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42 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
OCTOBER ANTHRACITE SHIPMENTS.
Shipments of anthracite coal for ten months
aggregate 50,593,504 tons against 47.305.310 for
the corresponding period of 1904. The output for
the balance of this year is likely to bring the
total to 60,000,000 tons or more, making the gross
production the greatest on record. The shipments
of the companies in tons for October were as fol­
lows:
Oct., 1905. Oct.. 1904.
Reading 1.106,916 1,154,609
Lehigh Valley 8.299,353 i,840,646
Central of New Jersey... 709,770 601,004
Lackawanna 707,701 868,226
Delaware & Hudson 4,727,074 4,363,538
Pennsylvania 424,248 414,884
Erie 491,272 402,655
Ontario & Western 245.310 220,236
Dela.. Susq. & Schuylkill. 134.020 138,455
Total 5,205,694 5,131,542
Hereafter the shipments of the Delaware, Susquehanna
& Schuylkill wnl properly belong to the
Lehigh Valley, as the Jersey Central might now
be included in the Reading's shipments. The
shipments from January 1 to October 31 were as
follows:
Philadelphia & Reading... 10,408,312 9.328.035
Lehigh Valley S,290,353 7,840,646
Jersey Central 0,579,344 5,989,910
Del., Lacka, & West 7,706,734 7.671,039
Delware & Hudsona 4.727,674 4,363,538
Penna. R. R 4.022,458 3,939.913
Erie 5,160,687 4,721,084
N. Y., Ont. & W 2,358.837 2,171,041
Del.. Susq. & S 1,330,105 1.279,604
Total 50.593.504 47,305,310
SOME LABOR NOTES.
Commissioner Charles P. Neill oi the conciliation
board has rendered his decision in the last
of the three grievances referred to him. He supports
the contention of the miners at the Centralia
colliery of the Lehigh Coal Co. against a
reduction in the price of yardage. Prior to 1904
they received $4 per yard. The award of the
anthracite coal strike commission increased this
minimum to $4.80 per yard, but in 1904 the company
reduced it to $3.80. It was the company's
contention from the very first day the reduction
was made that the coal strike commission merely
intended to establish a rate for a unit of labor
performed anu that when the change came in
such a way that the miners performed less labor
the company was entitled to reduce the established
rate.
The American Federation of Labor convention
is in session in Pittsburgh. It marks the 25th
anniversary of the organization, which was
launched in this city. President Gompers says,
discussing the meeting: "At no time in the his­
tory of organized effort among the wage-earners
has it been more essential to approach with care
and intelligel.ice the all-important subjects re­
quiring consideration and decisive action which
will present themselves to the delegates to the
Pittsburgh convention. Friends and foes alike
will watch with keen interest both the deliberations
and conclusions reached. Every opponent,
open and covert, will hope that some ill-advised
course will be pursued, some mistake made, which
may be turned to their own account and to the
disadvantage and discomfiture of labor, and they
will not be slow to manufacture adverse opinion.
distort the work and its results."
At a recent mass meeting at Linton, Ind., President
Mitchell of the miners is quoted as saying:
"So far as my advice can control the actions of
the miners there will never be another reduction
in wages. I realize that the conditions of the
market have an influence in wages, but I believe
that the operators are better off when they pay
higher wages. A determined resistance should
be made against any further reduction, and any
further attempt to force down the scale of wages
should be met with stern conditions. I am not
satisfied with the present conditions. I believe
the miners work too hard and run too many risks
for the money they receive."
In stipulating that the mines shall not be closed
for the employes to attend the funeral of any
worker, Pardee & Co., anthracite operators, have
agreed with their employes to participate in a
novel death benefit plan. The company will pay-
to the family of each mine worker killed or dying
as a result of a mine accident $50, and at the
same time each miner will pay $1 and each laborer
fifty cents. it is estimated that in this
manner about $500 will be raised for the aid of
each stricken family.
Announcement is made that the wages of the
union miners in Alabama will be advanced 2 1 /,
cents per ton. The maximum wage of 57y2 cents
a ton will be paid the coal miners from now.
Low Fare to California, Colorado, Mexico, and
Points South and West.
via Pennsylvania Lines. Quick train service
takes passengers from cold to warm climates in
a few hours. Further information cordially furnished
upon request addressed to nearest Pennsylvania
Lines ticket agent, or J. K. Dillon, District
Passenger Agent, 515 Park building, Pittsliurgh,
Pa.