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Show IN WINTER'S GRIP. The first real blizzard of the winter has been sweeping over eastern Colorado, Colo-rado, Kansas, Nebraska and some of the other western states for forty-eight hours. As a result the wires are down in all directions and the news of the day is coming to The Tribune over a circuitous route. It is feared there will be great suffering in the towns in the path of the storm on account of the strike of the coal miners. It is also feared the stockmen will suffer heavy losses on the western ranges. It is to be hoped that all such fears will prove groundless, as it is rather early In the season for blizzards and it may be that we will experience another hard winter. If so, it is necessary that the coal mines of the country be worked as never be-j be-j f ore. The United States cannot be j supplied with sufficient fuel if the miners work only five days a week and six hours a day and the strike for fewer days, shorter hours and 60 per cent more pay cannot be justified by any kind of special pleading by the' labor la-bor leaders. The first blasts of winter will bring home to the people of the country the startling fact that there is positive danger of freezing to death during the winter that is now upon us unless there is an increased production of coal. It ought to be sufficiently clear to these leaders by this time that jail patriotic citizens of the United States are behind the efforts of the department de-partment of justice to furnish the necessary neces-sary fuel by invoking the law. There should be no mistake about this matter. |