The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-04-29
THE COAL TROUBLES.

THE COAL TROUBLES.
Scranton Miners Still Holding Ont Against
the Companies Terms-Starvation In the
Laborer's Cabin-IntoIeranoe and Proscrip-
tiOn Of the Operntsrs-An Easy Solution
of the Enthusiastically Of the Miners
Rosumpii0n In the LehiGh and SchuylkiIl
Regions.
SCRANTON. April %, 1871.
The meeting OF miners at Hyde Park to-day was OF
great Importance, further than to show that the
men do not propose to accept the companies terms
until they are actually obliged to BY want OF means
to sustain life The deadlock Is as fast as ever, and
what Is worse than before the key seems to have
been mislaid or stolen. The hope Of any reason
able negotiations with the corporations seems
to have passed away, and everybody
has settled into moodiness, dependency
and apprehension, according to temperament
The thing has been settled for the present. The
three great companies have determined to crush
out the miners organization at all hazards SO that
this event is secured they care nothing for public
opinion-nothng for the suffering around them, and
for which they are directly notwithstanding for
the welfare or the community in which they have
made their wealth, and nothing but for the empty
honor OF saying that they overcame some three or
four thousand poor working men in struggle
forced by their act and prosecuted for unworthy
ends.
The fact that the parties in the controversy have
resolved not negotiate for time to come robs the
coal troubles OF much of their exciting interest," and
items OF news are growing scarce and beautifully
less. The picture OF the situation may be imagined,
thus:-The officials OF the companies loll back In
their chairs and firmly walt for famine. their other
ally in the combination OF the carrying corporations,
to do Its work for them, while the poor miner
shrinks away to corner Of his cabin and contrives
how he can best exc out the scanty means which
five months Of ldleness have left him. In cOntem-
plating this, by no means fancy sketch, 1t is well
to consider that public sympathy should be with the
man OF toll and not with his oppressors-at least
people think here, where all the facts in the
try beyond the coal regions have but
DIM idea Of how things have been managed
palIry considerations Of personal pride the part
or few railroad officials and That the corporations
may put fourteen cents on a ton OF coal Into their
cOrers. IL has been understood for month that
the miners would so to work for dollar diamond
Car. and II the Companies were only willing to
whole business could run on smoothly once
more. This matter was discussed at the
that ii The companies would meet the men in a pro-
per spirit all difficulties could be removed at once;
but there was no indication Of yielding TO the com.
panies' TERMS except under ilecJ necessity. How
far OF that point may be can only be conJec-
tnred. Some fancy it to be near, Others pre-
cow laborlng assiduously IN the interest or
the corporations remarked, at an early stage or
the starving out process and the people generally
believe 50, too. The miners have exercised the
greatest frugaity since the commencement Of sus-
pension, and probably live on One-thlrd the means
that they did when they were at work. Their store
bills are remarkably small. They do not drink and
waste rioting, so that they have managed to hold
out so long, and are not very near exhaustion yet.
Business men tell me that their trade has fallen or
all Of two-thIrds II not three-quarters since the lst
OF January, and by this fact may be judged how
economical the workfngmen have been.
IS pTobe a the Will ii %e
into the summer. When say That both parties are
looking for relief and from opposite conditions Of
AFFAIRS the situation IS fairly stated and exhausted.
The miners anticipated rellef from other regions
resumlng work, while the companies rely on the
from any point until the trouble Is settled here. The
idea here Is that the companies In this section are
regard to the arrangement made at the meeting OF
representatives OF the transportation corporations.
II Is believed that that unholy alliance permitted
were definitely settled between the operators and
their men: The TACT that Mr. Clark. President Of
tlating with the men formerly employed in the
mines In the Maucn Chunk and Hazleton re-
things in that region, would indicate
tain their brothers In iniquy here beyond certain
point nominated IN the bond. II Is believed that
the lower ana middle Coal fields work win be re-
OF the companies here. Part OF Mr.. Parrlsh's mines
will be IN operation on Monday, and the rest will
soon follow. Everything ID quiet.
The Ashland District Operators Adhere to the
Terms Agreed Upon In Philadelphia.
ASHLAND, Pa, April %, 1871.
At meeting of the Mahanoy Valley and Locust
Mountain Coal Associations to-day at Mahanoy City
It was unanimously resolved that the meenng re-
commend the committee OF fifteen to adhere to the
offer made at Philadelphia April 22-that on and
after Monday, May l, 1871 wages whether for dead
work or otherwise, Will be at the rate offered by the
committee OF fifteen at Philadelphia on the 22d inst.
This association represents two thirds OF all the
tonnage from Schuylkll county.
The Wages Contract.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
In the published statements respecting the coal