The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-10-23

reisfme It isn't SO; there's not man beer
0rokSnt before the Justice in all the strike.
de- o1otiess, referred to his own communi
W. we are not anxious to have coal q
up put when 1t does, we want our share Of
thety1creAse in price. We have hard life
AtteI man has worked twenty years in .
mind he can stand it no longer. We buried
a MAJ few DAYS ago who was only forty
yeArt old. He died Of the bad air OF the
mindB.'
Was it not partly of bad whiskey 2
inqus 5sd.
No, he was q temperate man he was
not 4 drinking man. | am temperate man
mysfn,' said Pritchard, who had answered
for lie deceased, and who then struck into
the conversation; belong to the Temple
of Hbnor Temperance Society," He looked
as ia be told the truth. g
"tDo the miners lay up money -.
Not much what they earn in summer
theybpend in winter said PritChard. Will
liamk said be owned his house, built on land
leasdi Of the company, and the lease would
expiae in FIVE years.
Have yen any savings banks p
No and we have no money to put into
ther9 we had one ; and if we do have any
monty we can leave it with the company
(Letigh Navigation Company, and it's a
good company, and there's not better in all
the fines 7
We are no Mollie Msguires,' said
Williams, don't know any such men and
they Say we are rebels and COpperheads F; it
is nit true my son went into the army,
Com any ID. OF the Fifth United States ar
tilleF he is now working in the mines.
We re true men,
And so you came from Wales,'
asked
Yes, we did, said Pritchard. 'And your
fathHfs and ancestors were miners p Yes
they we're, and my father is there still, said
Prtd bard. We're they healthy people ?
Yea always healthy And do you enjoy
GOOD health p Oh yes,' was the ready
replH; but seeing the drift by the time had
it do1Sn (for | was writing all the time we
werel talking), Pritchard qualified it with
but my youth would have been better il /
bad worked above ground. We have to
blasHa great deal. We have to use a key
OF powder every week in the breast, and
key livery three days in the gangeways; that
iDjuIks tho health
hen they both tried to blame the trans
port4tion companies for high prices. when
We 4oade the contract, said Pritchard,
trarh portatIon was So IL from Mauch
Chu4k to EliZabethport, now it is So we
,hiDH the transportation companies have
raise prices when they need not have done
20, al d the blame Of the high prices belongs
% tHm. If they would do in this country
as they do in England-it would be we'll. !
rherf the price Of tolls is fixed by law. Here
heyhx the prices as they please. And the
)perk tors crowd the workingmen down ON
he Zoe eide and crowd up the price of coal
IN tie other. And they say we are ignorant.
We {have to be; we have no time bat to
Tor3' Williams said be wanted to 60 and
lee the schools opened that dav, as be vas
Supesvisor-I think that was the term-but
lie bid no time.
fhese men were said to be abeve the
est 10 intelligence, but they did not seem
o ID able to give me an intelligent idea of
hei4 organiz ration, nor of their grievances.
Neit Ter they nor John Siney had CORES OF
be Constitution of the B. W. A. Society.
Or. iney disclaimed any intention Of inter-
erirk with the operators. If they desired
0 employ other men they might But it is
,retk well understood that not even the
troIg arm Of the State could render secure
he lie of a miner who worked in violation
f thki rules. The miners say that they do
lot esire the present high prices, but it 10
erts 10 they are unwilling to abate their de-
nands, and any day may see another strike.
rs akgeneral thing the miners quarters look
d petty well-better, in all the anthracite
egid1, than l have seen elsewhere. Nor
lid See much.intemperance, Dor bear, d.
ectlk of cases Of violence.