Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-10-17

cent, which will make the laborer's wages amount to Sl.20 day.
 WISCONSIN.
 Iron-Gogebic Range.
 Iron Belt-This mine has started work. paying its miners SI.I0 per day. Surfacemen receive from 75c to 90c per day.
 The mills of the Pennsylvania Bolt and Nut Company aud the East Lebanon Rolling Mills, at Lebanon, Pa. resumed March 18th, the men going back at the reduced scale of S2.50 per ton. The Lebanon Iron Company's men accepted re- duction of S2.75 ton. for puddlers, and the mill resumed the same day.
 The employees of the New Jersey Steel and Iron Company at Trenton, N. J., have accepted the 5 and 10 per cent reduction made in their wages. and have gone to work un- der the assurance that the old rates should be restored as soon as the times improve.
 The puddlers at the Wheeling Steel and Iron Works at Benwood, w. Va, on March Huh accepted reduction to Si per ton in wages. About 600 men returned to work this week.
 The convention of bituminous coal miners Of the State of Indiana. after heated and long debate in Terre Haute, March 2d, adopted a resolution not to accept the cut of 20 cents per ton offered by the oper- ators. In their uitimatum the operators gave this as the alterna- tive to closing the mines until May Ist. The vote was close one, and an effort will be made today to re- consider the vote and make a com promise.
 The wages of the employees in the pudding department of the Penn sylyania Bolt and Nut Works, Leba- non, Pa, have been reduced from SS per ton to $250.
 APRIL, 1894.
 The eollieries of the Phila6er- phia x Reading Company, in the Sehuvlkill region, drawn to return prices of coal sold in March to de- termine the rate of wages to be paid, make the average prices $2450. and the rate of wages for last two weeks in March and first two weeks ln April IS l per cent below the. $2.50 basis.
 Two hundred men struck CD. April 2d, at Columbus Colliery No l, Shamokin, on account of 8 10 per cent reduction. The colliery is op.- erated by Bickel and Go.
 Adyices from Elizabeth state that. mining affairs have again reached a critical stage in the Monongahela Valley. The inevitable is either a lockout or reduction. For several months most of the miners in the. second and third pools have been worl.'ng for Pie per bushel, while the i3a.th pool miners. who always work ac lower, have been working for ic per bushel.
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 Forty of the striking iron ore miners at Rittenhouse Gap, Berks county, who struck for higher wages, have offered to go to work at Sl per day. They were getting 60c, and it IS understood that the, company offered them 10 per cent. increase. The indications are that the company BOW intends to close. down the mInes.
 Consolidated Iron Mines.-This company has reduced wages 20 per cent from last falls scale, the rate now ranging from $l a day up.
 BrruMNoUs COAL.
 A dispatch from Sharon says that the miners of the Jackson Center bituminous coal mines along the Lake Shore and the Western New York and Pennsylvania railroads have succeeded in making a com promise with the operators and re- stunned work April 16th on per cent reduction. Six hundred strik- ing miners along the Pittsburg. She mango & Lake Ere. who nave been out three months, remain firm and refuse to accept reduction.
 Advices from Pittsburg state that about 5000 miners in the Jefferson and Clear6eld counties bituminous district are prepared to strike on April Fist. This will result in tie up of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad Company's coal trains, throwing $50 men out of work.
 The miners at Hooyersviile, Som erset county, have decided to join in the general strike which is sched- uled in Clearfeld, Blair, Westmore- land, Indiana, Cambria and Fayette counties on April Fist. There was a belief that more than half the miners in Somerset county would quit work at the appointed hour. In Cambria county there is great uneasiness, but the opinion prevails that the strike will be a go, except perhaps in Johnstown, where the men are not discussing the situation to any considerable extent.