The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-04-24
HATED PTNKERTONS.
Bitter Feeling in the Coke Region
Concerning the Detectives.
CONTINUED IMPORTATION OF ITALIANS
UnfriendIy Miners Also said to Re En- Route
-RIoting at Ecvicti0ns-LahOr Leaders
ActIye-ARaIrs Critical-a1ilitia
Under Orders.

Under Orders.
SCoTTDALE, Pa, April 22.-Last night
the strikers began gathering their
forces to overcome the last and most
powerful issues brought to bear by the
operators, being now face to face with
two hated and feared institUtiOns-th
Pinkerton detective forces and an inva-
sion of imported labor.
About 500 Pinl1ertOn detectives will
be brought into the region by to-day
and distributed around the different
works where the most strenuous
efforts are being made to resume.
There are said to be eight car loads
OF them, and as the news of their COM
ing preceded them throughout the re-
giOn there was constantly increasing eX-
element. The men have bitter dis
like to the PinlCertOns and have often
expressed the desire that they could
wipe them off the face of the earth.
Their coming only means further
trouble, which will certainly follow
owing to the hatred in which they are
held.
A atch of $50 PinIeertons arrived
here yesterday and all were placed on
duty at Leisenring No. ., where extra
ordinary efforts will be made to start in
the morning against the protests of the
strikers. All of the new guards are
armed with Springfield rifles and are a
determined set of men.
There were no evictiOns in this sec
ton yesterday, the deputies preferring
to wait until their safety should be as
sured
meeting of the executive board of
the mine workers was held here last
evening and preparations, financial and
otherwise, were made to prOlong the
fight. James Mcbride, of the miners
board, says there is no doubt that they
can stand a fight of several months yet,
and that their finances are all right
and that more money is coming in.
It is reported that the Fricls Coke Co.
has engaged the services of 500 expert
enccd miners from the Punxsutawnev
coal fields with the intention of putting
them to work at once in their various
coal mines now guarded by the Pinker-
ton men, 1t is also stated that the
miners are coming with the full
understanding that they are to
assist in breaking the strike.
When the Punxsutawney miners
were on a strike few months
ago the contributions for their support
from the coke region miners were very
meager. Said prominent labor leader
last evening: ~ have expected this
and suppose that the Punxsutawncy
miners think this their opportunity to
square accounts with the miners in the
coke regions"
The labOr.Ieaders are com bininy their
forces of speakers and will make every
effort to persuade the foreigners to
leave Interpreters have been gathered
and will hold meetings at every point
where the men are to work. The i'm
pOrtatiOn of Italians means the begin
ming of wholesale impOrtatiOns threat
ened for a long time by the operators.
This viii make the situation at once
more interesting and dangerous.
Company is held under orders at the
armOry at Uniontown- The arrival
there of the Pinlxerton men caused ugly
Comment The soldiers the strikers re-
spect, but the Pinlzerton men they
despise, and when Sheriff Mccormick
attempts to evict there Will undou bted-
" be trouble The sheriff is sore over
the withdrawal OF the troops, but does
not feel cOmplimented that Pinkerton's
men have come in their stead
A noted socialist named Jones, who
gathered together about 5, 600 followers
of the red flag here last fall, is coming
into the region to speak to his men.
Labor leaders say they are not in sym
pathy with his move, but it is known
the socialists are the most determined
of the men to win the present strike.
During the evictiOns at MoOrewOOd
yesterday afternoon many exciting
scenes occurred At the house of Mar
tackled by Wergenski's wife. mob of
500 people on the outside had to be dis
persed by the militia.
Affairs at AIOOrewOOd were somewhat
critical at midnight Early in the
evening crowds of strikers broke in the
windows Of the houses from which peo-
pie were evicted and began dancing
The dance will likely end with a fight.
THE BENNESSY AAttR1ER