Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-04-28
The BITUMINoUs STRIKE.

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Local Settlements VIII Not be Permitted
The Entire Union TO Act as a Unit
Until u Read diustmcnt OF Wages to .
Living Basis Has Been brought About
A Big Fight Begun with an Almost
Empty Treasury, But with Confidence
OF Victory.
COLUMBUS, o., April 2a.-With the
successful inauguration of the great
miners strike, comes probably the
chief difficulty that will beset the
managers in carrying it to a success
full issue. President Mcbride received
yesterday many requests from local
assemblies to be released from the or
der to strike because the employing
operators had agreed to pay the wages
demanded by the convention, and
others asking what to do in case the
local operators accede to the terms Of
the strikers. The following answer
has been prepared by President Nc
Bride and is sent in answer to all such
inquiries:
DEAR SIR:-The fight for living wages Is
general fight, and no local settlements will
be authorized or recognized. Until general
settlement has been declared, the following
rule must te observed by all miners and all 10.
calties:
As ordered y the national convention. coal
must not lie loaded at any price, or for any
purpose; but where companies want engines
run, water hauled, timber or any other kind OF
repair work done, It will be permitted. pro.
vided wages are according TO scale demanded
by the convention.
The questions reach the point in the
tactics of this strike upon the miners
side, upon which the leaders base their
hope of success--that is the working OF
the whole union as unit. In former
strikes, they have found that permit
ting the miners of one district to re-
sumo operations as soon as the local
operators agreed to pay the scale,
helped to supply the coal demand and
injured the chances of their brother
miners in other districts to win their
fight. The result of this strike proba-
bly, depends upon the ability of the
managers of it to enforce this order
and prevent the miners going to work
where there is no dispute as to wages.
In Pennsylvania a number of operators
are already Offering to pay the scale.
President Mcbride did not receive
special advices from many parts of the
'o., noiu' so''e,o"y do W ~" ''ic
arranged to get tclegraphic reports
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| TO this President Mcbride says that
some of the biggest battles ever won
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io'ight WITHOUT money! ana this strug-
| gle will be of that class. Every miner
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