The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-04-06

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work At the ovens was finished and their ser:
Wees to Guard the .workmen were not needed
the men needed sleep. but anybody viii know
that their presence was reauired when the
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phoned TO Davidson from Bradford that a mob
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ties. after teisphonina. but, Spi9rtunstsly ar
rived too late Let the public Judge where the
The causes which have led to the pr.sen.
strike date back to about rear. and half ago
ops sns olS sSnsa scale pfosdins Tor mini:
nun :ns q price Ike .d SiS1S % iS&
.This scale provided for level-iull wagon;
went tr SoGs hs che
minimum basis down to 90 cents, then to IS
cent? n n. s cent fas 4 SSE Z. me.
and paid 81 ieE %i.Ins When - otSs. Sp.Ss; ;
scale expired on Feb. 1. ne made new agree:
ment with his men, and It lie this agIeemen emit
which 90 many OF the men preferred to carry
Other operators construed the scale to call
compelled their men to mine an extra twenty
i've bushels OF coal on each hundred paid for
q the but
Another grievance OF the strikers lie the 70
fusal Of the miner operetors to make monthly
ConnelIsslle region. and Of this number ii a
374 were in operation last week.
and 1000 were idle. 6f the eighty i've plants
In the field only nfty-ssyen were then working:
ro viii begin ens
The present strike was ordered BY the United
Mine Workers Executive Committee IN a cir
extensive Efforts having been made for some
time previous to organize the men. and the
HUNGARIAN element especially. for the 90
The Connellsyills coke region. ha. been free
hprii :. iSsf. until the present time. On that
date ten HsnssTIans we were killed By deputies
u. G. Friek Coke Co. . few miles from Mount
Fifty others were wounded. A general strike
w wor They had demand ID shorter hours $.
more wages. and weigh scales on the tipples;
Inc operators rofusou al tnelr uemhnue, ana
proposed q ten per cent. reduction In wages.
The strike had been on for eight weeks be-
fore the tragedy at Morewood. A mob OF hun
dreds OF the Slavs marched upon Norwood
with the intention OF driving out the deputies
who were under command OF Capt. j. A. Loar
and Deputy sheriff Mcconnell. The mob had
broken down gates when tho order to fire was
given. This dispersed Il.
Upon the appeal Of Sheriff Clawson Of
Greensburgb. Gov Pattison ordered out the
Eighteenth and Tenth. regiments They
reached Norwood and Mt. Pleasant on the
evening OF April 2. Under their protection tho
erik was broken. the men returning to work
at the ten per cent reduction.
On April ~ Sheriff Mccormick Of Fayette
county evcted the strikers families from tho
Prick Company's houses at Adelaide mines.
near Connsllsvills. In resisting. ono Hunga-
Sheriff Mccormick was shot In one hand.
vas again spundsd. and tS1 .ss wsrs sos
doyn; On May another Hun was shot dead
The Blavs who have been working on the re-
cent completed State line branch OF the Balti-
more and ohio Railroad are beginning to
leave the country. hastensd By the troubles
between their countrymen coke workers.
Fourteen of them went through to New York
tonight. Hard times and desire to 60 back
20 farming In the old country were the reasons
they gave. Twelve striking coke workers
packed up to-day and left for Latrobs where
they have friends II Is supposed that this Is
only the beginning OF q general exodus.