The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-07-31

ware & Hudson compauy-though We are
informed the D. & H. company are IRE.
parihg to resume.
| IAE "basis" question has now been set
tledf and We are convinced the longer th,
me1 work under it, the better satisfied will
Dots operators and miners become with It
No fears need be entertained BY the pub.
lie that the miners Of the W. B. H. vii
cause any trouble in the coal market. AL
thet asked for was right, they have obtain
ed 4, and are satisfied.
EHE total quantity of coal sent to mark
for abe week ending July II, was $685.
tori.
THE retail dealers in Boston have in con
verstion resolved that the price Of co al shall
be $ll per ton. This is an outrage.
tHE Wikesbarre Record Of the Time,
Continents as follows on the conduct of the
coF companies that refuse to accept the
basis:
The Lackawanna companies can grow rich
on fair basis and starve and bury Schuylkil
whEe doing it. To be sure there is something
rateer savage in such vengeance smacking oil
na'slre in corporate bodies, and Of course it vii
be none with the best nature in the world. and
thtstemptation will be too strong to be long re-
sisted. Mr.. Parrish, keen and conservative,
ca ed early and all the Lehgh has followed,
SUD endering Internationally. 1t is idle to
sccsd him or them, the furnaces must have coal
ans the navigation and railroad companies had
credit to sustain which idleness endangered.
Mr. Pardee, not proud, but having as much RO-
msa frmness as Dickson, vowed that he would
eat up his twenty millions before he would sub
mrs, and three days afterwards was said to be
drumming about the beer saloons for men to
hold a meeting and receive his submission.
Since we wrote the above one large LAcka-
wahna Company quietly pocketed the pride of
itsf President and directed that work be resum
edson the terms asked BY the men if no better
cohld be had That was wise and Just, so the
Delaware l. Hudson Company will roll up Mr..
Dickson and his pride before the Fall trade
oEs,ns, and he will treat with the union or 60 to
Eerope for his health. And Mr.. Sloan must
come down from his high horse and treat-not
toE' tri lager but for . basis, or be rolled up in
HIe pride and be put into his own coat pocket
he may be sent to examine the Pacific railroad
commissioner from the Hudson River
Ehe meuAFe asking for a very reasonable con-
ceSsioR based on the practice Of the companies
ana Of operators for years they only ask that
custom be reduced to a basis which shall not
bF at the mercy or discretion of Official pride or
stbbbornnesa They have behaved we'll and de-
s%rve respectful treatment. Il is so clearly the
il4erest Of these large companies having their
eEn transportation, to yield this basis that We
fteel sure the stockholders and directors need
bat to see and hear the truth to yield at once.
SFantastic tricks are out Of place and 90 is that
pside which sets itself in opposition TO the logic
u events.
The Record "hits" some folks in the fol-
lSwing, not confined to Luzerne County
The Morning Republican gets this item
( 1t is said that the Lehigh Coal and Naviga-
ton Company has purchased the coal property
q the Lehigh-Luzerne Coal Company at Nauti-
coke, Luzerne county. Prominent among the
Ieembers of the Lehigh-Luzerne Company were
9essrs. John Leisenring, of Wilkesbarre. The
latter compOny is reported to have cleared about
$!5O,OOO by the sale.-Exchange.
And adds:
1--WE should like to be able to state all the
SActs about this sale. Report says the L. c. 4
n. Co. was badly burned"
Mr.. Scranton las been a position for many
Years to see how such operations are performed
And no dosbt judged from Scranton stand
point. We lave not been 40 fortunate, but it
agents and superintendent of railroad and coal
companies rolling in wealth acquired in their
service, while their stock sells at heavy dis
scOunt and interest is unpaid on bonds.
' No wonder that labOring men ask a basis
switch they wisely think will benefit all classes
Stockholders should do the same.
Coal IN FORD COUNTY, ILLINoB.-The
Parton Record of recen: date says:
We are reliably informed that A. S. Guth-
rie, of Dix township has struck . vein Of
focal, at q depth Of 1877 feet from the surface,
Ebetween six and seven feet in thickness, and
shat it is of good quality. Mr.. G. has been
prospecting for some time and is at last re-
:warded, The discovery, We understand is
but about half mile from the surveyed
route of the L. b. & M Railroad, and is
another argument in favor of its construc
ton.
A COAL bed one hundred feet through has
been found in Virginia.