Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-08-07
ILLINOIS MINERS.
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Scale for Coal digging.



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Springfield. Ills. Aug. THE coal
minerS state convention adopted the fol-
lowing scale Of wages: Wilmington lleld
-Braidwood, 5sM cents per ton: brush
ing rs cents extra. LASalle. Ss.z cents
streator and Clare City. 81 cents. Lin.
coin. Is cents. Bloomington, second
veins. SSH cents and 6sh cents. Pom
tiac. 6sh cents. Peoria and Canton SUBJ
district, an cents Machine mining-for
shooting. loading and timbering, 80
cents; machine runners. $3.50 per day;
machine helpers. Sis. Springfield dis
trict. 40 cents ton. c. and A. foadssouth
Of Springfield, IS cents Pana, furnish
ing supplies, 30 centA Danville and
Grape Greek, 10 cents Beiieviue dis
trict, 40 cents Duquoin, IS cents. Coal
Valley. IS cents. Gilchrist and Waulock,
IS cents
Machine Alialng 1t Believille.
Belleville, machine Understanding,
loading and timbering, Is cents; machine
runners. cents. Taylorville machine
mtnes-loaders and shooters, 20 cents;
machine runners ~ cents. Athens ma
chine miners-funners IL cents per
square foot: shooting, leading ana tim
bering, % cents. Assumption, Is cents
Girard machine mines-shooting. and
timbering. ~ 1-3: machine runners. ~
cents. MoweQua machine mines--load-
ers shooters and timberers, furnishing
their own supplies. 80 cents per ton, the
different workers to adjust their part Of
the total.
Sale for the Day Worker.
Litchfield No. 2, IS cents: No. 1 to be
proportional according to the respective
conditions Of No. and 2. Machine work
In the Danville district-for shooting,
loading and timbering, Is cents; all 9TH
er machine work to be advanced in pro-
portion. Scale Of day work for the entire
state: Track layers. $2.25; timbermen,
$225; drivers, $500; cagers. $500; trap
pers, $l.0O; laborers, inside, $500; labor
ers top. $1.60: bumpers, $500; car trim
mers, $500; box car shovelers, $1.S5 All
yardage to be advanced from prices ex-
listing previous to this suspension in pro-
portion to the advance in mining rates.
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The miners also demand the right to
semi-monthly. All other miners not
here enumeratedto adjust prices accord
ing to the scale in their own competitive
fields. These are yearly prices. and
distinction will be made between sum-
Iner and winter
Miners Hear Gov. Tanner.
During the day Governor Tanner vis-
tied the convention and made an ad-
dress He said he would Cooperate in
any manner to bving about a settlement
of existing difficulties but did not think
1t lay in the power Of representatives,
congressman, senator's, and the governor.
He urged the men to adopt a scale and
submit 1t to the owners and he promised
to use every means in his power to IN
duce the operators to adopt the scale. A
resolution tc supply farmers with coal
for their threshing was voted down.
RAID ON CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA.
Pittsburg Men Arc Prsparing to Tackle .
Big Mine-Clesins Contract.
Pittsburg. Aug. THE proposed cam
paign against the mine owners of West
Moreland county and the operators Of
central Pennsylvania, which has been
delayed, Is now An assured fact. The
strike leaders decided on it definitely
at camp conference yesterday and q
big move will probably be made next
Wednesday. The whole affair viii be
considerably on the order OF the fam
GUS Coxey "cOmmonwear' tour. As
already constituted the plans propose
q direct march through the whole ter.
ritory where mines are being operated
until Ciearfield county is reached.
Camps will be left at each of the DE
Armit mines at Canonsburg, at BunO' ,
and any other place that may seem
necessary to keep the mines closed
which appears before the crusaders
leave. The leaders estimate that with
what will remain behind in the camps
at least 5000 men will be kept constant
1y In the movement. A military code
for the government Of the army will
be formulated before the movement is
started. President Dolan says that with
any kind OF a system he will be able
to keep everything quiet and the men
peaceable.
An immense meeting, numbering fully
10000 people, gathered around the
strikers camp at Turtle Creek last
night. Eugene Debs. Mrs. Jones, and
several local speakers made addresses
Delegations from all the surrounding
country attended the meeting and the
enthusiasm was unusual The West
inghouse employees from East Pittsburg
numbered 1900; the striking puddlers
from McKeesport attended, and large
crowds from WilwsrdinG. Pittsbui &
and Allegheny helped to swell the mum.
bers. A monster parade preceded the
meeting, farmers and citizens generally
marching with the strikers to show
their sympathy. Debs spoke for nearly
three hours. and at the conclusion CT
hts address he was almost overwhelmed
by the great number OF people who in
sisted shaking hands with him. Dur
ing his speech at the Pittsburg meeting
Thursday night Debs referred to Judge
Jackson's injunction in West Virginia
declaring that il prohibited him (bebs)
from walking on any public highway
leading to the coal mines in West Vir-
ginia. He then said. characteYisticaily:
II hold the Injunction and the Judge
who issued 1t in supreme contempt IS
The strike situation late last night re-