The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-05
TIE COAL CDIlUNDRUM.
Dhsatinscticn Among Mners-one Colliery sus-
pended-The Reading, Road Advances Tolls
Efforts TO Cent? alize" the Coal Trade
Advice 70 Coal Consumers

MAHANoY CRY, Pa, augusta 1871.
Aftncughve nave fondly imagined that tae coal
question had at last received fnai settlement
through rfe medium OF local and general arbitra-
taon anu aad congratulated ourselves thereon, We
md that the troubles not, Mother VIII they be
over SO long certain interested and influential
parties refuse let the troubles remain settled lt
N question, l think, beyond contradiction, that
without frequent strikes suspensions
TIE MARKET BECOMES ovRRsTocSEp
AMI pr,oes fall OK Thls, then, rs the main cause
81 the troubles, aad tho operators and carrying COM
p1nIes for their own selfish enes force the men 10
suspend by reducing their wages. II tie operators
Tefnse at the right time TO bring about Suspension
ihe carrying companies advance their tolls without
regard 10 prices at tide water and the operator 70
save himself, is obliged to reduce wages OF suspend
operations.
THE M'HEIL CoiILEEy.
lus' east o. this place suspended days ago on
strike for advance OF wages IL seems labor is
very scarce, and operators are offering extra in.
ducesents To- this class OF men. The proprIcors
Of this couery, l understand, brought lot OF
"greenhorns" from New York ana set them az work
Al the regular basis price, which Is SlI per
week for inside and $40 for outside la
bores The continued at WORK for a
Few days when they asked tor an advance Of
wages the operator was obliged to comply with
their demand, ana they renamed 81 So per day.
heard OF this and concluding tn9 a their services
were OF greater Importance 10 the company than
from eighty-one cents to 81 per Tne company
refused to grant the advance, and the coiliery Is
now idle. In this case u appears TO me that the
MINERS ARE CLEARLY IN TIRE WRONG:
Tor they were working along without complaining
vanced IN rate OF wages. Is IT not clear that these
miners wouiu have Continued NJ the regular rate
had II not been for their lnexcusabe jealousy OF the
'.Greennorns 81
There have been a number OF suspensions OF late
on account OF alleged oyercharge for powder and
character aud were soon Settled.
ANOTHER. STREE IMPENDING
The trade aEXlot&ly look forward 10 the 18th OF
August the day On which the committees meet Ak
wages-which are dependent on the pnoe Oh coal
for the following month Ii ia generally believed
mat reduction will be announced, from the fact
mat the Reading road advanced Their freigrf August
twenty cents between Port Ion nj The iermiuus
This VIII make corresponding reduction on The
operator profits and - make himself "whole' ne
iaborers united In the DISCRIMINATION 10 hold out
against any further reduction The reductions
already since resumption have been three per cent
and II is said now that the reduction this month
VIII be four per cent more making In all seven per
cent reduction IN three months from wages that
barely allow man and his family to live uecen5ly.
Furthermore, the Reading Company Will ad-
vance their tolls on september l. and again
on the FIRST day Of October. What VIII ne the
suhf General Suspension. just sure thi thing Is
persisted N, and GoWen has announced his inten-
lion TO carry out the programme TO the letter Mr..
Gowen made the same mistake ON former occa-
sion. He announced the advance two or three
the whole business by cable, and lie is doing IL now.
ATTEMPT TO MONoPoLIZE THE MINES.
The action o. The Reading RaiiroadCompany has a
's,rtarn Significance which coal operators would do
well to guard against they can. Gowens policy
templates the gradual absorption OF all the mining
interests in the SchuykIll region, when they hope
IN connection with The Delaware, Lackawana and
western Railroad aud Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company, TO control the anthracite coal trade OF
America. fhlnk VI that for ambition The whole
coa trade controlled by three gigantic corporations,
and tending that way with positive assurance
OF victory thai viii cause 1.-The trader TO open Its
passed.
have already referred to Governs visit TO Europe
and the negotiation Of $4,000, 600 loan. He is
merely perecting details and receiving Instructions
rom his European employees 1.-THE Reading stock is
held principally by an English family, when the
loan Will be offered III the market There Is but
thing IN the world that this immense is wanted
FOR, and tina: is 10 buy leases and force small ope-
raiors out OF The neld w6en tue agents of the Read
ing will step In and buy tile land. by lhIs and
processes 1t is intended 10
GET FULL. CONTROL OF THE BUSINESS
IN tnis region the business OF the upper regions
will DE lett TO the other corporations have desig-
mated. All ol tins is to come Ia the future. II IL has
tendency TO deliver coal III New YORK AZ retail AZ
81 per ton as the proprietors OF this say 1t
will, VIII welcome more tnan the citizens
OF New York; but Will their fair promises be carried
outY Can any of the HERALD readers recall an in
fulilment equaied the promiscg No: the nionopo. |
nSs viii get just exactly what prices they wish for
IN their hands so Ioscb s""t me he ftnr
Let US see what the present and immediate
future has IN store. As have already intInated,
there Is serious danger OF general suspension II the
present tacty Understood programme is earned
out From former proceedings or the Reading Road
believe II will he. II Is simply nonsense TO think
The men can work for lower wages Than the present.
ana were the operators willing they are unable 10
help themselves against reducing wages. The carry
,no companies force them into it, anc III view OF pos
sibie contingencies coal consumers would do well |
10 guard against the scenes OF last winter do not
thinkhe poor people OF NewYo other ctleswill
soon forget the pleasure they must have felt pay
ing sl+ TO SIC per ton for coal. There is
why they shond do again; let them take time by ;.
The forelock and no matter whether The carrying |
company or the operator he 10 blame for suspen.
Hions let NOT tie innocent consumer suffer again.