Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-03-13
PICKS LAID ASIDE
Britain Miners 10 the Number
Of Thousands Strike.
THEY DECIDE ON 4 VACATION
Their Object II 70 Force IN Advance in
Wsgss-Msny rsesorsss cjsssd
fos Lack a. Fuei.

LssDox. March f2-1As gssas coal
strike is on The Durham miners did
nss sesans work. and the sslljeriss Of
LeaesshisA Cheshire, Yorkshire.
Moth Wales ssA other diatriets ere
idis. Tue miners OF Scotland. South
Wales snA Nesshan bssissa are work
Tag quietly.
Geese - shs rreshis-
In Durham the men to the aumber Of
g, 900 are on strike against . reduction
Of wages. bat il all other districts the
mes have simply decided 70 take .
week or even three weeks hoii-
dsy In order 70 restrict the out
pat Of ssAl. thus insuring prices
being kept mp ana the rate Of
wages maintained il not advanced
TIKI movement on the part OF the
sinners has caused the greatest disturb
snce in the British labor world and
In the Earufacturing centsrs that has
been known since the American civil
war, when 50 many hundreds Of thou
sands Of the cotton operatives of Lam
sashire would have starved but for .
houndless charity.
k001 - - S08A 8o.s8~
The most startling rumors are IN chr
eulasion in this city. The fears OF a
coal famine are widespread. The
stocks Of coal 10 the great commercial
eenters are not large and colllery own
ers have for some time declined to bind
themselves 70 execute orders A great
many orders have been refused and
the price sf cosl has risen by leaps and
bounds until IL has reached . figure
which IL has net known since the
memsrable strike cf Northumberland
and Durham miners fifteen years
ago Some factories will be COM
PEELED 70 cease work next week for
want of fuel. A number of others will
nave to close the week following,
II the miners determine 20 carry their
experiment. into . second week. and II
IL is prolonged into . third week the
disturbance OF British manufacturers
viii be general and it, effects 80 wide
spread that scarcely IN estimate can
be formed of the loss TO tho communi-
ties which must ensue.
The ultuasloo stnrtltng.
The whole situation Is startling In
the highest degree Many political
eeonomists declare that the movement
viii resuls in driving large proper
ton Of the work away from England
int foreign landA In nearly all the
large towns the poor arc among the
greatest sufferers Goals 70 them have
aimost doubled in price and q the
bleak. cold days are still with them
they feel the pinch most severely.
Notices have been Issued by the
Appleby Iron Company. Abe North
Lincoln Iron Company, the Froding-
ham steel and Iron Company. the
Trent works and the kedb0rn Hill
Iron and Coal Company that should
the action Of the miners result in .
short supply Of fuel the works will be
clessd There Il every probability OF
al these works being closed. - fael is
already becoming scarce and Is rising
In price.
The lGinsrs' FsdsrasIon.
The Miners federation has led in
the strike movement Four years age
the federation announced itself to the
world with . membership Of 80. o00
At the present moment It contains
in round numhers 10000 paying
or financial members, a. they are
called, among the BOTTOM workers"
alone. Counting the surface workers.
there ere sbout 800. 900 workers Of al
classes; the JOINT property Of the county
asso,iations competing the federation
! Is worth half . million. The fedora,
ton claims the exclusive honor Of hav-
ing forced the miners' wages 20 Pc,
cen. above she rates Of 1883 The ad
vance was conceded by--or. - tie msr
would cay. wrung from-the msstsrs
in successive driblets of 10 and
per cents The last installment o.
the % per cent-that 10 to say, the con
cession Of IS per cent little
more than year ago wss given II
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