Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-28
THE GREATS STRIKE
Result of the Indiana Miners
Troubles.
A Very Expensive Undertaking
Which Failed.

Losses Estimated at Million and Three
Quarters, One Half of which Comes
from the Miners Pockets-The Men
Not Liable to Get Back Their Former
Positions.
TERRE HAUTr, Ind, Dec est is not
settled fact that the Indiana miners,
though the strike has been declared off,
will be able to get regular work, but the
probabilities seem to be that they will,
Some delay may he occasioned on ac-
count of the operators having to work
their way back into the market, but it is
believed that the majority of the con-
tracts have been held by the mine
owners, and therefore the immediate de-
mand will be large enough to give the
men pretty steady employment.
What are the chances for the Indi-
ana operators being able to furnish their
men regular work? ?" was asked of Mr..
j. Smith Talley.
That question" he replied, "can not
be answered just now. We do not know
than perhaps within the next eight or
ten days"
State President Comiskey was seen at
his home and refused to give his opinion
of the outlook. He had been slightly
under the weather and had not felt like
considering the question carefully, he
said, but from appearances he was in
clined to judge that the men would be
able to get work, that matters would
settle down, and that all would be run
ming smoothly within a short time.
What has the strike accomplished
was asked.
"In my opinion" answered the presi-
dent, lit has not been barren of good
results. | think it has taught double
lesson-a lesson to the operators and to
the men, which will bear fruit in times
to come. The radical elements of bolh
sides have been subdued, educated, and
there seems no reason to hope that i'll the
future conservative ideas will prevail 70
the benefit of everybody concerned.
Hereafter we shall doubtless understand
each other better for this brief term in
the school of experience, and shall bring
to our coming joint convention mutual
spirit of fairness and justice, from
which will proceed great common good.
/ am warm sympathizer in the joint
interstate movement, and live in hoT ,s
of seeing it re-established. When the
operators and men come together, each
side fairly disposed, each side deeply
concerned in an amica BILE and an equita-
BILE settlement, ! can not but believe
that their object is easy of attainment
If this strike has demonstrated to TIE
operators and the miners that their
proper courses lie parallel, and that their
interests can be conserved only by har-
1nonious relations being maintained z
it has done this, and believe it has, the
end more than justifes the means
Conservative estimates place the loss
resulting from the strike at 81 ,750 900.
Considered in its whole breadth and ex-
tent-something incalculable with a 7
degree Of definiteness-it was probably
more than that Nearly one-half of the
enormous sum comes out of the pockets
of the men, or rather was never put in
them. A goodly portion of the remain
der shows up in the greatly decreased
earnings of the railways, the princi' |
loser among the latter having been tho
Chicago and Indiana Coal road. Accord
ing to Mr.. II. II. Porters estimate, that
line sustained a daily loss as result Of
the suspension Of about $1,000 or about
$3.50, 900 per month The strike was on
for fully two months, which would in
dicate that the Chicago and Indiana
Coal suffered to the extent Of 100000
itself. Beside the men and the railways,
general business, commercial and in
dustrial, WAS affected TO a considerable
extent