The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-21
TODAY WILL THE
TROUBLE BEGIN.
AT LEAST TWO HUNDRED THOU
SAND WILL STRIKE.
A Coal Famine Threatened That May
Prove Disastrous i'm More Ways
Than One-Manufac turers and
Foundry Owners Are Greatly
Alarmed.

Pittsburg, Pa, April 20.-Tomorrow
at noon the great coal strike, which
has been pending several months will
be inaugurated. Opinion differs as to
the number of men who will be en-
gagged in it.
President John Mcbride, OF the
United Mine Workers association, esti-
mates 100000 men as being engaged.
Secretary and Treasurer Park Nc
Bride is quoted as placing the number
at 100000.
Telegraphic reports. indicate the mum
Der will be between these two extremes.
The strike will be confined to the BIZ
luminous region of the United States.
In this there are twenty-three districts
organized, fourteen being in Pennsyl-
vania.
Other districts are in Washington,
Wyoming, Colorado, Indian Territory,
Missouri, Kansas, Alabama, Kentucky.
Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
A Masillon dispatch says 300 mines
will be abandoned. Of these 800 are To-
Gated in Ohio In the Pittsburg district
there are 12O mines and thirty in the
Clearfield or Mountain district. These
two districts have about 23, 600 miners.
In Ohio there is about 5000 in Indi-
ana, 1000; in Illinois, IL 600; Alabama,
10000; who are ready to quit work
in Missouri, 5000; in Tennessee, about
1000; in western Kansas about 10000,
diggers are engaged, but it is not be-
lieved that many will quit work. In
Washington all are ready to stop. All
the operators in this and Ohio district
believe the strike will assume great
proportions.
This has been shown by the start
during the past week of mines which
have been long unwor6ed to get coal,
even coke cars being used for the pur-
pose and the putting as many men at
work as can be secured. The mine
owners have not been formally notified
of the strike, but are aware it is COM
ing. They have not decided what ac-
ton to take in the matter
Manufacturers and foundry owners
are greatly alarmed and do not credit
the assurances from operators that the
strike will be Of short duration, and,
therefore, they are securing all the
coal they can. 1t is conceded that a
strike of two weeks will cause a short
age, which may result in the closing
down of their works. Local consum-
ers also apprehend an advance in the
price of coal, as a result of the strike
and are laying in supplies now so that
the coal dealers have all the orders
they can attend to. No impending
strike for years has caused so much
interest and anxiety as this one. While
the anthracite diggers will not be
called out at present it is announced
that in case hard coal is used to raise
steam where bituminous is now en-
ployed, that the region will be rendered
imperative by a strike There are
about 10000 operators employed by the
no 17i soc h tot,
thru cite regions.
Will the strike be a success? To
those on the inside of the organization
a successful strike is the object of the
suspension, but it will have the desired
effect if it brings about a conference
of operators all over the country which
will result in higher wages to the min
ers and more money to the operators
The operators in Ohio, Illinois and
Missouri and parts of Pennsylvania.
favor the suspension movement. They
want higher schedule of wages.