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THE IitTRON E F.` R
NOVEMBER 14, 1919 1
LIVING CONDITIONS OF
STRIKING :MINERS
Of the actual merits of the dispute
involved in the strike of the bitum-
inous coal miners the public seems to
know very little.: Much has been said
by the strike leaders of the squalor
and filthin which the _miners have.
to live, in the company mining towns,
and of the general degradation forced
on them by being shut off from con-
tact with real American life. But
others, who )mow the mining towns,
say that the squalor is the consequence
of the miners' own habits, and that if
they were provided with tiled
bathroom marble basins, and
other equipment of a fine home.
they would soon have everything so
blackened and misused that the
quarters would be mistaken- for a
stable. There is evidently room for
a great deal of "uplift" work in
connection with the miners' home
life, and surroundings, but no "up-
lift" city on this continent has yet'
solved the problems of "foreigner
slums," and most of the miners are
foreigners, and many of them not
the better class of laborer.
The facts regarding the miners'
hours and pay have .been officially
ascertained by the Washington De-
partment of Labor. For hand -
miners, over a half -month period
that was taken as a period of inves-
tigation, the average was 4.7 hours
a day, or 60 hours for the month.
Their actual earnings for the two-
week period averaged. $47,11. With
full time, their earnings would have
been More than ..$80. That is, the.
pay averaged $23 a week, and could
have been $40 a week on. full time.
This shows either that the com-
panies are not operating as much
as they should, or that the miners
are not working enough.- Seven
hours a day may be regarded as a
fair day in a coal mine, and it -seems
hardly possible that only four and a
fraction should be worked over a whole
half -month period. The Washington
bureau makes no attempt to place
the responsibility, beyond pointing out
that in the bituminous fields of Pen-
nsylvania, the mines were kept in
operation 79 per cent. of the full
time, while the hand miners worked
only 76 per cent. Machine miners
worked harder, being on the job 93
per cent. of the 79 per cent. mine
operating time. During the war the
wages of the- bituminous miners have
been raised 43 per cent., while the
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cost of living for a family has risen.
at least 75 per cent. The average
earnings per hour are 78 cents' an
hour, compared with anthracite
miners' average of 82 cents.
The principal demands of the
miners' leaders were for a six -hour
day, and 60 per cent. increase in
wages. It seems that, on the aver-
age, the_ miners work less than the
minimum now stipulated, while the
60 per cent. iitcrease would) make
their pay $1.25 an hour. These de-
mands could not be granted without
increasing the. price Of bituminous
coal several dollars a ton. What the
impartial outsider would like to dis-
cover is how the coal operators ac-
tually fare, in the matter of profits,'
• and whether they have any under-.
standing relating to the keeping down
of output. The war demands of the
United States and this country caused
an enormous expansion ,of bituminous
production, but since the war ended,
a large proportion of the Russians,
Scandinavians, Austrians, Bulgarians,
Italians, and others in the mines have
gone back to Europe, leaving the -mines
short-handed. The general demand
for rough labor, at high wages, also
handicapped the coal mine production,
But no class of rough labor is getting
more than a dollar an hour now, and
the crax of the bituminous strike
question seems to be why the miners
do not make a better wage by working
harder, -
In most of the mining towns, the
houses are owned by the operating,
companies. The houses ' are rented
to the miners at ten to twenty-five
dollars a month, but the latter class
of house, is comparatively speaking,
de luxe. The companies have stores
also, and sell at cost, or on a close
margin. . Open fields usually sur-
rounding the towns are used by the
families of the miners for vegetable
growing. Their living expenses are,
therefore, comparatively low far low-
er than the city mechanic who draws
his dollar an hour, and pays hold-up
prices. Notwithstanding this, six and
eight miners to a room, is frequently
found. And :loose furniture has a
habit of disappearing. A philanthro-
pist in -Pittsburg some years ago had
the idea that he would improve the
lot of , the miner -folk. He .built a
model ,.tenement, with baths and other
conveniences. Two months after, he
visited his tenants, to discover the
baths filled with coal, the sewage sys-
tem • slogged with garbage and run-
bish, and parts of the plumbing torn•
out and sold to a junk dealer. Not
all miner's are like this, of course.
In one field a Belgian settlement is
composed. of pretty, substantial houses
and has stores, a dairy; and many
other community facilities owned and
operated by the Belgian women.
One thing that keeps these miner
communities poor is the remittance
system. Every month, about half
of the wages paid out goes into the
bank to await remittance to the old
folks at home, or is remitted without -
delay. During the war, the cutting
off of a large part of the remittances
led to remarkable accumulations in
the banks, and many of these ac-
cumulations were then taken home
personally. Generalizations are dan-
gerous to fairness, however, . and
accusations along this line, in ex-
tenuation of the squalor and filth
that marks so ni.uch mining town'
life, do not always hit the mark. It
is improbable that these foreign
Finers, who so promptly .-.imbibed
Bolshevist ideas, will go back ,to
work until they have to, but their
general conditions • leads to the pros-
pect that the "have to" stage will
not be long delayed.
ENGLAND'S DISPUTE ABOUT
FRAME HOUSES
The prejudice being exhibited. in
England toward frame houses seems
curious to the Canadian mind. Not
many frame houses are built now in
the larger Canadian cities. because
fire regulations and the high cost of
lumber stand in the way. The sever-
ity c1f the winters makes brick or
stone more substantial. But England
has a climate that resembles the
British Columbia coast, and in Van-
couver, Victoria and other coast cities
the frame residence is the • regular
• thing. And in the hands . of British
Columbia builders, who are so fam-
iliar with timber and woodwork,
they become things of beauty. The
attempt to introduce frame dwell-
ings in England does not rise from
an excess of lumber, or cheapness
of it, but simply because the Ma-
terials for a sufficient number of brick
or stone houses cannot be obtained.
. Army huts, • tents, river boats and
shacks are occupied. by hundreds of
thousands of people waiting for more
houses. The Government housing
plan contemplates the erection of at
least 300.000 more dwellings, but like
most Government plans, the scheme
gets great advertising with little re-
sult.
Dr, Addison. Minister of -Health,
recently stated that in England
:00,000' houses were required. Hous-
ing schemes provided for 40,000, and
of these about 8,000 were being erect-
ed. It may be mentioned that in -1919
Toronto alone is building 2,500 new
houses. Such slowness creates a de-
mand for a substitute. The editor
of the Spectator, .J. St. Leo Strachey,
advocates cottages of rammed earth,
technically known as "pise en terre."
Others are booming hollow -concrete
blocks. But the wooden house is'rnost
favored. and the newspapers have been
conducting an educational campaign.
Wooden houses are rare, but not un-
known. In Kent and Essex, "weather-
board" houses have stood the test of
a hundred years. The economic ar-
gument for thein seems unanswerable.
A "mill -cut" cottage can be erected
at a cost of about $1,400, against
$2,000 required for a small brick or
stone house. In larger houses the cost
would be from two-thirds to one-half
that, of. brick houses. Dr. Addison
objects b the scheme, however, be-
cause.,
e-
cause, he says. the "mill -cut" houses
are only four walls with a roof clap-
ped on. He figures they are, in the
end, only six per cent. ,cheaper than
substantial brick houses, and claims
that the damp climate is against them,
But British Columbia has.' a damp
climate, , and so has Norway, Where
frame houses abound. The fire risk
is met there• by having detached dwel-
lings, located in the small towns and
villages in such a way• that risk is
kept to a minimum.
A
very substantial difficulty in the
way is the obstruction offered by the
local ordinances or "by-laws" in most
districts. The requirements imposed
by these by-laws are often absolutely
prohibitive of the erection of any
wooden houses. But the Ministry of
Health has the power to supersede
them ° by general regulations of its
own, and it was announced a few days
ago that steps are to be taken in this
direction. The Ministry declares et-
self eager to investigate the . whole
question, and to that end it has ac-
cepted the offer of the Agent -General
for British Columbia to send over a
sample ' house, which is to be placed
on public view, so that its advantages
and disadvantages may be impar-
tially weighed, In contrast with this
is the offer of William F. Regan,
once well known in the mining
world, who undertakes to deliver in
various . English ports 60,000 Ameri-
can wooden houses within one year,
at the rate of 5,000 every 3 weeks,
from: a given date, at prises ranging
front £250 to £750' each. These, he
says, will not be disreputable, cast-
off, worn-out army, huts, but artistic
residences, furniture saving, labor sav-
ing, warm in winter, cool in summer,
and fit for any man to occupy, be he
a workingman or a capitalist.
As the situation isto-day, the ques-
tion of the comparative merits of the
wooden and the brick house is rapid-
ly becoming irrelevant. The wooden
house may be cheaper or dearer than
the brick house; it may be less dur-
able
urable or more; it may run greater risks
of being burned down or it may not;
it may or may not be as comfortable
as the house in which the Englishman
has hitherto been accustomed to live.
The great thing is that the wooden
house is a house. Every other con-
sideration is nowadays beside the
point. • It is no longer a question o£
the ideal place to live in. There are
tens of thousands of people in Eng-
land just now who would jump at
the chance of getting a _ house of any
kind or pattern. At the Manchester
City Council last week it was declar-
edif thebuilding that ui
bng of municipal
houses ptoceeded only at the present
rate it would be twenty years before
the local building scheme was com-
pleted. The shortage affects the
middle and working classes alike, and
it extends all. over the country.
WHAT' TURPENTINE WILL DO
Turpentine and soap will remove
ink stains from linen
A few drops added to water in
which clothes are boiled will: whiten
them.
It will' exterminate roaches, if
sprinkled in their haunts.
Moths will leave if it is sprinkled
about.
Turpentine will .remove wheel
greese, pitch and tar stains.
A few drops on a woollen cloth- will
clean tan shoes nicely. ,
Clean gilt frames with a sponge
moistened in turpentine.
Ivory knife handles that have be-
coce yellow .can be restored to their
former whiteness by rubbing With
turpentine.
Carpets can be cleaned and colors
restored by going overoccasionally
with a broom dipped in warm water
in which a little turpentine is added
An equal mixture of turpentine and
linseed oil will remove white marks
from furniture caused by water.
Moisten stovie blacking with turpein-
tine and it will not burn off.
NEWEST, NOTES-OF•QIENCE
To prevent ladders slippinge a New
York man has patented a rod to be
clamped to a bottom rung and exe
tend to a rubber pad on the ground.
To convert, a dining table into,. one
for billiards, a sectional rim has been
patented, to be put in place over a
tablecloth and its padded lining.
Electric shears for tailors, which
can be used wherever an alternating
current of low frequency is available,
have beer invented by e Frenchman.
A patent has-been issued for a cigar
with a holder included in its tip when
'made of sufficiently inexpensive ma-
terial to be thrown away after use.
An institution for the blind in. Lon-
don has a multicy cle which can be
ridden by twelve men, the steersman
being the only one required to have
his sight.
In the present century the value of
natural gas used_ in the United. States
annually- has risen from $27,000;000
to $142,000,000 and still is rising.
David Jlarum
Continued from Page 7
dilemas, but in a moment of inadver-
tence had left the shoe question to
him, with the result that he had put
on one russet shoe and one black
one, and had laced them up before dis-
covering the discrepancy."
"I don't see anything. very difficult
in that situation," remer ked John.
"Don't you?" she said scornfully.
"Ne, I suppose not, but it was .quite
enough for Julius, and .more than
enough for my sister and me: His
first notion was to take off both shoes
and begin. all over again, and per-.
haps if he had been allowed to carry
It out he would have been all right;
but Alice was silly enough to sug-
gest the obvious thing to him—to take
off one, and put on the mate to the
other—and then the trouble began.
First he was in favor of the black
shoes as being thicker in the sole, and
then he reflected that they hadn't been
blackened since corning on board. It
seemed. to him that the russets were
more appropriate anyway, but the
blacks were easier to lace. ' Had' I
noticed wheedler the men on board
were wearing russet or black as -a reale,
and did Alice remember whether it was
one of the russets or one of the blacks
that he was saying the other day
pinched his toe? He didn't quite like
the looks- of a russet shoe. with dark
trousers, and called us to witness that
those he had on were dark; but he
thought he rembered that it was the
black she which pinched him. He
supposed he could change his trousers
—and so n, and so on, al fine, de capo,
,ad lib., s iclung out first one foot and
then the dither, lifting them alternately
to his knee for scrutiny, appealing now
to Alice and now to nee, and getting
rnore hopelessly bewildered all the
time. It went on that way for, it.
seemed to me,. at least half an hour,
and at last I said, `Oh, come now,
Julius, take off the brown shoe—it's
too thin, .and doesn't go -with your
dark trousers; and pinches your toe,
and none of 'the men are wearing them
—and just put off on the other black
'one, and come along. We're all\ suf-
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you don't get started pretty soon we
sha'n't get on deck to -day.' `Get on
deck!' he said, looking up at me with
a puzzled expression, and holding fast
to the brown shoe on his knee with
both hands, as if he were afraid I
would take it away from him by main
strength—'get on deck! Why—why-
1 believe I'd better not go out this
morning, don't You?"
"And then?" said John after a
pause.
"Oh," she replied, I looked at Alice
and she shook her head as much to
say, `It's no use for the present,' and
I fled the place."
"M'm!" muttered John. "He must
have been a nice traveling companion,
Has it been like that .all the time?"
"Most of it," she said, "but not quite
all, and this morning was rather an
exaggeration of the regular thing.
But getting started on a journey was
usually pretty awful. Once we quite
missed our train because he couldn't
make up 'his mind whether to put on
a light overcoat ora heavy one. I
finally settled the question for him,
but we were just too late."
"You must be a very amiable per-
son," remarked John.
"Indeed, I am not," she declared,`
"but Julius is, and- it's almost impos-
sible to be really put out with him,
particularly in his condition. I have
come to believe that he can not help
it, and he submits to my bullying
with such sweetness that even my.
impatience gives way."
"Have you three people been alone
together all the time ?" John asked.
"Yes," she replied, "except for four
or five weeks. We visited some Amer-
ican friends in Berlin, the Nollises,
for a fortnight, and after our visit
to them they traveled with us for
three weeks through South Germany
and Switzerland. We parted with
them at Metz only about three weeks
since."
"How did Mr. Carling seem while
you were all together ?" asked John,
looking keenly...at her.
. "Oh," sheer;rplied, "he war, more
like hi iself4 i , I have seen him for
a long ti°tnet-`-since he began' to break
down, in fact.
. He turfied hfs eyes from her ,face
as she looked •up at him, and as he did
not speak she said suggestively, "You
are thinking - something you , don't
quite like to say, But I think I know
pretty nearly what- it is."
"Yes?" said John, with a'query.
"You think he has had too much
feminine companionship, or had it
too exclusively, Is that it? You
need not be afraid to say so."
"Well," said John, "if you put it
too exclusively,' I will admit that
there was -something of that sort in
my mind, and," he added, "if you will
let me say so, it must at times have
been rather hard for him to be in-
terested or amused—that it must have
—that is to say "
"Oh, say it" she exclaimed. "It
must have been very dull for him. Is
that it?"
" `Father,' " said . John with a gri-
mace, " `i can not tell a lie!' "
"Oh," she said, laughing, "your
hatchet isn't very sharp. I forgive
you.. But really," she added, "I know
it has been. You will laugh when I
tell you the one particular resource'
we fell back upon."
"Bid me to laugh, and I will laugh,"
said John. .
"Euchre!" she said, looking at him
defiantly. "Twothanded euchre! We
have played, as :nearly as I can esti=
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mate, fifteen hundred games, in which
he has held both bowers and the ace
of trumps—or something .equally vic-
torious ---I should say fourteen hun-
dred times. "Ohl" she cried, with an
expression of loathing, "may I never,
never, never see a card again as long
as I live!'] John laughed without re-
straint, and after a petulant -little
moue she joined them.
"May I light up icily pipet" he said,
"I will get to Ieeward."
"1 shall not mind in the least,"
she assented.
"By the way," he asked, "does Mr.
Carling smoke?"
"He used' to," she replied; "and
while we were with the Nollises he
smoked every day, but after we left
them be fell back into the notion that
it was . bad for him."
John filled and lighted his pipe in
silence, and after a satisfactory puff
or two said: "Will Mr. Curling go
in to dinner to -night?"
"Yes," she replied, "I think he will
if it is no rougher than at present."
"It will probably be smoother,"
said John, "You must introduce me
to him "
"Oh," she interrupted, "of;,course,
but it will hardly be necessary, as
Alice and I have spoken so often to
him of you- ,-d' _
"I was going to say," John resum-
ed, "that he may possibly let rile take
him off your hands a little, and after
dinner will be the best time. I think
if I can get him into the smoking room
that a cigar and—and—something hot
with a bit of lemon peel and so forth
later on may induce him to visit with
me for a while, and pass the evening,
or part of it." -
"You want to be an angel!" she ex-
claimed. "Oh, I—we—shall be so
obliged. I );now it's just what he
,wants=• -some men to take - him in
hand."
"I'm in no hurry to be an angel,"
said John, laughing, and, with a bow,
"It's better sometimes to be near the
rose than to be the rose, and you are
proposing to overpay me quite. I
shall enjoy doing what I proposed, if
it be possible."
Their talk then drifted off into var-
iuus channels as topics suggested
themselves until the ship's bell sound-
ed the luncheon hour. Mass Blake
went to join her sister and brother-in-
law, but John had some bread and
cheese and beer in the smoking room.
It appeared that the ladies had better
success than in the morning, for he
saw them later on in their steamer
chairs with Mr. Carling, who was
huddled in many wraps, with the flaps
of his cap down over his ears. All
the chairs were full;—his own includ-
ed (as happens to easy -tempered' menj •
—and he had only a brief colloquy
with the party. He noticed; however,
that Mr. Carling had on the russet
shoes, and 'wondered if they pinched
him. In fact, though he couldn't have
said exactly why, he rather hoped
'that they did. He had just that symp-
athy for the nerves of - two -and -fifty
which is to be expected•from those of
five-and-twenty—that is, very little.
When he went in to dinner the
'Carlings and Miss, Blake had been at
table some 'minutes; There had been
the usual controversy about what Mr.
Carling would drink with his dinner,
and he had decided upon Apollinaris
water. But Miss Blake, with an idea
of her own, had given an order for
champagne, and was exhibiting some
consternation, real or assumed, at the
fact of having a -bottle brought in with
the cork extracted—a customary trick
at sea.
"I hope you will help me out," she
said to John as he bowed and seated
himself. " 'Sonia one has blundered,'
and here is a whole bottle of cham-
pagne which must be drunk to save
it. Are you prepared to help turn my,
or somebody's blunder into hospital-
ity?"
"I am ;prepared to make any sacri-
fice," said John, laughing, "in the
sacred cause." ,
"No less than I expected of you,"
she said. "Noblesse oblige! Please
fill your glass,"
"Thanks," said John. "Permit me,"
and he filled her own as well.
As the meal proceeded there was
some desultory talk about the weather,
the ship's run, and so on; but Mrs.
Carling was almost silent, and her
husband said but little more. Even
Miss Blake- seemed to have .something
on her mind, and contributed but
little to the conversation. Presently
Mr. Carling said, "Mary, do you think
a mouthful of wine would hurt me?"
"Certainly not," was the reply. "It
will do you good," reaching over for
his glass and pouring the wine.
"That's enough, that's enough!" he
protested as the foam came up to the
rim of the glass. She proceeded to
fill it up to the brim and put it be-
side him, and later, as she had op-
portunity, " kept it replenished.
As the dinner concluded, John ,said
to Mr. Carling. "Won't you go up to
the smoking room with me for coffee?
I like a bit of tobacco with mine, and
I have some really good cigars and
some cigarettes—if you prefer them—
that I can vouch for."
.As usual, when the unexpected was
presented to his mind, Mr. Carling
passed the perplexity on to his women
folk. At this time, however, his din-
ner
iiiner and the two glasses of wine which
Miss Blake had contrived that he
should swallow had braced him up,
and John's suggestion was so warmly
seconded by the ladies that, after some
feeble protests and misgivings, he
yielded, and John carried him off.
"I hope it won't upset Julius," said
Mrs. Carling doubtfully.
"It won't do anything of the sort,"
her sister replied. "He will get
through the evening without worry-
ing himself and you into fits, and, if
Mr. ` Lenox succeeds, you won't see
anything of him till ten • o'clock or
after, and not then, I hope. Mind,
you're to be sound asleep when he
conies in—snore a'little if necessary
—and let him get to bed without any
talk at all."
"Why do you say 'if Mr. Lenox suc-
ceeds'?" asked Mrs. Carling.
"It was his suggestion," Miss Blake
answered. "We had been talking a-
bout Julius, and he finally told me he
thought he would' be the better of an
occasional interval of masculine soci-
ety, and I quite agreed with him. You
know how much he enjoyed being with
George Nollis, and how much like
himself he appeared."
"That is true," .said Mrs. Carling.
"And you know that just as soon
as he got alone again with us two
women he began backing and filling as
badly as ever. I believe Mr. Lenox
is right, and that Julius is just pet-
ticoated to death between us."
"Did Mr. Lenox say that?" asked
Mrs. Carling iiicredulously.
"No," said her sister, laughing, "he
didn't make use of precisely that
figure, but that was what he thought
plainly enough."
What do you think pi Mr. Lenox?",
said Mrs. Carling irrelevantly. "Do
you like him? I thought that he look-
ed at you. very admiringly once er
• twice to -night," she ' added, with her
eyes on her sister's face.
I "Well," said Mary, with a petulant
toss of the head, "except that I've
had about an , hour's talk with him,
and that I knew him when we; were
children—at least when 1 was a child,
he is a perfect stranger to me, and
I do wish," she added in a tone of
annoyance, "that you would give ues
that fad of yours, t ont every man
n who
comes alongisgongto-to
be a
nuisance."
"Ile seems very pleasant," said Mrs..
Carling, meekly ignoring her sister's:
reproach.
"Oh, yes,' she replied indifferently,
"he's pleasant enough. Let us go etee
and have a. walk on deck. I want you
to be sound asleep when Julius comes
in."
(COntinued next week).
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Csmfsrs Lye Kills rats, mice, roaches
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