Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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The strike of the bituminous coal miners, like all great strikes that interrupt the employment of large numbers of men and suspend the regular operations of a business that affects the supply of an article of common consumption, is a public misfortune. t matters not which side to the contest emerges victorious in the end, the gen* eral less oan not be avoided and must be great Bituminous coal mining is one of the protected industries. The proposition to put soft coal on the free list has aroused one of the severest storms of opposition to Wilson bill as it left the House. It would, we k ave been told, crip pie a great Southern industry, and, above all, it would make it impos sible to pay the men emp.oyed in the soft coal mines those superb ‘American wages,” so enormously higher than the wages paid to the “pauper labor” of C nada, which, under the McKinley millennium, they have been enjoying. And yet, with the soft coal miners still iu the paradise of protection, with a duty of 75 cents a torr against foreign competition, they are act ually so unconscious of their happy estate ns to go on strike. What for?

Preside j t Mcßride, cf the United Mine Workers, answers this questioinby saying: “Low wages, starvation wages” He asserts that the cutting of began last summer, six months at least before the Wilson bill was even drafted, so that it is quite idle to say that it was due to the proposed Democratic tariff legis ation. The “conservative” sena tors who have, since the Wilson bill left the House, restored coal to the dutiable list a* id given it a protective duty equal to the whole amount paid lor wageg to the soft coal npqeps—4o cents a ton—have, in the meantime, given the coal i. onopoly ample assurance that their garroter’s grip on 65,000,000 of American consumers is pot tc be relaxed. Yet eppeprs that for » JW peel, with McKinley’s matchless tariff in full force and no near prospect of its being de stroyed, so far as coal is concerned, the wages of the men working iu the mines have b.en all the time going down, down, dc>wu- ‘‘We strike now supply to Feslop the wage spaje of ope year ago,” says Mr. Mcßride.

To an interviewer who asked him if he did not anticipate that Ch nadian soft coal would be poured into this country to supply the xuarket left unprovi .ed by reason of the strike, the head of the Um ted Miners replied that, as thown by Sjrg’s Standard Coal Trade Statistics, “all the Canadian coal mines combined did not produce as much coal as the mines of Perry county, Qhio.” He went further and ridjcpl id the who e outcry of the protected coal combine agains free copl, which is in reality made by a league of coal barons and railroad kings to deadibeat both the seaborn ds, the Atlantic and Pacific, by compelling them to pay, not high wages to miners, but blackmail transportation rates to railroad pools. “It is nothing but nonsense,” says President Me Bride, referring to this selfish clamor of monopoly, hypocritical lv pretending to plead for laoor and its wages, which it is cutting down all the time to the lowest possible point. ‘ If,” he asks, "we fprnish now more than half the coal Canada uses and pay the 60 C’n's tariff, need we be afraid to let in Canadian coal free?”—Bal timore Sun,