Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-04-26
MINERS GO OUT.
Work in the Coal Region Comes to
an End When the Word Is
.

& Given.
q Co1U,rEUs. o.. April 21.-The strike OF
the coal miners Of the middle district
was inaugurated to-day. Reports re-
ceived at the national headquarters OF
the union indicate that between 10000
and 100000 men are out, and that the
number vii! be added to by several
+ thousand within week. General good
feeling exists between operators and
: miners in the coal fields of Ohio. The
dark passage of ia and 81 will not be
repeated this year. At New Straits
vile, for example, the men while earn
ing scarcely any money during the past
year are in a very good way to stand
I siege, as the majority Of them are
owners of their own homes. Public
sympathy here is with the miners, fo1
the reason that Ohio operators want to
pay the scale when operators elsewhere
consent, and because Of the further tact
q tn at the miners cannot do we'll at b
j cents but can at 70, and consumers who
B nee coal are willing to pay the price at
S that rate for mining.
1t is the opinion Of the best miners at
Straitsville that as soon as the coal now
stored IS consumed dli OlSLl1ClS VIII pay
the scale and work will be resumed.
The operators in Ohio stand ready to
pay the scale forthwith provided Pitts
burg will fall into line. Heretofore one
or more big operators who had q mine
in Ohio and Pennsylvania played one
against the other. When the Ohio
miners struck these operators worked
their Pittsburg mines, and vice versa.
This year. with the Plttsburg miners
working in harmony with the Ohio
miners, the latter feel that the suspen-
sion cannot be of great duration.
PITTsBURG, Pa, April .l.-The great
coal strike, SO far @s this district is con-
cerned at least, appears to be success.
At noon to-day the 5000 men in the
River district and the $500 in the rail
road district laid down their picks, re-
ceived their wages, and quietly left the
mines. Dispatches from the Clear
field dietrict report that the
$4,000 men there also struck and that
the mines are gens1allv closed. In the
Phillipsburg region, east of the mount
aims, all the mines are idle. The sus-
pension in the Cleartield region will en-
force idleness upon 400 trainmen on the
Buffalo, Rochester q Pittsburg Railroad.
In the Connellsville region the men arc
still at work, but the leaders expect to
have almost the entire region en-
ploying $4,000 men out on Monday.
The leaders say there is no longer
a doubt as to the attitude of the men re-
garding the national strike. They are
largely in favor of it and nearly three
fourths of them are expected to lay
down their tools. During the past
week the local leaders haye been work
ing secretly among the employees
of every plant, organizing them
for the strike, and these lead
ers report that they find no
opposition to the movement. The
history of the country. 1t will involve
nearly 100000 men and will stop work in
mines that produced upwards of 1907
GOO, 900 tons of coal last year in twelve
states and territories. These miners re-
E ceived So, 500, 627 in wages in 1890, &C
4 cording to the eleventh census of the
United States. In that year 139, 1856
mines produced 1889, l0S tons of coal
valued at $50, 350, 900. Should the strike
I be effective to the fullest extent
& anticipated, the effect upon the business
Il of the country will be incidentally in
II furious, as the strike will enforce the
Il suspension of many trades dependent
/ upon the coal industry, and may seri-
II Ously affect the operation of tie rail
/ roads of the country in the states where
/ the miners will go out. The miners will
4 STrlkC lCr the restoration Oh iIlc litter
state wage agreement which was aban-
doned during the summer, first volun-
tarily by a small number OF miners IN
the Pittsburg district and thus forced a
reduction in every competitive district
in the United States.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 2l.-The miners
+ strike is not general in Illinois. At
7 Nirdcn the miners will work until May
3 /, being held by a contract. At DuGuon
strike has been on since April
against 20 per cent. reduc-
the strikers ranks are reported.
AT st. Johns the miners struck
at noon, but only 200 men are con-
cerned. From Belleville, the center of
the large district of mines, it is learned
! that the miners in that vicinity will re-
main at work. They have no wish to
strike and besides are too poorly organ
lied to do so.
At the mines in the immediate vicin-
ity ofSpringfeld. ILL.,, less than POO men
quit work at noon, but enough others
are expected to strike tonight to swell
the total to 1900. In the small towns
to the south of Springfield the miners
are poorly organized and are paying
no attention to the order to
strike. j. A. Crawford. otate president
of Illinois United Mine Workers, says:
'TelegEams from all points show the
strike to be practically general. Fully
10000 men have already quit work
throughout the country and thousands
more will strike next week. In the
block coaI regions of Indiana May
! will be the date. In the organ
1zed sections of Illinois our men
came out at noon to q man. Along the
lines of the Burlington, the Iowa Cen
trial, and the Toledo, Peoria & Western
all shafts are idle. In Southern Illinois
the men will so out this evening in
stead of this noon. At Canton, H., All
the miners are oist"