Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1879-09-13

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cents per ton.
The superintendent paid no atten-
ton to the request.
The JOURNAL condemned that
course as impoIt;c and improper, and
has heard no reason to change its
opinion.
TIE miners met.
Mr.. Jones request, impeached by
"Traveler" and by the entire corps of
officials, was authenticated by unan-
lmous vote of the meeting.
AND this NEGLECT and slight, need
lessly put upon the miners by their
super:ors, drove them to take actio:!
they thought the companies sOoe1d
notice.
They agreed to go home and wait
for the companies to accede to fifty
cents and send for them.
Several OF the company represen-
tatives met in Cumberland.
A proposition was made conform
ing with our suggestion to lay before
the men the reasons why the advance
could lot be allowed.
1t was stubbornly voted down or
disagreed to.
"An open letter" appeared, making
it incumbent upon the JOURNAL to
meet its plausible glori6cation of the
operators at the expense of the min
ers.
Otherwise, we would have had no
text for second article.
In the face of all this there are
company people bold enough to blame
the JOURNAL with melting the trou-
BILE.
The charge is utterly untrue, and
the men who make it know it.
The miners know we have never
urged upon them the idea of Great
ing trouble either verbally or through
the JOURNAL.
Let an impartial public put these
incontestable facts together end say
who is to blame.
We bide the verdict with serene,
unwavering confidence.
If this should be adverse, however,
we have left to us Conscience void
of offence and inefaceably sensible
of ito integrity in the premises.
WE wrote last week that the operators
did not think there was a possibility of a
strike, when it was threatened by placard
end advertisement. They thought the in
telligence of the men was such that theY
r0uld inform themselves of all the condi-
tions of trade, prices realized, and view the
matter in the proper light aohen presnsted to
them By tile representatives. Of tie Compa-
MES; but it appears there were some
among the miners, who were able to car
ry TIE meetings, and thus have 1t go to the
world that the miners of the region had
struck.--Coal Trade Journal
The italics are ours, and represent
things as they ought to have occur
red. Unintentionally, perhaps, they
constitute an inpregnable endorse
meat Of our position. 1t would have
been an easy thing for The men to Il;
form themselves" and ''view the mat,
cer in the proper light" had it bee'
80 presented by the representatives
of the companies" But it was net
done and disaster is upon US.
We will suppose that the compa-
MES, fortified by overwhelming in
controvertible evidences of unfavcra-
bic conditions and low prices, had il
fair, frank. businegs.like manner, and
by concerted action placed "the mat
ter in the proper light" before the
zen. Who has the hardihood to say
there is not a majority who would
have given those evidences intelli-
gent, fair and candid consideration :?
Yet this is assumed without test.
How unfair
1t is not matter OF supposition
that the course of the companies fiat
ly contradicts their private and iso-
lated professions of inability to con-
cede the advance. 1t is fact. Tnat
course gives decided occasion for sus-
picion and uuequivocal color TO the
Impressions CT the men regarding "the
conditions of trade and prices real
lied"
We intend that the blame for this
business shall stay where it belongs
on the companies.
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OUR CORRESPONDENCE.