The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-05-16

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REDUCTION or WA0Es.-0n Monday last .
meeting Of delegates from the 6ooth York.
shire Miners Association was hid at the
Prinee.ef Wales Inn, Wombwell, near Barns-
lev. The delegates present represented over
seven thousand mambaFs belonging 10 the
association, and the meeting was specially
conse7ed for the purpose Of taking into con
sideration the proposal made BY the Coal
owners Association, that the workmen,
without formal notice, should submit 10 .
reduction Of Ave per cent In the wages III
therto paid, which appeared TO be impera-
tive, owing TO the aggression in trade, the
reduction made In the lrlee Of coal and the
wages paid IN other distrlcts. There was q
considerable diversity OF opinion on the sub
ject, although it was admitted hat the trade
waa in q very bad state. Agreeatly 70 re-
solution come to at meeting OF co6iowners
hslG at Barnsley on the 7th inst, Il was
stated that the following collieries had besn
called together and requested to submit to
the reduction, viz: Wharnclifs Silkstone,
Wombwell Main, barley Main, Edmund's
Main, and Swarthe Old Silkstone, North
Gawbef, Smithy-bridge, Land Hill, Blacker
Main, ThoPneliffe Stra60rd Main, Darasld
Main, Silkstons Fall, the Holmes, and the
Grange Galleries, near Rotterdam. These
eollieries employ four thousand union men
besides others no. connected with the asso-
citation, and the answer given to the appli-
cation, in most instances, was that 1t would
be taken INTO consideration at meeting Of
the delegates. On the other hand It was
stated that no request 70 submit to redac'
ton was made BY the owners Of the follow
| ing Galleries, at which three thousand mem
/ bers of the Miners Union were employed :
( CAarlesworth, Warren Vale, Higham and
Dodwattb, WarsborO' Park, East Gawler.
| Mount Osborn and Agne Main, High Royd,
Uarr House, Aldwske Main, Tinslay, and
| Brightside- The proprietors of the last
named collieries, however, stated that in tAe
event OF reduction Deing submitted 20 in tbs
the district they would expect their men C
submstt the same terms. After discuss M
the matter for several hours no decision was
come to, 80 that the question Of accepting
the reduction or otherwise was deferred T.
annother meeting, until which il is not ex'
pected that the masters VIII take any ae.
/ ton.
WE deeply regret that large number Of
/ the GOLFERS on strike in South Lancashire
| have, ia spite of the advice and remon-
/ strances Of their leaders, allowed themselves
/ to become involved IN rotous proceedings
which can have no other effect than with
drawing public sympathy from the whole
body. Such folly cannot be too strongly de
precated, and we are sure none feel more re
I greet at VIVA. has taken place than the leaders
and intelligent men amongst the great body
/ AS matter Of policy, the employer, who
had obtained the services Of several hundred
miners from Stafordshire TO replace some 0
those who had struck, after consultation with
the local magistrates on Tuesday last, SEN
! back " their homes the "black sheep" thu.
obtained, accompanied, however, by threa
/ to close the whole Of the collieries in the dis
| trict. At ali events, this course has rem0v-
I ed any pretext for further violence on thu
part Of the men, and, in the interest Of tn
| men themselves, we trust the violent ant
! riotous conduct Of ne past week will not b
I repeated. The men can Only hope to gail
their object BY the sympathy Of the public
and this sympathy certainly cannot be Oh
tanned by acts Of violence aud outrage, anC
| riotous conduct -LoHdoa Bee Hue.
TIE members Of the Wigan Miners UnioI
had a meeting. Six thousand eight hun
dred men were reported, and q resolution wa
passed that the reduction Of fifteen per cent
IL wages shall be resisted, aud no terms &C
cepted which take from the present wages
more than the last advance. IL was resolv cd
( that the strike should continue.