Frostburg mining journal., 1882-08-12
MINING JOURNAL.
FRosTBURG, MD, AUGUST IL, 1889.
THAT great reserve force in Europe,


THAT great eserve force in Europe
pauper (after the latest American
idiom--,free) labor, makes partial re-
lief available TO the corporations wher
strikes or lockouts occur. Like be-
sieging generals viewing a vulnerable
point in the defences Of the enemy
employers rely more confidently upon
labor's weakness than upon their OWL
strength. Unwise policies and power
ty, especially a want of unity, for in
stance, are serious breaks in the au'
tonomy of labor-breaks which its
great antagonists expect to see remain
open.
On the other hand suppose, for ex'
ample, the fears Of a large portion oi
the commercial world are realized in a
strike of eighteen thousand telegraph
operators throughout the country
Contemplate the embarrassments Of a
telegrsbhic stoppage Of even forty
eight hours Here is q disciplined
organization of skilled workers who
hold in their hands perhaps the only
power strong enough to bring capital,
commerce and the press down upon
their knees Imperious threats of
exile and swollen brag about foreign
labor, for once out of place, will re-
ceiye in full the derision they merit.
THE JOURNAL informed the Cum
berland 1GmtS recently that the com.
panies cannot be pleased. An illus
tration of the fact is fresh. They
don't like letters when they are anon.
ymous, and don't like them when they
are not. Here they have one meeting
all the requirements learned from ex-
perimental p,tnctilio, but it turns out
to be improperly addressed to known
circle instead of an unknown segment
of that circle. like spoiled children,
they want to cry and they don't want
to cry, and-we were about to say
their mamas' mad, but it does not
apply.
Why should the county protect
Fort Koontz and leave Camp Mayer
to the tender mercies of women and
boys Are not Mr.. Mayors imagi-
nary dangers as indefinite as Mr.. Sin
clairs =? Should this thing, speaking
equitably as well as metaphorically,
60 on uninterrupted-until the scalps
of all the big Indians Of the reserva-
tion dangle at the little SCotchman's
belt? No, emphatically no The
county cannot, must not and shall not
discriminate between its protegcSl
"
The following gem is subtracted
from that casket Of intellectualities
the Cumberland RevieW:
The unique quill driver of the Times is
evidently suffering from "ong-we," which
very likely he will ait ciacsre ant a,oH
(which very likely he will either
TO conquer or to die pounds like a
belch Of Partisan fun. The school
master who imposed that remark up
on a poor, unoiending editor ought
10 be punctuated with bumble.bee.
Mr.. REEs D. REEs addresses to the
companies a very courteous sugges-
ton looking to conference Of miners
and operators, and, further, 10 set
tlement of the matters at issue be-
tween them.
This is a step exactly in tho right
direction. Wo hope to chronicle the
fact that those addressed have favor
ably responded.
We have been endeavoriug for eey-
elal weeks TO collect the daily ship
ments Of coal llom Eckhart, as re-
ported in the Cumberland papers, for
the purpose of comparison with the
weekly statements. Week before last
there weretwo days and last week one
not reported. We cannot, therefore,
see how the two accounts tally.
DIDN'T somebody got away with
our amiable sheriff ? There are sirens
OF the masculine gender among our
coal ofIicials--great, chunky, over
weight fellows, about nine to the ton,
and one of The charmers is suspected
The sheriff, commissioner, or States
attorney, who dallies with these faEci-
mating people is mashed"
Il. ID. REEs, who as chairman OF the
minors meeting Of July aist, signed the
tommunIcation in Tuesdays Nc1s in
which conference between the companies
and a miners delegation is suggested, was
10 the city yesterday, and had an informal
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