The Labor enquirer., 1886-08-07
A Sample of the ld-BIooded
Brutality of Mon
opoIy.
Corporation 0utrages That are
Backed Up by 'LaW
and Order"
The "Rules and Regulations" of an
Infamous Outfit Which Dis
graces This Country.
From CenterviIle Morning Journal.

Clfe Coal company closed down their
mines because a number of their en-.
ploves organized an assembly of the
Knights of Labor. Since the lockout a
notice has been posted at the mine that
when work is resumed the price of min
ing coal will be reduced from $1.10 to
80 cents per ton. They also posted i
notice on the tenth giving their en-
ployes until the twentY-third to vacate
the companY's houses, and notifying the
locked-out men to call at the compa1y's
office for their checks, which they are
discounting at per cent. The Knights
Of Labor wish the question to be de-
cided whether, as American citizens,
they lave a right to organize for self
protection.
When the lockout occurred the com
pany closed up their store, butcher shop
and saloon, and provisions could not be
purchased at any price. On the second
day the saloon was reopened, and the
men could get all the liquor they wante 1.
but they refused to patronize it. There
are no drunken men to be seen. Since
the lockout the men have opened a
butcher shop and grocery store, 50 are
independent of the company.
Last week committee from the ex-
ecutive board D. A. No. SO, waited on
the great mogul of the coal company,
L NJ. Bullitt, and that autocrat in
formed them that Knights of Labor
would not be tolerated in TimberIine
This ninCompoop who manages" the
affairs Of the company is Philadelphia
dude of about % years of age, and
knows as much about coal mining, lheo-
reticallv and practically, as baby. HIS
pa" is a large stock holder in the com
pany, which fact accounts for the yoIng
gentleman's premature elevation.
We have been favored with copy OF
the General Rules for the Governme t
of Employees" of the Northern Pa III
Coal company. We will call attention
to only few of them, hoping our readers
will peruse them carefully, to the end
that slch monopohes may be wiped out
Of existence.
Rule three says that all employees are
expected to patronize their store,
butcher shop and saloon, to the exclu.
sion of other similar establishments and
peiers Since the lockout child Of
one of the min1rs died, AID the manager
Of the store refused to sell the parents \
pair of stockings to cover the dead
childs feet A poor widow, who keeps
few boarders, had the temerity to go
10 20 to BOzeman to buy her provisions,
thus saving % per cent rn her pur-
chases, and was notified that she would
have to leave her house on the twenty
third instant.
Rule four says that the employees are
expected to be sober and orderly at all
tunes. Comment is unnecessary, seeing
that the company keeps a saloon for
their men to get drunk.
Rule fourteen says that anyone who
Joins a secret labor organization will be
Immediately discharged. 10 reply to
this We would say that the secresy of
the K. of L. order was adopted to avoid
the spying and wra ofemplo yers, and
can be discontinued when there is no
longer any such danger. AS If free
American citizens had not a right to or
ganize for self-protection.
Rul- fifteen requires single men to
pay 81 and married men Sl5O per
month toward the hospital fund. This
fund does not pay for board while sick,
but only furnishes medical attendance
and medicines. There are about 80
men in the employ of the company, o.
which number over fifty are married
netting the company at least S27o pei
month for hospital dues. Out of thli
amount the company pays drunken,
worthless physician 500 per mouth
In case of a violation of any Of these
rules the superintendent may make the
offending party pay fine OF - or De
aid off from his work for one week
for the second offense the employe will
Oe discharged.
To sum the whole thing up, the CON-
pany own everything IN Tlmberllue e1
cept the air the men breathe, and they
would own that if they could make the
Creator of the universe congressman
We have our doubts, however, about the
company having a clear title to the land
as in all probability they did not have
It patented, so as to escape Just taxation
As there is no municip pal government IN
the camp, we would like to know no"
they can fine men for getting lntJGl
Gated or allowing pigs and dogs to ruE
loose? We append the rules in full
without further comment:
l. The wages of employees at the
mines shall be set and regulated bY the
v 4rintendent, and the amount due II
any one month will be paid on tn
twenty-ffth of the month following.
2. Orders will be given employees OF
the company's store and butcher sho