Year: 1874

The BlOSsburg Miners ana The1r FrOpO.


sitions.


BLossBURG, Pa, Jan. Is, 1874.


The following is the address of the miners of the
bitumnous coal region OF Toga county to their
employers for q settlement OF the differences eX-
listing between them


THE PROPOSITIONS FOR PEACE.


The companies pa les are to Withdraw their refusal to
Tent ASSOCIATION to work in their coleres, and offer
further obstruction to the organization BY refusing
r threats OF discharge or other to bear to
S o Sny n as U II AnS hs S
as simply an act oi justice and an explicit
tionable, legally and morally and any interference
Seeo"dDrhe companies are agree that no man Shall
be discharged OF dsadvanag ed in his employment by
'Ss S!sa%za@5isn @ his sIlss p IN D''s ns
a"'raoOh behai o, tae organization a1 ana
hOd indyduay and
not force the inclinaIcn Of any the matter Of
o a be m suf the peoes as s be
treated IN all respects as to freedom IN the work & as
iSartnO6n behalf of .he workmen it is hereby de-
that fight OF employers TO control their property
charters is as unquestionable ours is TO form
G he a any % o a hsd
to be and punished as


Fhon the part OF both parties to this agreement all
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made or occurred being the object our organ





that upon the occurrence W at any
person aSETeved shall apply first the
sha S in charse Who @
mediaiey over hin him If he should SI fail 70 O Obtain re-
branch district to which he belongs, who shall, un
partial inquiry as to the Of the Complaint
Should i be found to be trivial qnfounded N right
draw his complaint leave the work quietly Tor
But should they find it well founded in right, and of
such nature ought to be redressed they shall bring it
duty shall be t9 give them fair hearing and that
% e @ sS 10 s in es e ss
ested in whom both sides can trust that justice
BY his s
they each eeet eo sns these %e
select third as umpire, which three shall be board
be conclusive and binding on both parties


Seren-This system or principle Of arptration shall be
applied all matters OF dispute disagreement that
woTsmen and the several companies or between the
body G W s% ans s
such lawful associations as they see M this being
to fa as m they 5 permit %
we gy hew the c9%ne Is that
US should it b be "doRtes the " win % no
SHIPS IS we nhaSt as the owners Of the lands conn
pTses within their r borders The equitable ADJUSTMENT
about win enironehise al! the citizens Of these mining
Ways and coection Of axes RSuIson
disposition made of the money by auds and
thereof required by the state laws the release
OF the inhabitants from the compulsion of the present
SsT oTaas ally To Gsa at but tie ms5 tres seG
the companies. and derives the workman and
his family OF their inaenable and legal right to
use their earnings for the promotion Of their
own good in accordance with their Judgment A
release from arbitrary exactons that deprive them of
the advantages they have right 90 reap from free deal
with farmers, licensed peders other lawful deal
whe inclined TO seek their trade short, put
them under the protection In every respect of the
stituton and the State and nation they inhabt
and forever the disgracefu anomaly
ence in republican America OF little isolated Ouch
les" singular in their characteristics the
luieiy governed and rrcsponslby as were the
paltry and despoc little soveregnties OF a years ago
in Germany and Italy.


We are also fully aware that claim 10 and demand
for these reforms mas and will again be with the
rtion that the land live and the of
EMPLOYERS every house and pig-pen, every stick and
that leads through them, belong them, and that
simply tenants at will, TO be removed at pleas
ure, and that our only right in the premises
If not like the live under to leave our
jurisdiction. To this answer invited
10 these places for the employment sought In the
far of countries many OF us came from had heard Of
the lust and benecent institutions Of free America and
impellcd by this double and enticing invitation,
sought our homes here. And here have lived many
OF for long terms OF years; here have reared
iations-all those relations an surroundings whose
value cannot be measured In dollars but which to
the worker, whose


WEALTH AND CAPITAL ARE IN his srsFws
quite valuable, quite indispensable ne llectua
and moral webeng as their similar relations are
those who these lands and who enjoy their profits
we grown into our homea with AL their morally b,dis