Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-03-08

Front by . Prominent Union Omcial,
Who Thinks the strike ILL., Advised-One
Operator Comedies the e0-Cent Rate
Iowa Miners and Employers Disagree
Employer Fighting n Minister.
PITTsBUEG, March S.-The strike of the
miners Of the Pittsburg district is on in
full force, and is expected to result in
general suspension of work. There are three
companies whose miners it is thought will
stay at work, and the men employed in
these mines aggregate less than 1000.
At the Monongah mines near Noror-
gaheia City the men held meeting and
after completing the loading of barge
at the request of the superintendent quit
work. All the miners of the fourth pool
have come out There Is good boating
stage and the operators are desirous OF
continuing work. Some OF them have
proposed compromise scales, but in each
case they have been rejected with the de-
mand for the rate decided upon by the con-
vention.
A Union Omcial Thinks 1t ul-Advised.
A prominent miners official said he
thought some of the retail operators
on the market, but did not think big
firms would agree to it. He thinks the
strike at present iil-adyised, and said the
men should have waited until the middle
of April He regrets the action by the
men. The latest estimate of strikers is
1900. leaving those Mt work in the nei sh-
borhood of :, 600 Among the few miners
at work are all on Painters run, Char
tiers branch, Beadlcy Bros. and the Pan
handle Coal comDany-all at work at -
cents; the Forsythe company in the
fourth pool, at the rate paid before the
strike; the New York and Cleveland Gas
Coal com any, 1000 men; Pittsburg and
Chcagb Gas Coal company, at FIndlcy-
vile. SO men, AMI the Robbins first
pool men.
Working Under Iron-CIad Contracts.
All of the above are working under IRON
clad contracts and should the men quit
work they forfeit a bonus and place theni-
selves III jeopardy of the law for breach of
contract. Robbins men seriously con-
template a break and to run the chances.
The company officials cannot say what
the men will do. Some of the big mines
on the Panhandle which suspended are:
The Standard Coal company. 27D men;
Millers' Run Coal company, 200; Ridg
way Bishop company, 2oo. Nearly all
other mines in the Mansfield district are
out. The Euclid mine of the Ohio and
Pennsylvania company, at Port Royal, on
the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Creed
more are also closed.
Break in the Operators Ranks.
Considerable uneasiness was caused to
the operators by the Hackett Coal COM
pany at Findleyville, controlled by Boyle
Bros. posting notice that their mines will
resume today at 60 cents, the rate demand
ed by the men. William Floresheim's men
in the same section asked a similar con-
ccssion, but were emphatically refused.
The Boyle Bros. were asked by the opera
tors to rescind their notice under promise
of having their orders flied from the
mines at work for 80 cents, but they re-
Piled that it was their Intention to con-
duct their own business The men at
Catsburg on the Monongahela river have
returned To work, the company having
conceded the scale.
Reports from all parts of the district
confirm the earlier reports that the strike
is complete with the few exceptions men-
toned.