Bisbee daily review., 1902-06-03
THE COAL STRIKE
 AND ITS EFFECTS.

laborers who are employed in the shops. in the operation and elsewhere. upon whose labor depends at least 30,- 1 900 women and children. Not only this, the far reaching result of the coal famine which is the result of the strike | includes every business avenue in the large cities. In New YcrE. ferry boats are at a stanGstill. certain railroads have S pc -- ..-,-- 2-.... 1f tGs business blocks of twenty or twenty five stories are simply depopulated as the elevators are closed down. New York uses l1.OO0.000 tons of coal a year In discussing the cause of the great coal strike we quote those at the heat of the miners union, as well as the employ yers, as being best able to judge the reasonableness or the injustice of the present trouble.
 John Mitchell. president of the United Mine Workers of America. says:
 The demands of the anthracite mine workers are briefly as follows:
 That the working day shall consist of eight hours, with the same wages that are now paid for ten hours work.
 That the miners shall receive an ad- vance of per cent in the contract price now paid.
 That coal mined shall be weighed wherever possible; that 2,240 pounds shall constitute ton, and that the men shall have a representative to check the weights.
 That a -.iliI-;-l Hase scale for day laborers at the mines shall be estab- lished. similar to the scale that exists in the bitumlnous helds.
 That the union shall be recognized.
 The remedy for the strike is in the granting of the demands.
 This in nut shell gives the position of the miners.
 In response to this J. B. Dickson, Ontario and Western coal operator. has this to say:
 There is absolutely no reason for the present coal scare. If coal has been selling above schedule rates it has been in small lots. and the sale has been made by some petty speculator.
 We have been filling orders at the regular circular price-4.25 alongside and expect to continue this rate for some time.
 The demand for coal at the present time is extremely light. We have been able to take care of all our trade. t is possible that few Of the largest consumers, who have little loom for coal storage, may be inconvenienced for a time, but it is not true that an thracite coal is not arriving every day in this city.
 As to the cause of the strike, it may be said that the miners are absolutely in the wrong and should not receive the support of the press or the general public.
 There is no class of workingmen in the whole United States who are bet ter paid for their work than the an thracite miners.
 Tke two most important facts re- garding the condition of the miners are as follows:
 First-From 1878 to 1S90-twelve years-no reduction was made in the wages of the miners in spite of the fact that a number of collieries were being operated at loss.
 Second-When we raised the wages of the miners in October, 1900, ten per cent, they took the increase in time and not in money, showing that th,y had previously received ufhcient money for their work.
 In every car of coal that is brought up there is a large amount of waste that is thrown out before the coal is shipped. The operators have care fully estimated the amount of waste in each car, and deduct it from the The above presents the position of the coal operators, giving their req sons why the strikers position is en- tirely unjust, and why they can not succeed against the employers in this trouble.
 Few of us realize the far reaching results of the strike in the coal fields in Pennsylvania, but the following chart, compiled by the New York World, will give some iiea of it's erect: Number of miners on strike, 147 ,0o0: number of other workers unemployed,