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THE MINER.

The miners at Coal Creek, or Snoddy's
Mill, Fountain county, Ind, have made
an agreement for twelve months at 80
cents ton for digging The former price
was 50 cents in summer and 80 cents III
winter.
At Streator, H. the rate has been low
cred ten cents under the last summer
prices. They now get 70 cents per ton
for mining coal there.
At the Mt. Carbon mines, Murphysboro,
the company gave notice to their work
men. ON the 14th inst, that they would
reduce prices ten cents per ton to the in
side workers, and 10 per cent. on the
wages Of outside and days wage laborers
the notice to take effect on and after
the 10Th, being only one days notice.
What action the workmen will take ON the
subiec. we are not yet advised.
The reductions III those places Is IN ac
cordance with the general condition Of
things in other parts OF that State, and,
in fact, the country. Last summer the
strikes supported by the Miners National
Association i'll Clay county, Ind, the Ma
honIng and Shenaugo valleys, to say moth
ing Of the hard coal fields, had the effect
Of preventing he then threatened shrink
age in prices from spreading all over the
country. Then the men IN Illinois were
pretty well organized, 50 also at other
points, and prices kept up. Now they
have slackened their duties as Union men,
and they are paying the penalty. No
more need Of this reduction, that IS now
very general, than there was last summer
Not pound more coal will be sold be
cause Of it, nor days more work will the
miners get at the low figure, and they
themselves, because of allowing their or
ganization to 20 by the board, are alone
responsible for this new onslaught upon
their wages. Whatever defeats and trou
bles men may sustain when they have a
good Union-and to prevent these entirely
at all times Is impossible-they will learn
they are tenfold increased when no organ
ization exists. This is the history Of al
trades, and our advice to the coal miners
is, 20 to work at once and build up your
trades unions, and be ready to take advan
tage Of the fall trade when it sets IN to re-
cover the prices now taken Uf. There IL
little hope to do SO under the existing con
ditlon Of al affairs.
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CHICAGO. DETROIT AND CINCINNATI
SATURDAY, APRIL %, 1876
Call for an Independent National Con-
vention.

WHEREAS, Our legislation, both State and
national, for the last few years has been al
most exclusively for chartered monopolies
against the people, in favor Of foreign inter
ssts, and for the eXchanger TO the detrment
Of the producer; and,
WHEREAS, Such legislation has resulted IA
almost entire prostration and dislntegratIon
II our industrial interests. while at the same
time enormously stimulating parasitic devel-
Upment: and,
WHEREAS, The civil service Of the country
under the old party leaders has become thor
oughly and villainously corrupt, threatening
to subvert our government, therefore, be It
Res0ired, That We demand
l. The repeal of the specie resumption and
natioAal bank acts.
2 The perfectlng OF a monetary system
based upon the faith and resources OF the ma
ton, and adapted to the demands Of legitimate
business; which money shall be legal tender
in payment u all debts public and private,
duties on imports included, Except that por-
tor Of the interest and principal Of the pres
ent public debt, that i by the express terms
q the Law creating Il, made payable in me-
tallic money! This money to be inter
changeable at the option az the holders with
registered government bonds, bearing rate
Of interest not exceeding J. IS per cent per
annum.
8 The thorough reform Of the civil service
Of the country by the expulsion and publish
ment Of all corrupt officials, and a rigid per
sonal Accountability of every official.
4 A ngid economy in the expenditures in
all the depa1tmehts of the government.
5. Rigorous laws regulating and controlling
moneyed corporations, and their vigorous en-
fOrcement
Therefore we invite all legal voters of the
United States who indorse the above pream-
bic and resolutions to meet in delegate
vention in the city Of Indianapolis, on We'd
nesday May II, 1876, to put in nomination
one candidate for the office Of President and
one candidate for the office Of Vice President
Of the United States.
Hon. MusEs w. FIELD, Chairman.
Hon. ALEX. CAMPBELL Vice Chairman.
I. b BUCHANAN, Secretary.
4. A. Olleman, Indianapolis, Ind.
X. f Trevellick, Detroit Michigan
Jackson H Wright, Cleveland Ohio.
John Siney, st Clair, Penna
A. Z. Cameron, Chicago Ill.
I. J. Durant, Washington, D. c.
NJ. NJ. Hooton,i Centraha, Ill.
Egbert Hasard, New York City.
Robert Schilling, Cleveland, Ohio.
7. b. Buchanan, Indianapolis, Ind
+. NJ. Smith Kewanee, Henry Co., Ill
DIR. VIM. G. Crooks, 529, south 9th St,
PHILADELPHIA
J. r. McCarP, Nashville Tennessee.
L. $. Linn. Pigua, Miami Co., Ohio.
Jas. L Moorehesd, Parkersburg, West
Va.
WIN. Elliott, Rochester, Olmstead Co.,
MINI.
Samuel Leavitt, A CORTLAND St, New
York.
John G. Garretson, Salem, Henry Co.,
Iowa
J, Cope, Cross Timbers, Texas
J. X. Winston, Milton, Caswell Co. n. c.
Henry Hales, East Saginaw, Michigan.
A. Warner st. John, Carthage, Mo
L. NJ. Chamberlin, Adams House, Boston,
Mass
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who favor the continuance Of such sys-
tenn continually pirate about honest mon
ey" There is not particle OF honesty
connected with it. 1t is a confidence
game, pure and simple, from beginning to
end, and it is designed for no other pur-
pose than to rob labor Of its just rewards.
For example, the Chicago Tribune wants
to issue Sll0 in promises to pay gold for
every SO gold piece held BY national
bank. The editor of that paper knows,
if his ideas are carried out, it would result
in the wholesale robbery Of labor, from
the fact that the failures of our national
banks have proven them to be As veritabie
loitd cat concerns as ever hourished in the
country For example, read what this
same paper has said about the Cook
County National" since it's failure. The
national banks cost the paople more than
all the stealngs Of corrupt officials and
corrupt rings ten times over but neither
the Republican Senate nor the Democratic
House have said or dare say one word i'll
opposition to the national bank system,
while the cry for specie resumption is
as transparent fraud as was ever perpe-
trated on the American people. None Of
its apologists, in or out Of Congress, pro-
pose to resort to purely gold and silver
currency. What they really propose is a
wild cat national bank rag currency, which
shall cost the people $50 900, 600 Or more
a year, and give the bankers the right ant
power to initiate and contract the currency
at will, and rob producers whenever the
bankers feel disposed to resort to the high
wayman's method Of getting wealth. Thu
real issue is Shall we have an homes
greenback currency, or a dishonest wild
/ cat national bank currency This is til,
only issue before the American people
however much the bank organs may try t
conceal the facts and mislead the people
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any way of salvation short Of wiping out
or compromising our public Indebtedness
Can our PROSTATE industries and unem-
ployed labor continue to pay Thousand
millions year in taxation for interest on
debts
Every thoughtful man must see that the
question of reputation or compromise In
being forced upon the people by the greed
mess Of the money power. They are de-
termined that interest shall not be reduced
one cent to correspond with other reduc-
tions. They control alike the Republican
and Democratic politicians, who legislste
according to orders Our whole legisla-
ton shows that the industries Of the
country are totally without representation
in the Federal Government. Capital con
trolls everything.
As a national crisis may come, 1t may a
well be looked squarely in the face. Wha
would be the effects Of reputation o
compromise Of public debts Wha
would be its effect upon the national in
dustries Would the times" be bette
or worse : Is it any more criminal for
nation to compromise than an individual
Is not self-prservation the first lawl
it any worse to repudiate national debt
to- day than it was century since Ever
man can ask and answer all the question
necessary.
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We are in receipt Of communication
from Montgomery Blair, urging the
nomination Of Mr.. Tilden, Of New York,
on hard money and free trade platform.
For Mr.. b. special information, we de-
sire to say that the workingmen Of this
country would not support the Angel Ca
briel, far less Mr.. 1ilden, on such basis,
and further, that President can be elect
ed without the assistance Of the Empire
State OF the Wall street gang Of thieves
and gold gamblers.
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LANDERs, who was nominated by the
Independents of Indiana for Governor,
has been thrown overheard by the Dem
ocracy of that State, and a nonentity
named Williams selected as their standard
bearer. This should be warning to those
in our own State NhJ have accepted the
nomination Of the Decatur Convention.
and are building castles in the air" in
the expectation that they will be iDdorsed
by the unterrifed" at the Springfield
gathering. Gentlemen, you are deceiving
yourselves, and the sooner you realize the
fact and act accordingly, the better for the
interests Of the Independent party. This
10 no time for dilly-dallying. or speculation
In I" if" or "buts."
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ROBINSON CRUsoE's MONEY

We have Just read David A. Wells last
production. illustrated by Thos Mast, and
published by Harper Brothers, under the
above title. in which the writer makes all
the errors Of the bullion theory prominently
conspicuous. He assumes, Of course, that
gold is the best money, that gold is the
only money, and finally, that all other sub
stitutes are merely promises to pay gold /;
persistently ignoring the fact which the
Independent party claims, FIRST, that gold
instead of being the best money is the
worst, instead of being a fixed and GER
tain value is the most uncertain Of all
values, because it is an absolute impossi-
bility to determine its cost of production !;
second, because there is no possible means
of knowing the total supply or demand Of
what this demand and supply will be at
any one given time In the future. Some
time ago Wells proved himself to be an
unsafe guide; by writing this book he has
proved himself to be an unprincipled pet
tifogger. All bullionists beg the issue when
they assert that there is no money but
gold, gold is the worlds standard
measure Of value" etc, etc, which are
supposed to be self-evident truths. They
are really self-evident absurdities when
ever critically analysed and tested by
facts. Show a bnllionist that it is Also
lutely impossible to ascertain how much
gold the ancients had, what it cost to pro
duce it, and how much Of il has been pre-
served to this day that even at the pres
ent time we have no means Of ascertaininp
how much it costs to produce gold. and
the only reply received is, "that is no ar
gument But such statements are facts
and facts are the strongest arguments
when properly used. One Of our greatest
defects is that many of our prominent
greenback advocates do not unravel the
subtle frauds that are woven around this
gold idea of intrinsic value, ;" " a meas
ure II value, and all other humbuggery,
based upon the one idea Of gold. 1t is
absolutely impossible to base currency
on gold which viii not be as Uncertain in
its value Is gold itself and this uncA
tainty is supplemented by an unmitigated
fraud of issuing from two to ten promises
to pay gold dollars for every gold dollar
in the vault, yet the unblushing swindlers
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E. H. Haywood, Of Princeton, Mass. +,
publisher Of The Word. is fast losing the
regard Of his old time labor reform friends.
The rubbish-published monthly-under
his signature, in the shape of resolutions,
etc, are simply an outrage on decency,
and are enoGgh to d-n him or any other
man who has any regard for his character.
We think, however, he ought to possess
honor enough 10 drop the "Labor-Re-
form dodge, and come out in his true
colors. Don't steal the livery Of Heaven,
friend H., to serve the devil in.
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One Of two things must take place in
regard to our mill operatives; either the
cost Of living must be reduced, or wages
must be advanced. They can not and
will not continue as they are. We will
not refer to that class Of help in our mills
whose wages are only 90c a day, and who.
ON this miserable pittance, in many in
stances, must support family-but take
the skilled spinners; men who
have spent years in acquiring thorough
knowledge of and efficiency in their work;
and what do they earn Many Of them
less than 50 per week. Ii is fair to say,
in view Of what 80 will do in feeding and
clothing family in New England, that
this does not represent more than about
les q week in Lancashire. Now, il our
SKILLED, able bodied sLinners will continue,
contentedly, to work on for such penurious
pay, then are they not the men of inteli-
gent emery which we had supposed was the
product Of the civilization az the nine
teenth century. Their labor and time in
the market Of the world is worth more
| than they are receiving. They owe it to
theselves and their families that they sell
their labor where they can get it's market
price. Without leaving the trade Ia which
they have been brought up from childhood.
they lind that their labor fetches better
prlce IN Lancashire than here, hence they
are = selling out their household goods
and preparing to cross the Atlantic.
Higher wages brought them here; lower
wages is sending them back. This week
We have printed rattle tickets for all sorts
things from an ACCORDION up to "cas-
| l.. Three families, Of five each, rattle
respectively stove, a sewing machine,
and clock. Single men are parting with
their watches to raise what money they
can, and then they are OF. man with a
wife and four Children came here 10
months ago, bringing with him Gl0O. He
has stald long enough to spend nearly the
whole OF it. Although steadily az work
earning what he can, he cannot earn suffi-
eient to keep hls family. He returns while
he has enough left to carry him back
Goes back to cramped and crowded Eng
land, because he cannot earn living in
tins broad and bounteous land Goes back
p mn less from the poor mans para Use to
the land Of paupers, he but lately left
with pounds That's how matters stand
day II cannot remain thus loLg It's
an abn"rmal condition IF things-a condi-
ton which will not continue The deep
seated and wide-spreading corruption III
official circles, and the enormous expense
vt running the State ana National govern
ments are IN great degree the causes of
the unhappy condition Of tine workingman.
Radical reform IN every department is the
demand Of the times. And reform we
must have, for the industrial portion Of the
community cannot longer carry the fri ht-
ful Lad put upon them.-Ldbar Journal
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A. 7. STEWART, the New York million
ARE, is dead He was what the world calls
a shrelcd business man. Money-making
was his forte. In life a scheming, selfish
tyrsnt, in death his millions, wrung from
thu sweat If honest labor, are left this side
the grave. He had the means of making
fame and name for himself as u philan-
thropist which time could not destroy, but
failed to avail himself Of it. Outside the
fulsome, undeserved eulogies bestowe by q
subsidized press, no regrets follow him to
his narrow home.
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TEXT FOR THE PEOPLE.
GreenbGck Currency

al now undertake TO affirm and without
the least fear that can he answered, that a
uaper issued by Government, with the simple
promise to receive it Tor all its dues, would.
to the extent it would circulate, form per
feet paper circulation, which could not be
abused by the Government that 1t would be
as uniform In value as the metals themselves.
and ! shall he able t. prove that 1t IS within
the constitution and powers Of Congress to
use paper in the management of its finances,
according to the most ugld rule OF construng
the constitution. -JOHN q. CALHOUN.
Bank paper must be suppressed, and the
circulation restored t. whom It properly he
longs. Let banks continue if they please,
but let them discount for cash alone, OF for
treasury notes "-TFONAS JEFFERSON
The Five twenty Bonds.
when the bill vas on its passage, the
question was expires ,ly asked Of the Chairman
Of the Committee Ways and Means, and
as expire sly answere Nv him, that only the
interest vas pay able IN coin "-THADDEUs
STEVENS.
''If the bond holder refuses to take the
same kind Of money with which he bought the
bonds, ne Is an eXtortloner and a l pudla-
tor "- JOHS SHERMAN
eve should do foul injustice TO the Gov
eminent and to the people OF the United
States. after We have sold these bonds on all
average for not more than sixty cents on the
dollar, now to propose to make new con
tract for the benefit vi the holders. Oliver
P MORTON.
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never accomplish any good result. Both
parties have been excited by the losses &C.
casioned by the strike, and neither is in n
condition for friendly intercourse or for
compromise. Each party depands an un-
conditional surrender, and the meeting,
after stormy debate, breaks up BY the
parties being further away from each other
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REPUBLICAN Senate and Democratic
House OF Representatives have persistently
refused to comply with the demands of the
American people, and repeal the Specie
Resumption law. They are both tarred
with the same stick, and both serve the
same master; yet we daily listen to the
twaddle that relief to the business inter
ests Of the country can only come through
theinterference Of the Republican or Dem
ocratic parties.
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OUR CHOICE FOR PREsIDENT.-In reply
to a number Of correspondents who ask us
to name our choice for President, we
would say that we are in favor Of the most
available candidate who stands on a green
back platform, without an If or a ''but. "
We deem it bad taste and bad policy to
thrust the claims of any particular indiv-
idual before our readers at the present
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The TAILoRs.-At the quarterly meeting
Of the Chicago 7. r. and B. UnioL, held
Saturday evening, April |, the following oil
GERS were elected
Preaident-N. Steinberg
Vice President-Mr. Pfuller.
Rec. and Cor. Secretary-C DArger, 20t
Portland avenue
Fin. Secretary-Mr. Hendrickson
Treasurer Mr.. ROsenlof.
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Greenback News

California has elected delegates To thu
Independent State Convention.
The voters Of Sharon county Pa, meet
IN mass convention April 29, to organize
greenback club.
The Hon. Peter Co per, Of New York,
is talked If as the presiding officer Of tn
indianapolis Convention.
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second and last Monday Of each month, ut
o'clock p. m. Special meetings may be
called at any time by a majority of the Ex
ecutive Committee, or by the President nn
petition of live delegates, due notice b. ing
given of time and place
A quorum for the ira, sactiOn of business
Ehall consist Of fifteer members.
ARTICLE TX
AMENDMENTS
This Constitution may be amended at any
regular meeting, notice having been given
at the preceding one, and two-thirds Of the
delegates present voting IN the affirmative.
oRDKR OF BUSINESS.
]. Reading Of minutes Of previous meet.
ing.
2. Reports Of officers.
3. Reports Of standing and special com
mittees.
| T. Reception Of communications aud bills
5. Unfinished business.
q. New business
]. Reports Of delegates.
8. Adjournment.
''CushIng's MAnual" shall Be regarded A,
authority.
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The Independent Convention of the
Third Congressional District of Kentucky
recently passed resolution recommend
ing the nomination of thu Hon. Alex.
Campbell, Of Illinois, for the Office Of
President.
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CRIsPINs, read the address of your fell
Low craftsmen in Massachusetts, published
~ the present Issue, and act on the sug-
,r..nfinna
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The worklngmen of Grand Rapids,
Mich, intend holding grand mass meet
ing in the Opera House Of that city, in .
few days
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The thirteenth convention u the Iron
Molders' Union Of North America viii
convene in Cleveland, o., July 5, 1876.
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ARIIILE IN,
ANRNDNENTS
NEWS FROM the OLD WORLD.



(From our latest Foreign Exchanges
Alta conference held on Saturday, Il vas
resolved that the Agricultural Laborers'
Union should hold a demonstration ia
l. ndon after Easter la support Of Mr.. Tr,-
velyn's motion relating to the county fran
chise
THE ERITH STRIKE
1t is reported that Messs. Easton & An
derson, Of Firth, hav, succeeded in filling
their workshops with English workmen
for the most part.
THE IRON TRADE
On Monday the iron workers at the
Baitannia Works, Middlesbrough, started
again, after week strike, having declined
to work unless guaranteed fun weeks
employment. They have nov given n,
fearing that other men would be taken On
in a state Of things where idleness is n,
the exception.
On Wednesday meeting Of the Centrs
b ard Of Miners National Association, I
Manchester, the dispute regarding wage,
in Fife and Clackmannans shires was CON
sIdcred. The report before the meeting
stated that a reduction of IL per cent va,
threatened, and settlement by arbitration
refused. Ii was agreed that a deputatiUI
from the Board should wait on the employ
ers, and If no settlement could BE- made
that the men should strike, and th'
Union would support them.