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STRIKE OF TWO WEEKS IS ENDED; MINES RUNNINGOnly Those Properties Needing Repairs Now Are Idle —Will Resume Operations Soon.MAY DISBAND JOPLIN UNIONFinancial Secretary Says Local’s Fund May Be Voted to Charity at Meeting Tonight.EATREIn Si LGROUPriseJuiA strike of about 8,000 miners, •which had been in progress nearly two weeks, was ended yesterday when mines of the district were opened and the strikers returned to work. A few mines still are closed for repairs, but it is expected they will be reopened soon.Leaders do not agree as to the future of the American Metal Miners’ Union, organized after several hundred of the miners had quit work.Attempt at Unionizing Fails.“It is apparent that the attempt to unionize the district has failed,’’ James Teeters, financial secretary of the Joplin local and a member of the executive board of the national union, declared last night. “I do not speak for the body, but at a meeting of the union Tuesday night it is probable that it will be decided to disband, and an attempt probably will be made to give what money is in the treasury to some charitable organization, perhaps the Jasper County Anti-Tuberculosis Society.”Teeters is employed at the Black Cat mine. He returned to work yesterday morning. He said there was no discrimination against union men and that there was no reduction inTrinii trial bThird lt;he wai first d sheriff, Octobc nations Mine ' promin duet ol occupic Laws the sh numbei“This said Li mainta mitted coal m era wit “My acid te clple*. others as def a remt In dlt; Judge eontem the co judgmlt; for a i The the cot “The i thing,wages.The strike has not been declared off in a formal manner by the union, j not be “The union did not call the strike,” “Dur Teeters declared, “so it is not its that c place to declare it closed. The trou- |n a p. ble started when miners of four *»a lt;mines walked out at Webb City after *rl their wages had been reduced. After j hlt;,en f they failed to gain their point they the cc met and were addressed by S. E. | must j Graves, president of the national plain t union, after which they gave vent to your i their enthusiasm by marching from ™tv* 1 mine to mine, closing them. ,.jt j(Wanted to Return to Work. espeolsAdam Cullifer, president of the victim Joplin local, advised the strikers at a scrupu meeting Sunday morning to return J ted to to work. The meeting also was addressed by H. T. Wood, president of the Missouri Federation of Labor, who urged the men to eeeume work and organize afterward.Cullifer moved that the men return to work, but a roar of assent was so decisive that a vote was not taken.Cullifer last night said the union would be maintained and that it even-tuallv will affiliate with the American Federation of Labor through affiliation with the Western Federation of Miners.Graves denied a report last night that he had resigned as president of the organization.“An attempt to force me to qurt was made Saturday night at a meet-'ing of the national executive board,” he declared, “but it failed.”Graves and Cullifer now are on unfriendly terms. Cullifer declared last night that Graves was one of only two or three men who tried to keep the strike going.Opposri Listening to Outsiders.“He became sore at me.” he said, “because I advised with Joplin friends about the situation, instead of accepting his word or conferring with Columbus, Kan., lawyers and other outsiders. There are men In Joplin who are smarter than the outsiders and can tejl me more in a minute about Joplin district problems than the opcrator-lawyers or Graves can tell in a whole day.”The strike was characterized by Cullifer as the grandest mistake ever made by miners of this district.“I desire to get all I can for my work and to work under the best conditions poBaible,” he said. “I am not willing to work at a slave wage, either. But I realize that operators are spending their money and paying for the wear and tear on machinery.That costs us nothing. If we can’t be the operators, let’s work for the operators, if we can, and be satisfied when we obtain good wages. If we do that and save our money, the time will come when we will have enough to live on.MINKS RUNNING INhowev* wenac: periem say is thanli reachli right 1 the aa trial t Pi “Abe prison swer ' way: “Fin of my agains ludgm this ci bench and n plovnn Oolora Itocke gim-er coal cicases trial d no rip trial 1 miner.“Yoi me th tice fi “.Vot liable prejud bench, Toda in Dei yet vt four court’! in the thrust passed“Sec which was t lectlni to per regitla Ordercnone picked After supim select this J u rally pany
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Joplin Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Tue, Jul 13, 1915
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