The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-04-25
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THOUSANDS OF MINERS THROW
DOWN THEIR PICKS.
In a Fight for More Pay.

of the United Mine Workers. 225, 900 miners
laid down their tools to participate in the
great national strike at noon Saturday.
The mining of bituminous coal mus
absolutely cease at noon to-day said
President Mcbride at Columbus, o., Satur.
day morning. Here are dozens of mail
and telegraph requests for permission to
operate small mines whose product goes to
supply local furnaces and does not reach the
general market To them / have replied
that no coal will be permitted to be mined
for any purpose during the strike. 1t would
simply supply demand to some degree and
to that extent operate against the miners in
their strike. 1t would be like permitting a
friendly power, because it was friendly, to
furnish an enemy with arms. This is the
first time we have ever made a fight with
these tactics-that is, by acting with the
organization as unit-and If we can carry
out our purpose the fight against US cannot
long be maintained.
President Mcbride said be did not think
there was any considerable coal mined
ahead-not large quantity compared with
the amount of consumptiOn-and stopping
the mines would result very quickly in a
fuel stringency that would force a settle
ment of the question. He did not fear that
coal from Canada would come in to take
the place OfAmerican coal.
President McBdde said he had received
a number Of very favorable reports from
Pennsylvania and Illinois that morning,
which led him to believe that there would
be less than 4 900 miners at work in West
ern Pennsylvania next week, excepting in
the coke regions, of course, where the miners
do not belong to this organ izatiOn, and not
5000 in Illinois. By the first of May all
these would be out if the strike was not
ended by that time.
COLUMBUS, o., April 22.-The head
quarters of the United Mine Workers Of
America was locked to-day. President
John Mcbride, seen at his home reading
newspaper accounts of the strike begun
yesterday, talked of the movement. He
said
The order to strike has been obeyed just
as we expected. All that we counted on
and more have suspended work. The
Michigan miners, who are not members OF
our organization, have gone out. There are
about 500 of them. Eighly-fye or 90 per
cent of all the miners to whose interest it
would be to join the strike have done so.
The Indiana block miners are sticking to
their contract and will work until May 1.
when it expires. They cannot be blamed. %
"What have you to say of the Ohio
miners p he was asked.
They seem to have gone out to a man.
don't know of single Ohio mine of any
importance that will be in operation this
week. This speaks well for the organization
in this State, when it is known that many
of the operators are ready and anxious to
pay the scale demanded and keep on work
ing"
President Mcbride said there was
mouths supply of coal mined ahead, and in
some districts the supply was probably
greater. There are now, according to his
estimate, 10000 tons of coal on the Lake
Erie docks, left over when navigation closed
last fall. This will not last long.
President Mcbride has received a letter
that Col. w. P. Rend, of Chicago, sent
proposing a conference between miners and
operators. at is conciliatory in tone" he
said, "and have received communications
in similar spirit from operators in Ohio
and Pennsylvania l have not answered
this letter yet, and shall not until the strike
is under full way and we know just how
we stand. The miners cannot live deeently
on less than the scale struck for gives.
Operators in many places are " illing to
pay the scale, and are anxious to proceed at
once"
do you feel sure that you will be able TO
keep your men out in the face of such in
duoements?'
Il certainly do. There may be a few
small and isolated mines that will resume,
but their product will not affect the strike" :"
In Pennsylvania the general strike of
miners began Saturday, and the number
quitting work are as estimated in kilograms
to The Times printed Friday. The number
of men in the Eighth bituminous district
idle is 5000. There was no excitement
The Sixth bituminous district of Pennsyl-
vania, comprising about 50 mines along the
Pennsylvania railroad and in northern Cam
bria county, has 6.OOO men out. At Ralston,
near Williamsport, 300 men quit. Two
thousand miners at Arnot, Antrim, Morris
Run and Fall Brook, in Tioga county. went
out. In the Huntington and Broad Top
region, as well as in Cumberland county,
the men did not stop, but are likely to.
The East Broad top miners, numbering 800,
Joined in the strike.
N West Virginia, near Wheeling, and
in the Sixth Ohio district. directly opposite,
5000 men struck. Ksnawha river miners
remained at work.
At Newark, O., LOCO miners in Jonathan
Creek Valley mines struck. This affected
all mines in the Straitsville district. In the
Zanesville field l, 500 men went out
Reports from other States said 1000 men
had stopped in Iowa, 500 in Alabama, 5000
in Tennessee, 500 in Kentucky and 800 in
New York.