Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-08-15

The STORY OF STRIKE.-Persons who
had occasion to visit the Schuykll coal region
at any time from May to August, saw.all about
them the injurious effects OF the miners strike.
Tourists for pleasure, except a few hardy ones,
Stunned the region as pestilential. Trade hav.
ing almost stopped, even the adventurous com.
mercial traveller gave the disturbed district the
20 by. Storckeepers did barely enough busi-
ness to live on. Hotel proprietors were in des.
pair at losing the rich patrons who customari-
ly came with every summer to the breezy
mountain tops or cosy hooks where their hos.
telries are situated. Ga piazzas usually pro-
menaded by opuent old Phiiadelphians, their
buxom wives and blithesome daughters, sullen
miners were seated, aglow with fiery potations
from ahounding bars, and discussing their grie-
vances with tiresome iteration. The wives Of
these iiers we're wearing out their lives in
squalid houses, desperately striving to make
their scanty supply OF food 60 the round OF a
brood OF hungry ehlldren-and the latter were
as tattered and dirty and pinchcd as the poor
little ones who fish through the cutters of New
York for Q living. AS the strike continued
and the boarded earnings were withdrawn, dol
lar ty dollar, from the savings banks, the peril
of actual starvation set In and all through the
richer adjacent country these women begged
for money and food to keep the souls and bodies
OF their households together. II tho visitor,
tired OF contemplating all this squalor and
w;aichcdac<s, turned Tor relief TO the local
newspapers that he touId lying about his inn,
tie there discovered new cause OF depres-
sion in the grandioqucnt appeals ct editors
column after column-to the miners not 10
give an inch. but to fight out their battle to the
last man and the last dollar. The same mock
heroic sentiments were enforced in strings OF
Goggere from strikers with the gilt The
rest OF these irhammatory journals was mainly
occupied with high. flown accounts OF the mon.
ster receptions accorded to this or that we'll led
and comfortable president OF some labor union
who had been up to see the miners, and con-
iured them by all that Was sacred to starVe
rather than yield. And they took these apos
ties of liberty and equal rights az their word,
and did starve-unti ear y this month, when
hey made clean back down from their ultl-
ualum, and were glad 10 accept the terms that
the Mining operators or owners gave tbem.--
The miners were obstinate and the operators
NOT less 90. for the latter had larke stock and
could afford to stop work, with view to get
tine higher prices for the Goa! on hand. 10
the liners came all the suffering, aud to the
operators goody line of profits out OF the
strike. Finally, early in the present month,
this scnseess trouble ended just as every saga
cous observer said that it would eud. lie
losses sustained By the strikers arc Immense In
the aggregate and each Of them must now
work hard for a )2Dg time to reaccumulate the
small store O! earnings which be has wasted 10
this desperate warfare not merely against the
oDerators out against nature and the commoo
sense of mankind N Y Journal Of Conl-
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