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Bee (Earlington, Ky.): June 7, 1897
Bee (Earlington, Ky.): June 7, 1897 Bee (Earlington, Ky.) 300dpi TIFF G4 page images Bee Publishing Co. Earlington, KY 1897 bee1897060701_sn87060004 These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Bee (Earlington, Ky.): June 7, 1897 Bee (Earlington, Ky.) Bee Publishing Co. Earlington, KY 1897 $IMLS This electronic text file was created by Optical Character Recognitio n (OCR). No corrections have been made to the OCR-ed text and no editing has be en done to the content of the original document. Encoding has been done through an automated process using the recommendations for Level 1 of the TEI in Librar ies Guidelines. Digital page images are linked to the text file. , k'VTr. MA .)V - A" i Whr &r. V At t, r (w.V m .V i 'v. a . ' ,rf Vntl Antt rtnlNft TnTllK W .j :. .V . - ? I &' (3iH"at Tennessee Centennial, g ' Sf..- - 4f .. I , ' $$& c ., .V i ; ',9;'ur'lf JT S - ".' 77?" ..':'-'-- ... ' ''''tWtj ' "lir . ...j m y mii j; i 1EK lllod nolo ' Sin .Win I'l- I'll' IMIIM II """M"P-MMMW,'"l","l",,iM,"MM'"""",'1aW"W""- l Cr 1" EARLINGTON, HOPKINS COUNTY, KENTUCKY, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1897. uno yiirci ffl IV- - N , HhoVV to reduce the price. He said: 'We all are aware how it began. It began at Providence, Then others followed so that our Secretary is not able to pay 2j and 3 cents Until these prices are generally paid to visit the mines where the reduc- and coal advanced on the market." tion was in effect and get delega , W. F. Ward, of Crabtree, said: tions to the Saturday meeting, and! ,"I was one among the first to start Carbondale a committee to solicit subscrip- 'the ball to rolling. tions for the relief of those miners cut from yz to 2 cents one month who were without the means of ago. We fellows came together making a living. James McManus by moonshine and agreed to visit reported that he and B. Dunning, Carbondale and ask a restoration. committee, had visited Providence '1 have always stood for good and Monarch and asked for dele- ;wages but always ready to do with We "now have Carbongations of miners. J. B. Hawkins reason. dale in line and thev are oavintr reported that he and Wm. Morris, cents. We persuaded and committee, had raised $57 dollars '2 begged rhem to stand for the adamong Earlington miners and friends, and added: ''The miners vance and we arc feeding men who are needy can get grub through who lost work over it. Doh'tgo the St. Bernard store. We back to Providence but stop it we have where it island don't let it get furhaven't got money but got credit and we can give them ther. If every mine in America rp should reduce no more coal could BRASS BANDS AND MANY SPEAKERS. grubr" The Monarch representatives re- Lbe mined, and neither the operaported that they had held a meeting tor nor the miner is benefitted by a Let us use only honor on Priday night and that the men redaction. agreed that they wanted to do what, able means as honest men. I was they could to get the 62 j cent raised in Eastern Kentucky where rate, but that they were opposed they didn't know what. Jaw was. to.-strike. They said furthermore Th.ey don't know yet. And I had that a strike on their part was un to get out of thai country in order Come necessary, since they had th eto remain a good citiz-.nromise of their emnlovers thatlout like men and demand ixA FAVORABLE THE. CONDITIONS FOR RESTORATION. they would restore the old rate cents. We can win. The leading without hesitation as soon as' the operators are opposed to the re other operators who had reduced duction. Carbondale has restored would also agree to and restore the. but the others have not. Tet us old rate. James McManus reported cure' the cases near us then .go 10 from Hecla that Col. Foard, he the chronic care Providence"." knew, would be one of the firsW C. E. Jones and J. M. Victory men in the State to want to restore were the only men not miners who as- ;.. wage's and that he had told his men. had anything to say. They took . " of- - those M tharhe would nay-62 cents atf operators who have maintained the soon as the other operators paid it, Barncsley's men seem divided old rate of mining, and essayed Earlington was full, of music their power, reasonably and sober- against themselves but all who some suggestions to the miners. and miner on Saturday. Both ly, to remedy the conditions which spoke from that mine said they Numerous miners other than those wanted the old rate, and that it quoted spoke more or less to the are indigenous to the soil 'and (he brought them together. presence' of hundreds of miners J. J. McGregor was chosen chair- should be paid as quickly as a rest- point, and some attempted to bring effected at the other info the question other things beand the sound of the music of mili- man of ,thc meeting and Jesse oration-was side the vital consideration of the tary bands was anything but un- Phillips secretary. The Colored mines.Every miner who 'spoke laid the reduced rate to. miners, but these usual. But there was one great Band occupied the rear of the hall difference between this aggregation and played a selection, which was responsibility of the present situa were exceptions and the idea genthat the only of miners nnd music and the usual followed by "Yield Not to Tempt- tion at the door of the Providence erally prevailed Coal Company, where the first re- remedy lay in a restoration of the throngs of people that crowd our ation," by rendered the St. halls, streets and parks on gala Charles Band, in which they sang duction was made 10 the miners.say-in- g old rate- where reduction had been that the other reductions which made. Some feeling tributes were occasions. ThiS was no gala oc- a part with very good effect. After have followed on this road have paid to those operator who have casion. With scarce an excep- reading and adoption of the mintion these men, came in the spirit utes of the Wednesday nicht had justification in the fact that maintained and are paying the ' of soberness and moderation. meeting the meeting was thrown Providence was mining and selling the standard rate. Numerous motions were made They came in peace and wjthjopen for the discussion by the coal at less rates than other operators and demoralizing the market before the body could decide what bands of music uut they came miners ot the situation and its The as wtjl as the miners' wages. Upon would be mjst expedient. with" profound sympathy for their reasonable and proper remedy. is pretty generally under- this point the miners were a unit motion that finally prevailed was As fellow men and to discuss and counsel together to devise means stood by the public already, the as they were upon the point that offered by John Baker, of, Barneslor the relief of the distress of miners' grievance consists in the! unless the rates are restored at ley, and amended by W F. Ward, The reduction at several mines of the those mines where reductions have 61 Crabtree, Which as amended is some nmong their number. feeling of self protection was no old standard rate to pick miners, been made there must come sooner as follows: "That this body id 2 cents for digging 80 small factor either. It is a question upon which is based all mine or later a general t eduction throughpounds of screened Jump coal in of wages, and the miners in this wages and the selling price of coal out the district, Richard Palmer, of St. Charles, summer and 3 cents for digging 80 The standard district realize that unless.a restor- in the markets. ation of the old standard price to rate in effect for years in this dis- said: "Iu regard to the 62 cent pounds of screened lump coal in pick miners is effected in those trict and which is still being paid rate I think all should make a winter, uniformally throughout this 'places where the wags have cen the buk of Hopkins County min- stand for the advance to that rate. district. And that the miners from .reduced there must inevitably ers, is 62 cents per ton in sum- We of St. Charles have no kick ex- each place represented today w h ro rate has been. redu. e act as conic, at sonic time, and perhaps mer and 75 cents per ton in win- cept for our interest in our fellow-me- the we have no grievance, but if a cpmmittee to call their men tosoon, a general reduction through-.ou- t ter. ,This rate has been reduced at several mines in the district, this thing keeps on we will have gether and get, them to agree to the whole district. The St. Charles delegation came where only 50 cens or even 40 to come dowjn. If there was any- stand for the' advance, then to before dinner, in several cents is being paid, and with this thing to gain, if any more coal notify their Superintendents of wagons, some 50 or more men reduction and the usual light work-- could be shipped out of these val- their determination to work no headed by their ov. n brass band that necessarily prevails in summer leys under the reduction, it would longer at less than 2 cents, and Crabtree the miners cannot make a living. be some inducement, but not a to get if possible "a statement in composed of miners. came with some pr more men. Those operators against whom pound more will be mined and writing from the operators agreeing Barnesley, Hecla, Monarch and complaint in the Satur- shipped than if the old rate is paid." to advance the rate if all other wera each reprc-- ' day's meeting on this fccore were He advised a general stand for the operators who have reduced will Keiuecke mines cents per ton and thought advance, then report to this body, seated by mure or less numerous the Providence Coal Co., of Provi- 62 meeting will be there would be little difficulty jn when a gene-ra- l delegations ThejEarlington Col- dence, Ky., Mining ored Band composed of colored l& Manufacturing Co., of Barnesley, securing what the miners want un exiled to take action in regard to Providence,"' He also miners turned out in the afternoon Ky., Hecla Cord Co., of Earling- der such circumstances. A general committee was apand took part with the St. Charles ton,. Ky., and Monarch Coal Co, counselled moderation, and soher pointed consisting of W. F. Ward, band in filling the air with music of Madisonville, Ky., on this road, action as the only plan that could lames McManus, Frank Ivey, I. B. Hawkins, Thomas Spencer and. The St. Charles band occupied and Powderly and Central City and win. John Baker, of Barnesley, one I. CChambers, to whom reports the band stand and the colored possibly others on the Illinois should I e made. of the directors of the band played on the opposite corner Central and O. & N. Mr, J. J. 'McGregor, chairman of Main and Railroad. At. a few The Hecja miners quit work on Coal Company, and a pick miner, of the meeting, desires The Bee to minutes before 2o'clock.the bands Wednesday of last week and a sid that the Barnesley miners were return thanks for him to the miners tor 2. cents a bushel-tha- t for the very excellent good order 'Snarched. to, Maspiiic Hall which miners meeting was held in Earl- digging-coa- l they li2d received 2 and 3 and attention given throughout the yas quickly filled with miner?, ington on .Wednesday night at ce(nts until the market was cut so meeting. anxious and willing to do all in which a committee was appointed that the company were compelled1 As is well known The Bee has - A CONCERTED MOVEMENT Of All Hopkins County Miners for t Restoration of Old Rate Where Reductions HAVE BEEN- MADE. Large Meeting at Earlington Saturday of Delegations From All Mines. Moderation and Good Order the Watchword, and Persuasion the Only Means to Be Used. n. Opergators Have Assured Their Men That Advance Shall Be Made goon as All Agree to p" ever stood for the interests of the per cent. Others have tried to do coal miner and ever worked for the this but failed, the miners very maintenance of the old tate of justly claiming that there exists no good reason any reduction in mining, and The Bee now ex- the price of for minelabor at this time. tends its sympathy to the miners With the exception of Nashville, who are working for a restoration Tenn., there has been no reduction where this rate has been cut. The in the prices at which Western , conditions seem.ripe for a speedy Kentucky coal is sold in the vari-ous markets for the past two years. and amicable settlement -- where Nashville buys but n per cent, difference exists. The operators of the coal produced by the Westin good faith have assured their ern Kentucky field. Louisville, men that they are ready to join in which buys 22 percent, of the coal a general advance with the single produced, now pays 25 per cent, per ton more for lump coal than exception of Providence where the one year ago. All local coal brings men have not approached the the mine owner more money than company. And the men in the one year ago spirit of soberness and moderation Has not the miner good reason are asking the advance with re- for objecting to less pay? It is sort to no means but reason and hardly fair to ask him 10 reduce all persuasion. his labor 20 to 35 per cent, "simply In The Bee of April 9, 1896, we because of low prices in Nashville, commented editorially upon the which consumes but n per cent, situation, then beginning to. look of his product, and in the face of serious, out of which the present better prices elsewhere. conditions have grown, and showed Such reduction in wag--- s means that neither miner, operator nor a loss to the laborer and miner of anybody else but the consumer the Western Kentucky field of was benefitted by a reduction of about $326,000 annually, and it the rate and that the community at also means a loss of revenue to the large suffered. The Bee has mine owner of an equal sum, since spoken frequently to the same the prices of the product to him point. We reproduce the editorial ' must necessarily be reduced as of above date to show the then ex- wages to the miner are reduced. isting conditions which have re- Only the consumer will profit by mained about the same with the this stint of the miners' wages. exception'that the rate for mining The loss of the miner is the loss has been reduced at other places of every man in the district. Take since that time away, from this coal field this amount of money now paid the No Reason for a Reduction. mine employes, and not only is the (From Tub Bee, April g, 1896 ) miner robbed of just so much cash, There are at work some serious but every citizen farmer, banker, disturbances to the coal miner and mechanic or what not would fi el mine laborer in the Western Ken- and must help to bear the loss. tucky field. 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