THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1011.
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HI III IN II 1NW
Miners and Operatives at
Loggerheads For Four
teen Months
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THE Btrluo of thu Westmoreland
county (Pa.) coal miners, whii li
remains unbroken nfter four
teen months, lias lasted longer
than any other strike In the history
of labor unionism In this country.
Over 10,000 miners, living on an al
lowance of $2.50 a week collected
through flfty cent assessments from
every union miner In this country anil
forwarded from the headquarters of
the United Mine Workers of America
in Indianapolis, have been eking out
an existence amid the greatest vicissi
tudes within a stone's throw of twenty-eight
of the richest coal mines in
tills country without having swung a
pickax or lifted a shovel for over a
year.
As for (he owners of rue twenty
eight mines, they publicly made th.
(statement not long siyo:
"We pay the state of Pennsylvania
$100,000 a year in taxes, yet we
haven't mined a ton of coal for over n
year."
The mine owners In explaining the.r
refusal to arbitrate the strike or to
consent to the strikers' terms say thai
they are "merely trying to manage our
own business In our own way without
Interference from the labor union."
The Miners' Side.
The striking miners, on the other
hand, say that for many years evciy
wagon of coal they havo filled has
been unfairly measured by the coin
pany ofliclals and that they have had
to work twelve hours a day instead of
the desired eight hours. They say they
havo been obliged to patronize th:
companies' high priced stores and thai
they havo been discharged by uiin
foremen because they refused to vot
a certain political ticket.
They say they were forced to b3ai
the cost of the new explosives and oi
the safety lamps which the companies
have prescribed In the mines during
the last two years. They say that they
held a grievance meeting in Green
burg fourteen months ago to protest
against these costly prescriptions mill
that a score of the men who had p ir
tlcipated in this meeting were dis
charged by the coal companies. Tli y
say that they felt that the only vn'
to protect themselves from contlnu d
oppression from the companies vas t
insist on the companies recognlzin
their newly organized union.
The companies, on their side, relor
that the miners' objections to the new
explosive and safety lamps are mere
pretenses and that the minors were
all perfectly contented until delegate
of the United Mine AVorkers of Auier
iea came from the Indianapolis head
quarters and began to talk unionism
tn the region.
SInco the 15,000 miners formally
struck In March, 1010, and marched
from one mine to another in the dis
trict calling to their fellows to strike,
too, there havo been bloodshed and
misery a-plenty throughout the Greens
burg district.
120 Babies Die.
Scores of strikers, deputy sheriffs
and strike breakers have been beaten,
stoned and shot. Out of the 349 ba
bies that have been born in the tem
porary homes of the miners since the
strike began 120 have died. The min
ers themselves, having been dispos
sessed from the drab colored rows of
wooden houses rented to them by the
coal companies near the mines before
the beginning of the strike, have built
a colony of wooden shacks.
These shacks, according to persons
who recently visited them, nre .not
even weather proof. They are built
from whatever loose lumber the min
ers were able to pick up through (he
district. Throughout the bitterest
days of the past winter they were
SACCHARIN BARRED.
Government Forbids Its Use Said ta
Disturb Digestion.
All persons having a desire for
something sweet must find otter
means of satisfying the craving than
saccharin. That populnr substitute
for sugar will be forbidden after .Inly
1. Tho flat of the agricultural de
partment prohibiting the use of sac
charin in any food product has gone
forth.
Saccharin tecnically is a product of
coal tar. It Is used as n substitute
for sugar nnd Is 300 per cent sweeter
than sugar. Tho objection to saccha
rin is that Jt Is n disturber of diges
tion. The decision Is of the most, sweep
ing nature. It directly affects more
than thirty different classes of food,
including soft drinks, sweet pickles,
Jellies, Jams and also some makes of
beer.
The referee board of consulting sci
entific experts in Its report says:
"Tho continued use of saccharin for
a long time In quantities over three
tenths of a grain per day is liable to
Impair digestion. Tho addition of
saccharin as a substitute for cane
sugar or other forms of sugar reduces
tho food value of tho sweetened prod
uct and hence lowers its quality."
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Ten Thousand Men Are
Living on an Allowance
of $2.50 a Week
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heated with pans of such coal as tli
miners could pick up near the mil;
entrances and along the roads.
Following this winter of shack life
there arc many tales of suffering, of
children horn In open fields, of fami
lies that lived tireless through fierce
storms of snow. According to tin
mine owners, the strike would never
havo begun hut for the mine workers'
national organization, and both side
agree that but for the contribution-
of the national organization the stril;.'
would have been broken long ago.
$20,000 Distributed Weekly.
Every week since the strike started
52O.0CO has boon sent to Greensbti!"
from the mine workers' national head
qunrters at Indianapolis, the money
being deposited In the shape of n
check in a Grcensburg bank.
It is drawn out in specie and green
backs by a man named McCartne
who represents the national organb'
tion in the striking district. It is car
ried by him to the second floor of r
deserted private residence in n Greens
burg side street, which Is occupied ti
the strikers as a local headquartei
and which has paper Instead of pane
of glass In Its windows. Once a week
across a kitchen table while n Hue oi
almost 1,000 men, women and children
file by him ho pushes a bill or n hand
ful of silver across to each In turn
$2.50 to each man, 75 cents to each
woman and 50 cents to each child in
every striking miner's family. Every
mine worker in this country, it Is
said, is being taxed 50 cents a week to
make up this weekly ?20,000 contribu
tion to the Grcensburg strikers.
According to a recent visitor to the
strike gripped region, about ten per
sons have been killed and nearly 100
wounded In the course of the four
teen months' strike.
The striking miners say that all the.i
want is to arbitrate with the mine
owners. They sot much store on the
fact that Governor Tenor of Pennsyl
vania stated publicly recently that he
was greatly in favor of a congression
al or legislative investigation of the
disagreement of the miners and em
ployers. A bill making possible n con
gressional Investigation has already
passed the house of representatives
and is before the senate.
Arbitration Desired.
What the strikers would particularly
like, according to their representatives,
is the creation of an arbitration com
mission of three. One member of this
commission would be chosen by the
strikers, thb other by the mine owner
and the third either by the first two
commissioners or, if those could not
agree, by Governor Tenor himself.
A few weeks ago in a pouring rain
the striking miners of Grcensburg had
a big procession celebrating the strike's
fourteenth month of unbroken contlnu
ance. Fifteen hundred men, 100 wo
men and 150 children marched In the
ranks. Two wealthy and philanthrop
ic women and two clergymen of wide
ly different creeds led the procession
and afterward joined In making
speeches to the strikers In the town'
cramped and crowded public hall.
One of the women was Mrs. Glen
dower Evans of the Woman's Trade
league of Boston. She is the wife of a
stockholder in one of the mines In
which the strike is going on. The
other woman was the wife of a polit
ical officeholder in Pittsburg.
One of the two clergymen was the
Rev. D. L. Schultz, who last August
resigned his position as pastor of the
Loraine Street Baptist church of ritts-
burg in order to work among the
strikers. The second clergyman who
headed tho strikers was Rabbi R. I
Coffee of tho Tree of Life synagogue
of Pittsburg.
WHALE NETTED FORTUNE.
It Yielded Oil and Something Else.
AmbergriR Worth $60,000.
In a vault at the headquarters of a
wholesale drug firm In Boston nre about
100 pounds of ambergris. It is valued
at $00,000, according to experts.
Trade quotations give the present
market value of nmbergris at from S10
to 15 an ounce. Tho 100 pound pack
ago is by far the largest amount of am
bergrls received in Boston or New Ene
land In many years and is said to b
of uncommonly high quality. It was
picked up by the crews of the bark
Bertha, Captain Ben Vera, and the
brig Viola, Captain John A. Cook, who
found it while whaling off tho coast
of Africa in December.
The crews of tho Bertha and Vloln
were pursuing sperm whales when
tho lookouts sighted several spouting
In tho sunlight. One fellow about thlr
ty feet long lagged behind tho others.
IIo was sluggish, and It happened that
the harpoons which simultaneously
pierced his sides came from small
boats from both ships. That's why
tho crews aro dividing the spoils.
The laggard yielded only fifteen bar
rels of oil, but the grumbling of the
whalers was dispelled by the huge
black lump of ambergris taken from
him.
CASE LIE TH!
SIAMESE TWINS
Mystery of Indian Boy's Dis
appearance Explained.
HAD BEEN MISSING TEN YEARS
Body Found In a Cave In Oklahoma
Has Two Heads, Four Arms and Four
Feet Boy Came Across It While
Hunting Rabbits.
The mummified body of a child was
recently found In a cave near Okmul
gee, Okla.. by Emmons Lowe, a farm
er boy. The body has two heads, four
arms, four legs and four feet and is
that of a person nearly five feet tall.
The arms are all of the same length
and reach far below the knees.
Tho Lowo boy found the mummy
while hunting rabbits. He followed
his dog on the trail of a rabbit Into the
cave and while groping around came
upon tho body. The flesh on the bones
has dried, and apparently there lias
been no decay.
Old residents In the vicinity of the
cave say the body is that of an Indian
boy who has been missing several
years, it was known to theru that
there was such a boy among the In
dians, lie was kept out of sight as
much as possible by the other mem
bers of the tribe to which ho belonged,
but had been seen by a number of
white persons.
John Pepper of Okmulgee said ho
had seen the two headed Indian boy a
number of times. The monstrosity
was in reality two persons witli one
body, ho said. Tho mummy Is that of
two persons, apparently, even the
shoulders of each being separate anil
perfect, the body very wide nnd the
lower limbs fully developed. The
bodies appear to be Jollied together be
low tho shoulders and from there down
to the hips. Physicians havo examin
ed the body and say there were really
two persons or two bodies and that
they were grown together and could
not have been separated oven by n sur
gical operation.
Pepper remembers that tho Indian
boy or boys walked and talked when
alive. The Indians were reticent about
them, or him. nnd llttlo was known of
him outside of the tribe to which he
belonged. It Is supposed that the
"twins," as they were called by the
white people who had seen them, wan
dered away and died In tho cave. Pep
per says they have been missing near
ly ten years, or at least It has been
that long since he saw them alive.
Go!
When you're feeling sort of tired
And you don't know what to do,
Kind of feel you need tho doctor,
Find yourself becoming blue,
Get to think you must bo ailing.
Can't enjoy your special dish.
Drop your work and take to loaflns
Go away somewhere and fish!
New York TelesrMfl
V. B. HOLMES, President.
A. T. SEARLE. Vice Pres.
We want you to understand the reasons
of this
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HAS A CAPITAL OP - - - $100,000.00
AND SURPLUS AND PROFITS OF - 427,342.00
MAKING-ALTOGETHER - - 527,342.00
EVERY DOLLAR ot which must be lost
It has conducted a growing and successful
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DECEMBER 1, 1910
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EVE A SUFFRAGETTE.
Dominated Adam and Caused Him to
Eat the Apple, Says Professor.
The original suffragette, according to
Dr. Paul Haupt, professor of Semitic
languages in Johns Hopkins univer
sity, was Eve, who dominated Adam
and caused him to eat of the forbidden
fruit.
"Some people think that when the
Lord created Eve ho took not only a
rib from Adam, but also the back
bone," says Dr. Haupt.
Dr. Haupt apparently subscribes to
this view, nis theory Is set forth In
a paper which ho read before the
American Philosophical society In
Philadelphia. For his authority Dr.
Haupt quotes the Bible. In Genesis
xvll, 7, he finds the quotation:
"And unto thee shall bo his desire,
and thou shalt rule over him." The
context seems to have no relation to
this quotation, and Dr. Hnupt inti
mates that it was interpolated prob
ably by n woman who knew her rights,
for in the preceding chapter Dr. Haupt
finds that tho Lord pronounced a curse
on Eve, saying:
"I will greatly multiply thy sorrow
and thy sighing. In pain thou shalt
bear children. Nevertheless thy desire
shall bo to thy husband, and he shall
rule over thee." i
Dr. Haupt says: "I have discovered
that the story of the fall of man and
tho story of Cain nnd Abel were writ
ten in parallel columns. In the space
between commentaries wore made.
Some woman or some man under the
Influence of woman wrote this suf
fragette gloss in tho space between the
columns. Later it crept into the col
umn containing the story of Cain and
Abel, and there it is found todav."
Korea's Population.
Figures recently published by the
Japanese ministry of finance give the
population of Korea as 12,303,400 na
tives. 143,040 Japanese nnd 11,701 for
eigners. There Is plenty of room for
very ninny more people, as the country
is COO miles long by 135 miles broad.
Its parallels are about tho same as
from Concord, N. n., to Wilmington,
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