Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-02
THE COAL MEN KICK.
They Object to Tolls, a Bill in the
Legislature and Convict Labor.
A LIVELY MEETING OF OPERATORS
Citizens Traction Employees Make PROPOSE
tion to the Company.
ALLEGHENY Statesmen TO ORGANIZE

The Coal Exchange, composed of all the
operators in the Monongahela Valley, held
an important meeting yesterday afternoon.
The committee appointed at the last meet
ing to secure signers to petition for the
formation of pool, reported that they had
| not succeeded in getting all the operators
to agree to the plan. In fact not more than
half dozen of the leading miners and
shippers of coal had agreed to enter the
combination proposed A discussion was
had on the necessity of an organization as
proposed. 1t was stated that the river coal
trade is being ruined in the Southern ports
by Tennessee and Kentucky coal.
One man stated that convicts we're now
mining coal at Jellico, KY, which is being
put on the market at Az cents bushel,
which is 3S15 per cent less than Pittsburg
operators can sell their coal at the down
river ports, To prove that the convict
mined coal was supplanting Pittsburg coal,
member of the Exchange said that last
January only seven barges of Pittsburg coal
were sold:in Louisville, and in January,
1888, they sold go barges
The Pool Committee was instructed to lay
this matter before all the miners and ship
pers of coal, and induce them to sign the
agreement if possible. Captain Simpson
Horner one of the first to sion said he did
not ont;oinota anv trorbla in oo+t;no oil 70
s;gn onS is snrnr;sad at tbo rof7,soI of sonoe
large onerators To 90 into the comb;nst;on
A VERY IMPORTANT BILL
has been introduced in the Legislature
which, if passed, will seriously affect the
Monongahela Valley coal operators. 1t
must have been introduced very quietly, for
it has passed second reading and nothing
was known about it here until yesterday,
when Mr.. John NJ. Risher produced copy
of it. When the bill was read it created
quite sensation, ana every MEMBER OF tne
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JILL
A VERY SERIOUS CLAIM.
It is claimed that the bill was framed bv
the knights of Labor. and the object is to
prevent any person but KNIGHTS from en-.
gaging in the coal mining business.
Another important matter that came he.
fore the meeting Yesterday was the subject
of the tolls charged by the Mononga6ela
Navigation Company, As stated in this
paper two weeks ago, a committee was ap-
pointed to visit the company and secure a