The bee., 1901-09-12

trestle and other work over at the
fifth hill. About mile of outside
track will be laid to reach the new
shaft at that point.
w. d. Caviness and crew of help
ers are at work putting in new air
compressor for the st. Bernard Com
pany at the No. 9 shaft.
The Reinecke Coal Company, we
understand, has turned their prop
erty over to the hands of the county
court and asked for protection. Such
state of affairs as now exists, with
an armed mob of u. NJ. w. in the
county, if all reports are true, the
step taken by the Reineoke Coal
Company seems justIfiable. Up to
this time, not wishing to place upon
the county the expense of hiring
guards to protect their property,
they have borne the expense them
selves, but now that camp of the
U. NJ. WIS have been established at
Madisonville and that in close prox-
unity to the above named mine and
in defiance of law and order, they
have justly concluded, that the ex-
pense should be borne by the whole
county instead of by few individ-
uals.
Superintendent Powell, of the Sc
bree Coal Company is much elated
over the class of men he now has at
work in his mine, most of whom he
says are home or county men, and
are sober industrious class of la
borers. Those formerly in his en-
ploy and who quit his service to join
the poverty society, made their
headquarters on many occasions at
saloons, and were, generally speak
ing hard class to please, with the
present force many of whom were
once farmers he has no trouble and
peace and harmony both prevails.
Thousands of dollars have thus
far been saved the members of the
U. NJ. w. in coal bills, through the
kindness of the st. Bernard Com
pany and other coal companies of
this county, in allowing the said
malcontents to use a large amount
not fit for market, which had been
cast aside. These men have ac-
cepted eagerly of what we may call
this donation, when at the same
time they were at dagger points
with said coal companies, and we
leave it to the public to Judge who
shows the greatest love for mankind.
The great steel strike is about to
come to an ignominious defeat, and
such they deserve when an order
seeks only a recognition as such,
and has no real grievance, they
not alone profit respect, but destroy
all sympathy. Over fifty per cent
loss is at this time reported, and the
accessions to the ranks of the nom
union steel works grows daily, and
it seems only a question of time
when this once strong organization
will crumble and fall. If our read
ers remember few weeks ago the
u. NJ. WIS were the first to extend
sympathy to the steel strikers, and
we wonder if that was the knockout
blow.
The L. NJ. w. boasts of it's great
battle for freedom now being waged
in this county, but let us see how
far this freedom reaches. AS an il
lustration we quote Barnsley resi-
dent who, last week wanted to hire
some help, and went to one of the
numerous idle U. NJ. WIS at that
place, and offered to hire him. The
proposition was just hooted at by
this fellow, who in reply said, that
strict orders against performing
work for wages had been given all
the members, and with that order
came the threat that if one of their
members was found at labor, his ra-
tiols would at once be cut off. An
other case of this kind came TO our
notice last week when U. NJ. w. at
Sebree, who had taken a contract to
unload several cars of brick at good
paying wages was ordered to, and
did quit work. We have been
taught that slavery in this country
was long ago abolished, but it seems
there still exists form of slavery,
and that men can still be found who
will follow the beck of their mas
ters, even that may be to the ruin of
and families. Freedom
of acts or words, it appears, is un-
known to the poor U. M. w. under
the present leadership in this
county.
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