Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-11-30
1srHEREr HEA GEEAr STRIKE.


IsrHERE TO BE A GREAT STRIKE:
The state nent is made, apparently on
good authority, that to morrow will witness
the closing of all the mines in the Schuyi-
kill, Lehigh, Wyoming and Lackawanna
coal fields of Pennsylvania, and the conse-
ouent discharge of between seventy and
eighty thousand men dependent upon these
mines for their daily bread. 1t is also
alleged that this movement on the part OF
the operators is looked upon By the miners
as an outrageous and unwarranted scheme
to force them into accepting redachon oil
WAGES. and that a counter movement OF i'm
mense proportions is being perfected by the
labor leaders in the mining regions OF
Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Vir-
ginis. The telegram containing this IN
formation, dated at Hazletou, Pa, states
that
The Miners and LsborerS Benevolent
Association. which WAS q large and power
full labor organization previous TO 1917, H.
but which became bankrupted in the long
stries of those years, is being organized
again. Already lodges have been formed
At Minersville, Ashland, Shenandoah aud
other places in the middle Pennsylvania
coal fields. The Amalgamsted Association
of Miners and Laborers is also being
strengthened These bodies, in cUnJunc'
ton with the Knights Of Labor, are stirring
M strong sentiment among all classes oil
colliery operatives.
News also comes from Cumberland, Md,
and Charleston, this State, that the twenty
or twenty-five thousand miners employed
in the Maryland, Virginia and West Eir-
Gsnla mines have resolved to strike in. a
body during the next few days against the
reduction of 90 per cent. in wages some
time ago announced to take effect on and
afIer December LIST, and that the strike will
ne the most general and prolonged which
has vet been inauguratcd in this il dustry.
kilograms to various newspapers say the
most perfect arrangements have been made
by the men, secret agents having been work
ING ND the matter for months past.
One particularly sensational correspond
ent writes from Penusy lvania:
"Colliery property is being watched BY
ncendiaries, and several instances are
known where mine works have fallen be,
meath the incendiary's brand. 'Black-les
ptbnra who have
any way incurred the luminosity OF the
Molly Maguires,' receive coffin notices
warning them to quit the country under the
penalty of speedy and summary death.
Again, q Pennsylvania correspondent,
writing from the heart Of the great central
coal fields, says:
The Knights of Labor and other orgaui
cations are silently but surely perfecting
their plans for the projected vast labor dem.
onstration, and so hostile have members OF
some of the lodges become that an unde-
fined and grave feeling of insecurity pre-
walls in those mining communities where
the power of the dangerous clans is strong
and threatening. The communistic element
has deGantly manifested its utter disregard
of the law in numerous cases. All the re-
cent unaccountable murders that have oc.
Cured in the middle and northern coal
fields, as we'll as in the btuminous regions,
are attributed to the Molly Mcguire hatred.
Late affairs are rapidly impressing the
honest, reputable aud law-abiding citizens
xith the apprehension that the coal regions
of PENNSYLVANIA are soon again to witness
- renewal OF the scenes that were enacted
when Molly Maguireism' YVES rampant.
All this may be true; but the disposition
shown by the correspondents from whom we
have quoted to attribute the present diScon-
tent and prospective trouble to the natural
cussedness and deprayity of the dan
gerous clans" and "coDmunistic elements,
as they are pleased 70 designate the miners,
is one Of the singular aspects Of the case.
| No class of workmen are mora undeserving
Of such epithets, when one takes into con-
sideration all the circumstances. Their
work is far from being pleasant, safe or
remunerative. even under the most fsvors-
bic conditions, and when, in addition to the
hardships necessarily attendant upon their
trade, they are forced to combat the inces,
SAINT pluchings and grindiugs Of the gigantic
monopolies which dictate work and wages
throughout the mining regions OF Pennsyl,
vsnia, Ohio MARYLAND and West Virginia,
it is little wonder that mutterings of discon-
| tent and threats of vengeance are some
times heard. Compelled to accept reduc-
lion after reduction in wages compelled to
strike when he fam would work, compelled
to lie idle through lockout wien wife and
children are in need, to the end that the
price of coal may be kept at certain
point compelled to pay exorbitaut rents to
the coal companies for miserable habita'
rious or be discharged, compelled very often
! 20 deal out his scsnty wages in the com
pany store" and compelled, when he pro-
tests against the outrsges forced upon him
to wear the brand Of "outlaw" and com
munist." the miners lot is the reverse o
enviable. If he submits tamely to his EN-
plOyers' demands he cannot properly cioth'
or feed his family; ifhe attempts to obtain
| JUSTICE BY organization he is indicted fol
conspiracy" and pilloried in the public
prints as bad" man who will be satisfied
with nothing but blood. riot and ruin.
1t is high time the miner had fair play
and that the blame for the trouble in the
mining regions was placed where it properly
belongs.
PURE MILK.
| The question Of what measures are nee
essry to insure the delivery Of pure milk Il