The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-27
CITY 1NTELLIGENC E.
or additional Local Rep.s see Third Page.l
THE COAL TRADE.

The Resumption Not Yet Quite General
The Lehtgh Region still Idle-The Sha-
dow of Further Trouble-The New Coal
Conipany-The Complete Tonnage for
the eWeek-Quotations,E Etc.
The suspension is not yet completely at an end,
contrary 70 general expectations, the Ie6ign region
still holding out by majority OF district votes for
their 1869 basis. The Lehigh operators have con-
suited as to the best way OF proceeding and we be-
neve, have determined to hold to their proposals
The districts who voted with the minority are much
dissatisfied and 1t is not unlikely that these may
abandon the W. b. A. and resume without regard to
It's orders.
The miners generally in all the regions appear to
be well contented to work at the wsges that they
receive, but the leaders, from all accounts, APP
pear TO De very restless o,ber sno are Lying
ever it may be possible Whcn IL IS not at present.
The leaders fare the most sumptuousy When the
miners are starving, and consequently wish them to
starve. They call it O patched-up resumption,
which the operators win soon wish to suspend and
by saying this now, they hope to lay the blame OF
suspension on the operators should the miners at
any time wish to break the truce.
The leaders try to inculcate the old Idea that the
wages received are much lower than those received
in other equivalent branches Of industry, and try
to produce dissatisfaction which will in the end lead
to another suspension. or course the miners wages
do average lower than those paid to workers in
other departments, but 1t is because the other work.
work steadily nearlyitheiyear round, while the
miners prefer to remain idle for SIX months at
time At steady work the miners pay would average
much higher, and this not allowing for the difference
In the hours worked. Other artisans and mechanice
work ten, twelve, or more hours per day, while the
miners VINO WOrk on contract WOrk, as many OF tnem
do work only from four to six hours per day. II
they that they cannot live at the wages paid for
this amount of work, the same argument should be
used to them the miners of the upper region used
to the aborers in the late trouble The laborers said
they could not live upon one-third less than the
miners, their employers, received, and on complain
ing told by their employers that they must live,
and that all there about it. The TRUTH per-
haps, is that the miner wants to be too much of a
gentleman of leisure before he has earned the posi-
tion. Habits of idleness engendered by long sus-
pensions help that sort of thing amazingly
led by the Reading Railroad is going to bring a new
and powerful influence 10 bear upon the solution OF
all troublesome Schuylkll coal questions, and the
leaders, accustomed to manage their men in con-
nection with private operators only, will now have
to learn new tactics. This action will be the begin
ing Of the solution of the puzzng problems in which
the interests OF carrying companies, operators and
miners are concerned. The result will probably in
time, be more or less disastrous to private operators
however, unless very liberal spirit guides the
doings Of the company But, at all events, whatever
other evils it will produce for which the remedy
the more readily be found at some future tme it at
least tends to do away with existing evils which
nure public and private operators alike, and to this
extent 1t makes the mining industry so much the
more desirable to individual operators But be the
result good or evil that result is the direct though
undesired work OF the leaders OF the miners them
selves
which the very best, embrace an OF between
$4,000 and 10000 acres, AID with these fully improved
the company has the controlling power The stock
is held by the Reading company, and mortgage
bonds to the amount OF s25 100000 less &c. OOO 900
been issued by the company to pay for and improve
the lands.
The Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Com
pany having reduced its freight, will hold its first
auction sale of coal since the suspension in New
York on next Wednesday.
The committee on wages for the Schuylkill region
have met and fixed the rate for May, the yerage
being found to be s293. Wages are therefore or
dered be advanced six cents upon the So IS basis
fixed by the umpires decision.
The following is the complete summary Of the
trade for the past week as reported for the Potts
vile Miners Journal of to-day