The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-09-30
JOHN SINEY's TRIAL.
Miners Prevented from Going TO Work By
Force and Threats.

CLEARFIELD, Pa, Sept. 29.-In the trial
OF siney and Parks to-day the Testimony Of the
witnesses was to the following effect: On Msy
10 last forty Italians at the Sterling Mines.
brought up by special train from PhiladeiphAa.
were, with force and threats, taken away by Q
crowd OF striking miners.
The same crowd some 300 In number, vera
sgain at the Sterling mines on the afternoon of
the l2th, and caused the men there at work to
cease working, threats being made that these
men must come out or they would be compelled
TO come out, and the men quit for fear Of per-
sonal violence.
On the morning OF the l2th, the same strikers,
with John Siney among them, were at the Mo-
work desisted from further work by direction
OF their superintendent through fear Of yio-
Then siney made a speech, In which, after
calling attention to q lot OF Reading cars stand
ing on the track loaded. he said that working
their bretheren In schuylklll region, who
were making good nght against tho
miners had Ave or six weeks good work and
could well afford to stand out, and urged them
TO go along with the crowd to the Sterling nina
and bring out the miners there. That tho time
for words had passed, and the time for action
had come, and, asking them, " Do you want
your Superintendent to lead your" he went
with the crowd in the direction of the Sterling
mine.
on the same day slney and Parks, With e5d
men, were at Morrisdale Mines, some ten miles
distant The men were not permitted TO come
IN collision with the workmen, but In their
speeches Slney and Parks said, that II
they did not quit work at once and Join
tho rest the miners there would not get work
again on that mountbin; that the strikers had
already had victories at Goss Run and Moshsn-
non, and all they now wanted, to secure the
increase in wages was success at Morrisdale.
On the 18th inst. the crowd OF strikers, with
Parks, were at the Powelton mines. where twen-
ty-nve or thirty OF the men at work there Joined
them. No violence was used there, though
threats were made, the accessions to their ranks
at that point being due To persuasion and TO
ther success in other localities.
Slney left the region on the morning Of the
18th inst. NistatiOns wero made by the same
miners to Sterling & shannon, where the
men were resuming work, on the 14th and 18th
respectively. At each place the workmen were
guarded by force Of policemen, armed with
revolyers and also had the protection OF a num-
Der Of muskets and carbnes. No violence was
attempted.
Parks was proved to have been present at SOW
eral IN eetiDgs pending the strike, advising and
directing. Threatening letters and notices were
received by the miners that injury would
happen them II they did not quit work and
threats and vile language were used at all places
where the strikers gathered. on one occasion
suggestion OF violence from some one among
the strikers, who was said to have come from
Philadelphia, was rebuked by Siney, who said
disavow that language"
On another occasion two mon, In a procession
Clark, OF tho Coal and Iron Police, who entered
to resist his authority being made.