The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-09-18
NO BREAK IN STRIKERS RANKS.

one way to characterize this statement
on which Mr. Bryan hung his charlatan
rant IL is "A lie. pure and simple.
SAW THE PAYRoLLS
The Sun man had free access 10 the
payrolls for the month OF August OF the
Susauehanna and OF the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal companies. The exact
number OF hours each man and boy
worked. the exact amounts charged
handed TO him on pay day were there set
down. Sheets selected at random through
the great pile which made up the payroll
we're taken and examined. Here are
some OF the results: For instance, In the
south Wilkes-B Barre colliery OF the Le-
high and wilkes-Barre Company Fred
Curtis worked twenty-three days and re-
ceived in cash sS4.75. John l.. Hughes
worked twenty-four days and earned
si5
John Campbell worked twenty-five
days and earned 1877. Rich
ard Jones worked twenty-four
days and earned s70.9i William L. Evans
worked twenty-four days and earned sol.-
50. John Crawford worked seventeen
days and earned s5043. Thomas Thomas
and James stevens worked as partners
together for the month. ..
They each worked twenty-five days.
Thomas received $93.2s and Stevens ss4ISS.
The reason Stevens earned more than
Thomas was that Thomas bought more
coal OF the company than Evans did. the
coal was bought for home consumption
in the house. The company sells coal 10
the miners for 81 ton less than the mar
ket price at the mine. Then there were
two more partners down on this sheet
They were James Doran and James Bar
ker. Doran got SlvJ29 and Barker $3.50,
Cnal which
was deducted from his envelope.
NOT PICKED OUT.
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 IL IL the money they
receive, not the money they earned and
from which deductions were made. The
deductions had been made. and in sew
eral instances these amounted TO a good
deal
These are not Mr.. Bryan's starvation
wages. For the men who received them
IL is not merely question Of starving 10
death at work or starving to death idle
The miners are not starving. They are in
excellent condition. Go on a Sunday TO
a church where they attend and look
over the congregation. The people are
we'll clad and have every outward indica-
ton of being well fed. Not in years
have the miners been making so much
money as they have OF late. The pros
pect for work this fall was of the best.
AGAIN REFUTED.
And here are some more figures which
refute Mr.. Bryan. He says that the av-
erage wages Of day men is 20 cents. The
total amount paid one group of thirty
five OF, these day men taken at random
from the pay rolls of the Lehigh and
willesbarre company during the month
OF August. was $lS28H. an average OF
more than $5l month each.
The number of days worked ranged
from eight when the workmen got $500,
TO twenty-five when he got $3.50 When
ever on the pay rolls you come to total
which seems in n measure to bear out
the Bryan statements you had only to
trace back the line of the mans record
10 find that the reason he did not get half
wages was that he did not work half
time.
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