Show t M 44 4 t 4 4 r i. i THE ANTHRACITE I STRIKE I I I I H 4 4 4 4 4 44 t 4 t The country will be pained to learn that the threatened g general strike of coal miners in iu the anthracite an an- region ion of Pennsylvania has been ordered for Monday next This i is serious news indeed It is possible that at a meeting of the various district delegates to be beheld held at Hazleton Hasleton next Wednesday i it may be determined not to make the strike one to toa a finish but in the time present temper of the men there is too much reason for anticipating a repetition on of the struggle of the autumn of l 1900 1000 OO Eastern seaboard cities like New York Boston and Philadelphia are are entirely dependent upon the output of the anthracite region for fuel used for all and domestic manufacturing manufacturing- other purposes poses small one onek ones alone excepted In the p places named every elevator all ele electrical necessities and conveniences and all industries large or small are re at the mercy of people and as we ha seen seen on one occasion at least leat between the operators and ad the miners they are c liable to heavy taxation and oven famine in quite conceivable circumstances It does not tal take long for or the ceaseless ss productive and other activities es of the grea population centres to exhaust even evena a large reserve of coal and we do not believe that the tile stock in n hand hand at present would be sufficient to last many weel weeks s even eyen should prices be advanced d and trade restricted s 1 as is happened two years rears ago The Tile whole n nation tion would feel the tile effects protracted anthracite strike at this juncture They would soon be visible in advances in the I of Eastern manufactured goods of many p- p and in delay in the completion of orders for metal products of all sorts TIle The business equilibrium equilibrium equilibrium of the continent would be disturbed and there is cause for deploring such a possibility at the present present pres pres- ent eat time We Wre still shall indulge the hope that an accommodation may be reached before much damage damage dam darn age shall have been done |