The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-31
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Non-union ATen will Quit Work With
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 Philadelphia, March 30.---A total sus~ pension of anthracite mining as cr- dered by the Shamokin scale comunft- tee of the United Mine Workers would affect more than I75.00o men. Of these 1s0.o09 are employed in and about the 400 cosleries and wssheries scattered throughout the nine counties in east ern Pennsylvania and the others are regular men engaged in handling the production and repairing railroad equipment. Nearly 75 per cent Of the 160, 900 mine workers belong to the union but judging from the action of the men during the strike of 1900 and 1902 there Is little doubt that nearly all the non-union men will quit work when the union workers obey fhe or- der.
 Ii Is dificult to forecast what the outcome of the present trouble will be. All the demands made by the min CTS have been denied by the operators. who have made a counter proposition that the award of the anthracite strike commission be continued for three years. The miners have not yet made specific reply to thls proposition but President Mitchell in his last commu- nication to President Baer said the mine workers Cannot with any degree of contentment or satisfaction contin- sse hn wsnM unSlnr sAfe&ent eolltlitfunN
 The operators up Co the present time have shown solid front and for the first time in the history of the hard coal industry all interests, including the numerous small independent oper- ators, are unit in their position. The coal company officials say they enter the present struggle in the best pos- sible condition and that a suspension could not have come at a better time
 The quantity of coal above the sur face Is the largest in the history of the industry.
 While the operators have been pre- pairing for struggle, the mine work CTS have not been idle. The efforts of the coal companies to store large quantities of coal have enabled the mine workers to work steadily. Az a consequence the latter are in better condition for a prolonged suspension of work than they have ever been. Many of them. have saved money in anticI- patton of another struggle, which was predicted when the award of the strike com -nmission was made three years ago.
 It Is known that the funds in -ie treasures of the three anthracite dis trict unions aggregate about the same as tbe miners possessed in 1902 Dur
 
 came depleted in about two months and the men were thereafter supported principally by assessments made on the bituminous miners and by contri- buttons from other labor unions and the general public.
 A feature of the coal situation which will be watched with interest in case of disorder in the anthracite region will be the operation of the depart ment of state police, created by the last session of the Legislature.
 While the law authorizing the ap- pointment of coal and iron police is still operative. the new constahulary force is intended as far as possible to take the place of the police appointed at the request of the various corpora tions This constabulary is made up of four companies each company con sistinC of captain, lieutenant, five sergeants and fifty men. Every man on the new force is a former member of either the United States army or the guard.