The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-03-23
COAL MINERS WIN AND LOSE
COMMISSION GIVESTHEM 10 PER
CENT. MORE PAP.

| Shorter Hours for Engineers, Firemen
and Pumpmen-No Specific Recog-
milton OF the United Mine Workers
| Murder and LawIessness Condemned.
The following are the findings of the
Coal Strike commission, whose report
was made public on Saturday:
WHAT THE MINERS GET.
An increase of 10 per cent. in wages to
contract miners, from November l, l9O2,
and during the life of the award.
!; An increase of 10 per cent. in wages 10
water hoising engineers for the same period.
An increase OF 10 per cent. IN wages 10
other engineers, pumpmen and hremen' from
| November l, 1902, to April l, 1908, ana D
| per cent. thereafter during the life OF the
award.
An increase of 10 per cent. in the wages
! of all company men and other employees
Company men and other employees not
! specifically provided for to be paid on the
basis of nine hour working day. ,,.
| Engineers, firemen and pumpmen to WORK
| in eight hour shifts instead of twelve hour
shifts.
! Engineers and pumpmen to be relieved on
Sundays without loss of pay.
| Local boards Of arbitration for the settle
ment of disputes in individual collieries.
|
wages are increased 1 per cent. for every III
per cent. Increase in the price of coal.
| Check weighmen to be employed at the
| collierles by the miners at their own eA-
p@nse.
[ Uniform distribution of mine cars among
/ the miners.
| Any increase in the size of mine cars or
| topping to be accompanied by pr0portlonate
| increase in rate paid per car.
WHAT THE OPERATORS GET.
| No specific recognition of the United Mine
| Workers.
The present methods of payment for coal
| mined shall be continued unless cnahgeo ny
mutual agreement.
| Concerted effort on the part of the mine
workers to limit output except by agree
ment with operators forbidden.
| Work not to be suspended pending settle
ment Of matters referred to arbitration
| boards.
| No discrimination against non union men.
| Boycott and violence condemned.
| Demand that coal mined be paid for by
1 weight refused.
Interposition of the state militia in the
coal regions to preserve peace justified.
| STRIKE RECORD STAINED WITH MUIR
DER AND RIOT.
| Touching the question of Discrimination,
| lawesSness, boyc0tting and blacklisting the
commission says that in the late strike dis
| order and lawleSSneSS existed to some eN-
tent over the whole region, and throughout
the whole period. Continuing, the report
says:
it is admitted that this disorder and law
| lessness was incident to the strike. Its his.
| tory Is stained with record of riot and
bloodshed, eliminating in three murders,
unprovOked, save by the fact that two or
the victims were asserting their rights to
work, and another, an officer of the law,
was performing his duty In attempting to
| preserve the peace. Men who chose to be
| employed or who remained at work were as
sailed and threatened, and they and their
| fO Inilias tnrporiypd and infIn1idafpI In
| several instances the houses of such work
men were dynamited or otherwise assaulted.
and the lives of unoffending women and
children put in jeopardy. The armed guards
employed to protect the collieries and the
men who worked them, appear not to have
| been an unnecessary precaution, and the
| governor of the state was, as the evidence
| before the commission shows, justified In
calling out the citizen soldiery OF the com
| monweaith to preserve Its peace and vtndi'
cate its laws.
The resentment expressed by many per.
sons connected with the strike at the pres
ence of the armed guards and militia of the
| state does not argue well for the peaceabe
| character or purposes Of such persons. Nc
peaceable or lawabiding citizen has reason
to fear or resent the presence of either.
| 1t is also true, and justice requires the
statement, that the leaders of the organizaa.
| ton which began and conducted the strike.
and notably It's president, condemned all
violence, and exhorted their followers to
| s0briety and moderation. 1t would seem,
| however, that the subordinate local organi-
cations and their leaders were not so amen.
| able to such cOunsels as to prevent the re-
grettable occurrences to which reference has
| been made.
| In making this Arrangement, we are not
| unmindful of what appears to be the fact,
| that the mine workers Of the anthracite re-
gion are in the main well disposed and good
citizens of the commonwealth Of Pennsylva-
mia, and that it is the power of minority
of the less responsible men and boys, to-
gether with the idle and vicious, unless
properly restrained, to destroy the peace
and good order of any community.
| labor or other organization whose pUr-
pose can only be accomplished by the viola
tion of law and order of society has rot
right to exist.
Regarding the boycott the commission
says:
| What is properly known as the boycott "a
| word of evil omen and unhappy origin Is a
| form of coercion by which combination
of many persons seek to work their Will up
| on a single person, or upon a few persons,
by compelling others to abstain from social
or beneficial business intercourse with such
person or persons. Carried to the extent
sometimes practiced in aid of strike, and
| as was in some instances practiSnd in con
nectiOn with the late anthracite strike, 1t Is
a cruel weapon of aggression, and its use
immoral and anti-social, and the concerted
attempt to accomplish it is a conspiracy at
common law and merits and should receive
the punishment due to such crime.