The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-04-09
COAL MINERS STRIKE.
Cumberland Employees Numbering
Twelve Hundred Quit work.

ANcAhe Hundred Quit Work
CUMBERLAND Nd, April Twelve
hundred miners in the employ Of the Con-
solidated Coal Company went on q strike
Saturday midnight. The following circu-
lar issued by the miners committee or
dering the strike is self-expIanatorv.
To at the Euploye- OF the Consolidated Coal
Company:
Over one hundred OF our fellow craftsmen have
been discharged and suspended by >urt b. =
RANDOLPH FOR attending toe mass meeting in To-
uaCuuirg SATURDAY. Ma1cL -. AZ otu us-fyirr.
held 90 Midland and Frosthurg comm -tt,c yrss
selected. composed of Thomas Mcconnell usta
trict President Allan Barber. Seoret17y Tr.4.Hrq-
William CecbTaEe. srd National Org1lizar N;V-
i1m Warner tO appeal 90 Suut Randolph fsr "a.
reinstatement of our hroILcrs
Supt- Randolph frsaLIv admitted TO v,-5r com
ra!;tee that the ouly oau,s for ta- wholesale dis
charge and suspension wa, the general ATTENDANCE
OF hi~ euploye- az L0usceuirg March n a..
Hauy refused 60 consider the question O. rein
statement, furthermore he asserted tiat NOR,
would pc discharged ard suspended he dec-sro,l
that be- wanted = strike and preferred 20 have 30
az once
Feilow-voTkueu. II ynu permit glcb action Q,
e. un"railenged, yea viii have forfeited an yuur
personal Liberties and your sacred priyilfre. a.
American citizens Therefore. bv the autbarit-
given rs by Yourselves. We hereby decilf. tb5t
yon shall suspend Uofl- at II O'Clock tonight.
April =
Allan Bsrbor. district president: william Co.,-
rane. secretary treasurer; William Warner M
tIoDal organizer, United Nius-Wcrkcrs of Ameri-
Business men generally think the sit
uatiOn has not been handled dipIomaticsi-
ly. and some OPENLY aver that the coal
companies do moi seem 70 care whether
there is strike or not. Some saga strike
would be an excuse for the installation OF
machines for mining. One OF the reasons
given for Mr.. Randolph's refusal 20 con
fer with the miners committee was that
not one miner working for his company
was a member Of the committee. The
miners Of the other companies. il is ex-
pected. will keen at work until Tuesday
evening a least, or until after the meet
ing in Cumberland on that day. when the
miners have asked TO meet the operators.
The present trouble is deeply deplored
as strike would have a deadening effect
on all business. Merchants. railroad men.
and canal men would suffer. to say moth
ing Of the strikers themselves and those
dependent upon their labor. This wear
promised TO be the most prosperous in the
coal industry, and there is a particularly
strong demand for Georges Creek coal All
the world over. The tonnage for Febru-
airy and March is reported larger than
ever before. ENQUIRIES by foreign coun-
tries in America for coal are said to be
largely dRe to the high price Of British
coal Tho demand from points along the
Atlantic seaboard is stiu larger than the
supply Orders from outside BUYERS are
turned down frequently. State Mine In
spector Paul. Of West Virginia says that
in his State never has there been such ac-
tivity in mining or so large an output o.
coal and coke. In every field in the State
new mines are being opened. except in
the Flat Top field where they are al
ready so close that there is no room for
more. 1t is Believed that within the next
two years West Virginia viii rank next
10 Pennsylvania which heads the coal
producing Stat,s