The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-04-04
100000 MINERS
MAY QUIT WORK
LITTLE HOPE HELD OUT OF
AVERTING WALkOuT AT MID
NIGHT, MARCH 81.
MILLIONS ARE HUNGRY
Throughout England as Result Of Brit
ist Strike-Asquith Makes Appeal
to Miners to Accept Min
imum Wage Bill.

New York, March 29.-It was
learned here from an authentic source
that the anthracite coal operators are
making no move to prevent a suspen.
sion of work in the anthracite fields
and that they regard such a s.spen'
sion at midnight on March 81 as in.
evitable. mo suggestion of co,npro.
mise has come to us from any author.
!, itative source" one of the operators
said today. There is nothing to the
report that the operators are prepared
to grant the men per cent increase
in wages"
Cleveland. Hope of averting
widespread coal strike in the United
States beginning next Monday, cen
ters in a subcommittee which had been
appointed by bituminous operators and
miners to agree if possible on a com
promise wage scale.>> All other means
of agreeing had failed and it was said
that unless a compromise soon was
effected, 100000 miners in the btu
minous fields would quit Sunday mid
night and the suspension would be, in
effect strike.
AS for the $4,000 miners in the an
thracite fields of Pennsylvania it was
announced by national union officials
today that strike there Monday now
was unavoidable.
Jointly the wage disputes involve
threatened strike of almost 100000
miners and the shutting down of al
most every unionized coal mine in the
country
Railways Preparing.
Sioux City.-Western railroads are
already preparing to cope with great
coal strike. This was assigned as the
reason for the annulment of three To-
cal passenger trains, one each on the
Northwestern, the Illinois Central
and the Rock Island.
London, March 28.-Premier Asquith
issued an appeal to the miners OF
Great Britain to accept the minimum
wage bill, which, he said, would ef
feet largely what they had fought for
The premier made this appeal in a
speech to the liberal members of the
house of commons.
The premier said he recognized that
the agitation, as far as the great bulk
of the men were concerned was a dis
interested movement. Now that their
grievances had been removed by the
establishment of the principle of a
minimum wage with machinery which
could be trusted to fix reasonable
rates, he strongly appealed in the
name of the whole community for the
resumption of normal industrial con-
ditions.
Terrible restitution has been caused
everywhere by the strike. Millions are
living in state of virtual seml-star.
walton in various parts of the coun.
try. The settlement can come none
too soon for of the 100000 men be-
sides the miners who have been
thrown out of employment, at least q
half do not belong to any trade Or
ganization and, therefore, receive no
out-ofwork benefit.
Fearful Scenes in Wales.
In southern Wales the distress is
becoming more terrible each day. In
thousands of homes there would be
no fuel and no food but for the Of,
forts of the committees which have
been formed. The worst famine spot
in the whole country exists in the
potteries district, which comprises the
towns of Stoke Upon-Trent, Hanley,
Longton, Burslem, Tunstell and New
astle-Under-Lyme. One of the doc.
tors engaged in the work of relief
yesterday came across three persons
there dying of starvation.