| Show t MITCHELL STATES CAUSE OF STRIKERS AND DISPUTES WITH WIT II OPERATORS I PHILADELPHIA Sept 29 President President Mitchell oC or tho the United Workers Mine last nl night ht gave cave ave out a lengthy statement in which h he Rn says s 's Mr Ir Bacr states that the tho wa wac c paid In tho the anthracite coal rl regions lons tire arc compared com corn pared with tho the wages In Jike employment fair talt and Just Mr 11 liner Bael must refer to I bituminous coal mining mining- I am ra prepared to demonstrate that WUI wages 9 In the bituminous ous ow coal 11 nrc are from to 4 I 0 per pel cent higher than those paid for Cor similar cla classes of or work In the anthracite ilekis rhe The fact Is that the thc minimum received recd b by an any doss closs of or adult mutt mint worker In Inthe inthe the thc Sort soft coal conI mines is 18 o KM tj c cents per hour while th the minimum wa waco o paid lail to tu I l lit is 12 UY cents per hour lit hour In tho the co COM mines n mr-n performing precisely ly the tho warm same labor received ed from 13 to S tJ c cents per hour while boys bos arc are paid a all as low as ascent 5 cent per hour and rarely exceed l S cents l' l per r hour Time The bituminous miner works vork a i maximum of oC eight hours p per pel r lay ilay La which Is two hours less U than thun mm men ir In the thc an- an field are required to o work moreaver moreover more more- over aver the anthracite worker labors labor under the further x 1 f heln being heinK more lIable to he be killed or Injured th the casualties casualties casualties casual casual- ties being M FO j I per r rent cent Kroner r In the anthracite an an- than In tho the bituminous mines to Mr 11 TIner's s assertion as US- Mr MiS Ir Mitchell refers I that thul for Cor or some seine mysterious m reason rea rca nS 1 ton son the miners restricted the thc output of the tho mines and declares t that hut that on the theother theother In Inthe Inthe inthe other othel hand there was an Increase the year car 1001 from Cram the mines ll operated by the Reading company of or n tons from all the anthracite anthracite an arm- and a a. total Increase I mines oC or tons Mr 11 of or the PC Pennsylvania Penn Penn- time the report n- n Mitchell gives Bureau of oC Mines to sub bub- State Stat til sylvania this statement Mr lr Mitchell says that In In- Inthe the twenty weeks of oC the strike the tile holn power of or orthe time the union hn holt baum been bern exerted lo to prO u iro iiA-iro ac among I H voluntarily Idle hilI P population PuiaI Puia- Puia I I PeaCe lion tion of or QU U of oC a It million and I that thal the they have O been boen more successful In allaying ln violence than th the coal and Iron l police o In Inciting Inciting- It Involved In this light ht are arc questiOns question weightier than HI any question of or dollars and cents The Thc present miner hn has haM luau hall his lesson lesson- He lie has hix been lIcen oppressed rl and nd round ground down lown hUt but there Is another gen gen- c coming coming- UI up a of oC little children prematurely doomed d to lo the time whirl of lit the tho mill an and noise and blackness of ot I tIle the breaker It la Is for COl these c little children I NC we art aiu I e t lightIng 0 have l not underestimated underestimated under under- estimated the of or our opponents we Ye have ha not over estimated our own pow pow- n- n r of or r resistance Accustomed always us to lIve 1 upon little a II less leas Is no tel ter hardship It was with It u of or hearts that we e asked for Cor out our last pay envelope lope but In the grimy and bruIsed hand of the time miner was US the tho little white hand band of or a child a t child like the children n of ot tho the rich and In the thc heart of oC tho the miner was the time determination to starve tane to the tho last crust of or bread brend anti nul il lI light ht out the tho long dreary drear battle to win a life for the child an and secure for Cor It a place Illace In the thc world in keeping with tIme the advancing ad civilization |
