p. 7 | TROUBLE AND DISTRESS by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 13, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 50.

TROUBLE AND DISTRESS.

By Editor

The New York World of a few weeks ago tells us that on the first of next April one-half million men will be forced into idleness in the plan for the combined strike and lock-out of all the coal mines of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, and part of Kentucky. Existing wage schedules expire at that time. Then the great operators of the two kinds of mines, anthracite and bituminous, will meet together for their common weal for the first time, when it is proposed to combine all the forces to strike down the united mine workers of America. Coal is already being piled up with that in view, and then we will have, not simply the suffering of the families who will be out in strike or shut out, but the suffering of thousands of others who are deprived of fuel.