Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-10
MINERS GET EXCITED
Over a Report From Coal Operator
That Forty Miners Are
WORKING AT THE OLD RATES.
A New Piano and Organ Factory to Be
Built at KenSingtOn.
MISCELLANEOUS INDUSTRIAL ITEMS

Considerable excitement was stirred up
last evening when the announcement was
made that about 40 out of y mines in the
Pittsburg district were at work at the old
rates. This information was given out by
W. A. Black, Secretary of the CHARTERS
Valley Coal Company. The list furnished
by him follows:
Panhandle Railroad-Midway, Black Dia-
mond. Primrose, Jumbo, Willow Grove,
Allison and W. P. Rend & Co.'s Millers Run
mines: Baltimore and Ohio-Eureka, Wa
verlv Port Royal and Scott's Ocean mines;
Pittsburg, Mcheesport and 1oughiogheny-
Darr, Bonning and Whitsett mines; Pitts
burg Virginia and Charleston-Acme, Allen,
Redstone, Smook and Lynn mines; Pennsyl-
vania Railroad-the New York and Cleve-
land Gas Coal Company, tour mines; the
Penn Gas Coal Company, seven mines; West
moreland Coal Company, four mines; Hamp-
ton. Duquesne, Springhill, F. /. Stevenson
and Ullery & Co.'S mines.
FURTHER CLAIMS BY OPERATORS.
NJ. Black continued his information to
the effect that the mines working are run
ming coal only to yards and local trade. No
coal is being mined for the foreign trade ex-
cent at the old rates Mr. Black also de-
nies that the New York and Cleveland Com
panv's mines are working at the advance,
and saws that all the mines mentioned above
are in operation at the old rates.
When this information was given out it
spread ike wildfire throughout the mining
district The men along the lines of rail-
wav affected by the strike hustled around
the mines TO learn what truth there was in
the statement. President Costello started
hofD
o'clock last night he had reports in from his
subordinates in every direction. The man.
ner in which the report had been given out
and the confidence expressed by the operators
indicated that they thought the strike was
broken and that in a few days they could
claim victory over the men. Mr.. Costello
expressed himself verv differently. After
hearing from the districts, he said: ''Why,
I can say that the miners are not working
at the Black Diamond mines. A few men
NAV be in the Jumbo mines, but they are
not organized At Scott's Ocean mines
there are u Hungarians and am very sure
that no great number are at work along the
Baltimore and Ohio, and those who are On
duty are imported.
NOT ALL IN THIS DISTRICT
Besides, all the mines mentioned in
Mr. Blacks list aboye West Newton are
not IN the GlttSburg district. Ihe mines
he mentions on the Pittsburg, McKeesport
and YouChiogheny road are in the ConnellS-
Vile region. and have no right to be taken
into consideration in the local strike
There NAV be a few men at work along the
Pittsburg Virginia and Charleston, but the
mines are not in anything like practical
operation. As for the seven mines of the
Penn Gas Coal Company, they are not in
this district, and l believe we have an agree
menT that will show how the New York
and Cleveland Gas Coal Company is work
ing.
4 want to say in a genera! way that this
is the most complete cessation of work that
ever occurred in Pittsburg. There have
always been in the outlying portions of our
district a small number OF miners whose
operators would never concede any price
until it was established by the major
portion of the district In nearly
all Of those outlying mines
the coal is of an inferior nature, hence they
have seldom ever had the district price.
If they ever paid it it was only when the
regular district price was so low that the
miners would refuse to work, finding better
elsewhere "
The developments will be watched for in
the future with great interest.