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Show Not at All New. The allegation that the coal miners average only $30 a month wages has, it seems, been disputed. The difference of opinion is occasioned by the fact that it is assumed, on one side, that the miners work all the year around for $1.50 or $2 per day, but as a matter of fact, they work only about two-thirds of the year. The. following is a summary sum-mary of the operators' own figures, as published in the census of 1890: Above ground 564 foremen and overseers, over-seers, 291 days, at $2.71 $788.61 : 4,720 mechanics, 257 days, at $1.91 $490 87; 23,779 laborers, 198 days, $1.29 $255.42; 17,191 boys, 185 days at 62 cents $114.70 Underground 737 foremen and overseers, over-seers, 291 days at' $3.05 $S87.55 per annum; an-num; 36,639 miners, 179 days at $2.39 $4kSl; 35,376 laborers, 184 days at $L64 $301.76; 4,770 boys, 180 days at 88 cents $158.40. Total employes about mines, 123,676. Average earnings of all employed, em-ployed, $314.21. It is very clear that men who have to support a family on an- income of $300 or $350 per year cannot pay much pew rent. Catholic , Citizen. . . i |