The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-06-28
SACRIFICED N
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 1reless 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.
SEQ, 1000 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 a Greensburg bank.
It is drawn out in specie and green
( backs by a man named Mccartney,
who represents the national organiza-
ton in the striking district. 1t is car
ried by him to the second floor of a
deserted private residence in a Greens.
burg side street, which is occupied by
the strikers as a local headquarters
and which has paper instead of panes
Of glass in its windows. Once a week
across a kitchen table while a line of
almost 1000 men, women and children
file by him he pushes a bill or a hand
full of silver acros 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, 1t is
said. is being taxed SO cents a week to
make up this weekly $4,000 contribu-
ton to the Greensburg strikers.
According to a recent visitor to the
strike gripped region, about ten per-
sons have been killed and nearly 100
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 COMPRESSION
al or legislative investigation Of the
disagreement OF the miners and EN-
ployers. A bill making possible a con
g%ressional investigation has already
passed the house Of representatives
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 thu
strikers, the other by the mine owner
and the third either by the first two
commissioners or, if these could no
agree, by Governor Tener himself.
A few weeks ago in a pouring rail
the striking miners of Greensburg ha(
a big procession celebrating the strike
fourteenth month of unbroken continu
ance. Fifteen hundred men, 100 wo
men and $50 children marched in tn
ranks. Two wealthy and philanthrop
tc women and two clergymen of wide
~ different creeds led the procession
and afterward Joined in maxim!
speeches to the strikers in the town
cramped and crowded public hall.
One OF the mt was Mrs. Glen
dover Evans Of the Woman's Trad
league of Boston. She is the wife of
stakeholder in one of the mines il
: which the strike is going on. TIL
other woman was the wife Of a polit
tcal oficeholder in Pittsburg.
One Of the two clergymen was tn
Rev. d. l.. Schultz. who last Angus
resigned his position as pastor Of tn
t Lorraine Street Baptist church of Pitts
t burg in order to work among tn
strikers. The second clergyman VIII
headed the strikers was Rabbi r.
Coffee of the Tree of Life synagogu
Of Pittsburg.
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