Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-07-21
ARE NOT AFFECTED
Principal Mines in This County
Running.
SOME STOP BUT START UP AGAIN

HO1E STOP BUT START UP AGAIN.
Goal Valley Ceilisrs 60 Out But Return
. Few Days Later as Increased Wages
AT the citn-Lass Nights Meeting 1t
Indusssial Hail.
The principal mines of Rock leland
county are not affected by the great
strike in progress all over the coun-
try, and in which the golfers in the
banks of the adjoining county Of
Mercer have all juined. As will be
seen by the information furnished
The ARGUS from the leading mining
localities. the men at Coal Valley
went out . week ago, but returned
last Monday at advanced wages. If
all could be as satisfactorily adjusted
as far as the dissatisfied are con-
cerned. labor would begin to feel
after while that it was beginning to
Iget its due and would begin to make
preparations for the millennium.
Coal Valley. July 20-The miners
employed By McCaffery & Stoddard.
about forty in number, went out oa
q strike Thursday of last week, but
returned to work the following Mon
day at an advance OF cents per ton.
The mines are all running to their
full capacity now. and as the miners
are receiving more than the regular
scale price paid elsewhere. it seems
hardly probable that there will be
any trouble.
Carbon Cliff. July 20-The coal
strik- has not affected the mines or
miners in this vicinity as yet. The
output is not very heavy for
the summer trade. the mines OF Sill.
Wis & S.lvis perhaps producing the
heaviest. This mine supplies the
Argillo works, which during the
busy season uses from 5000 to 9, 600
bushels per month. The Capacity of
the mine is much greater than this.
but as the trade is local, the demand
will not run the mine to its full ca
opacity. During former strikes and
labor troubles the miners have never
refused to mine coal for the local or
home trade. But in some instances
during strikes 10 the larger coal re-
gions. and when the supply of coal
was not sufficient to fill the demand,
orders have been received by our To-
cal mine owners to ship by rail to
points previously supplied by the
striking miners. These orders the
miners refuse to fill. preferring to
lose the work rather than to take the
benefits Of labor which they feel be.
longs to their striking brothers.
The situasi. n In Mercer County.
|. Sherrard, July 2l.-At the miner a
meeting held at Sherrard last Sa.ur-
day. after q number of speeches. a
unanimous vote was taseu to meet
the Ca, lie miners half way between
Cable and Sherrard and have q mass
meeting Monday at o'clock. Be-
fore the meeting was called to order
Robert Lee. Sr.. gave q 15-minute
speech. which was earnestly listened
to by the miners. and after several
speeches the question was we'll de-
bated. It was decided to suspend
work until they received the Colum
bus scale ofprices, which they ella m
they were getting in 1894. which is
55 cents per ton gross weight and
two weeks pay, after which a COM
mittee Of five was chosen to 60 to
Gilchriet and Wanlock to see if the
miners there would Join with them
aud suspend work. When the COM
mittee reached Wanlock it found the
miners there had quit work at moo n
and had already gathered to march
to Gilchrist, after which q m citing
was called at Gilchrist. About 800
miners assembled. The meeting
was called to order and a vote wa:
taken whether to suspend work or
not and it was unanimously carried
to suspend work until the men re-
ceived the Columbus scale of prices.
The miners at Gilchrist went out
yesterday to the numbe of 200.
The coal supply of this section il
now practically crippled. While, az
heretofore stated, the factories and
railroads here have enough coal on
hand to run them for awhile, the
prospect of protracted suspensio q
OF operations at the mines has given
an alarming phase to the situation.
The steamboats,. which have always
coaled up at this point, will also be
made to suffer, and will be obliged
to seek elsewhere after fuel.
The Jim Cook mine back OF Hamp-
ton. which does not make practice
OF running in the summer season.
started up this morning with dozen
men in order to fill special ontraci
between the owners and the Burling-
ton road.
HELP FOR rBE MINERS AT LADD