New-York tribune., 1902-06-24
REPLY OF THE CPkRA IORS'
THEY PRONOUNCE MITCHELLS ASShi
TIONS INCORRECT AND MISLEADING.

Several Of the officials of the anthracil" ''a car
rying roads who were interviewed yesterday r'1d'"
( ing the statement of President Mitchell oi III"
! United Mine Workers. reply TO the recent S'a's
-ne,t made by the onerators. said that Mitchell :
assertions were altogether misleading ara Hi'o' =
rect. They deny his declaration that the "frcleh'N
OF he miners greater since they received 'h' 'I
advance in wages than before and also his state
ment that they have raised the price Of coal since
the strike. President Olyphant of the Delaware
and Hudson Canal Company said
Mitchell. in the estimate he gives OF the outrnI l
per man since the adyance iRcnGf me- % Is beaps rhes
washeries been established about three years
and the people employed them are lahorers. n@t
miners AS to the average wages ne includes the
earnings of breaker boys. watchmen and eVe'E "h one
else in making the estimate during Iast Eta' ~ ~
union has caused constant interruption 10 inc
because there was an enormous G,fltli |" po,Id
the that there Were 1913 small strikes co1l''
tration, that is impossible
4 high official of tie Erie Railroad. who has been
for many years connected with its mining depart
ment in reply MitchelIs statement that the
strikers are Iaw-abiding and that. excent for the
presence the coal and iron police. no one Would
know that grand industrial contest was pending.
said:
No one knows better than Mitchell nat If the the
coal and iron police were Wl1n%ramn MI t ,nention the
attempf by the strikers to hang one Of our Inilc
attacks on workers. We can protect the people At
the mines. but if protection could be pTt nd
their families the strike would he over and the
miners working next week.
President Baer OF the Philadelphia and Reading
Company will be in town to-day Some ot the
presidents who seen yesterday thought IL
would he necessary to issue general state
1nent in reply to Mitchell. but that point. il Is
thought will be settled to-day, when Mr.. Raer is
in
An editorial the situation will be printed hy
The Coal Trade Journal in its issue tomorrow.
in which it will say among other things:
Cost of living has increased. but 50 has the
opportunity Of earning a living: statistics show
that every mine worked more days in 1901 than
any other year. and would have WORKED
many more days in lots Of instances had IL not
unsought and undesired 10y the operators. IT Is
this circumstance which the operators have IN
mind when they say that efficiency decreased l2l2
per cent: the demanded. and the opera
tors would have been glad pay for, mining al
millions more tons of coal
As TO results in 1901 being good for the com
panies, of they good, but. Mitchell
rot the miners receive the same Of pay all
through the poor years that they did In 1SSs?
to increased value OF coal per Geological
Survey report. does ne overlook the fact that
100000 more tons of coal. higher range Of
prices. included in this Increased value? The
washery product. which included coal for which
the paid years also came into Us"
increase total value. while pea and buckwheat
have enhanced value because of greater demand.
These the operators. although
the anthracite miner is subjected scrsenaEc
dOckage.