The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-30
Perkins feels less perky.
1Iow's your vaccination?
The Wage Of Miners.

Editor of The Tlmes-Dlspat ch:t
sira notced in nhrrsdays March
Eight persons Try Life on sl.65 per Day.
mincr and his family. The whole thing
being so Incorrect that wish|to enter a
pIos s Of s Vlrn false rsprssfotaon
preciate what effect such an illustration
as given would have upon those not .ac-
quatnted with the facts
For the past four years have lived
and worked here In West Virginia right
In the heart Of the coal-mlning section
and have been In position to know that
tie miners are about as we'll paid class
OF Dor as any other. t3g
/ don't know where you got such an
illustration, but wish to say that such
u conditioned does not exist in West Vir-'
gina from necessity. and, indeed, II It
exists anywhere.Eit is no ones fault but
the miner himself. 0
we have good many miners Of foreign
n number of them on each pay day to
80 to the express Office and send any
where from s25 to $50 to their bank in
New York. aad 1t is Il rare case you find
rule. though, n shiftIess sort of people.
moving from place to place, the ma ority
of them living In hope Of saving few
hundreds dollars and returning to their
hundred dollars of United States money
on easy street" But wherever You nnd
or so, YOU viii nd he has S accumula ted
something. -49} ava
The American miners are about the
same way, move from place TO place. |
mining towns, and while was making
$50 per month at my occupation they were
drawing anywhere from $40 to 500. de-
pending enth'ely on how steady they
enough to Int G. o. D.lwhIskey package
of $3.50 which some kind whiskey house
In Kentucky sent to their address
with some. Of them, II all Of tho money
that has been spent Iby the miners III
West Virginia or.whlskey and beer dur
ing the past five years were accumulated
each one a homo at a cost of $1,000. While
/ nm not preaching temperance, do de-
nouncc any people who spend their money
In such manner and then put up the cry
OF poverty.
A miner who goes In tho mine and
works can make his s2,75 to $3.50 por day.
twcnty-slx days IN tho month, and
but. OF course, these are exceptions It
MI depends upon tho man. II he works
steadily, he can, have good pny day;
II he throws his time away he cannot
expect to draw much pay. ST.
II this man only made on an average.
30 cents per day, why would he. or any
Intelligent man. continue to work ut
something which did not pny him, when
he could make more money at almost
anything else?
There is plenty of work In this State
for labor Mt saw-mllls Mt $l,35 to $l.85
per day, tWenty-slx days In the month,
or on tho railroad Mt si,25 to $l.60 per day
for Just common labor.
Again, you say this man had Il, expend
s225 before he could produce one pound
OF coal. This Ia not the case at all. lie
can purchase one days supply OF Hauibs,
powder, etc. and go In the mine and 80
to work. And know one coal company.
advance the necessary supplies for men
tc get n start on, and this coal company
Ia one Of the most powerful In West Vir-
| while they nre temporarily ont Of cars.
| ] am laborsng man myself and like to
sec all laborcrs got MI tho money they
can honestly. but also denounce this