STARVING MINERS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 238, 23 November 1877, Page 17

STARVING MINERS.

APPEALS FOR AID TO THEIR FELLOW COLLIEHS. (By Telegraph to the N.Y. HemhL)

Shekaxdoah, Pa., Sept. 13,1877. Within a radius of less than four miles of Bbenandoah is mined half the coal shipped from Schuylkill county, and within the borough, aic eight first-class collieries, employing not less than twenty-live hundred men and boys. These circumstances, in addition to the fact that Shenandoah is the youngest coal town in the region, make it of great importance in the eyes of a mining population, and Avhen a move of any character is to be made by the workingmen the miners of this place arc generally at the front. During the last month work has been plentiful and steady, mainly on account of the strike in Luzernc county, and agents from that region made every effort to induce tbe men here to "go out"' with them at the time of the inauguration of the strike in the Wyoming region. They failed, however. To-night a meeting of miners was held here, not for tlic purpose, as some thought, of striking, but with the object of inducing if possible the miners of Schuylkill to contribute something toward the maintenance of the suffering miners of the sister county. On the outskirts of the borough, in a grove, the meeting organised. Darkness covered the earth, and the faces of those present were almost unrecognizable, in the gloom of a starless night. "We arc here," said one of the committee from Luzerne. " not for the purpose of creating trouble, but to appeal to you for aid in behalf of your starving brothers in Luzernc. You have an idea of the situation there, but I tell yon it is worse than imagination can picture- Among thousands such luxuries as butter and meat are unknown, and many are satisfied if they can get potatoes and salt for breakfast, salt and potatoes for dinner, and potatoes .and salt for supper.'' Another of the committee of three said : —We do not ask you for dollars, but cents. Give us what you can, without injuring yourselves, and the men of Luzernc will never forget you. Wo are on si strike, and we arc determined to fight it out to the hitter end, and that means while there is a crust or crumb in the house that will keep body and soul together." The meeting responded nobly and committees were appointed from the several collieries in the district to make collections on Satur dn y» pay day, for the amelioration of the sufferings of the miners of Luzerne. Another mass meeting with the same object in view will be held to-morrow night.