Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-06-21


crime? II the owners knew and saw their laborers
and families It would be well; but they are per-
fectly insulated, and knowing nothing care moth
ing. j. d. s.
THE GREAT LABOR FIGHT.
New Labor at Cumberland, Md.-The
Iron War at Pittsburg+-Lab0ry VS.. Cap.
ital at ROchesterIThe New York
Freight Handlers Strike. &c.
NEW LABOR AT THE CUMBERLAND MINES.
special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun from
Frostburg, Md, June 20, says: The output to-day
at Eckhart was $50 tons; shipped, 81. The super
intendent states that before the stoppage the out
put was about 800 tons daily when horses were
used, and about 500 tons when the little engine
was used to bring the cars through the mine. BY
the end Of the week it is anticipated 500 tons Will
be brought up daily. The little engine will proba-
bly, not be used for some time yet, though all
ready for work. The Consolidation company fur
nishes about one-third OF the coal shipped
from the Cumberland coal region, and en-
p!oys a proportionate part of labor. I'm
ported miners will be put In all the mines or
this company, six in number, as matters
progress. and Il is believed that they can all be
worked with this labor as successfully as Eckhart
Holman mine, about one and a-ha1f miles from
Eckhart, is connected with the latter underground
receive new labor 1t viii be ready for the recep-
ton of the men on Thursday, and work will be
commenced next week. The miners will go in
Hoffman under ground. but the coal will be
brought out at the Hoffman opening and shipped
fro from there The Midlothian mine, belonging to
the New Central company, will also be prepared
to receive this new labor in a short time
The other large companies have declined to
viii probably be t some ' little n time P Before
they bring on the experienced practical miners
with which they hope to stock their properties.
men in their mines, they in no way recede from
the position they have assumed with the Consoli-
dat1pn and New Central companies but intend to
simply question as to the way in which the
fight shall be made: Some are In favor of putting
In only experienced practical miners while others
think quietly waiting for the old men to tire OF
the struggle and the losses 1t entails is the better
plan or course there can be but one price in the
region. Long rows OF hunks are being added to
those already In the machine shop at Eckhart
The next lot Of new miners will occupy them.
lot Of he eolored and white drivers came yester-
day. The cOlored ones Staid, but the whites
could not stand the work and left There is
some talk OF using the stone chapel, on O hill
as church for the new miners citizens who are
neither miners nor company men desire to bring
about compromise. They think that some small
cably, and, more than this, they say they would
be sorry to see either side gain complete victory,
tors This afternoon NJ. Sinclair, general manager
OF the New Central coal company; Robert Boyd,
mine boss OF the same company, and c. F. Mayer,
Midlothian, west OF Frostburg. where one of the
mines OF the New Central company Is located, for
the purpose OF making observations as to the
feasibility of introducing labor into that NINE
They examined the sites for the building pro-
posed to be erected for the new miners and po-
lice, and also examined everything about the
mine.
THE SITUATION AT prrrsBURa.
The PtttSburg correspondent OF the Philadelphia
Press telegraphs under date of June 10: 4Secre-
tary Martin, of the Amalgamated Association, has
received copy of the agreement according to
Which the mill at New Albany, Ind, has resumed
work. By 1t the pudders are to receive S. per ton
for pudding and the men in the finishing depart
ment are 10 be paid 10 per cent above the rate de-
manded In this district The agreement was
signed two weeks ago, but, nevertheless, its re-
age Of the masses OF the strikers might be In
creased. Another circumstance tn at was used to
manufacture courage was based on telegram
has been effected and that work would be resumed
tomorrow on the terms Of the Cincinnati agree
men, rms is mother violence that the fight Is
not show any signs OF fear. On the contrary, all
who were spoken to this af ternoon said that be-
yelopments that would explain their conf
dence. The experiment of running without the
union men Is success at the Apollo mills.
running double turn, and the establishment viii
be able to run for some tim without the pudders,
as the knobbltng fires can furnish enough char
.
At the Superior MILL the state of affairs exist
A member OF the firm OF Tug & Co., said to-day
negotiate with eastern manufacturers for iron.
AZ that time they were unable to procure any, but
this mornings mail brou ght the orer OF eight hun
dred tons at prices far below what they could man.
ufacture 1t for were they to pay the advance de-
manded. Another man ufacturer, speaking of the
nal nan market said The strikers at first advanced
compel some OF the mil Is to resume That alleged
scarcity doesn't seem to have been felt yet for the
eastern nall association, which met last week,
voted against any adva nee in the card-rate.
can to-day buy nails in the eastern market at a
figure which will enable me to sell them here at
their camp at McDonald's station to-day. It is ex-
pected that 1900 men will be living in tents in the
course Of day OF two"
CAPITAL VS.. LABOR AT ROCHESTER. NY.
Several weeks ago 200 Of the principal employers
Of Rochester, N. Y. formed an association to pro-
tect themselves against the 'encroachments OF the
laboring classes" They issued a manifesto In
Which they agreed to close all shops rather than
accede to dictatiOn by the workngmen. The
Knights of Labor Monday issued long manifesto
in reply It begins with an argument In favor of
says: "Our truly dangerous classes. the classes
whose avarlce and arrogance have already cost us
one bloody war, have quite another ideal" The
adopted the provision of the new code regarding
public meetings. The manifesto concludes thus
nFinaily. we assert that the working classes Of
present are, considering past and prospective
waste time and low wages, receiving less than
the workingman has been SO perfectly disciplined
in self sacrifice that he is the first to shrink from
subjecting the society OF which he is member to
the woes and dangers of sudden revolution, and
so he is content to work gradually towards the
just reforms he aims at, and is conservative to q
fault in seeking them" 1t is believed that the doc
ument is fair warning OF determined effort for
higher wages among all classes OF workingmen.
SERIOUS PHASE OF THE NEW YORK FREIGHT-HAN-
Oilers STRIKE.
In regard to the strike of the freght-handlers in
New York the Tribune says editorially:
1.-THE strikes in this city and its vicinity have at
length assumed a serious phase For some time 1t
seemed as II labor troubles would not afllct New
York greatly but the Snrit of dissatisfaction Il