AMERICAN COAL MINERS

Evening Star, Issue 17956, 1 May 1922, Page 1

AMERICAN COAL MINERS

VIOLETS'CE REPORTED. IPrccs Acsoointion —By. Telegraph —Copyright. SEW YORK, April 23. Violence among the striking milieus is becoming mure frequent. Three nonunion miners were killed and one injure: when ,i. bomb was thrown, into a biniK houso at Apollo, IVnnsrlvania. — A. and N.Z. Cable. The four bas ic demands of the American miners are: (1) Continuation ol Urn ent mining prices; {'■' settlement <■' 1 differences in the various districts; (r. i a six-hour day and a. five-day weak. f «.. overtime at the rate of time and a m.i; miid of don Ido lime on Sundays; and ■ i two-yea-i'-old period for agreements. A ‘strike has been threatening for some months past. ’Writing on the <.mt!,uk • n Eel mi ary Id the Washington cmivcp ndent of the • Morning i’ost’ _ i-tcim; : “What adds to tho gravity ol Inc coca tiou is tho series of negotiation;; now m u % on between the mum-rs’ executives aim way brotherhoods to induce, them to.' u port the miners in the event oi. >i> t : The minors r.re a.Uempt’rig to oo what '.nr own minors at tempted last spring. amh by bringing about a genera! miners and transport (Strike, dictate terms to the flovoniniont and Jorcc tho Covernuiciit to order tho mins owners to concede ;he terms of the men, no matter bad unu assnahlo they may he. r I ho miners arc rtuobnrn and in a mood to tight; but-, while they can cause a, great, deal ol suffering, annoyance, and loss, tneso will bo coin-parat-ively trivial unless limy have the support of the railway workers, in that case tho situation would lie coin e grave in tho extreme.'’ -- -y.; ■■ - ■»—