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Show COST OF STRIKES. "Necessarily rough estimates of the losses which the strikes of the miner and railroad employees have already caused, directly, show appallingly ap-pallingly large figures, which are likely to be greatly exceeded when the ultimate reckoning is made," is the view taken by the Albany Journal. Journ-al. "The number of striking miners is estimated at 090,000, and that of voluntarily idle railroad workers at 550,000. On that basis there is an average daily loss of $7,500,000 in wages, making a total, thus far of $200,000,000 or more. "Loss of the mine operators is estimated es-timated at something like $250,000-000, $250,000-000, on the basis of $1 a ton for the bituminous coal that would have beon mined in the time of the strike. Estimate of the loss of the anthra-cito anthra-cito mine operators is omitted, presumably pre-sumably because it is considered that intensive operation will to a degree de-gree make up for the present stoppage stop-page of earnings.- "And it is estimtaed that the railroad rail-road have already lost about $1,000,-000 $1,000,-000 through diminished operation facilities and conditions that required requir-ed extraordinary expenditures. "Thoso estimates make a total loss of more than half a billion dollars, of which nearly half is suffered by the workers. "Most of the loss can never be made up. And then there are the innumerable indirect losses from compulsory reduction of activity in industries which require abundance of coal for continuous operation, and from the decreased purchasing capacity ca-pacity of the million and a quarter workers who are without their regular reg-ular wages. "It is obvious that there isn't anything any-thing that can possibly be gained by the strikes, which can compensate the strikers for the losses which they are sustaining, whose enormous total is steadily growing while these workers remain idle." |