Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-10-08

lieS WIZ Sot ulScudTSeu III your VIII
goose chase for pure air? Have you
and Senator Dick been taking care of
these men and their families Are
you looking after 1.-The good of these
fellow-men ;"
Then the Forum claims that "will
not lend hand to procure just weight"
Would the Forum have me join in a
movement to procure lust weight
with the same results as the procuring
pure air" at Carlos mine produced
remember when Hohing was mine
inspector that the miners of Garrett
county mine were on strike against un
just weight. Inspector Hohing and
the miners weighed car of coal, that
had been weighed on the mining scale,
on the scales of store near the nine.
1t was found, to the satisfaction of
the miners, that the store scales gave
a weight slightly unfavorable to the
company and favorable to the miners
This is well known to great many
of the miners of this region.
have heard great deal during
the past forty years about unjust
weight and never could find sufficient
proof of unjust weight-only in one in
stance. | was strongly convinced
that there was one place in this region
that there was cheating gong on and
| worked in this mine a short time and
convinced myself of the truth of the
report. But this mine is not now IN
operation.
The persons who would cheat a
MINER out of his weight or wilfully
compel him to work in bad air ought
not only to be tried by the law but
should not be allowed to have charge
of mines.
| The Forum does not differ with Jackson be-
cause he wants the mine inspector elected in
stead of appointed. We believe and say that
every public official from President to dog
catcher ought to be elected by direct vote of
the pcople.-Forum.
Why should every public servant be
elected by direct vote of the people 1?
| need not answer this question, but |
wish to ask why the bill to make the
Mine Inspector elective was not passed
IN the last Legislature Will the
Forum tell ? If not, why not
Did not Senator Dick ring out this
promise to the miners in his campaign
speeches Was this not his great
platform, and if he is now so much
concerned in the welfare of the miner,
why did he not have the bill passed to
make the mine inspector elective ?
Why, If he consented to the mine IN
spector being appointed, does Mr..
Dick find fault with the work of the
Inspector incumbent when he could,
(for he said he could,) have made the
inspector elective
But, Jackson, there must be no hiding be-
| hind newspaper alias. You must face the
music as publicly as Senator Dick and Dele
gate Campbell. You criticise them, yet they
dld their work openly and without any at
tempt to shrink from the consequences
| F0rtm
No; nor there should not be any hid
ing III committee nor conference. If
Senator Dick will tell us how the cleo
tive clause fell out of the Mine In
spection bill, will go to Frostburg
and show myself to the editor of the
Forum IN the presence of Senator Dick
and will have only one question to ask
OF them. But in giving the account of
how the elective clause died the Sena-
tor will have to give the full details.
If Senator Dick and Delegate Camp
bell faced the music publicly let
them now come out and tell the miners
OF Georges creek-where did the
elective clause" dieP Where did it
die, or where was it killed Was it
sold out, abandoned, betrayed IN com
mittee, conference, the Senate, or the
House
1t is highly important to know this
for the relation of sympathy for "pure
air" for the miners and why the mine
Inspector was not made elective has
an important bearing upon the ques-
ton at issue. Let it be told "openly."
Will Jackson kindly indicate what work
will better the condition of the miner p
| Forum.
Not the work that results in miners
being discharged. Not the failure to
have the mine inspector made elective,
and standing by and looking at the pet
plank of the platform upon which fair
promises were made to the miners of
this region. No, these things are not
doing the miner any good. 1t is not
lettering the condition of the miner
to start a crusade that will result in
his being discharged and continue to
cry out that he is grievously wronged
| o'' !" h'c'tho VI ~ pa pei "ClIdIe. IL Is
not for the betterment of the miners to
let the hours of the legislature pass
away and not have the mine inspector
made elective, by which they could
elect one of their own choice and then
listen to the very man who could have
prevented the death of the elective
clause" proclaim in the papers that the
miners are working in impure air.
One thing is as sure as night follows
day that neither the Forum or Senator
Dick is going to better the conditions
under which we have to work in the
mines.
The only way in which the CON
dltlons of the miners can be- better.
ed is for all miners, not few here and
few there, but all of them in season
and out OF season to consider the in
terest of all. Be true to one another
and let no wind-blowsrs and pretenders
impose upon them, and then the miners
will be gwen al. they wish for their
betterment. JACKSON.
Corporation FaIlers, Too.
EcknART, MD, Oct. 4, 1898