The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-11-03
THEuNIoN NrINERs

In the Hooking Valley district are some
what excited over the importation by
the Ohio Central Coal Company of seven
hundred and thirty German miners for
their mines at Buckingham, The min
ers of the Union have been trying to in
duce the Germans to join them and it is
claimed, without success. 1t is said
there is a fair understanding between
Colonel Lemert, Manager of the Coal
Company, and the German miners that
they have never had their present OppOr
tunity to earn good wages and they
seem to appreciate it by keeping stead
| lily at work. We extract from the En-
quirer report
The most serious demonstration made
| by the Union miners so far was on
| Wednesday,, when committee of
/ Straitsville and Shawnee miners came
| to Buckingham with wagons TO move
over number of Germans upon whom
they had been working with promises
of better pay. The committee was met
near Corning by Colonel Lemert, who
| stopped them and said he would have no
interference. The Straitsville and the
| Shawnee men told him that he could
not stop them save by law, and that they
would go anyhow. Before the Union
men got away Lemert assembled his
volunteer police that he had organized
| in anticipation of some such raid, and
informed the committee that his COM
pany had paid the passage money of the
miners and had a mortgage on their
| baggage; that in addition they had a
contract for their labor until the debt
was paid, and that none of them
should leave. There was no collision.
| Eight of the Germans struggled away
with the Union men, whose raid was,a
cOTding to the Ohio Central people, a
| failure. They state that this interfer-
ence is encouraged by the Hooking Val
| ley and Shawnee operators. They state
that the company is making no warfare
| on the Union, but simply conducting its
own business so as to benefit its stock
holders and the miners themselves. A
| number of Union men are still employ
ed and given the same chance as nom
Union men. General Agent BOyles states
that the company also employs three
hundred and seventy cOlOred miners,
many of whom earn hundred dollars
| a month. The total number of men EN-
plOyed is nearly one thousand, who are
| either employed mining coal or making
entries. The daily shipment of coal at
present is $3.50 tons, and could at once
| be increased to over five thousand tons
uay, IL cars cOuln De GurnlSne0 10 carry
| it.
Operators and men who are well ac-
| quainted with the feeling and senti-
ments of the Hooking Valley miners say
that they are well satisfied, and doing
as well as they have ever done since the
region was opened. They do not antici-
pate there will be any trouble at Corn
ing or Buckingham, or that the great
majority of their miners are in sympa-
thy with anything that would look like
| lawlessness. Men who are largely in
terested i'll the Hooking region, say fur
ther that there is no basis whatever for
the assertion that the Shawnee and
| Straitsville operators encourage the
visits of their miners to Buckingham.
! There is a general sentiment among
them that the coming of the German
miners was good move, not only for
the Ohio Central operators, but for all
others in that part of the State as we'll.