The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-07-21

SPRiSGWELD ILL, July 20.--The coal
miners Of Illinois are displaying a good
deal OF interest in the history Of the re-
la.ions between the mipera' orgNniz&.
ton OF this state and the McLcsn Coun-
sy Coal Company at Bloomington, which
operates non.unior mine and Of which
Adlai z. Stevenson, the Democratic
nominee for vice president OF the United
States, is president The following com
munication from = miner. which was
published by the Stats Journal to-day, is
said to show what these rotations havo
been, and calls attention TO an interest
Ing extract from an official report upon
the subject made by Democratic state
mine inspector:
The Mclean county coai company, Of
which Mr.. Stevenson il the president,
has the reputation OF opposing and ac-
lively fighting every attompt at organ.
ization among tho Bloomington coal
miners. dating back as far Us Mr.. SteVon-
soma hrst connection with said coal
company. Yet the poor creatures en-
ployGd as'mine.WorkerS by that labor
hating corporation are made to come up
before the public and kiss the hand
that smote thom. They are mRdo to
tell the public how kindly they have
been treated, and that the thoughts OF
being driven from tho mine premises
for daring to effect miners union were
only dream.
Mr.. Stevenson says "the most kindly
cordial feeling should ever exist between
employees and employer, md TINT nil
Disputes or disagreemcnts should be set
tied by either conference orarbitration."
Yet the Bloomington mineworkers have
10 union and never dared to have one
Organizers have been there, and have
been ordered of the premises. On
few occasions union was effected among
those workmen, but as soon as the fact
became known, Adiai and his man, Rat
ford, banished the officers OF such union.
During the years 1855, 1856 and 1887,
when the miners state and national
association organizers and otticers were
trying to establish the principle OF con-
ference, Cancellation. and arbitration
through union for the amicable adjust
ment Of differences, Adlai and his
Echo were driving away any and all of
the Bloomington miners who might
presume to encourage such union for
such intelligent and peaceable methods.
The official report OF tho state in
spector OF mines for the Bloomington
district, James Freer, who, by the way,
is himself good Democrat, published
in 1883. says on page $685. under the
heading of "Strikes:"
"There have been only two strikes in
this district during tho last year. The
first was by the miners employed by
the Mclean County Coal Company at
Bloomington. The company having
discharged few OF their employees for
taking a leading part in forming
union the miners as a body came out on
q strike to have those who had been
thus discharged reinstated."
What the printers OF Union No. 6 OF
New York say OF Whitcaw Reid and his
efforts to assist the typographical union
and to conciliat9 tho differences be-
tween said union and the Tribune Office,
mako real record of real friendship Of
American labor that no distant or parti-
san resolutions can injure. and which
shades in such mountain Of darkness
tho name OF Adlai Stevenson that mil
lion Golden circles" and warrior
knights" can never bringit to appreciate
light. Upon this question the union
miners OF Illinois and Of the whole ma
ton will have moro to say later on in
the campaign. o..