Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-05-17

laborers, to be treated in the same man.
ner as other articles of necessity. As an
alternative proposition. if the men prefer,
we will make an advance of five cents
per ton and proportiouate advance pei
car over the price offered on the first Of
Dece mber; outside labor per day, 81 g.
and inside labor per day. 81 s3-these
rat es 20 continue until the close of the
pI esent year.
The foregoing propositions are made
With the assent of. and are concurred in,
by the Delaware, Lackawana and West
ern Railroad Company and the Pennsyl.
vania Coal Company. and with the under
standing that one or the other of the
propositions are to be assented to by the
men of the three companies on or before
the 18th inst in order to be binding on
the companies. THos DICKSON,
President Del and Hudson Coal Co.
The propositions were rejected on the
part of the miners and laborers by the
following resolves or articles /:
/ PRoviDENCE, May 13, 1871.
To III. Superintendent Of the Delawdrc and Hud-
son Coal Company:
SIR: We the representatives of the
Delaware and Hndson miners and labor
ere, in convention assembled, do hereby
refuse the offer of the company to arbi-
trate, with the conditions, for the follow
ing reasons
First. There is condition that we 60
to work until the lst of June on the re-
duction made last December. We want
to arbitrate on the wages we are to re-
ceive from the day we start.
Second Mr.. Dickson says the relative
present value and purchasing power of a
COLLAR is to be considered. He further
states that the price of coal is not to be
considered only so far as it enters into
the living economies of miners and labor
ers, or to he treated in the same manner
as other necessarIes in arriving at the
cost of living. This debars US from hav
ing anything to say on the price of coal
sold by the company, or the interest made
by them on their capital stock, while they
bring before an umpire what we can pur
chase for one dollar. As the company
does not sell US merchandise or provi
sions, nor do the miners sell coal in mar
ket. why debar us from using the price of
coal as an argument because we are not
selling in market. and at the same time,
use the purchasing power of dollar as
an argument against us when the COM
pany sell us nothing 7
Third. The length of time wages should
last lie. in our opinion. question for the
board of arbitrators.
Fourth. We want more than three ar
bitrators from each side on the board.
Fifth. We offered arbitration in good
faith. but we object to a one sided arbi
tration, where all the advantages are on
the side of the company, and all the dis
advantages on the side of the miners.
Sixth. We also refuse the offer of five
cents a ton advance over the amount Of
fered by the company five months ago.
PETER QUIGLY,
WILLIAM Hill,
DAVID AUBREY,
Committee.
The result of this unsatisfactory con.
clusion in the Scranton region is that
agents of the various companies are ex-
erfing their influence to get the laborers
to work independent of the miners.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press. writing from Scranton, under date
of May 18Th, says "At an early hour
this morning hundreds of miners and
laborers wended their way towards
Briggs shaft to witness the long looked
for attempt at forced resumption 1 re-
paired to the scene in time 10 see a squad
,f twenty-five lsborers, protected in
front and rear by the military, arriving
At the mouth of the mines. About one
hundred soldiers kept guard around the
'haft, and nobody was allowed to go
within three hundred feet of the breaker.
Nearly thousand miners and laborers
occupied commading positions on adjacent
lillecks, tut showed no disposition to in
erfere with the few resumptionists. In
lue time the twenty-five men descended
he shaf: and filled twenty cars of coal.
Not contemplating much work for the
irst day, they were hoisted up at noon
nd returned to their homes, accompanied
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