Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-08
WILL TAKE THE PLACE OF sTRIk-
ERS IN ILLINOIS MINES.
GATLINGS TO PROTECT THEM
WILL HAVE BODY GUARD OF
FORMER CHICAGO POLICEMEN.
Eight Hundred of the Cclestials. All
Skilled, to Begin Work TO-mOr-
row md Others to Follow
Latcr-Mine Owner
Talks.

Chicago. Nov. 7.-Chin,se coal miners
,ro 70 ,,ta IN. n,ac. of Americans i, the
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Nor'herh lii'',ois n's'ff'. An attempt VIE
he made to break the strike that exists
and 500 skilled celestials have been picked
for tho work They will all hear arms
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ii.e i's'". =" s"'''i'r sun 'i"'i
ade. and he body guarded by lco former
Chicago policemen.
An avon, of rho Chinese Six Companies
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was III 'hicaso last "eeh' anu i'''ie .o'i,
tract with the General Wilmington coal
COMPANY to deliver the $40 Cinnamon ut
the mines nj tho y;,minrton-B n-Braidwood
@ a..,. - ooo iii
ois.iic'- i't hisl 'oii"i-iiiiish' u, W. WI,
arrive next Tuesday. and the others Will
mad. IN taLe care of ,bem .rranpements
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the first venture
E1,hor,. ,,,,.;o,. bow. boon cop,-
"'e '''"' ''''o'.s '',.,S soa I.,.;'
pleted TO take care or the 1irst soo thiha-
men and to give them ample protection.
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Carbon Hill. Ill. in the heart Of the Will
uinrton-Rraidwood district. has been Sc
lecied as the noint at which the mine op-
erators of the Northern district will make
huiit around one of tie coal shafts at this
noint and the comnany's stores and
houses sItfficient for the Sls, men have been
moved inside In ,dIition to a thorouph
.,rnins nf tho C'h;nes,. miners they are Io
he further nrotec,ed Inv I6D of the former
nolicemen who We're dischargcd bv the re-
rant nrdor of C-bief LSinlev
'Tbcmpb every nrac,,,iio9 has been t,ken
t,ke.n tho deiaiis of the mnvement oT ;oa
Chinese miners secret If is now DEFINITELY
Known that all are skilled miners from
srrv;vors Of the Rock Sprinr massacre of
several Years ago Some Of them nav.
bssn uorLing in The yyvnmirp mines as long
as twentv.eisht II vears4nh thSurh they nave.
a., -, -, ,aSoaf,,i ,nd io,TnL;d;na ,u cr .b,S
,;mn tbey srs not the Jor;is buma,. he
;Ias thar their conntrvmen resident in
are ali s,nnosad ~ he fuIIw cognizart III
the trorhies ibo,. ,ra ,iLnI; ~ ancoi.TfSSr
an1 are comnatent 10 handle the arms
with which they are IN he euuinped
Their Rodx Gu,rJ.
7, ,dd;,io, tn tho dss.rs. which ~,bey
ni;r pouS rnisb u =, i.' is nrdcrsiood
NE arranrements inside = the stockade ';, ar
IN one al nian decided,w militarv @ desisned hy
r,em @ ,eraea III n "a. i,, d, " ;t, , 80, n
ss,,in a 10 as,nn Ds ho,id me- r.;ira P'
s'Ttis ~ n.eaSioia siiotia t ietI ,, III,
nos coar i'es les mas is p Ise hn Tho aari
great STRIKE vas IN leo.' "heh me amer Am II
can and tnsiish miners were disPaceu oy
lmrcrtations OF Bohemlans ana Austrians.
the Bohemians We're vastly IN the ma
iority, soon became fixtures and are still
IN me majority IN the Gistrict.
Inc great strike or ls4 was broken d
the importation OF Italians. and these. ioo
look upon the district as their own.
In 1879 the strike of that year was broE
en- by negroes. though 1t took United States
troops to put them there. After this came
until Wben the the atyc h
ers went out to aid their Eastern brthers
OF Ohio and Pennsylvania. AS soon as
their employers they went back to work
and left the Illinois miners to fight out
their own battles. The Northern Illinois
er 20 out again in sympathy with the East
ern miners only to he sold out by them.
Nevertheless they went out in response to
! and are still out. '''
anu ''e Sun o"''
' '"e punt
General Wiiminston Coal Com6snv taItnS
ver,. franLin nf the Situation III will ba
six months on the nth Of the nresent
Northern Illinois field signed the contracts
To 90 IN work ar the scale of s-Ia cents ner
ton. On those contracts. signed individial-
" by each man after due consideratiOn
with the nperators in omen convention AT
Streator- Nav / we went ont and under
contract for The sale of our coal we have
their contracts good. If the men will not
work We shall get Others who will and
we shall protect them while they are doing
so. Who these men are. where they will
come from or when | am not at Iibertv
to say
We shall however. nav them the scale
on which the contracts were made with our
old men. so that we can deliver the coal we
have sold. We do not wish to put new men
at work in the places of the old ones but IL
is costing the five companies within the
General Wilmington Company about 81 OOO n
day in damage to the mines and loss OF
profits and there Is over So 600 900 worth of
property tied up in the district Our scale
of wages Is the highest in the state or in
the United States-6Ila cents per ton-the
next highest being Pittsburg. with ca cents
'Of the 5000 men we employ $500 are in
the Wilmington Braidwood district The
contracts with the men run for a year. The
men worked from May Il to July 1. when
they broke their contracts with us and
went out on the order of suspension from
sn,. They Asked Too Much.
cents a ton, whereas PENNSYLVANIA. Ohio
ana Indiana; with whom we must com
us > cents per ton out of line with the
o.hel sldtes' tnthttS IL mp ior us
which pnr c"ntr.cts We're maTe ihis ,Il
vance wou,d mean n loss 10 MS of s1io ooo
.If the men had come back at us with
anything like a reasonable demand every
thin. would have been all right but they
utterly ignored our proposition for a COM
promIse 1t an advance Of 1Is cents and re