The New York herald., 1877-08-29
LABOR TROUBLES.
Slight Changes for the Better
Among the Golfers.
NO REIGN OF TERROR.
Political and Business Aspects of
the Strike.
THE LEHIGH REGION.

THE LEHIGH REGION.
BEAVER MEADOW coLLIERs RETURNED TO
woRk-coAL COMBINATIONS. "
MAUcH CHUNK. Pa, August 2s, 1877.
As has already been reported tho strikers NJ the
Beaver Meadow colicries returned TO work yesterday
but the situation became cheering this morning
when the striking operatives from the three Stockton
collierics OF Lndernan, spcer Co., appeared at the
Mines tools hand. ready and willing TO commence
work. The mino bosses, having been previously In
structed by the company set the men at work,
mining operations have bccn going en- at lively
rate all day long. The company have agreed to pay
the miners samo wages thstGuied previous TO the
strke with tho proviso, however, tnat II the mon act
in good faith, advance of twelve and ahalf per cent
or will bo paid them and after September
l, provided the prices o coal advance sufficiently TO
the increased compensation Tho wages OF all
other miners who willing 10 resume work imme-
diately also 10 be increased. The now scale OF
wages will be similar in many respects to the basis
of prices that governed The trade during tho
ycnr 1878, which time high wages wcro
paid the workiDsmen OF tho middle coal fields
The same system that prevailed in that year will
govern the miners pay each month from this day for
ward The wages will be arranged on the percentage
sold at the seaboard by the Lehgh Coal Exchange
Let me Illustrate When coal is being sold in New
York for SIS per ton the coliiers will receive eighty
cents per twoton car with ten per cent advance
and decline with tho trade price. Leheh coal is now
selling So SO per ton and the sxhumers Of the dusky
miners aborers will DO paid $S 66 per week, while
the same help employed by the companies
side side o. o. tns G mines viii De pa,d dxed
scale OF wagcs. There IL mucn rejoicing among
arrangements virtual concession OF The proposition as
demandcd by hcm al tho Time OF the Inauguration OF
the strike This Is probably tho first time IN inc his
tory Of the Lehgh region That tho w0rkln smen have
been successful IN Their eudcavor 10 obtain an Increase
OF compensation, and to say mat the rejoicing and cx-
element great would be conveying but liant con
cepton the situsuon The miners applaud the course
that has boon taken by the HERALD aud other inde
pendent journals relation to the coal troubles, and
strongly that exsting condition OF things
largely " the advice 10 the operators pubiished IN
CONFLICTING xLxxxxrs HARxox,xINa
4 promiueHt Lengh operator Informed the HERALD
correspondent today th-t such arrangements have
been madc with the miners that 1t Will not now be
iOr The Lehgh Coal Exchange to bold meet
ing Tomorrow, as proposed, 10 make terms with the
monziug now, and 1t rs understood there will be gen
erAl resumption b tho region, so far as the north
3 The strikers " tne coliicres vi the Lehigh and
Wkesbarrs Coal Company, on the South sde' have
not as yet evinced any disposition to re:0rn 10 The
mlnes but " Is believed from certain movements o the
leading malcontents that souSething ooEng 10 gen.
eral resumption Of work Is on the tapis.
HOSTILE LEADERS,
Tho operators generally very severely dcnouncc
Franklin b. Gowen, President Of the PhiIad elpha aud
Reading Railroad Company, Tor bad iaith In coal
operatious, and openly accuse him instiga.ing the
strikes IN the Lengh region aud northern coal nelds,
through the agency OF PAID enissaries 70 oyerrsach
them in the business They very cmphaticaliy assert
that, II Mr.. Gowen has not used ilegiumate aud
traorous scbcmes, there would have been NO Diff.
Guilty whatever with The GOLFERS and their assistants
the laborers From the surface indications IL looks
as II there was TO be lively aud bitter
middle ana nortbern coal fields Now that Judge Asa
Pac er, President OF the Lehgh Valley Railroad, has
become the executive head Of .he Phiiadephis Coal
located at Shenandoah City, In the richest and most
prolific section Of schuylklll county, the opening
OF hostillues between b'm Judge Packcrl and Mr..
Gowen may be expected al no distant date. Colonel
Thomas A. Scott, tho President OF the Susquehanna
Coal Company whose colere are located at anticoke
The Wyoming region, and president of all Inc coal
companies owned ana operated BY the Pennsylvania
whom this great coil trade war begun stir
ring AND exciting times may be looked ior 10 the bus
ness t, ~, i. .t.s.... .+.,r.f ..ss s.- , -
binaton smosg the Lehign operators (furtner than
tnut ALREADY exsting the shape Of the Lsnigh Coal
work independently, the Wyoming and Lacgawanna
corporations and individual operators appear to
DO moving Tor The formation o, trade association, to
regulate production At the mnes and shipments and
prices at the seaboard
rHE ANTHRACITE li gH
Prominent operators, gentlemen -of wealth and In
nuence, state that The anthracite lrade oil the United
stutes fortunately in the hands OF mon OF honest
capital energy aud foresight commcn with
the immense Interests which nature and fortune have
paced in their charge. Ihs vast and important trade
has reached annual product of over 20. 900, 900
tons. IL is believed tnat the output may reach
"a, 000. 900 tons this season. II has doubled
every ten years during the past, and IN
ten years more must reach at least 50UO0, 600
tons annually 1he total annual production In 1870
but 365 toms 1880 II was l74 734 ons in 1910,
379 TONS ia 1850 s99 tons IN $780, S513 LIB
tous, and 1870 l5, ,S4g SOY tons There have been
frequent periods when the yearly ant hracte tonnage
has fallen ueow that of preceding year, yer every
period OF contraction has been followed by period OF
moro than corresponding expansion What IL true OF
American coal Is true OF American INDUSTRIES gener-
ally. Upward tho OF anturuciie takes Its way.
Ia country US rich In mineral AMI agricultural re-
and increasing rapidly IN population AS the
United States, there eau be Intelligent doubt that
the OF the coal trade Will show great an
crease past has done, and nat inc htu falling
on Of tonnage during some periods merely transient,
and must naturally, by nerence from past precedent,
be foowc by largely Increased demand.
10 prepare for this inevitable increase in the coal
trade permanent improvements, ut an enormous ex-
popse, have been made, order that The operators
may more fully and promptly respond v tho enlarged
demand attending the sudden revival OF mauufactur.
ing industries tho and gradual growth OF coal
consumption for domestic purposes. About nvo
hundred thousand tons are mined and shipped weekly
TO tho line and seaboard markets. tfs
THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY.