Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-29
Out on % Strike.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
ErrAIFA. J. T.. July 2S.-Trouble is on
between the Choctaw coal and railway com
pany and the miners at Hartshorne and AL
derson. and the miners are out on strike
II all comes from the introduction OF negro
labor IN the mines and the employment of
two ScabS for bosses. Last week fifty-nine
negroes from Texas We're put 10 work at
HartShorne and more are expected this
week. Last year the two men that are now
complained of as sCah bosses were COM
planned OF by the miners for talking up ne
gro labor for the mines, ami the miners
succeeded in having them discharged. Mat
ters went along favorably from them until
now. For several months shaft No. 2 at
HartshOrne has been shut down and few
DAYS ago it resumed operations with num-
Der of negroes from Texas and the two dis
charged employees above referred to were
re-employed and made bosses. The miners
objected to the negro workmates and to the
two new bosses, and a general strike of
ChOCtaw and Railway miners Is the re-
suit The miners tools have been thrown
out Of the pits and the miners given notice
TO vacate the company's premises for negro
occupants. The company 10 guard against
an attack on the negroes from the white
miners, IS building barTicade at the mouth
sef the mines. The strikers are peareable
but considerably agitated and are
trying TO have the negroes re-
moved They are enliStine the
sympathy OF the citizens i'll their behalf
The following petition is being circulated
among the Choctaw citizens asking Gov
eTnor Jones to take steps to remove the ne
groes and to prevent further importation of
them for work in the mines:
ITO his excellency, Governor William Jones,
Governor OF the Choctaw Nation.
1.-THE undersigned citizens and residents
of the ChoCtaw Nation would respectfully
represent to your eXcellency that the super
the mines operated by the
4 'hoCtw coal and railway company has
4ateiy introduced into this Nation large
sTuruber of negroes TO be employed and used
las miners in TIE various mines operated by
said Choctaw Goa, and railway company,
and that unless some preventive measure
be taken many more such negroes will be
introduced That the negroes SO introduced
are of a class so low and degraded rs 10 in
lure the prosperity and retard the progress
of the community in which they are located;
that the introduction of such negroes is
calculated TO cause strikes among the better
class of miners, thus disturbing and dis
Guieting the neighborhoods in which said
miners are located, and causing great loss to
the Choctaw Nation in the royalty arising
from the mining OF coal. In consideration
of the above premises and In behalf of the
peace and quiet of the community and of
that security which We as citizens and res
idents Of the Choctaw Nation, have always
enjoyed we do earnestly request your eN-
cellency that some immediate official steps
be taken for the prevention of the further
importation of such negroes By said super
iutendent of mines of the Choctaw coal and
railrAy company. ami for the removal of
THOSE already so introduced;
The petition is receiving several sigma
lures, but il is plain that the Choctaw chief
has no authority to act on il SO long as the
non-Citizens comply with the law regulating
the introduction Of labor into the Indian
Territory.