The morning call., 1894-04-21
WILL GO OUT.
Operators Pretend to Believe i'm
an Early Settlement.
EVERYBODY ELSE is ALARMED.
Manufacturers and Small Consumers
Are Laying in Stocks What.
ever May Happen.

noon the great coal strike who has been
pending several months will be inau'
gurated. Opinion differs as TO the number
of men who will be engaged in 1t. Inc
president of the United Mine-workers
estimated 100000 men as being engaged
Secretary and Treasurer Park Mcbride Is
quoted as placing the number at 1O0,OO0
Telegraphic reports indicate that the num-
her will be between these two extremes.
The strike will BE- confined to the bitumin-
Gus region OF the United States. In this
there are twenty-three districts organized,
fourteen being in Pennsylvania. The
other districts are in Washington. Wyom-
ing, Colorado. Indian Territory, Missouri,
Kansas. Alabams, Kentucky, Virginia.
West Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois.
A Massillon operator says 5000 miles will
be closed. OF these 800 are located in Ohio.
In the Pittsburg district there are 12C
mines and thirty in the Ciearfield or Noun
tain district These TWO districts have
about $4,000 miners. In Ohio there are
about 5000. in Indiana 1000, Illinois II, 900,
Alabama 10000 who have already quit
work; in Missouri S000 in Tennessee about
1000, in Western Kansas about 10000 dig
gers who are engaged, but it is not be-
lieved that many will quit work. In
Washington all are ready to stop.
The operators are aware that the strike
is coming, but they have not decided what
action to take in the matter. Manufac-
turers and foundry-owners are greatly
alarmed, and do not credit assurances
from operators that the strike will be OF
short duration, and therefore they are
securing all the coal they can. 1t is con-
ceded that a strike of two weeks will
cause shortage which may result in the
closing down of their works. Local con-
sumers also apprehend an advance in the
price of coal as result of the strike. and
are laying in supplies now, 80 that the
coal-dealers have all the orders they can
attend to.
Altogether no impending strike for years
has caused so much interest aud anxiety
as this one. While the anthracite diggers
will not be called out al present it is an
nouneed that they will be in case hard
coal is USED to raise steam where bitumin-
Gus is now employed. That the region
will be rendered imperative by strike
is certain. There are about 10000 miners
employed by the three companies which
control the anthracite regions.
Will the strike be success? To those
on the inside of the organization res
toration of wages is the object of the sus-
pension, but it will have the desired effect
If it brings about conference of ouer-
ators all over the country. which will re-
suit In higher wages to the miners and
more money to the operators. The oper-
ators in Ohio, Illinois and Missouri and
parts of PENNSYLVANIA favor the suspen nsion
movement. They want higher schedule
of prices.
Tonight the Superintendent of the Chi
cago Gas and Coal Company, to offset state
ment that the miners of the company were
only able to earn 70 cents a day, exhibited
the company's payrolls for the past sew
eral months. which shows that the men
working by the month have, none Of
them, averaged less than 81 70 day, and
some of them 50 IA ner day.
IRWIN, Pa, April 20-To-morroy at
noon $500 men in this district will quit
work, in response to the call issued by the
national officers of the Mine-workers'
Association. In this locality the strike
will be complete.
SPRING VALLEY. H., April 2O.-To-
morrow at noon 5000 miners in this city.
Seatonville, Ladd and Laceyville will lay
down their picks and sh0Vels and await
orders from the Miners National Associa-
tion. Tonight the La Sale. Oglesby and
Peru miners met, and in all likelihood
will follow the Spring Valley miners. In
this district there will be nearly 1000 men
idle.
BRAZIL, Ind, April 2o.-Twenty-fve
delegates, representing over 1000 miners,
met here to-day to determine tue question
of continuing work until May 1 or going
on strike tomorrow noon. Secretary Ken
nsdy Of tie United Mine-workers' AssOcia-
ton asked permission to address the dele
gates, but was promptly barred. After
considerable wrangling vote was taken
and it was decided by a large majority to
continue work until May 1.
CHARLESTON. w. Va. April 20-The
5000 members Of the United MiDe-workers'
Association will strike tomorrow at noon
IN compliance with the mandates OF their
union. There are 5000 pew members OF
this order who will not go out, and repe-
tition of the lawlessness and fighting of the
March strike is feared. There will be a
ibVChibS VI Viz doobCidbiOn III Wis ~ va
April 26 to take steps to bring about a
general strike in the Kanawha Valley.
JELLICo. Tenn, April 20.-The miners
of the Jellico district will join the great
suspension Tomorrow. There are about
5000 miners employed by the eleven Jelllco
mines.
MACON. Mo-, April 20.-A large number
of the Bevier miners are dissatisfied over
their decision to suspend work tomorrow
noon. They have now decided to throw
down their picks provided the other Mis-
souri, coal-miners stop work. The miners
have appointed committee to ascertain
whether the miners at Lexington. Ardmore
and Marceline intend 10 go out. The Be-
ver miners have decided not to take final
action until they hear from these towns.
It is not probable that the mines will close