NEWS OF THE WEEK.
rr HE coal strike in Pennsylvania is becoming a movement of
• the first importance. The miners, chiefly Hungarian Slays, complain that, taking the average of the year, they can only earn a pound a week, which in America is poor pay ; that they have to work too long hours ; and that the employers, locally called the operators, refuse them the right to combine. The efforts of the President, therefore, have failed, the men almost unanimously rejecting his proposal to consider all grievances officially if they will return to work. Mr. Stone, who is Governor of Pennsylvania, has consequently called out ten thousand Militiamen, and hopes to be able to preserve order ; but the number of workers who p resent themselves is insufficient, and the trained hands say they can get bread, and that even if the United States troops are employed, they cannot compel them to work. The agitation in the towns is consequently very great, the price of coal in small quantities having risen to £6 a ton, which the poorer workmen cannot pay, and as the weather grows colder there are threats of dangerous out- breaks directed against the rich.
