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From the Molly Maguires to the United Mine Workers: The Social Ecology of an Industrial Union 1869–1897: Appendix III. Contract Between a Miner and a Store

From the Molly Maguires to the United Mine Workers: The Social Ecology of an Industrial Union 1869–1897

Appendix III. Contract Between a Miner and a Store

Appendix III

Contract Between a Miner and a Store

Messrs. H.H. Ashley & Co.,    No. _________

Gentlemen:

I wish to purchase goods from your store

from time to time, on credit. I am at

present in the employ of the lessee and

contractor, under the receivers of the

Lehigh–Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., and agree

that you may collect the price of all goods

which you shall furnish me or my family, or

which you have already furnished, from the

same company, their receivers, lessee, or

contractor, or any other party employing

me, out of the amounts they now owe me, or

may hereafter be indebted to me, and that

your receipt to my employers shall be a

full discharge of such indebtedness for

the amounts collected.

__________________________

Witness__________________

______________188–__________________

_______________________________________________________

We accept the proposition of__________________

as above made, and agree to give him credit

on the terms and conditions therein proposed,

to such amounts, and for so long as we may

deem expedient.

__________________________

Witness__________________

_______________188–__________________

______________________________________________________________

From Pennsylvania, Secretary of Internal Affairs, Annual Report, 1878-79, Part III, Industrial Statistics, 380.

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