Show I A VAST LABOR STRIKE I STIK One of the moat Important and obstinate nate strikes ever known in EurODe Is that of the Austrian coal miners which has now lasted over two months over 70000 men being Idle Nearly all the coal mines In Austria and Bohemia are closed and serious difficulty has resulted re-sulted many factories being closed down for want of fuel while the railroads rail-roads have difficulty In keeping up their train service The questions at Issue include the rate of wages the hours nf labor and some other points such as tho store system and lodging of the men and their families The Government Govern-ment has Intervened and attempted to settle the controversy but without success suc-cess and the best that It has been able to do Is to promise to submit a law to I I the Rclchsrath which Is now In session providing for the protection of the ml ners I IB admitted that the men have I substantial grievances that their stantnl condition con-dition has been very bad and that they have been treated unjustly and oppressively I oppres-sively by many mineowners At first the coal miners In Hungary I took no part In the movement but recently re-cently the men In the Imporant mines of the Hungarian state railroads struck also and their example is likely to be followed by others Moreover the latest news is that some 6000 miners in the I district of Zwickau in Saxony have refused I re-fused to work because coal from the mines was shipped to Austria Should this movement extend In Germany It will produce some serious embarrassment embarrass-ment I The only supplies of which Austrian I consumers can readily avail themselves I I are from Germany But Germany has I no coal to spare and there are many complaints of the scarcity and high price of fuel Moreover Germany I usually takes 0 large part of the brown I coal mined In Bohemia and this supply I Is now cut oft causing n furtner call I upon tho German mines At present I tho Austrian miners seem to have a strong position and It looks as if the mineowners must make some corlces uIonsEngjnccrthg mini and Mining Jour |