The Duty On Coal Being a Few Facts Connected With the Coal Question Which Wil
The Duty On Coal Being a Few Facts Connected With the Coal Question Which Wil
Israel W Morris
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The annual consumption of bituminous coal in the Atlantic seaboard States is about 4, 000, 000 tons ; consequently, it represents one day's labor of 1 2, 000, 000 men ; or, as the average working time is 226 days to the year, the number of hands actually employed in the production and transportation of this article is upwards of 50, 000. Now, to supply the wants of this army of industrious men, representing, with their families, not less than 250, 000 souls, requires the products of many seaboa...rd factories, and the provisions grown upon many a prairie farm. The average price of bitumi- nous coal at the pit's mouth is about $1. 25 per ton, one-half of which, it may be said, is expended in clothing from American factories, and the bal- ance in provisions ; consequently, the men who work in the darkness and danger of the mines feel that they may justly make the following appeal to their fellow workmen, who are more blessed than they, in being privi- leged to work constantly under the rays of the sun : Manufacturers and workingmen of the East, who depend upon us for your supply of fuel wherewith to keep your machinery in motion, do you not also draw from our hard-earned wages a considerable proportion of the money with which you pay and are paid ?
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