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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-
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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
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?.! 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
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