The evening world. Newspaper, September 18, 1900, Page 2

PORE HDi EES NO. lil, OF THE SERIES. BY OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR Puny Boys Driven to Toil by Pinching Hunger of the Family. Sad Scenes in Miners’ Homes— All Must Labor to Keep the Wolf from the Door. 1k eben batote ds tate into | a) t + ° : | oD ebb | | b, Thin is the {of rucles, the first of whieh f Hppeared in The | hing MM al la ‘turday, from Miss 1 Olivia Howard Dunbir i] ! commissioner in the grent ! coml strike region, depicting the tual conditions there and i the affect of the va Hour ition the miners im their 4 homie life Tie fivet tile ne from Seranton, It greph-, r fently fort) ld labor in the mines, and f I told of the desperate resolut notonly of the men, but of 7 the wives and moti nd articlepublished yes i forday, was from Pitte It told of the cruelty of mina 7 bonses to the white child slaves-the puny boys tn th “hbronkers ' Tosday article, from Wilkesbarre, describea| 4 other abuses and tellingly points out the real grievances whieh hove wed the army of 180,000 miners to lay a Cown the picks and shovels, grimly facing the terrors o! @arvation for themselves and their wives and Iittle ones, :, rather than endure longer the condition of semi-starvation isted, Miss Dunbar's articles Ing no side in the controver contributions from the strike tinued daily, and should be reqion They will oe cone A WORLD WOMAN AMONG THE MINERS DESCRIBES HORRORS OF CHILD-SLAVERY ond absolute tyranny under which they have for yeara ex-|prankers.”’ Several of the boys in this group are only eight years old None is more than twelve dealing only with facts, tak! law prohibits the employment of children under fourteen and wholly devoid of hys-| whom look as old as men of middle age, t terion] exaggeration, promise to be the most noteworthy] litue fellow of this class (hat Supt, Harkness, of Pitttston, brutally beat with o horsewhip yesterday, as told by Miss eth OL LAAN LL DA LL NT NN serie he THE WORLD: 'TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1900, sities caeeatiatiaeataltaraia apace ECAC THE WHITE CHILD SLAVES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA COAL MINES. (Photographed by TRUE PICTURES OF LIFE. (By Harry White, General secre ary of the United Garment Work» ers of America.) Miss Olivin Dunber rectelly for The Fyening World.) I have read Miss Dunbar graphie deseription of th nditions prevailing wong the coal miners and u tally exactly th the observatio L recently roade in the same r It Almost tneredible tint such a state of affairs yur SWwenlthiest and fundamental industries ' permitted to Ne tinue As an object | \ to what state wkingmen Would be red lid they not have some power 1 sine’ \ yet we hear the eme= ploying elt prate about t ro willingness to fairly emunerate the workers \ ul the necessity of their raanieing The revelations to the public made by these tru pietures of life at the m udht to arouse avery pera Wing a spark of humanity in his make up } TRUTH SHOULD BE KNOWN (By Janes J. Cullen, General Seeretary of Buffers, Platers and Rrass Workers’ International Union.) These articles tron) the hand of o brave litte wom anstrike deep into the heart, They are true. We who are in the work in behalf of labor know they are wue, and The Evening World deserves qrent credit for ex« posing the situation to the people of America The truth should be known, Then the people will see that right is done, This i & Lypieen Qroup oF boys Ander legal age employed st orkers on the The Pennsylvania y old faces of these boys, It was a puny ue ine, Pittston, MA, ag sy pylon! 4 The drawn, premature some of ell the story of thelr eruel lives in the drudgery of the mines Dunbar article in The Evening World missed by no one interested in learning the true situation a6 the strike progresses, Toe PE Ss YL V. Ww p) T L O M Io | , H ’ Gibree Miss Tunvar wit write rsor cagcielone the verp| © Svea ANIA LAWS PROHIBIT CHILD LABOR IN MINES. CoaL STOCKS! SPECULATORS HALT. contre of the disturbed conl fields, | | ETD 7 To ascertain procisely what statutes of the laws of Pennsylvania are, any auch corpora to engage in or carry on by direct or indirect nreans | FA LL OFF. isl ne MA SAID: Tepe HUNGER ALWAYS IN MINER: HOME, | ‘iolated by the mino owners ax alleged by the wirihing miners, Ile Liven: |any store Known ax a company store, general supply store or store where | sila Ph Cots Nia j Ing World telographed requesting the Attorney General of Pennsylvania! coode and merchandise other than such as have been mined or manutar o~ ; 4 yagi ihe 4 (Special to The Bvening World) to wire the sections bearing on (he employment of oliid libor, the condi 1 by the mining or manufietielng corporation of which sald offers or All tone ster toadar en. tee WILKBSBARRE, Pa. Sept 18,—Kven less ia Wilkesbarre than in Seran-| of “company stores,” co, In the absence of Attorney-General Blin, Chief, slockbold embers aro kept ¢ ed for wale jEntire Group Depressed) ionlon stock market iovday, ihe fears ton and Pitt#ton is the real condition of the miners understood Clerk Guy H. Davien telegraphed aa follows ‘ 2 That no mini jvinufactuving corporation engired inj and Shows Losseson | an Aastirances mado, probably | t ‘i win: 1 il fer tho | (thie ¢ wonlth f ' mT ‘6 Wt aN Fall on wate: the, vd dae 0, probably in Rood faith, by the operators and com HARRISHUTG, 1 11s ' he Jays of this Commo \ wrant, bargain | Smali Dealings. hucivele al (he opening ‘ ably placed citizens, who would no more dream of viaiting a settlement ‘The Pennsylvania wet of 164! prohibits eliild | bh the ms i ! wy leer or stockholt MN corporation r to muy irgl 1 later they than the ordinary New Yorkers would think of paying a serlos of calls on| lows: ‘No boy under the age of fourteen yours and po womat or girl of at ' " persone Whatyoover the rieht to keep or maintain upon the | 1 iJ Hester street, are Matly contradicted by the miners themselves, Perhaps un-| age rhall be employed or permitted to be in any mine for the purpose me) Property of eueh Aion, any company general supply or other store in| Area ea Ee = te 4 - der the clroumstances it would be even more surprising If an under tanding| ployment therein. Nor shall a boy under the age of twelve your ral} Which ds other than those mined or manufactured by the corporation ial h ad THE COTTON MARKET, did exiet woman or girl of any age bo employed or permitted to be tn or al he Branting such right shall be Kept or oxp for pal ever such leane, | 4, ‘ ‘ , iy the y os ft bargain or sale as aforesaud 4 nded to defent the provis oft Pe Gna he 10 nh omarket to-day wae hi hat do the operators sa cutalde atructures or workings of a colliery for the purpose of employment the fy ut fh ono thie a t Nor sieieany ' i in NRO Ilanufee erin ' ‘1 ate at a deoting We decline to recognize the union; we have nothing to my; we have) but It Is provided, however, that this prohibition shall not affect he employ: | corporation through it oflvers or atackholders or by any rule oF regulaOn | iiherictucaate weet awtacte ah tt # rlees were: September, heard no complaints,” mont of a bay or female of suitable age ln an offlve or in the performance! of Ite hueliess make any contract with the keepers or ¢ AY ALOE) ‘The tractions mhowed «mall fractional | (9% to 1847 Ootober, 10:22 to 1 f you ask the miners why (hey have not made thelr grievances known | Of clerical work at a colliery whereby tie employees of #1 rporation ahall be obliged to trade with | gains, Metropodtan ant Urooklyn Rapid |g S2Ueh 9% 10,840) December they say That on and after the passage of this act it shall not be lawful for any SVN Keone Tatas Paat ae al “rf a ‘ i met A pl tli BLT pio b i May. 10 098 i a 1 © prima facie omnce of the t tha ch a is uader the} h and anna weehalt ne, 972 to 9, uly 094 by, TURN A DEAF EAR TO MINERS, mining or manufactiring corporation of this Commonwealth, or the offic ontrol of such mining or manufacturing ation and tn violation of this} " he eset 4 3 yoke, ant partioularly ee 7 "We have tried, but they do not hear because they will not Haten. | O° stockholders of any such corporation, acting In behalf or in the Interest of act GUY H. DAVIES, Chief Clerk.” © comlers were dull and depressed. OLD MAN A RIVER VICTIM, And we have not been strong enough or sufficiently woll organized or securel | Reading Det preferred, the only voaler , talely m) « PHoURh to compel thelr attention.” 9! rlohners of Ite coal rupply, which ylelds sufteient to keep the whole district | si/aKi to any extents showed 4 ionp of A Ald many faltly na apenas f Bo here in Wilkesbarre I way told before viniting the miners “GRATEFULLY et (dal at Ane : He AUB TON Years tik randy ena'th fh Daly Mack, & Weatern was] 1 North: Tver at orty-third awe hail cn Leet lp APPRECIATED aaetag arr eh rte ay on an he) “erty om ; ig dal wae here, True, there In the charge of $2.75 for powder % miners believe that the something ja ln the way to be righted | 4 i ae wilnhee ed tat | Resnah Pe ees for which the company pays but 90 conte; but their families are not in need (By Jerome F. Healy, Seeretary of Tynog? hieal Union No, 6 OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR oe wang 6 feot 8 Inches in helgtt. I The men are fairly treated by the officials and there are no company storem."! : ! JOTE=DO wot (ll Co rend Mies Dunbort's article Crom Masteton, the very xeept i Yot in the first miner's home { vieited there was the familiar protest ; - - contre of the strike region, In (o-morrow's Hventing World, She will) Nini), Foes A DAILY NUISANCE. 4 Against the company stores, An extra charge. it Appears, of from 2h per F ise Dunbar Na In The Evening World ts qrat« write eThe Women Warrior the Strike!’ ne ake ned an 4 Cent, to 33 per cent. in extorted by these concerns from the poor families WHRE ARG Hau sualihn Bente te qt is ty BY ! x hy Ks under the rule cor the A Sienple Remedy Which Will Interest j and the miners are so neatly trayped that there ia no escape all workingmen ask ina crisis of this kind i that the \COAL M | N ES GU ARDED te New York {hive vionaotidaten Catarth $ iflerers, TOO MANY CHILDREN TO COUNT. truth shall be spread before the publir Gas, Metre polltan mtireed hs w Ay and In ite eartier stages ¢ ; be American born, ‘They lived in a shanty that ought to have been con Prom. 4 4.6 | dst rt BE ee eee eee ey ey eal demned years ago Their two roome had n " | ree Les | ras wae creed below 16% oven to the stomach and Intestines, ip poi vad the customary furniahings of @ Seay o ad | (Continued from First Page.) Than tel dg aef, ant LAK W ANN Oath Ip © discase of the ; stove and a box bed with a miscellany of seattered, unclassifiable remnants | on enone — ut {om fal (ot Any: mucous membrane. Uh i 1 syiapioma be i 41 4 am sule here wae Ny movement of any Muro membrane. Ue hacml by ip! R B bie aoe clean and inte ite eit busy at the outside lie but not erated by the chaee Coal and Iron rApery wet apt ut ba MA al « ing ’ profuse Ladi i of mucus, stoppage ion we are more badly of than the others,” she explained : a (on of coal ts being migo c NM oo POT BARD BOMETHG, TFUUATIOR IA) TIERS, CORRE | | Company and the Union Coal Com: | chunge | * . atk ag. war , ? ch ALSABE ER were COUNIDE, Meering, gagging and frequent With the ow wages ant the slack work and now the atrike, te that the| hope of Inducing them to return to work, They know that this would ex-| iexeept for the West Bnd Cobl oom: | pany aud stoned the men who per- jst a hei if ROR Taiinas ah ee inna tan hoes, H ‘wages are just calculated to keop the foreignerethe Polos and Hungarians} te the very violence that they er and that aman rinke hie life im inter) pany at Mocaniqua not a mine In the | sisted in going to work | The usual treatment by focal douches, a we wo “ p 7 lenufte ' tts ven ry! | malive, They can live n what we would starve on fering with the progress of a strike, A gray-halred non-union man had (his) Wyoming or the Lackawanna district) The operators are calling in ml The Closing uot att on fs alver, he. often Rives temporary What do you live on?’ 1 asked her to tell i | : | Open hie tan lan | but anything like @ eure con onip! ie proauctng coal he day sorvices of a large force of deputies, |, ‘y nbtalued catty . TRG Waesk and pend "MW + hp. ada) “ha Doe A ivan at + hed Dialind by a treatinent which removes i nd read anid puta ¢ and now and then when wages are y bene, , “hes n after me three times in the last two days Jand they declare they will protect "a ity (2% 2) ) the eatarrhal taint from the blood and the better a bit of meat 4 back to work, Joho,’ he ways, ‘and | will do something handsome for} STONED WORKERS. [those men who choowe to work at | sm sme «let van ih Marppearance of the Inflammation from the "Then what la it that th ge “” you. lthale ides Jam weet @ itoop y” | mucous surfaces, AR eM e ' ; ; . hm Meel & Wire + Hs] A new remedy which maetn here requires Beraps,’ she repli \ No, air,’ Taaye, ‘Tatrike on Monday |Trouble Near Shamokin, Where! Supt. P Brennan, of the Philade | mente and which eo far has been remarks “But they aren nt 1 © been anxtous to strike, too. Thon, when we were finishing up work, he came again. ‘Better ome} Operators Are Calling in taeme lobia and Meading Coal and Iron eset! In curing catarrh (9 Otuart's, a bac oi} ” va ¥ u of Rood qe ” ‘not , e * id Tablet SHARP WITS, BUT SQUALID HOMES, APPR HAST DC Eabegi ae SS Ze BRE Ain ta, Bane te Company, gave out a statement to-| 1% A HRBWOa As: Whes:ebvt Bb cae j "Ot vourse (hey don’t Nike pe T Dewan a er SHAMOKIN, Pa. Sept. 18 About cay to the effect that the Henry Clay |)" is membrane They ca NRVERIE GR hie GKUAIOE. Ih me F | I've heen in the mines since f wan a lad,» I told him, ‘and Tve at Mount Carmel joined the strikers Company tn vielnity of Shamokin | ' ire composed of such valuable remedies as p be aqua V Yeand their enforced ra! never been a damned blackleg yet, and I'm not golug to begin now today, Some of the atrikere ati MOud Not fosume work unill the Sang liydratin, Buealyptol and % Moteness from All the material aud spiritual advantage Villzation, thelr! Why aren't you in the wanton? | asked. “Dor prove of It? Fe Gratin : minke Hine been aetied. | He wld that : B antioapien. «Bait. COFD literal struggle for exioter aa sharpened thelr native intelligence | , ta da beg OA FOC OPDTAy ee Mount Caymel to-day gathered in jt ia useloss to attempt to operate iy ty 2ty ty OY eliminating from the blood and mucous 'ohingly i ii It's a kood thing,” he said, eagerly, ‘a great thing; but | began Work the neighborhool of the minos op» those mine 1 120% 168? Gee” | Hurt he eatarrhal polson \ rh ; , ; ; {as a nonunion man and havent changed; that's all. I'm with them when ssid | 4 +] Stuart's Colarrh Tablote ae large q ave yet to meet A stupid man. woman or child in tho mining settle | @rtrike comes, and every non-union man here feels the same. ay iy Milne a8 ad Pe Nex kK, "ass Per rage em ‘ Hot taKe thi fact suMoiontly into| The little breaker boya in Wilkesbarre have just heard of Mr. Dileher's COAL BARONS SEND a tes | mont 4 Warithoe taba Loe tice: fa a aes ; be fair minded and logical, too,| achome to take them to New York, and they are almost forgetting the strike iy hr feaces and the entire ailmemlary canal. \ } and, above a 3 mel ayn api jin the excitement of It, Probably there ia not one of them that has ever| fm 1am | « san i bey! may t100 be dissolved In ia This ie atiown by ihe a Of the non-union men in Wilkeabarre.| spent a day out of eight of the mines P | HEIR PRI ES. Ce et ate en, Man icneenee 10 Re Hp * Those with whom 1 talked bud appar ven considered the ponsl-| Gh in| oury to tne a detehe: & tow ot th 4 d Dillty of not joining the otrike They a ig down thelr tools, now that BOYS WHO NEVER LEAVE MINES. riiteasiacatevaggiin ont EO yoke |Molved In the mouth daily will b timelast. ‘ the time has come, with the same relentless determination as thone who are Tho thought of a place where there is no coal to handle ts more than| : me , eee ; Wevover, bi se sets ie much atop : > t Mit lirect ‘ Philadelphia end va Coal pani tiatly filed, with a promtae o 1 | the none, & doucho mad f a Plediged to follow Prosident Mitchell's directions | thelr infant imaginations can encompass They do not think of New York as], ‘7 z cdg teary An ahs elan facto Ter Yamaiter « deat iH {vmpet ehn MT will give ielivediate ‘ ie tout ola i li rr » place, because they do not wh sci (Neare i ; [price from # a ton to $0), 8.55 and even Sy | daily use y ot t Heh , TEMPTED BY THE MINE OWNERS, A great pipaaut place, because they do not know what a “good thr Jo ee of aden ti (aon of which they were shor! tis sis ‘4 iy Mee al gad thee tablote wit a But the directors of nine »wever lightly they may effect to con-| They have dimly grasped it asa morvellous Utopia where there are wise, | ma The fect he \ FoUble without sider the strike, are willing () mak ONLY TRUTH NECESSARY, (By James Ostrander, of Business Department, Boilermakers’ Union No, 7 The boilermakers of the seabonrd stand by Miss Duper and The Evening World in thetr effortto show the ty Ge situation in the coal mining districts. All that Workingmen ask is justice and fair olay. The opera- |) torneny the mine workers have no grievances, Let the Peaders of Miss Dunbar's true stories aay, Sam litkend. 3 epeated overtures to thea moi | men in the! send all boys to school _ 99900900000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 sorting tg the De, Dorfent treatment fi imirediately The effect of the coal miners good people with the power to make them break convenience yal At men's wages and to ihe owe luternab Wer Mant Week, 1 Ware charged wtrike t 1 -, ie reply taking ' . was more keonly felt in New York to: prrmededs Dain « Don't the boys in Now York work?’ asked a perploxed little fellow | day when the local dealers raised the jemi i had Laat all Bead ‘ing, and load ‘How do thoy get anything to ent?” price of coal for dome consumption! WHEAT MARKET STEADY, Atte ther baa 4 Aye 'Uat probs 5,000 PUNY % cents more a ton The rise begar leiden La BN getty a Aa sg % " ody at present on the c UNY BOYS TO MARCH, y ay, when dealers added from 2%] Wheat opened fatrly steady today atl Tah Tablsths ‘Mle baaret Ts aa Tt will not he a pleasant apectacte that is to be exhibited to the labor or. | te enta on the regular prive 1-8 por cent, deciine, Corn was dull and Fade of ‘ett, composition and all the r Ny eMclent rem~ ganizations of Now York, but {t will be Impreasive enough to deserve some| Some dealers asked an advance of #1 tile onsler fem, edlen for catarrh are eontalned {nth > e 0 w York's opening prices ip wheat " ane reault—five thousand undersized children, thin, wenk, narrow-cheated, with |0Ver Nhat they charged on Baturday) VO" nocomber, Ai wR, Mfays ts Pa" Rep: Y ai | ast, The coal rhortage of IST] #@Nt) ember, 13-8 Decomber corn, 4 a4, Drupeiete nell Stuart's Catarrh Tablets at Atty conte for full-eiaed packages, Ark your druggist, and if he is honest he will toll you there Is no safer, more p more eMneat and conveulent remedy 4 the m: _ : 1400 facea (hat have an habitual expression of hunger and anxiety, They have never had enough to eat or been sufetently clothed or known a day of boy- ish freedom, And what to their weary, broken-spirited elders seems infinite- ly more important te that they are denied the education that is their right a right taken from them by their present slavery. the chilly weather hae set in the de- JUST LIKE SWEATSHOP CHILDREN. later at a Their condition, in fact, ts much like that of the sweatshop children of| poor folke are already paying at the! Now York, little ground though there should be for a parallel between the} “*' of #19 a ton. et aapmimnes rams veewrokdla ws meats aa sr Us walling | tain country, with ite abundant natural pure alr up to $0 and $1 a ton, but oper- tors look upon the atrike aa likely to be of short duration ‘The heaviest part of the increase in Ma mice will fall upon the poor who buy Y coal in amat! quantities, and now that wt eto » were: Ovto-| p October corn. wis gary Fy i ee York's privew whe: Me Posts i Rot we pa 4; December ee wana wore: October THe ON, ites ”