The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-19

short, why are prices advancing? Why
is coal worth 81 a ton and even $50
more than it was two weeks ago? Why
are the railroads confiscating coal ship
ments? Why are the shops and the fac
tories, whose wheels are put in motion
by the labor of the miners, ceasing to
operate? Why are operators all over
the states Offering their miners a rate
even higher than the one demanded, if
they will continue at work? The reason
is patent to all, coal is scarce. Those
who have it to sell get fancy prices,
and those who offer an advance par
ticularly in West Virginia and portions
of Illinois, do it for the purpose of
checking and defeating this movement,
and miners who do not know this will
realize it fully when the battle is over,
If such operators have their way.
1--WE have started into this movement
realizing fully the Importance of the
work before us, and the responsibility
resting upon US, and after two weeks
OF suspension, involving more than
100000 miners. we are we'll satisfied
with the results.
Only those who are best acquainted
with the condition of the miners have
any idea of the extent of this suspen-
sion and it's paralyzing effects upon the
labor and business of the country.
1t has not yet reached it's full proper
tions. The coming week will add &C.
600 men to the idle column. The week
following will bring greater accesSions
to our ranks. The movement will con-
tinue to grow, not only from the point
Of number involved, but public opinion
will become crystallized more fully,
and, through the press of the country,
will demand a solution of this great
difficulty.
THE organized trades Of the country
are today in closer touch than ever
before. Never in the history Of labor
troubles have they been found so close
ly allied. Our demand for living wages
and the determination of our miners
to secure it have brought expressions
Of sympathy and moral and material
support from almost every branch of
organized labor, whose efforts in our
behalf will endear them to all lovers of
fairness, and establish for the miners
with their own efforts a living rate of
wages"
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, July 49,
The miners at Thacker, Logan, and
Dingess, who yesterday decided to
strike, held a mass meeting this after
noon and reconsidered their action.
They will return to work as usual Mon
day. The Elk Horn miners, who yes
terday decided to strike, will, it is be-
Heved, follow their example.
MARTINS FERRY, O., July 49,
The miners of Dillonvale were notified
yesterday that they must return to
work tomorrow or new men will be en-
ployed Two hundred car loads of
West Virginia coal passed through
here today The Wheeling & Lake
Erie road has ordered 1900 car loads.
WHEELING, w. Va, July 1S.-The
striking miners at Dillonvale, up the
river on the Wheeling & Lake Erie
road, have been notified by the man
agement that the mines there will re-
sumo Monday morning, and that if
they do not intend to work their places
will be filled with outside men,
WHEELING, w. Va, July 18.-There
is a heavy movement of West Virginia
coal through Wheeling today. Sixty
or seventy cars of coal were trans
ferred from the Wheeling terminal
tracks to the Wheeling & Lake Erie
and started north without molestation
1t Is learned tonight that all the coal
being sent over the Wheeling road is
for the Lake Shore and the upper
Northern Ohio roads that need the coal
change in the strike situation in this
district.
CHICAGO, July 1S.-A1l unions af-
filiated with the Chicago federation Of
labor will contribute to the miners re-
lief fund. At a meeting of the fedora
ton this afternoon w. P. De Armitt
and his plan of true uniformity were
severely condemned. The resolution
following was adopted in part:
The Chicago Federation of Labor extends
its sympathy and support to the striking
miners of the United States, and we call on all
affiliated bodies to aid to the utmost extent