The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-22
WORKERS ARE OUT MORE THAN HALF
 BILLION DOLLARS
BY WEBSTER K. NOLAN, |. N. s, Staff CorreSpondent.

washington, Juy The twin coal and rail strikes to date have caused a loss of S553,000,000 to workers, em- ployers and American industry gen. eral1y and the figures grow hourly. according to best estimates made yes terday by government statisticians. Railway workmen and coal miners on strike lose in the aggregate ST. 50o.oo0 a day In wages. The total loss to date in both the coal and rail strikes in point of wages is S193. 3.oo0,- 900. The loss to coal operators, fgur- ing on average of $1 per ton for bi- luminous coal that would have been mined during the sixteen weeks Of the strike, is approximately S240,0O0,- 900. The total weekly loss in coal production, both bituminous and an thracite, is averaged at 75.0oo,o00 tons.
 Numbers Involved.
 twin tie ups is between 1,250,00O and 500,oo0. Of these 690,oo0 are miners and 550,o0o raliworkers.
 The men involved in the coal strike l and 160,000 anthracite miners. Nine 1 ty thousand of the miners on strike are said to have joined the union since April first, the date of the gen. eral walkout-
 The men involved in the rail strike | include slightly more than 5o0,000 i shop crafts workers, 5000 stationary :, firernen and oilers and about 42,00O | OIhGIS NdTlOuS DTOlIleIHOO4S, 4Il- cluding about 10000 maintenance of way men. The latter 42,00O are "out- law strikers as their action has not been authorized by their chiefs. The having started July l. Trackmen numbering 100000 are threatening to walkout.
 The public will suffer the most. in- asumuch as the public will be caught | coming and going.''
 | If the strikes continue, the public will suffer from lack of facilities to move necessities and from lack of one
 the public will have to foot the bill
 of the twin tie ups-as freight and coal rates are bound to soar. Issues Involved.
 l The issues involved in either strike briefly defined, are:
 In the coal strike:
 Demand by the miners that the
 basis for renewal of contracts be identical with the old contracts, tha1
 is to say, there must be provision fol continuation of the check-off, guar lantee of the right of collective bar gaining, recognition of the union anC
 no reduction in the wage scale. The
 coal operators refuse to renew con
 tracts on such a basis, claiming cost
 of production make alteration of wage
 scales imperative.
 In the rail strike:
 | Demand of the shopcrafts that thu
 railroad labor board rescind its orde
 reducing wages, that there be estab , lished a voluntary national adjust
 ment board, that there be immediat:
 al olition of the farming out system
 in the matter of contract repair work
 and demand that there be restoration
 of the original siXty-seven workin:
 rules governing shop craft workers
 Aggravating the issue is the desir of the men on strike to hold confer
 ences direct with the railroad execu
 tives and not with the railway labo , board.
 Area Indefinab1e.
 The strike area is indefinable in tn
 rail walk out, except that it is con fined, insofar as soradic violence i conce ed, to the south and south western secti ons of the country, witt , a tendency to crop up into the Hi ,, nois area
 The strike area in the coal war
 more severe in the four state compe
 titive field comprising hio Illinois Indiana and Western Pennsylvania. l , is generally conceded that Pennsyl , , vania and West Virginia will be tn battle grounds" there the baility O . the operators to mine coal in the fac ? of the strike will be put to its severes , tests.
 No anthracite mine will be reopen ed inasmuch as every anthracite min , is unionized and every anthracit miner is on strike.