The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-08-22


ai Association OF Miners Of Great Britain,
proposes 10 PROFOUND the following quss-
tions to candidates for parliamentary hon
ors,r and to receive answers In the affirma-
tive before consenting 70 support them:
1st-Will he support bill that win fix
the working of youth, i'm the mines, who are
under IA years Of age, to eight hours Der "a
hours.
3d-will he support bill for the better
inspection Of mines, and 70 carry il out, that
. large booy OF sub-inspectors viii be an
pointed
sd-Will he support a measure that will
make all the miners work be weighed by
the standard weight Of the country. and these
weights 20 be under the superintendence Of
the weights inspector
4tb-Will he support q bill which will
fully crush all truck shops, by making il a
felony Tor mine owner to have q truck
shopf
6th-Will he support a measure making
it imperative on all managers Of mines hay.
ing certificate Of ability granted from 4
board for the purpose
oth-Will be support a measure making il
imperative on allsmine owners to submit ~
contract Of hiring they may offer TO their
workmen to the sheriff Of the district. for
his approval, before being acted on
7th-Will he support . measure that Will
prohibit all employers from appointing med
zeal officers or teachers, and tnen compelling
their workmen TO pay for such without any
choice 10 the matter
6th-Will he support q bill which viii
make the owner Of any mine, pit or factory.
responsible for the acts of neglect Of the
manager, or OF any one acting as deputy
for him IN the mine, pit, shop or factoryf
stn-Will he support q measure which
will prevent all children being employ ed in
mines till they are fifteen years Of age. If
they cannot Read and write fuently, aud be
fully certified that they an do so
lOth-Wil he support a measure that
will have the effect Of protecting trades so
cety funds, as is extended to all other cor
porate bodies2
llth-Will he support measure which
will make the pays Of al employed in mines,
iron works, or foundries, not longer tnAn IA
days AZ any one time p GIasgot0 Sentinel.
FUEL IN lLLIsoIs--AmOng the papers read
before she Scientific Congress which has
been ia session something over a week in
Chicago, was one from Prof. A. Il. Worthen.
State Geologist, from which We make the
following extract
The illinois coal measures cover 10000
TO 10000 square miles, Of which 4O. 900 are
In Illinois. twenty-five counties have no
Coal OF any consequence In the others the
coal lies az depth of from four hundred 20
six hundred feet, 80 that it can be mined.
There are six thick and four thin LAYERS.
The strata OF the coal measures are undis-
tarbed, 50 that there are out crops of the
GOAL In but few places. Some Of the upper
layers are worked 60 advantage. Consider
able beds of limestone are found in the up-
per me asures. Shafts may be sunk for 800
feet and made profitable. Some of the
rocks belong To the termlan, but most be
long to the carboniferous, as shown bv re-
mains OF extinct fauna. there is no waus
Of contormablIity OF the limestones in the
upper measures 70 the lower coal measures
50 that at LA Sale NO term4in ro3k In found-
Ihe hentucky section has been examined
With care, ard sOue Important corrections
Ia the hthologIcai locations Of the different
coal measures. Fhc 1 linois beds have been
STUFFED IN sections along the illinois river.
Ine beds Lnlcken towards the south, and
sn0ho oio Seven seams tuAt can be worked
These seams coutain about three hundred
and uixty billion tons OF coal, and these re-
sources vail Do abu ndsnt for a thousand
years yet. Some Of the coal has been used
vi: The most complete success in iron
blasts, 80 that iron from Missouri can ba
manufactured IN this State. Beyond the
1lmIts Of tne coal measures are extens,ve
beds Of Psat- An Wnisesids county thaas
beds are twelve feet thick this fuel i Of
great value an regions not affording coal.
And these hidden resources NAV be de-
veiopsd iato "a unparalleled growth and
prosPc7ty IN our State.
THE woEKIs0 PsoPLs.-A circular dated
July 4oth, has been distributed in the coal
regions, inviting tue workingmen TO require
pledges rom the candidates for the hrgisla-
tur- that n elected, tney will use all honor
able r.eans an their power 10 pass bill that
all labor done over eight hours shall be time
and ooe-half time; or, in other words, that
iorty minutes shall constitute one hour. The
miners and labofers Of the anthracite coal
district are aa-Fs~'' to work NJ many hours
As the law directs and no more, since by 80
DONG less coal viii Do shipped and the mar
kets Will become exhausted.