J '-"," i.'V r w' ,t J" W (1 ut . ,?' j t?wr ii rVMi (WTC' " ,:' 'Wf P I AX. BYlflillKG PUBLIC JDEtXEer-PfilLADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, fitoftMfflffi 1- 1&20 ko Disregard Award $ 'J .L.,.J JMTJ ; , ,,. rw-fi we i triers . . 4 "li Ai BwlUutd from rut One tet the whole 'anthracite region , agflmo. "Ymi propose to disrrgnnl President vWIIon'B ncceptnnco of the conl com- tfltaton's award and call on the miners ( the anthracite region to walk out?" ii.askeii the men in n body. f wc do," was the emphatic re use, uneii one miner iieiceatc ue- lamkt41 7 t rnitnim n yi M fr! . i 7 W bk ' Lh i 91 of tfaexo individual contractors. Two mop, Petro Enrico and Tony Contcraro, of Trenton, on the confession of a man named Hombolo, are in jail under In dictment in Wllkes-Barrc awaiting trial for this murder. Opportunity Denied to AtnerlcnnS "We arc fighting this s stem, which gives to these padrones oppoititnltici denied to Americans and other men who have worked for from live to forty years in the mines. We demnnd that the en tire system be wiped out. "Under the working conditions of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. and other cor reu iicntcmy, n rntner so to .i.. ... .., ini.,. i .. m - . - l iHriitiiuiio vi-mo iiiiuitoi i.w ii uj ison tor uvc years man lay down on :.i.. .,..' r- n i ... ,i i.u... 5 "Sol. . nen-coal filzc. It is in all thousands of i- i"!1 .'V, a"ru" lnn sc"ltons jearly Bold by the corporations. ectinir of the strikers. It was held , i, ,. ,. ,t v fnr ir m. n a lug ruom lu . iimiuii. .iiuum i ini ja hnrbuhnt Nn. 1 n.wl 'n 9 SrjtSrVj. . P ntrnmB,IIl "rA? 0l rlco and blrdseye sizes. It is mined iiuw jjroi uiniuti, O.UI-IU urc inrco i i,... Tint nnlH fnr. jir-T... i ;ci v.i...rv-. ;: ouc not raitl Ior' i, John T. Dempsey, president, with c c compelled to mine 'J, 00 Jheadnuarters In Scranton; No. 7. 'pounds of conl for each 2000 pounds dThomas Kennedy, president, hendquar- t,mt V1SPt ,ml1(1 f,or- a ,,,,s ,cx,rosS' tIl(' Iters at Hnzlcton, and No. 1). Chris operators say, is for the debris among iOolden. president, headquarters jannmoiun. utitlic conl. We ilciiiutitl n change In the ! existing s.teui unit will glc tin u -1 1 mi. n... -.l t.. ,.... .!-. '"R ""' ?.! I,l1n.l l nn l,rnM Tlirv worn1 H'" is tllC millers cnmplntnt. It Infill the nationalities usually found in i wns unondnouslj jiidow.ed by the men fa mining region American, Welsh, I wl ''po ' l'10, t'a,,(,1 lubtlcss fiPolcs, SIs and Italians. 5!fjf,.bcB ',MJW.c.,el. in.r'"l .! ff .e: X It was a recular meeting and had not '.,..,,: ' u.. i .Liv i"H k, t . l,fl. .. , ..lf V"'"""".." '""""S ' " c": Jto Pittston was not known in advance. I Tho presiding officer ruled the meet Kng and was on the job every instant. IHe indignantly protested that the men Swere neither Bolsheviks nor of the I. JW. W. There wok sonio denunciation (Of John T. Dempsey, the I'nlted Mlno ,,,,.,, wM, ,0 tl(1 ,.onsulnpr "f from forKers preNi'ieui. un intoimFi., Ml.,,, In xi-l.IM) n Ion. In Nnrnntnn ment of weakness.. There is one statement, however, in the above that will challenge the at tention of every ultimate consumer of coal. It is the allegation of these miners that they protest against being compelled to mine coal for SI. 10 a ton '" ... . . ., . .i i i w' V1 '.ww i i iii. ill tana repeated declarations unu nicy uni I'ittston and c New here consumer l..ivi. not recosnlzc him as tlieir leader. Informed me thnt tlie )nv $11.7." u ton Fight Contract System .for ,,'11 ",!,1('1(1, i11'1" '"11ll, f their . . ., . ,, t -.-I r ii nomes. I-or this the man who performs Ah for the Pennsvun n On Co.. is thr , , , mwssmy to g't,t ,t' 0' shortcoming from the mlneis stand-nj!J , , m.clvi,s 0Illv 6" point were picturesquely set forth.! Thw men did not mince words. The.v i Miners' Pay Much Iteduccd atrnpif friim Ihn uhnulilrr nni snoue from the heart. One delegate spoke only ithroueb nn interpreter. He gave n re port thnt at his mlmi two men were working where usually seventy -live were emplojed. I am giving the figures as they were slu-u me by the miners. In Philadel- Shhi nearly $5 u ton is added to the ciautoVi price. I lind the opportunity to examine scvenil of the due bills nf these mlneis tlie printed slips showing rim . . 1 ......,... . I'H l j.o nil', fim u siruunfi uim 11 i i-n iuijii . .i... .. , ., , , ., respondent, the clmirmanappointe.l - - &' for" one o FZZ We of th" deleentes. former vice pre I Jdent of the district union, to -tiite their Icnse. Concretelj, this is the 8ripulIlc Jof 8000 men who are going today to try to throw the anthracite coal teuton into tlie t iroes of a general 'titKi' individual contractors received for ten ilajN worK ?7((.HS. ()f this amount lie turned back ?U."5 as the contractor's share or lev. Ills pupplics, fumivlied by tlie contractor, amounted to S l.tl ). into me inrnes ot a general mi ikc , ,,; t tllniillRS for , t (, t lSf-tefe. "1.;. "' ' ;:.' K'i :f "mounted to WS..18, 'discriiuluatioti and the indMdunl con twMn ul-ufun. A i!.n. t! ..... It. ll liwl (n lll.b njoiciiii v iii.i.i ia .w.i.v ..v.. w mine ioal for tlie outside ni.iruets at The men claim thnt the Individual contractor purchases powder for S1.."0 ithe rate of from SI 07 to ?1 10 per, V o U,e In! o for H 0. ... k ng S""d-tte.c?",i,oH e,,i,?natS liroflt of sixty cents on every keg: And tlie minim: corporation not onl winks at this extortion, but, the men say. encourages it. I find that there is a subdued SconMimcr for from .fO.75 to $14.30 n ton. J "The Individual contractor and the system he represents fs the one thing 5o ni... rin nf ti.or., r, n tr;,r pessimism ninong the Utiltcil Mine Vund. "TTsually he is an Italian; a sort I Vorkors officials over the outcome of W tuKl'o ip. He cannot become n mem- 'he perplexing questions thnt have . . . ... I ...Li... nu t, Ki.uiilt .if .li.u ntillnii. u.h.1.. ill 1'v.i !- .1 ivuii Jt ...in wiiiiu.. niunr in the first district. There is nn espe- Jber of .ny miners' orgiiulzatlou. II jemployfc from live to fifty or ceventy I men. He does not work himself, but 'isathcrs a 'rake off' from the pay check "of every man he employs I "He hires and fires men o will. He iis favored by the coal company because it. can use hira and through him the men vne employs. U 1- -..t iiiiii. .in... i ivniiui una ili'liailll & ithe company evory jcar nf thousands of r v 'dollars by padded payrolls. We have .affidavits of men and bos who were Wvcr near a min", hut who were paid !to answer to a name and get a pay en- jvelope at the paymaster's window!" I In this connection I am told thnt ISam JiUcchino, nn Itnlian detectlvt. formerly of the United States s,.Cret . ...., ........... i.v.i .. ,., nil), in uU yuil - men from Trenton in Pittnn nn .li.it 21. He had been engaged in obtaining-1 .affidavits of pm'.ded payrolls of some dally bitter feeling manifested against tho Department of Justice officials. After agreeing to stand by the coal commission's award and with the threat of the Lever act held over the heads of United Mine Workers in caso of a strike, the Department of Justice, they say, has permitted the Insurgent miners nround Pittston to conduct a strike for nearly eight weeks without once Inter fering to prevent It or tnke iegnl action under the Icver net against Its pro moters. As for tho strikers -of the Pennsylvania Conl Co., the.v apparently nave uo rear of arrest under tnc icu eral law. They propose, as I have stated above, to' dory the President and the Department of Justice by endeavor ing to call a general strike. One thing appears certain as n re sult of interviews and talks with in surgent miners nnd United Mine Work ers: if the "outlaw" or insurgent miners now on strike can succeed in calling out any considerable number of miners In the region, there is a good prospect of a gencrnl strike. Otherwise their (Torts will fall. The reason for this is thnt every conl miner drends being regarded as a "scab," so called: a man who refuses to go out on strike with his fellows. It has always been the most powerful weapon In the hands of agitators. Tlie plans of the United Mine Work crs' officials Is, first, to try to obtain n reopening of the case, or a review of the award, and, second, in tlie mean time, to hold their men in lino by point ing to the fact thnt tlie union has been pledged to stand by the award of the coal commission, no matter what it might be. Even Ncnl Perry, the miners' rep resentative on the Anthracite Coal Commission, who submitted n minority rcpoit recommending n 127 per cent nd vnnce in wnges. lias pledged President Wilson in his report that the Pnlted Mine Workers will stand by. the award no matter how distasteful it may be to them. The operators arc sitting tight nnd saying nothing. The.v have passed the matter up to the rrcstueni ami ne uns accepted tho award of tho majority of the commission, xney now expi-n unu to back up his decision. This, they take It, means Invoking the pcnnltlcs pre scribed in the Lever law. Captain William A. May, president of the Pennsylvania Conl Co., had de hied himself to all newspaper nien. Word, however, came from bis office tndn that there was nothing to be said on the ttrlke of his compn s men oi the prospe t of p gencrnl walkout in the region. Says Wilson's Letter Settles It "Theie is nothing to It," was the word fiom his secretary this afternoon. "Iteud President Wilson's letter. That sittles it." W. Jctt Lauek was the consulting economist for the United Mine Workers when they presented their demand for nn ilicrenie to the coal commi'-sion. H was prepared to prove that the anthra cite coal operators were making huge profits in their business. Thn eomtnts sion, however, declined to consider hit! evidence. Mr. T.nueU's figures on labor contracts were thosct given me, by the Pittston miners. He estimates the labor cost ot producing a ton of anthracite coal at $2.71 for weighed average of all sizes of coal as against tho claim of the miners of $1.10. The most significant feature of a statement which he hns Is sued is contained in the following: "The iirlce of anthracite conl to the consumer should be reduced as a result of the award of tho anthracite coal com. mission. Lot there be no mistake, no misrepresentation about that. AVhcn the caso was submitted to arbitration with an agreement that the award should dote from April 1, 1020, the an thracite operators advapced the price of coal at the mine $1 per ton, effective April 1, to protect themselves against any wage increase the commission should make. "The wage increase provided by tho majority report of the commission In creases the labor cost of producing n ton of conl barely fifty cent. This means thnt tho 1 advance made by the opera tors on April 1 has netted them fifty cents n ton over and above the amount which they ore now required to tiny the mine workers In back pay." In other words, the operators have benefited by tho award to a far greater extent than the miners, nnd the con sumer, the general public. Is the gout. And yet there is talk of a still further advance in the price of anthracite coat in Philadelphia STRIKE ORDER NOT ISSUED, BUT MEN QUIT WIlKPs-Barre. Pa.. Sept. 1. Early reports show that nt least .15,000 mine workers In the anthracite field failed to repoit for work today and this In face of the fact that the Insurgent element has not as yet called for a walkout. Ten thousand men arc out in an un authorized strike In the Pittston dis trict. No. 7 colliery of the Lehigh nnd Wllkcs-Parre was unable to work. A large percentage of the Red Ash Conl Co. employes failed to report. Fifty -three per cent of tho men employed by the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. In tho Wyoming district are not nt their Inbor. Seven collieries ot the Susquehanna Coal Co., most of them in District No. 0, are in idleness. MEN QUIT HOURLY; COLLIERIES CLOSING PottMllle. Pa., Sept. 1. Miners nt the collieries still nt work are quitting hourly, declaring they did not know the slnkt was to be effective today This fact ghc.s strength to the statement of the insurgents that this region will be completely tied up tomorrow. I Officials of the Philadelphia ' and Reading Coal nnd Iron Co. do not admit the completeness of the strike, hut say many of their collieries are working short handed. At these opera tions bosses nrc taking a hand as work men, but nrc much hnndlcnpped by the constnnt nccesslons of the strike ranks. None of thn itrlkorH will get any dues or benefits fiom the millions of dollnr-i tied up In the'trensury of the United Mine Worl o-s, which does not officially rccoxnte the trl!c, but nonrly cverv miner has n substantial bank balance, and this puts the strike on n different footing from previous wage struggles In this vicinity. PRESIDENTS REPLY TO MINERS. FINAL Bu a Staff Corretpondent WiuliinKtnii, Hept. 1. White House officials declined to comment today on strike developments in the anthracite region. At the office of Samuel (lomperH, pres ident of the American Federation of Labor, it was said he would "probably have notlilm," to .ay" on the strike for several days. Itotli government officials and labor chiefs are watching the situation close ly, however and it was intimated that arrests might be expected if agents ot the Department of Justice find evidence of conspiracy to shut down the mines. President Wilson is not expected to take any immediate action or communi cate further with the miners or the j : wngo commission whose award they re jected. It was indicated today thnt he had said his last vord in answer to tho miners, and that It they refuse to accept the commission's report the government would have no alternative but to con sider the strike nn ".outlaw" affair nnd treat it accordingly. Thts is also the attitude of officials ot tho American Federation of Labor, who mnintnln thnt the men nrc obligated by their agreement to abide by the com mission's award. SCALE COMMITTEE OF MINERS MEETS Hazleton, To,, Sept. 1. The scale committee of the miners, including Phil Murray, international vice president, today went into session hero behind closed doors to map out a policy in con nection with the acceptance of the award. The session probably will last all day, nnd is in preparation for to morrow's Joint meeting with the oper ators' scale committee nt Scranton, called by Secretary of Labor Wilson to write the terms of the award into a two car contract. Lnbor leaders said they were opposed to any suspension nnd nrc urging the men to continue work. Thomas Kennedy, president of Dis trict 7, expressed the opinion that the award would be adopted under protest, but that new demands probably would be made. Tho Wilkcs-Barro trldlstrlct convention, held some time nsro( he said, pledged itself to accent the award and tho organization coilld not afford to go back on its word. Mr. Kennedy said n source of dissat isfaction with the award was the up setting of the differentials existing ninong the several classes of mine work ers. He sold tho operators nnd miners joined in nn agreement with the com mission that whatever Increases were granted should be uniform and that the dlffercnco in pay among the various classes of workers should not bo dis turbed. Tho award of tho coal commis sion, Mr. Kennedy said, gave lie out side company men, largely made up of unskilled labor, an increase of 25 per cent, while skilled men were nwnrded advances of only 17 to 20 per cent. The mlncrH nsked a uniform Increase for nil classes of labor of about 27 per cent. A STRIKE'S EFFECT UNCERTAW Coal Men Unable toPredlct How Philadelphia Will Fare Charles Scull, secretary of tho Phila. delphla Coat Exchange, said this after, 'noon that it is Impossible to predict at present what effect the walkout of 85i 000 miners in the anthracite field will have on coal shipments to Philadelphia "That remains to bo seen," ho said when nsked if the failure of the miners to report for work would decrease the present supply of household coal in tbU city. At the same time, he took nn opt. mlstic view of tho situation, and denied reports thnt a coal famine threatens Philadelphia. He claimed that many householders have moro coal in their cellars now than ever before at this Um of the year. SWIMMERS After a strenuous trudgeon or crawl enjoy relief from muscular strain in BAUME ANALGSIQUE BENGUE ffsnf An-it-Jtj-mi Bin-toy) Thot. Ltcminc ft Co., N. Y. 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