Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-04-20

Has it ever dawned upon your con
sciouSncsS how much effort is rXp"md-
I'd in market To get trade ?"
Have you ever asked and ascertain
ed why it is that this statement occurs
nearly every week nowadays
There is good deal of coal Offered at price,
below thc standard?
Now, We have lately heard the
Steam Coal Association cited as an IL
lustration of the fore" of organi" ef-
fort, and you have been cXhortcd to
fall into similar movement for the
amcioratiou of som" ncbulous evil or
evils.
You have seen ais" that this paper,
the only actual labor paper in this
county, has denied the Legitimacy of
the parallel and the need of any fed
cration of miners.
1t denied the parallel because the
miners have no intercourse on dealings
with the Consumers, and can have
none.
1t denied the need of an organization
of miners for the reason that there is
nobody except their employers for
them to array themselves against
To do this is to join hands with TIE
common enemy-thc consumers.
This is not a deduction from theory
Il is the statement of experience.
In 1852, when we struck the hardest
blow for unequal wages that ever fell
,on an employing interest, the con
sumcrs did not feel it.
Who were hurt
The employers crs-t"mp"rarlly.
The miners and the community per
man-ntly.
The employers lost the small profits
of five months work the miners the
necessaries of life for the same period,
and many of them financial credit for
a much longer time.
In other words, the blow aimed by
the miners at their friends struck an
invulncrable shield and rebounded
with frightful effect upon their own
mental. moral and physical weakness.
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