The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-20
CITY INTELLIG ENCE.
THE COAL TRADE.

Resumption Becoming General-No Fear
of Another Suspension Mt Present-The
Writ of Quo warrantO Farce-The
Complete Tonnage for the Week-Quota-
ttOns, Etc.
The resumption OF operations in all the anthracite
regions is daily becoming more general. As pre-
dicted, the resumption Of one region necessarily
carried the others with it, The latest dispatches
pert the coming to terms Of the Delaware Lacka-
wanna and Western Company's men, who at the
last moment agreed to accent the coInRany's terms
and ignominiously bring up the rear r'T9fet Penn
sylvanla Coal Company's men accepted.' the higher
oner OF their employers earlier in the week, after
once rejecting 1t, and this favorable action was
rather unexpected. 1t is expected that the whole
upper region will be in active operation by Monday
next
The men Of that region must by this time see at
least some little Of the folly OF their course After
standing idle and losing money for the best part of
six months, they now resume work. some having
gained pary advantage of FIVE cents per ton with
tanned, while others have gained absolutely nothing
resumng at the terms offered when the strike was
inaugurated, and being obliged to trust to their
ployers for the hope even Of something better
These advantages are truly something to fight aud
starve for and we admire the mems foresight which
was so over keen as to prevent them from seeing
that nothing better could be obtained, and so kept
them from accepting the very same terms weeks
ago, when all parties were already heartily tired OF
idlenessY
In schuylkill the resumption has become pract-
Cally general under the terms OF the umpires deCl-
sion, which they finally concluded to ask for, and
which was given on Wednesday last. The only ex-
ceptions TO the general rule, we believe, are some
few colleres near Tamaqua, and the reason that
the men at these coeries voted against resumption
was that pother collieries in the same region are
working, and have been for some time, on the three
dollar basis. The men hoped by SO voting that they
also might obtain the better terms.
The terms as laid down in the decision OF the UNI
pire not however, satisfactory to all the work
men Some of them think it unfair that they by this
decision now have to WORK at lower rates than those
which the operators voluntarily offered to them a
short time ago. Butthey should remember that these
operators terms the miners deliberately refused be-
cause they thought them too low and compelled the
strike to continue, much TO the loss and discomfort
of the operators.
The tolls by the Reading Railroad have been ma
terially reduced, though not as much as was ex-
pecsed, acGoIdlng 10 & tne scnSoue @ published In our
promulgated in time to take effect on Wednesday
last, much to the disgust Of the operators who had
numerous loaded cars waiting at the mines to be
brought down and enable their owners to be the first
in the market.
resumption is not bona fde, and that attempt will
be made after some work is done to get better terms
by threatening another STRIKE the men thinking the
operators would rather accede to their demands
than stop work again after once starting. There is,
however, very little ground for such fear The men
perfectly starved out, and do not want to stop
work again for some time to come. The selfish
leaders may desire and counsel such action, but
their power over the men, at least in such case as
this is gone, and it will not be regained very quickly
Then, too another stoppage will Immediately raise
the tolls again, and things will be in the exact posi-
ton that they were before the resumption.
After straining their patience so long the men had
better be careful how they trne with their employ
ers for they are daily by their actions playing more
and more into their hands. Another suspension in
SCnuylklll at any very near date would so disgust
the owners Of the land, that numerous coal proper
ties would be for sale at very low terms. These
would be Immediately bought up by the Reading
Company, for 1t only could work them II one indi-
vidual found it impossible to run them, another
would, and the company would become the
purchaser This has been the policy OF the company
for some time, as is shown by the large advance in
the value OF its stock while the road was almost
idle. Numerous coal lands have already been
bought, according to the common report, to be
owned and run by the company. Once the owner of
majority OF the mines, the company is the ruler OF
the region, as 1t is In Luzerne Then the basis question
will be permanently settled by its permanent disuse
and the men will have to take what wages they can
get, and IN what manner they can get them.
In answer to numerous inquiries which have been
received at this Office to what has become of the
writ OF quo lDGTrdpto which was issued against the
Reading Company we would state that no one ap-
pears to know definitely what has become of 1t. 1t
was made returnAble the first Monday in May but
more distant, or whether 1t went by
default, cannot be ascertaneu. Our own impression
is, as before stated, that the whole thing is CON-
pete farce. 1t was inaugurated by the Governor
political ends and as counterpoise to the extreme
measures which it was found necessary to use
against the miners. 1t was pr0bAely never
intended that 1t should be carried any
further than the Inauguration, for that
is the only part that the miners could understand,
and, as 1t was for their benefit what was the use?
We wondered at the time that the Attorney General
should spend his precious time in such small trick
cry as this, and in accordance with our advice he
has probably thought better Of 1t and turned his
other way more speedily make the miners to sup
pose that he Is giving the companies their dues
cOrding to the miners IDEAS
The following is the complete summary of the
trade for the past week, as reported for the Potts.
vile Miners journal OF to-day