The herald., 1894-04-21
COAL WILL Be SCARCE
The Great Miners Strike to
Begin Today.
Two Hundred Thousand Men
Will Go Out.
All the Bituminous Mines in the
Country Affected.
The Great Northern Railroad Strike
Bttn On-strikSrs Arrested for
IntSrforiRg with Dspusy
U. o. MArahAis.
BY the Ausociated Press.

Dy Ino AhNONlhteu Tfcaas
PTTsBURG. April 20.--TomorroW at
noon the great coal strike, which has
been pending several months. will no
inaugurated. Opinion differs as to the
number OF men " ho will be engaged In
it. The president of the United Mine
Workers estimated 100000 men as be-
ing engaged Secretary and Treasurer
Park McBridge is quoted as placinS the
number at 100000, relegeaphic re-
ports indicate tnat the number will be
between these two extremes The
strike will be confined to the bit-min-
Gus region OF the United States. In
this there are % districts organized, Ii
being in Pennsylvania. Otner districts
are in Washington. wyoming, Colorado,
Indian territory, Missouri, Kansas, Ala
bama, Kentucky. Virginia, West Vlr-
GINA, Maryland, Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois.
One operator says 5000 mines will be
Abandoned OF these 800 are located in
Ohio. In the Pittsburg district there
are l2O mines, and 80 in the Clearfsld
or Mountain district. These Two dis
tricte have about $4,000 miners. La
Ohio there are about 5000, in Indiana
200O, Illinois. 200; Alabama, TO- 900,
who have already quit work in Missouri
1000, in Tennessee about 1000, in West
ern Kansas about 10000 diggers who are
engaged, bot it 10 not believed that many
will Quit work. In Washington all are
ready TO stop. The operators are aware
the strike is coming. They have not
decided what action to take in the
matter.
Manufacturers aud foundry owners
are greatly alarmed and do not credit
assurances from opera orB that che strike
will be OF short duration, aud therefore
they are securing all the coal they can.
1t is conceded that q strike of two weeks
will cause shortage which may result
vnuct IN utfc price OF cua1 Hs resuit b
the strike, and ere laying in supplies
now, so that the coal dealers have all the
orders they can attend to.
Altogether no impending strike fol
years has caused so much interest anc
anxisty as this one. While the snthra.
cite diggers will not be called out al
present, it is announced that in case
hard coal is used to raise steam where
bituminous is now employed, that the
region will be rendered imperative byss
strike is certain. There are about 40
600 miners employed by the three com
panies which control the anthracite re.
| glone.
Will the strike be a success? To
those on the inside OF the organization,
strike Is the object Of the suspension,
but is will have the desired effect II it
brings about a conference of operators
all over the country, which will reeul /
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money to the operators. The operators
in Ohio. Illinois and Missouri and parts
of Pennsylvania favor the suspension
schedule of prices.
Tonight the superintendent OF the Gas
and Coal company, to Offset statement
that the miners of the company were
only able to earn rs cents day, ex-
hibited the company pay rolls for the pact
several months, which shows that the
men who are working by the ton, have
none of them averaged less than $1.75 a
day and some of them So. ID per day.
BRAZIL, Ind, April 20.-Twenty-five
delegates representing over 1000 miners
met here today. to determine the Ques
tion OF continuing work until May /, or
going on strike tomorrow afternoon.
Secretary Kennedy of the United Minis
Workers. association asked permission
to address the delegates, but was
promptly barred. After considerable
wrsngling vote was taken, and it was
decided by large majority to continue
work until May 1st.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, April 20.-The
5000 members OF the United Mine
Workers association will strike tomor-
row at noon, in compliance with the
mandates OF their union. There are
5000 new members OF this order who
will not 60 out, and repetition of the
lawlessness and fighting of the March
strike is feared. There will be meet.
ing of the association in this city on
April 26th, to take steps to bring about
a general strike in the Kanawha valley.
MACON, Mo-, April 20.-A large num-
ber Of the Bevier miners are dissatisfied
over their decision to suspend work to-
morrow noon. They have now decided
to throw down their picks, provided the
other Missouri coal miners stop work.
The miners have appointed committee
10 ascertain whether the miners at Leg
ington, Ardmore and Marceline intend
to go out. The Bevier miners have de-
cided not to take final action until they
bear from these towns. It is not proba-
bic that the mines will close tomorrow.
JELMco, Tenn, April 20. The miners
of the Jellico district will l1in the great
suspension tomorrow noon. There are
about 5000 miners employed by the IL
Jellico mines.
IRWIN, Pa. April 2O.--Tomorrow at
noon 4500 men in this district will quit
work in response to the call issued by
the national officers Of the Mine Work
ers' associations In this locality Chs
strike will be complete.
CLEVELAND. o.. April 20.--A promi-
nent Mssillon coal operator says the
miners strike will affect 5000 mines and
quarter of a million miners. 1t won't
last later than June, and may be settled
in two weeks. The majority OF the OPP
orators think the miners are in the
right.
SPRINGvALLEv. ILL.,, April 2O.-Tomor-