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PAY OF MINERS UP
50 P. G. SINCE 1914
Department Of Labor Figures
Show $110 to $145 a
Month Earned.
AVERAGE OF ALL FIELDS
Statistics Show Men in Anthra-
cite Field Have Had 30 Per
Cent. Increase.

In tables issued yesterday by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United
States Department of Labor the earn
ings OF the employees in the various
branches of the coal mining industry are
set forth. These figures, based upon
the pay received by the miners, mechan-
les and other workers, represent half
months earnings and are said to give II
fair idea of the average income Of the
men in the grades mentioned,
They show that in the anthracite
mines the wages ranged from approx
mately s111 to $3.50 month for under
ground workers. while employees above
ground earned as a rule from $40 to
s145 a month. according to their grades.
Contract miners below ground made in
half a month $7956; company miners.
S54.7s: laborers, y56.1s: trackmen.
s65.44; car runners, $500: motormen,
STATS, and pumpmen, s7o.42. Black
smiths above ground received in half
month S71,96; carpenters, S74.29: ma
chlnists. s72.s1; laborers. s51.s4; load
ere s54.s2. and bumpers. s4S.S3.
In the bituminous mines the wages
! were slightly lower. but machine miners
received s67.75 in half month; hand
pick miners, s47.11: drivers. $+4.3S; Ia
borers, s43.s6 cagefs s51.72, and track
men, s49.23. The boys working as trap
rers received for a half months work
$24.26. The wages OF blacksmiths work.
ing above ground for the same period OF
time was s62.47 engineers, s69.67: fire.
men. s60.26, and laborers, $42.
These figures were compiled from rec
| ords of 1920 employees In twenty-five
! collieries situated in the anthracite dis
trict OF Pennsylvania and 40,511 EN-
| ployees distributed among POI mines II
| the bituminous districts OF the most i'm
| portant coal States.
The increases in the anthracite mine,
since the outbreak of the world wal
have amounted, in the case of the con
| tract miner, to 49.S per cent. The aver
age increase of hand pick miners wage
in the bituminous districts has beei
34.S per cent.
The sun., 1919-11-03
PITTSBURG MINES CLOSED.
Operators Say Men VIII Return
This Week.

PrrrsBuRo, Nov. Both union and
non-union coal mines in the Pittsburg
district and throughout central and
western Pennsylvania were closed to-
day. as is the custom on Sunday. Actual
developments in the miners strike were
few, but the operators ana union repre-
sentatives maintained that the advan-
taee rested with their respective sides.
Union leaders to-day asserted that in
the Pittsburg district alone, $4,000 union
miners had walked out Saturday and
that about 60 per cent. of the non-union
workers also were idle. Operators said
that the miners were on their annual
hunting excursions and would return TO
the mines by Wednesday,
Officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad
here announced to-day that the strike
thus far has not affected the railroads
in this district, and that freight crews
handled as much coal Saturday and to-
day as on the same day of the week
before.
Quiet prevailed over the entire CEN
trail and western Pennsylvania coal field
area to-day
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Saturday, the day set for the hearing
on the application for n temporary in
junction. Action on any supplementary
proceedings should there be any, It was
said would be taken in Washington, as
the Indiana proceeding on the restrain
ing order. had been completed.
So far as could be learned here there
was no violence due to the miners strike
reported any place 1t is believed that
tomorrow will be ose OF the test days
for the miners. the first Monday since
| they quit work. The mines, II was re-
ported from Terre Haute and Evans
Vile, in the Indiana coal fields would
be open as usual and the miners trains
would run on schedule.
| A. w. Kerr. of Springfield. ILL.,. an
| attorney representing District No. IL
| miners. and H. Henderson of Terra
Haute. for the Indiana mines. held an
all day. conference here with Henry
Warrum, who has been retained by the
International officers of the mine work
F, ers in the case. Plans for lighting the
Governments petition for n temporary
injunction were discussed, 1t was said
The sun., 1919-11-03
BRITISH SAY CAPITAL
is AIDING u. S. STRIKE
Reactionaries Make Labor
More Extreme, 'TimeS Says.
Special cooIe Despatch TO THE Sun from the
London Times Service.

London IfD1es befCtco.
COPYRIGHT, 1918, all rights reserved.
LONDON, Nov. Accommodating on the
American miners strike, Times edi-
torial says:
THE advocacy of such bills as that
now before Congress for making railway
strikes illegal and the tone OF no small
part of the American press naturally
tend to make the strikers more extreme
In their demands as well as In their
actions. The refusal of the capitalists
to negotiate with the unions ADDS TO
the difficulties of moderate labor leaders
The rank and file OF their followers are
inclined to be insubordinate already.
"Mr. Taft and ex-President Eliot OF
Harvard may be giving capital the best
advice when they advise 1t to join the
moderate labor leaders in making war
upon their common enemy. The issue OF
an Injunction, II must be feared. will
tend to throw the whole labor move
ment more decidedly to the left (radical-
Ism), at all events for the present, Yet
strong action of some kind on the part
of the Government seems to have been
inevitable. 1t would have abdicated its
most elementary duty to the community
as a whole had It conducted or toll
Grated a movement which aimed at the
life of the nation in the interests OF a
class. It could not stand by and see
this attempt to coerce the whole body
of citizens by cold and famine at the
behest of irresponsible trade union Off
Gals"
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ILLINOIS MINERS TO
SHIFT STRIKE FUND
Continued from. First Page.

in common with many others, make II
impossible to bring In strike breakers.
No man here can enter into a mine until
he has qualified before the State Mining
Board. which is such deliberate body
that It had not completed the examina-
ton of the 1000 men In the field when
the law was passed six years ago.
: The operators here. however, are more
determined to stick 1t out than perhaps
in any other field. They have been
ruthlessly handled by the mine workers
in the legislation and the labor disputes
Of the past. During the war they made
tremendous profit because their low
grade coal. to a certain extent. has been
placed on a parity with better coal with
which they never before were able to
compete.
To-day a long layoff would mean for
them only that their income taxes for
the present year would be distinctly re-
duced. They are rejoicing that the Gov
eminent has stepped in and they foresee
in the strike the final threshing out OF
the labor union demands. which pre-
viously they had been unable to resist.
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MILK DRIVERS VOTE
TO ACCEPT TERMS
Governor in Speech Induces
Them to Compromise
Strike Demand.
TO GET S35 A WEEK PAY
Radicals Fail in Attempt to
Stampede Meeting in Man.
haitian Casino.

There will be no strike Of milk wagon
drivers in New York city and vicinity
to-day. Gov. Alfred e. Smith injected
himself into the situation last night
just at the moment when II appeared
the strike sentiment had seized the
milk wagon workers in earnest. He
talked to them earnestly at their meet
ing in Manhattan Casino and had the
satisfaction of learning that the men
later voted unanimously to accept a
compromise proposition submitted In
behalf of their employers. The terms
offered by the New York Milk Confer
ence Board, representing the distribu-
tors, call for a one year contract which
comedies six day week, increased
wages and improved working conditions.
The Governor was at the Biltmore
Hotel when he was told the radical ele-
ment among the milk wagon drivers ap-
parently had gained the upper hand and
that the strike appeared certain He
hurried to the meeting place of the men
and elbowed his way through the crowd
of about 5000 workers. The meeting
already was turbulent. There was only
weak display at cheering when some
in the crowd recognized the Governor.
leaders, most of whom had been trying
to persuade the men not TO act hastily
| in declaring strike. They had met
with little success and the Governor s
| first efforts were little more effective
| Many of the men paid no attention to
what he was saying when he began to
| speak. Little by little, however. he be-
gan to make an impression and the eff.
| fcrts of a group of radicals who kept
| talking necessarily even while the Gov.
ernor was speaking flickered out The
! Governor pledged the men that he would
| use all Of his power to see that the.
! got an absolutely square deal" coun
selled then that the public's rights mus
not be trampled upon and recalled t.
| them the fact that he had himself once
been worker with his bands down II
Fulton fish market. Before he finished
the Governor had his listeners cheering
Justify.
Responsibility to the public, especially
to the babies, invalids and others in tn,
city absolutely dependent upon milk fol-
subsistence: the animosity on the part o.
the public which would be felt for thu
men in case OF a strike. and the posi-
bility that the strike might be defeated
anyway through the distribution of mill
by the municipal departments consti
tuted the arguments which were mainl!
responsible for the breaking down Of thu
clamorous opposition of the radica
minority to peaceful settlement of an!
kind. A fiat wage of $50 weekly and
per cent. commission on collections wa
the original demand of the strikers, TIL
new contract will provide for So
weekly salary with 2 per cent. commits
i sion for the drivers. who make up NOR
than half of the union membership. IL
place OF the former scale Of $33 pc
week and l per cent. commission. Othe
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employees, clerks and storekeepers. re-

employees, clerks and storekeepers. re-
ceive proportionate increases.
About 1900 milk drivers and clerks
from New York city, westchester. New
ark and Passaic were present Mt the
meeting. Before the unexpected arrival
of Gov Smith the arguments had con-
sisted mainly in accounts of the hard
ships the milk drivers were undergoing
under the old wage scale. 1t was nee
essary for Michael Casual. as presiding
officer, to resort more than once to
megaphone to bring any sort of order
out of the crowd.
The vote which ultimately crushtd
the strike propaganda was taken about
fifteen minutes after the Governor left.
The insurgents who had been loudest In
their demands for the strike made sew
eral efforts to rush the officers OF the
union and the members Of tho commit
tee, but were repulsed. II was necessary
to turn the lights out to get the men
out of the hall.
The sun., 1919-11-03
GOMPERS REPORTED
TO HAVE INTERVIEWED
LelOis Refuses to AnsDer
Questions About Rumor.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Nov. 2.-Responding
to questions as to whether Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Fedora
ton OF Labor. had suggested a plan for
settlement of the strike of soft coal min
ers, John l.. Lewis. acting president of
the United Mine Workers of America,
declared tonight he was 'non-commit-
tai"
Questions put to Mr. Lewis were
prompted by persistent rumors in min
ers circles here that President Gompers
had interviewed In the strike. or at least
offered his good offices.
In the language of the Mexicans,
'Quien sabeT" Lewis said, being in
terpreted who knows?'" Pressed for a
direct answer. Acting President Lewis
could only say: 81 am non-committal."
Frank Harrington. chairman OF the
miners scale committee and president OF
the Illinois district, when asked about
the rumor said he had no knowledge OF
| any communication from Gompers to Mr.
Lewis or internati onal officials. He ex.
pressed the opinion that nothing of the
sort had been received.
1t was impossible here to trace the
source of the rumor, which was believed
TO have originated In Indianapolis.
The sun., 1919-11-03
PARIS IN THROES
OF A COAL FAMINE
Heat, Where Permitted, Ia
Only for Brief Period.
By Stor Correspondent Of The Sun,

Copyright. 1910; oil rights reserved.
PARIS, Nov. 2.-Curtailment of tram
way service and the extinguishment OF
many electric lights affords new evil
dence OF the plight that Paris is in for
want Of coal.
Even in the best restaurants the pa
irons SILVER while they eat their meals,
while the small places have sbeen noti-
fed by the Government that they must
close in a few days for lack Of coal
with which to cook. The best hotels
can afford to turn on heat only few
hours in the morning and evening.
The lighting companies say they Will
have to cut of electric current unless
more coal comes into the city. while the
big subway system Of Paris is able to
keep only two days ahead. 1t is diff
cult for those in America to understand
the plight Of Paris and the suffering
which the first snowfall of the season
has brought to the homes and hotels.
The coal shortage Is not limited tc
Paris in some Of the Industrial cen
tres, like Lille, factories already have
been compelled to close down.
With the coal shortage there are
other discomforts exceeding some Of
those during the war. In order to con
serve the supply for the sick and fol
infants the Government has forbidden
the use of milk In restaurants and no
tells, and the use OF eggs in drinks hal
been prohibited, eggs costing 20 cent
each.
Prices have scared until now hote
rates are one-third higher than yea
ago. The Government promises NOR
coal and amelioration OF financial con
ditions, but SO far there is no actua
raliaf
The sun., 1919-11-03
BALTIMORE LAYS OFF
THIRTY YARD CREWS
Fires DrarDn in Locomotives
Coal Piers Are Idle.
Special Despatch TO THE Sun.


BALTIMORE, Nov. with coal traffic,
amounting to almost so per cent. of the
entire freight movement over the Balti-
more and Ohio and Western Maryland
railroads, virtually at q standstill the
first local manifestation of hardship
growing out of the coal strike will be
in the shape of an enforced layofr Of
railway employees.
The layoff began to-day when thirty
three yard crews OF about five men
each were told to remain at home be-
cause there was nothing for them to
do. The big Baltimore coal piers
virtually are at standstill locomotives
in Maryland yards are having their fires
drawn and are being retired temporarily
in all cases where their use is not alb
solutely necessary and shifting opera
lions in local yards are being reduced
TO the lowest possible minimum-all OF
which is either forced by the strike or
adopted as a matter of economy in
coal.
The sun., 1919-11-03
REPORT BREAK IN OHIO.
ZanesviIle Men Said to Have Ac
cepted Scale.

COLUMBUS, Ohio. Nov. 2,-Reports
from the big coal fields in Ohio indicate
that the strike situation is unchanged
The only near break in the strike is re-
ported from the GAINESVILLE district.
where operators and union miners,
numbering about sixty. are said to have
reached an agreement on a new wage
scale. Whether the miners in this dis
trlct will return to work is doubtful.
They are unable TO get advices from
the officials Of the United Mine Workers
at Indianapolis.
The operators. through W. D. Nc
Kinney, secretary of the Southern Ohio
Coal Exchange, let 1t be known that
they are making no attempt 10 work
| their mines.
80 far as / know" said. Mr.. McKin-
| ney. every miner In Ohio is out and
l do not believe a sufficient number
could be mustered to have any ap-
preciable effect on the situation.
ohio operators, l am confident, will
make no attempt to operate until some
| agreement is reached and the men now
! out go back to work"
Mckinney predicted that the Govern.
ment would make another attempt &c
| secure an agreement between the con.
| tending factions. Time will prove 9
! remedial factor he said
The sun., 1919-11-03
LABOR SEEKS RULE
IN NEWFOUNDLAND
Fishermen Haze Ticket in
Every Constituency.

ST.. JoHN's, N. r., Nov. New
foundiand will hold its first general
election In six years tomorrow, the or
binary four year term Of the Legislature
having been extended from 1917 because
of the war. Interest In the result 10
heightened because Of political changes
since 1918 that have provided new party
lines. with the Fishermen's Protective
Union, comprising the labor element, in
the character of the opposition and ap-
pearing as a distinct political unit for
the first time. A close vote is expected.
Owing to poor Communications some
days probably will elapse before the re-
suit will be known definitely.
Both the Government and the Fisher
mems parties have full tickets in the
eighteen constituencies, and In addition
there are several independent opposition
| candidates The Government party Is
led by Sir Michael Cashin, who became
Prime Minister last May in succession
to DR.. W.T.. Lloyd. The opposition ia
led by r. A. Squires, who was defeated
in the last general election by Fish
ermen's candidate running on the Lib
eral Union party ticket, but who subse-
quently served in the Legislative Coun-
cil and after the Cashin Ministry was
| formed was Endorsed by w. II. Coaker,
leader of the Fishermen's party. for the
leadership OF the opposition.
At the last general election in 1919
| the, Peoples party, led by Edward Nor
rls, then Prime Minister, won FL seats
to the Is of the opposition. which, under
| the name Of the Liberal Union party, in
cludes the Fishermen's Protective Union.
The. Lloyd Ministry, which succeeded
Morris, was overturned last May, when
| Sir Michael Cashin, who had been
! Finance Minister in various administra-
lions for ten years. resigned, charging
that the Lloyd Ministry was dominated
| by Coaker and the Fishermen element.
| Cashin consented to form new Minis
try, with the result that the Fishermen,
who had supported the Government,
went over to constitute the opposition
and the principal members of the 0ppo-
sition to the Lloyd administration joined
forces with what remained of that party
to constitute the present Government.
The sun., 1919-11-03
Hope for the Consumers.

A ray Of hope for the consumers OF
coal is contained in the report on coal
production for the week ended October
25, issued tonight by the United States
Geological Survey. The report says;
THE largest tonnage of coal loaded
in the history OF the country was re-
ported during the week ended October
25. Preliminary returns indicate that
the 1873 principal carriers originated 1885,
759 cars of soft coal. compared with
213729 cars during the preceding week.
This extraordinary increase In the tom
mage Of coal loaded OH per cent? was
in part Offset by the decrease In the ton
mage Of coal cooked at the mines. a de-
crease which attended the steel strike.
TN spite of this handicap the total
estimated production of bituminous coal
(including Ignite and coal made into
coke) rose to 13,11S.000 net tons. Final
| figures are expected to show that the
| total output approached, II 1t did not
surpass that of the week OF July 49,
| 1918, which has hitherto been the great
| est on record.
The exceptional production was
achieved through the united efforts OF
miners. operators, railroads and the pub
| lie. Consumers purchased eagerly In
anticipation of the impending strike. The
| miners, with few exceptions. worked
| loyalty and faithfully. The efforts Of
the railroads to improve car distribu.
ton, begun last August, eliminated In
the largest supply of empties ever pro
vided the mines. a supply which in many
districts exceeded 100 per cent.
ANXIETY felt by consumers over tho
| impending bituminous coal strike Wal
reflected in the demand for anthracite
production OF which reached a new higl
level for the year. The weeks ship
ments were $3.50 cars equivalent to {
total production of 100000 net tons
This was an increase over the precedin:
week of 10000 tons, and much NOR,
substantial increase over the correspond
ing week last year. when the induenz.
epidemic was raging in the anthracite
| region.
1.-THE weeks output was however, !, Q
than the rate maintained for som
months during the summer of 1915
when production averaged 2,0S0, 900 ton
for a. full time week"
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restraining the officers of the Mine
Workers Union from furthering the
strike order already issued was
taken solely in the geneal public In
terest and I shall not permit 1t to
be used directly or indirectly for
the benefit of the employers side OF
the controversy. II any advantage
shall be taken of present conditions
by any arrangement or agreement OF
two or more persons to restrict either
production or distribution In order
to enhance the prices of fuel, l shall
without hesitation take precisely the
same action against such persons as
has been taken against the officers
of the Mine Workers Union.
The sun., 1919-11-03
MISSOURI TEACHERS IN UNION.
University Professors Ask Labor
Federation Charter.
Special Despatch to THE Sun.


KANSAS CITY, Mo. Nov. 2.-Members
of the faculties of the University of
Missouri and the Warrensburg State
Normal School have organized and ap-
piled for charters from the American
Federation of Teachers, a national or.
ganization of teachers affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor. accord.
ing to L. v. Lampson, formerly an In
structor in a Washington, d. c., high
school and now travelling representa-
tive of the American Federation OIL
Teachers.
Attempts will be made by LampsoI
to organize the teachers of Kansas Cit,
! and those Of the principal cities ant
towns OF Kansas. He left to-day fo
Topeka. Kan.
Officers OF the local union formed Fri
day night at the University of Missouri
are Prof w. C. Curtis, president; Prof
Harry q. Brown, secretary. Teacher
of FIVE counties of Missouri are now or
ganized and have applied for charter
from the federation.
The sun., 1919-11-03
B. & O. YARDS ARE TIED UP.
All Crews Laid on by Railroad at
Cumberland.

CUMBERLAND, Md, Nov. 1.-The coal
strike resulted in a suspension In the
yards of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road here to-day. All yard crews were
laid off. The movement through here
dropped from daily average of 5000
cars to 1900 of live stock, foodstuffs
and perishable goods.
Not car of coal has been moved
since o'clock yesterday morning and
none will be until an inventory of all
sidetracked coal made to-day, is handed
to the fuel administration. Freight
crews will average only about one-fourth
time If the suspension continues and
even less II prolonged. Fires have been
drawn from sixty locomotives.
The sun., 1919-11-03
CAPT. E. S. FAUST ENDS LIFE.
strain of War Given as Reason for
Adirondack Suicide.

UTICA, Nov. Capt. Edward S. Faust.
80, of the field artillery of the First
Division. shot and killed himself to-day
in a rowboat on Big Moose Lake In the
Adirondacks. His home was In New
York city.
Capt. Faust had not been discharged
and was stationed at Camp Dix. He ar
rived at the Lake yesterday and engaged
a room In a hotel. He left the hotel this
morning and rowed to a cove called
North Bay. where he killed himself. He
left a note in his room in which he said
ne intended to kill himself and ex.
planned where his body would be found.
Coroner Huyck of Herkimer county
found letters in the Captains belongings
that led him to believe that the strain OF
war had made Capt. Faust mentally un
balanced.
The sun., 1919-11-03
WAGON MINERS SEEK ADVICE.
Fail to Get IL From Union omcials
at Indianapolis.

ZANEsvILLE. Ohio. Nov. 2.-Because of
inability to get advice from the officials
of the United Mine Workers Union at
Indianapolis. the fourteen wagon coal
mines in the vicinity of this city may
be forced to suspend operations, al
though the operators and the miners
though the operators and the miners
scale committee reached an amicable
agreement on a new wage scale yester-
day.
did not seek a thirty hour week and now
officials of the local union and of the
sub-district are in doubt as to whether
the agreement, being regional and not
affecting the existing hours OF labor, can
be approved.