of the Federation and the railwa;
brotherhoods. The session marked als
the beginning of tho formation of ai
A. F. of L.-Brotherhood-Farmer tri
umvirato, the total membership o
which, if accomplished, will be 15,000,
000, divided as follows:
Americun Federation of Lnbor. 4,500,00
Brotherhoods . 500,00
Farmers .10,000,00
The plan for the formation of thi
triumvirate was regarded as labor'
reply to the so-called conservative ele
ment of organized capital, which th
Federation considered responsible fo
the failure of tho President's industria
| conference and which it accused of be
ing desirous to destroy organized laboi
At the same time, the plan was ala?
believed to be Mr. Gompers'a schem
to meet the radical stream within th
Federation, and especially the move
ment for the formation of a labor partj
Within such organizations as th
Typographical Union, the Internationa
Printing Pressmen's and Assistant:
Union and the United P-lino Workers in
?urgent movements developed challeng
ing the principles upon which the Fed
oration is founded, and demanding ;
readjustment in tho way of chang
from the craft to the industrial form o
organization, with the threat of disinte
grating the Federation as an alter
native.
At the same time, Mr. Gompers am
the Executive Council of the America]
Federation of Labor were accused o
being partly responsible for the failur?
of the steel strike, because of thei:
alleged lukewarm attitude. Failure o
the steel and coal strikes was laid b;
many circles in the Federation at th?
door of Mr. Gompers and the member:
of his general staff. It had becomi
evident that Mr. Gompers liad to d<
some strong buttressing of his posi
tion if ho was to remain at the hoac
1 of the Federation and continue to con
trol its policies. The amalgamation is
. therefore, regarded as the stronges?
card yet played by Mr. Gompers in thi?
i direction.
j Tho radical elements in the federa
tion, however, regard the amalgama,
tion as a victory for them. They main
tain that while the adhesion of the
railway brotherhood?? will bring vote:
[ j to Mr. Gompers, it marks the strength
? oning of the principle of "Ono Bip
I Union." Tho radical elements point tc
I the fact that only last week T. V
'?O'Connor, president of the interna
tlonal Longshoremen's Association,
said that he would sign for the men of
his organization engaged in marine
railroad work the working agreement
joining them with the seventeen rail?
road brotherhoods, which John II.
Pruett, president of the National As?
sociation of Masters, Mate? and Pilots,
signed March 13 for the members of
his organization who work on railroad
bouts.
Steps like these, the radicals assert,
indicate that even the conservative
leaders of the federation are obliged
to recognizo the necessity of uniting
all workers engaged in one particular
industry for concerted action, which
has been seriously impeded thus far
by the craft form of organization and
action obtaining in tho American Fed?
eration of Labor.
One radical labor leader pat It this
way:
"Undoubtedly Gompers gains much
by the forthcoming amalgamation of
the 'Big Four' with the federation.
But what ho gains is the votes. We
gain the substance?the extension of
1 the principio of industrial organization
1 within the federation."
Much speculation has developed in
' labor circles as to the price paid by
Mr. Gompers for this amalgamation,
; particularly with regard to his atti?
tude toward the so-called Plumb plan.
? The Plumb plan's failure up to date
' was ascribed by the railway unions, >n
' part, to the rather dubious and non
[ committal attitude Gompers and the
; federation took, although Gompers
! was at first the president of the
Plumb Plan League, designed to pro
; mote the idea. Mr. Gompers has con
1 sistently refused to express himself
, on the Plumb plan, however, ?which
caused much i,rritation in the ranks
\ of its champhfns.
At present there is a large organi
t zation of labor and citizen forces at
, work in Washington designed to put
; through the Plumb plan, with certain
. modifications. Whether, with the failure
. of organized labor to prevent the re?
turn of the railroads to private
| ownership, the movement for the
i Plumb plan is to be revived on a large
; scale and in some other form, and
? whether Mr. Gompers and the execu
? tive council have promised the rail
? way brotherhoods to back this move
- ment definitely as the price of tho
. railway organizations' amalgamation
i with the federation, was one of the
. subjects of widespread speculation
) yesterday. Mr. Gompers, who was con?
ferring with labor leaders all day,
I would not discuss this phase of the
. situation.
, Mr. Gompers departed last night
< for Albany, where he will address a
i joint session of the Legislature to?
day. He will reply to the address
delivered recently before the Legis
- laturc by Governor Allen, of Kansas,
? in which Governor Allen described
i the operation of the Kansas Court of
; Industrial Relatiops and urged the es
- tablishment of a similar court in New
? York. Mr. Gompers will take the
> position that such a court is subver
. sive of tho rights of personal liberty
? an'd ci*rt**.??s the rijrht to st**ike.
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Roads Submit List of Six Names
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