Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-25

market price at the mine. Then there
We're two more partners down on the
sheet. They We're James Doran and
James Barker. Doran got $1O0.29 and
Barker $3.50, Barker having bought
some coal which was deducted from his
envelope.
Now these are not high figures picked
out here and there. They are a copy
straight down of one fair average sheet
Of the payroll. 1t fairly represented the
average pay of the miners, the men who
dig the coal, and it is the money they
received, not the money they earned
and from which deductions We're made.
The deductions had been made, and in
several instances these amounted to a
good deal.
These are not Mr.. Bryan's starvation
wages. For the men who received them
1T is not merely a question of starving
to death at Work or starving to death
idle The miners are not starving. They
are ir excellent condition. Go on sun
day to Il church where they attend and
look over the congregation. The people
are we'll clad and have every outward
Indication OF being we'll fed. Not in
years have the miners been making 50
much money as they have of late The
prospect of work this fall was of the
best.
And here are some more figures
Which refute Mr.. Bryan. He says the
average wages of day men ia 90 cents.
The total amount paid one group of
sthirty-five of these day men. taken at
random from the payrolls of the Lehigh
and Wilkes-Bar Company during the
month of August. was, 81 ,S26.97. AN av-
eraSe of more than SOL a month each.
The number of days worked ranged
from eight. when the worknen5 got S1504
to twenty-five when he got $3.50. When
on the payroll, you come TO total
which seems in a measure to bear out
Mr.. Bryan's statements you had only to
trace back the line of the mans record
to find that the reason he did not get
half wages was that he did not work
half time.
& Indeed the pictures that are drawn
by the yellow papers and by the yellow
orators of the wrteched conditions of
the miners here are the rankest absurd
ity. The miners themselves ridicule
them and denounce them. For Instance.
they We're rather more than disguised
by one story of a Philadelphia paper
that is working BrNan's interest to the
effect that, contrary to the laws of
Pennsylvania, women We're working in
the mines. There ia not one word of
truth in the statement as the man who
wrote and the paper that printed it
ought tc have known if they did not.
they did not stop at the mere telling
OF the lie They proceeded to illustrate
{ il after the yellow fashion. A picture of
two women bearing on their heads great
recsptacles, full of coal Vas shown. Be
Heath II Was the falsehood about women
Working in the mine. AS a matter of
fact the women Who We're Photographed
We're caught by the camera in the act OF
stealing coai-a Very common practice
IN he mines and enc that if not actually
wiiiksd at is q least overlooked to a
very great extent by mine bosses
These miners We're generally satisfied
and contented, and it is now generally
conceded that the strike was inaugu-
rated to compel the recognition of or
ganized labor. and particularly the
Mine Workers Union, by the hard-coal
producers. Both are recognized BY the
soft-coal producers, and the union is
allowed to participate as a national or
ganization in fixing the annual scale of
wages and other matters of business at
lifetime. the interests of the soft-coal
miners, but the hard-coal operators
have not recognized the unions since
1.-THE Molly Mcguire strikes in the EOS,
when Franklin 81 Mcoiowen broke them
up after a bitterer war than has since
been known 70 labor in this country.
The fight promises to be a stubborn
one. as both sides seem equally deter
mined