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GOAL TRADE BULLETIN.
Vol. XIII. PITTSBUBGH, PA., JULY 15, 1905. No. 4.
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN;
PUBLISHED TWICE A MONTH.
Copyrighted by THE COAL TRADE COMPANY, IUUO.
A. R. HAMILTON, Proprietor and Publisher,
H. J. STBAUB, Managing Editor.
SUBSCRIPTION, - - - - $2.00 A YEAR.
ward for both employer and employe is the aban­
Correspondence and communications upon all matters
relating to coal or coal production are invited.
donment of the restriction of output. It wculd
All communications and remittances to
THK COAL TRADE COMPANY.
926-930 PARK BUILDING, PITTSBURGH, PA.
Long Distance Telephone 200 Grant.
[Entered at the Post Office at Pittsburgh, I'a., as
Second Class Mail Matter.]
THE ANTHRACITE MINE WORKERS have decided to
invite all the anthracite operators to hear the ad­
dress which President Roosevelt is to make at
Wilkesbarre, Pa., August 10. Considerable short­
sightedness was displayed in another direction,
however. A number of military and secret socie­
ties asked permission to take part in the parade
in honor of the nation's chief executive, but were
refused. The occasion is the convention of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Union. John Mitchell
is to preside at the meeting and Cardinal Gibbons,
Archbishop Ireland and Bishop Hoban are to speak.
The miners, who are in the majority among the
members of the union, have determined to keep
out all not connected with either the C. T. A. LL
or the United Mine Workers. The mild fallacy
of this policy may be realized the next time
the hard coal miners have occasion to make an
appeal for public sympathy.
* * *
THE .SETTLEMENT of the iron and steel scales
for the ensuing year adds something to the bright­
ness of the outlook for business in general and the
coal trade in particular. While there never was
a likelihood that there would be serious labor
trouble in the iron and steel trade, the signing of
the scales places the situation on a "bird-in-hand"
basis that gives absolute security. A feature of
the agreements which marks a distinct step for­
have been better for the cause of labor had this
tenet of the dark days been given up a quarter
of a century ago. It seems almost incredible that
anyone living in the twentieth century could be
so benighted as to hold out for such a demand, yet
it is a fact that the labor leaders and the trade
journals devoted to the interests of iron and steel
workers found it advisable and necessary to put
forth their most earnest efforts to secure the
eradication of a restriction clause in the amalga­
mated scale.
* * *
THE HUSTLE AND ACTIVITY being displayed by the
business men of various Western Pennsylvania
and Eastern Ohio towns in the interest of the
Lake Erie and Ohio ship canal illustrates the
progress being made by men and ideas. When
the ship canal project was up for discussion a
decade ago the only real activity manifested was
by the newspapers. The proposed undertaking
made a fair subject for gossip, but the general
public, which ought to have been vitally inter­
ested, did not, outside of Pittsburgh at least, make
the slightest practical move. What a difference
now! Almost every town of 1,000 or more within
hailing distance of the possible canal zone has
taken substantial and definite action on the re­
vived project. Money and material assistance
is being pledged on all sides. Towns which are