The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-05
WHO PREVENTS RESUMPTION {?

FROM tHe scranton (fH.f IepuO1cdn.
The leaders of the W. B. A. are being
brought to light in their true attitude. Many
of their transactions during the present sus-
pension have been kept carefully concealed,
not only from the country, but from the
miners themselves. We make the assertion
here, boldly, and without fear of being con-
tradicted with proof, that the leaders of the
w. B. A., residing in Schuylkill county, have
designedly prevented the men in this region
from resuming work. Messrs. john Siney,
Kealy and Parker, of the Scauylllill
leaders, are the trio whose Interference
has frustrated arbitration, compromise,
and resumption upon satisfactory terms in
this valley. Honest miners in this region
may quail at this assertion, and denounce us
for making it, but we tell them, for their own
sakes, that they have been sold out by the
men we have named, and whatever misery
and suffering may be In store for them in the
immediate future must be attributed to them.
They have shown themselves, by their ac-
tions, that they are the evil geniuses of the
miners, who have brought upon them much
of the misery and privations which they have
suffered in the past, and we have the evidence
to prove it.
When President Gowen, of the Philadel-
phia and Reading Railroad Company, made
his plea before the Senate Judicial Committee
(after Governor Geary had made an attempt
the companies to submit the whole matter to
arbitration on the following conditions: list.
That the men should resume work without
conditions-not upon the terms pro posed by
the companies in December-but without any
specified terms, and the question of wages
and all other matters in dispute to be
settled by arbitration afterwards ID That
the Judiciary Committee should be discharged
from further consideration of the subject
before them.
AS we understand it, Mr.. Gowen was au-
thorized to make this proposition in behalf
of the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western,
Delaware and Hudson, and PENNSYLVANIA
Coal Companies, as we'll as for other corpo-
rations and operators The offer opened the
sought-for opportunity to submit the ques-
tions at issue to arbitrators composed of ope-
rators and miners, with disinterested third
party as umpire. But without consultation
with the miners, whose interests they hold
in the hollow of their hands, Messrs Siney
and Kealy rejected tie proposition, and insisted
that the committee go on and make their
report. In this Messrs. Siney and Kealy
acted upon their own responsibility, not
for the purpose of serving the
miners, but to show the companies and
the world their power over the thou
sands OF poor men who have trusted
themselves to their tender mercies. Had the
proposition made by the companies, through
Mr.. Gowen, been accepted, it would have
been no dishonorable yielding of the men,
but they would have met the companies upon
common ground, and in the settlement of
their difficulties would have had an equal
voice with their employers in the arbitration.
The leaders of the w. B. A. have had their
way-they have shown to the world once
more the power they yield; the Senate COM
mittee will go on and report, but what will il
profit the poor miner and laboring man upon
whom bears the heavy burden of suspension?
Arbitration is a recognition of the rights and
interests of each party to an unsettled ques-
tion. The companies have made the offer,
and the Schuylkill leaders of the w. b. A.,
speaking for the Luzerne miners, have re-
! jected the offer. If this action shuts the