The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 28, July 28, 1894 Page: 4
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THE TEXAS MINER.
THE TEXAS MINER.
WALTER B. McADAMS. EDtTOR.
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One Year Xt.oo.
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END OF STRtKES.
F*UBH8HEO BVKKV SA rtJRDAV.
Entered at the Post-Office in Thurber. Texas, as Second-Ciass Mai) Matter.
THURBER, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1894.
Inconstant, biind,
Deserting Friends at need, and duped by Foes;
Loud and seditious, when a Chief inspired
Their headlong fury, but, of him deprived,
Already Slaves that licked the scourging hand.
—[Thomson
THE Manchester ship canal that cost sixtv-hve millions of dot-
tars is not paying fixed charges within about $600,000 a year.
CAPTAIN JACK CRAWFORD, the Poet Scout, is going to Scotland
to get about twenty millions of dottars from an old estate—the
same old ''will o' the wisp/'
THE London Daily News, commenting on the strike situation
at (Chicago, says: "A general strike as a votuntary measure is
but a mad man's dream."
THE fruit crop of Catifornia witl tikety prove one of the targest
ever harvested. Reports from nearty every section state that the
peach, pear, apricot, nectarine, cherry and apple crops witl be
large.
DEBS, and we hope alt that itk, are done for. Let them go to
work, and by "the sweat of their brow earn their bread." No
more carouses—no more hving in luxury off from the assessments
made upon working men.
WHEN the sun goes down approaching night, darkness tooms
un. When the Democratic party obtain the ascendancy, bank-
ruptcies became frequent, industriat enterprises languish, employ-
ment is hard to obtain, wages go down, but the foreigner rejoices
The London Iron and Coal Trades Review says: "It is per-
haps only natural that, in view of the much higher wages that
they have to pay to their workmen, the American iron and stee)
manufacturers should desire to have a certain measure of protec-
tion against an invasion of the products of countries which, like
Cermany, cost little more than one
in the item of labor."
!T would seem as though the practical failure of what was
the greatest coal strike ever started, and the utter collapse of
the American Railway union strike should end for some time at
least the strike organizations, or at all events cripple the power
of designing leaders to lead labor into trouble and loss. Does
the man that expects to earn a living for himself and family ever
think that it is the interest of the omplover to pay the fuil rate of
wages that he can afford to pay and thus keep a full compliment
of men at work? And does he ever think that it is an impossi-
bility that an employer can keep a large body of men at work
when he is loosing money off from the per diem paid? Thinking
men will turn this over in their minds—no farce. No strikes can
make employers pay men wages that will not bring a return for
the capital employed for any length of time, for it bankrupts the
employer. Then all work at that point stops and labor is thrown
out of work entirely and must seek other employers. It is right,
it is just that the wage-earner should have his full ratio of what
is produced by means of his labor. It is not right, it is not just
that he should demand more. Now the time has come when
the laboring man should ponder over the matter, should look at
the subject matter in its true light, think whether the labor lead-
ers are looking for the best interests of the laboring classes, or
whether they by keeping up a turmoil can feather their own nests,
and what is more to some men. can have their names paraded
in the newspapers as leaders of large bodies of men. It is time
that the hard working man should look around and see if he can-
not find work in some p'.ace where he will not be obliged to quit
work at times when his own judgment tells him that it is unwise
to make the attempt to force employers to pay greater wages
than they can afford. Labor under close organizations is not free
labor, and now is the time for the right kind of men to act.
There are manv places where tnev can find protection and free-
dom to work or not as he chooses. The conditions of laboring
men varv; some must have steady work in order to maintain
themselves and their families in comfort. Others can earn their
bread and work only a portion of the time. It is cruel to force
the man that is so* placed that he needs steady work, to be
obliged to stop the income he is receiving, for some real or fan-
cied grievance at some other point in the country, of some other
man who does not want to work at the wages offered. This strike
ordered by Debs of the America Railway union is a notable
example. Hundreds and perhaps thousands of families must
suffer for this unwise procedure. Therefore we again urge good
workmen, honest hard working men to think and act.
COOL, !S!\'T )T?
uctsot countries which, tike - r ,
t ! following from the ( hicago tribune:
tiurd o.t the:a)^n;)4iw^pended \JL/ ... ,
' ' ' To the anxious there t ame no encouragement trom the
autocrat of the miners. There was onlv the doubtful insurance
, , that it was all right/ and even that did not come from McBride.
lHE Black Diamond savs: "Ihe coal strike that was ended t
a few days ago without any appreciable; gain to the strikers cost
the miners $12,000 000 in wages and the mine owners $K,ooo,-
000 in suspended output. But the mine owners still have their
coat under ground and can get it out in time. The days the
miners spent in idleness, are, however, a total loss, uttertv be-
yond recall. :i
"The present strike of the railway union to enforce a boycott
against Pullman cars wilt soon cost the strikers as much money
Debs and Howard alone were permitted to use it to bolster up
the wavering and the weak. *
"Debs. Howard, Sovereign, Burns, Martin, and one or two
lesser lights in the present fight repaired to an anteroom in
Uhlich'sHailatu o'clock. McBride strolled in, jesting with
some of his friends as he passed through the hallway. That
conference tasted less than half an hour."
"Forty-five thousand miners engaged in furnishing coal tor
as the miners threw into the fire, and the railroads will have lost the boycotted railroads witt quit work if they obey the order is-
perhaps as much as the mine owners, and who will be benefited sued shortly before midnight Monday night by John McBride,
in the end? Is it not apparent to anybody with a thimbleful of President of the National Miners' Association. This is Debs*
brains that the present rates of wages for all sorts of labor are as trumb card.
high as the market wilt allow? How then witl any number of 'It this walk-out' be ineffectual, according to the declaration
great strikes improve the situation? They will ontyfurtnerim- of the autocrat of the miners. ^0 000 additionaimenwitlbcor-
poverish the people, discouragc consumption and force the wage! dered to iay down their picks.
average down one more notch. The waste is a criminal one in ' "John McBride reached the city late Saturaay night. He got
times like these." up bright and early Sunday morning.' Me stopped at the Le-
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 28, July 28, 1894, newspaper, July 28, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200475/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Tarleton State University.