The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-04-26
THEY STRIKE.
Il Hundred Thousand Miners Drop
Their Picks.
The Strike Is Confined to the Bitumin Gus
Coal Mining Regions of the United
States-In Indiana They Will Work
Two Days a Week Until May 4.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, April 80 Opinions
differ as to the number of men who are
engaged in the great coal strike. Presi-
dent John Mcbride of the United Mine
Workers union estimates that 100000
men are engaged Secretary Treasurer
Patrick Mcbride is quoted as placing
the number at 100000 The telegraphic
reports indicate that the number is be-
tween these two extremes The strike
is confined to the bituminous coal re-
gion of the United States. In this there
are twenty-three districts organized,
four being in Pennsylvania. The other
districts are Washington, Wyoming,
Colorado, Indian territory, Missouri, AL
ALBANIA, Kansas, Tennessee Kentucky,
Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Ohio
Indiana and Illinois. a Massillon OPP
orator says that 5000 coal mines in the
United States will be abandoned. Of
these 800 are located in Ohio. In the
Pittsburgh district alone there are
about 1870 mines and fully thirty more
in the Clearfeld or mountain district
These two districts have about $4,000
miners. In Ohio there are about 80
600 miners: in Indiana, IL, 900: in Illi-
have already quit work; in Missouri, s.
600: in Tennessee, about 1000 In West
Virginia about lO,O diggers are en-
gagged, but it is not believed that many
have quit work. In Washington all
hre ready to stop
PHILADELPHIA, April 23.-lf all the
miners in what is known as the Clear
field district of the bituminous coal re-
gion struck at noon Saturday, there
will be 90 600 men out of work in that
territory. Added to these are 5000 in
the Phillips burg district; 1900 in the
Indiana district: 5000 in the jefferson
district and about s. 900 in the Mountain
district. A prominent operator, men,
ber of firm that employs several
thousand miners said Saturday: THE
strike is not against a reduction in
wages, but simply and solely for the
purpose of keeping the officers
of the, miners national organi-
zation in Office. Things had been quiet
for SO long a time that the working
miners were kicking against paying
big salaries to general officers for doing
nothing. AS far as we are concerned
we have been practically maintaining a
charity organization for some time. 1t
would have paid us to close our mines
six months ago When we found it
necessary to reduce wages in order to
keep the men at work. they accepted
the situation quietly and did not offer
objection"
COLUMBUS, O., April 90. Reports Sat-
urday at national headquarters of the
miners union to the effect that in the
block coal fields of Indiana where the
men have contract they will work
two days week until May /, when
they will join in the suspension.
Maryland, where nothing was ex-
pected, has joined the suspension. On
the New and Banawha rivers there
is every indication of general suspen-
sion. 1t is an open secret in Co.
lumbus that the operators of
this region are in sympathy with
the suspension and hope the miners
will win. The operators here desire to
pay the scale proposed by the miners,
but are prevented by certain operators
in the Pittsburgh district who have
been paying lower wages. Seven hun
dred men are out at New Straitsville.
These miners are among the most con-
servative and intelligent in the coun-
try. A special from Trimble to the
Dispatch says all of the miners in the
Sunday Creek valley are out. There
are about fifteen hundred of them.
| CoNNELLsvILLE, Pa, April %. S.-There
was great uncertainty throughout the
entire region Saturday as to the proba-
bilities of the cokers joining the gener-
al strike. Among the operators the
opinion is general that the men will
not go out. They say that cokers are
discouraged at the failure of the recent
strike and will not quit work soon
again. The strike leaders, however,
are confident the men will come out
again and that they will be successful
this time, because they have the back
ing of the national board. Meetings
were being held Saturday to elect dele.
gates to the Scottdale convention,
which meets Monday to decide the
question.