The Princeton union., 1911-05-11
SACRIFICED IN
IN THIS COUNTRY
Ten Thousand Men Are
Living on an Allowance
of $3.50 a Week

heated with pans of such coal as the
miners could pick up near the mine
entrances and along the roads.
Following this winter of shack life
there are many tales of suffering, of
children born in open fields, Of fami-
lies that lived fireless through fierce
storms Of snow. According to the
mine owners, the strike would never
have begun but for the mine workers
national organization, and both sides
agree that but for the contributions
of the national organization the strike
would have been broken long ago.
$4,000 Distributed Weekly.
Every week since the strike started
$4,000 has been sent to Greensburg
from the mine workers national head
quarters at Indianapolis, the money
being deposited in the shape Of a
check in Greensburg bank.
1t is drawn out in specie and green
who represents the national organiza-
ton in the striking district. It is car
ried by him to the second floor Of
deserted private residence in a Green's
burg side street, which is occupied by
the strikers as a local headquarters
and which has paper instead Of panes
of glass in it's windows. Once a week
across kitchen table while a line Of
almost 1000 men, women and children
file by him he pushes a bill or hand
full Of silver across to each in turn
$3.50 to each man, Is cents to each
woman and so cents to each child in
every striking miners family. Every
mine worker in this country, it is
said, is being taxed SO cents a week to
make up this weekly $4,000 contribu-
ton to the Greensburg strikers.
According to recent visitor to the
strike gripped region, about ten per-
sons have been killed and nearly 100
wounded in the course Of the four
teen months strike.
The striking miners say that all they
want is to arbitrate with the mine
owners. They set much store on the
fact that Governor Tener of Pennsyl-
vania stated publicly recently that he
was greatly in favor of a congression-
al or legislative investigation of the
disagreement Of the miners and en-
ployers. A bill making possible con-
gressional investigation has already
passed the house Of representative
and is before the senate.
Arbitration Desired.
What the strikers would particularly
like, according to their representatives,
is the creation of an arbitration COM
mission Of three. One member of this
commission would be chosen by the
strikers. the other by the mine owners
and the third either by the first two
commissioners or, if these could not
agree, by Governor Tener himself.
A few weeks ago in a pouring rain
the striking miners of Greensburg had
big procession celebrating the strikes
fourteenth month of unbroken continu-
ance. Fifteen hundred men, 100 wo-
men and $50 children marched in the
ranks. Two wealthy and philanthropy
1c women and two clergymen of wide
ly different creeds led the procession
and afterward joined in making
speeches to the strikers in the towns
cramped and crowded public hail.
One of the women was Mrs. Glen
dover Evans Of the Woman's Trade
league Of Boston. She is the wife Of a
stockholder in one Of the mines in
which the strike is going on. The
other woman was the wife Of a polit-
ical oficeholder in Pittsburg.
One Of the two clergymen was the
Rev. D. l.. Schultz, who last August
resigned his position as pastor of the
Lorraine Street Baptist church of Pitts
burg in order to work among the
strikers. The second clergyman who
headed the strikers was Rabbi r. I.
Coffee Of the Tree of Life synagogue
of Pittsburg.