Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1882-07-29
MINING JOURNAL
FROSTBURG. MD, JUDY 30, 1882
Reply to the Miners Resolutions
The journal Gets a GO-BU.

"County Interests" says 1.-THE JOUR
NAL undertakes to reply" etc. The
intelligent reader of both articles will
disagree with the Times. The JOUR-
NAL not only undertook but did reply
most effectively-we might say un-
auswerably, as proven by the Times
effort of last Monday.
Our article contained no plea for
arbitration, however glad we would
be to see that expedient adopted as a
means of settling the trouble. We
had been informed by the Times that
the business interests of the county
were suffering, and we desired to un-
derstand on our own behalf, not the
miners, why the business interests
have made no effort to bring the dis
putting parties together. The Times
gives no answer, unless by stretch
of imagination lengthy recital Of
company grievances may be SO accept
ed. This failure on the part of our
esteemed contemporary leaves us to
conclude that the miners are deemed
in Cumberland and vicinity the exclu-
sive custodians of the county's inter-
ests--a confession otherwise unwil-
ingly made.
Concerning the previous action of
both companies and miners We have
held that discussion is Improbable,
and for our own part nave ignored as
far as practicable the fact that differ
ences ever before existed. But the
companies, and papers who sustain
them, appear unwilling to let bygones
be bygones, possibly because these are
the sole resources to which they look
for popular justification of their extra
ordinary proceedings. The Times
opens old sores and arbitrarily con-
tends that they must be healed by
universal and abject submission to the
companies imperious manifesto--a
mode of settlement contravening every
instinct of manhood and impulse of
human nature.
1t is commended in this connection
that the anonymous character of pa
pers addressed the companies from
time to time has been Objectionable, in
fact unworthy of corporate notice.
The signature OF Committee or
Executive Committee" has been in
explicit and irresponsible. "Why
don't they come out like men" etc. :?
Fortunately the history of this re-
gion extends beyond the apparent
recollection of the Times, or we would
be unable to review the operation of
the Anonymous" feature of company
grievances. In earlier days conspic-
uous figures in wages agitations were
disposed of through the companies
''black- list" Then for time it was
deemed best to transact business with
the companies under the cover of
psaudonyms. Again the companies
70 ind serious fault of dealing with
unknown quantities. They appeared
determined to be dissatisfied anyhow.
After the lapse of time the miners
again tried the open plan. Philip
o Rourke became spokesman of a
committee and z. B. Jones secretary
OF the miners association. 0 Rourke g
cIreer here was quickly cut short !;
Jones lost his work and followed
0 Rourke out of the region. With
such fatal examples Of ostracigm and
exile where the representative Offend
ers were known, what encouragement
have the companies given to open
dealing? None on the contrary they
have punished those having courage
to stand up fer their own and the
rights of their fellow.workmen.
The citation Of grievances incurred
by miners "manifestoes is inoppor-
time and unhappy. Each as an argu'
ment favoring unconditional submits
sion 10 the corporate ukase is untena-
BILE, especially so long as that old IL
strument Of punishment for the manly
exercise of personal rights, the "blaek-
list, is held IN tegrorem over free men.
THAT explosive sheet, the Cumber-
land Mail, has been much disturbed
lately over a mill-raGe. The city at
torney gave the council an opinion
concerning the ownership of the min
iature canal, and the Ma,l disagrees
with so much energy that it is difficult
to tell whether it is a head-race, CT
tail-race hop-skip-and.Jumr. or a
straight, undiluted go-as-you-please.
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