The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-06-09
TIE SEASON OF
LABOR UNREST
Pltkburs Railroad Coal Operators Decide 10
Attend Columbus Convention. .
MINORITY BOLTS The CONVENTION
The Conference Liable to Furnish an
Amicable Solution of the Prob
lem-Armed Men Seek to Dislodge
Miners at st. Mary at
Manown Allowed to Remain in Com
pany House-Parade of Workmen at
PunxsutawneY.


pany House-Parade of Workmen at
Punxsutawney.
PITTsBURG, June s.
my A VOTE of 63 to 50 the rail-
w road coal operators this morn.
II0) ing decided to attend the COL
" umbus convention tomorrow
and Immediately after this decision
was announced the minority operators
bolted the convention and refused to
be bound by the action of the NEE ting
Of tomorrow at Columbus
The operators met at 10 o'clock and
were in session until o'clok. Mr.. Al
eXander Patterson, Que Of the Oldest
operators in the district presided.
There was large representation. I'm
mediately upon the call to order re-
porters were excluded. w. P. Dear
mitt and F. l. Robbins were the lead
ing spirits and the discussion between
the was sharp. The committee of ten
reported their failure to agree rs to the
proposition to attend the Columbus
convention and were discharged.
Operator Boyle offered q resolution
that q Committee be appointed to at
tend the Columbus convention az the
authorized representatives of the rail.
road operators of the Pittsburg district
with full and unlimited power to take
such action as should in their judg.
ment be to the best interests of the op-
orators in the Pittsburg district. Mr..
Desrmitt offered a substitute which
was tabled A secret ballot was taken
with the above result A committee
Of four operators was then appointed
to attend the Columbus conference to
morrow.
The impression prevails that the &C.
tion of today will mark crisis in the
coal strike and that the Columbus con-
ference will arrive at an amicable ad.
justrHent of the strike ia not among the
impossibilities.
TROUBLE AT ST. MARYs.
HARRISBURG. Pu., June S.-The fol-
lowing dispatch from Ridgway, Elk
county, tonight shows the situation in
that region: Assistant Suparintend.
ent Joe Bailey, of the N. W. NJ. & Ex.
Co. says 300 men, seveuty.tive armed,
have just left Dagus mines for st.
Mary's to dislodge the miners who are
work at Hall, Kaul e. Go. 5 property
They are very angry. hearing that
miners who are incarccrated in Jail
here are being badly used Revenge is
one Of the objects in going to St.
Mary's. There Is more fear of serious
trouble than at any time since the
strike started. More deputies are be-
ing subp@ laed
PnNXUTAwNEY. Pa, June S-The
miners occupying company houses at
Horace and Anita were today served
with five days notice of eviction Last
night parade comprising $50 boys
was made along the guard line estab.
lished at Horace and another aud
larger parade was made this evening.
At Cush Creek and Glen Campbell,
near this place. the few men who re-
turned to work on Tuesday quit today,
aud ut the latter place company
house was burned to the ground last
night. 1t is reported here that the
guards who left here yesterday were
RIDGwAY, Pa, June 8.-Thres hun.
dred strikers left Centreville about 5
o'clock this afternoon and are march
ing to st. Mary's, where Hall 81 Kaul
have about thirty farmers digging coal.
The strikers are we'll armed and were
headed by band. A special train will
leave here Mt 7.3O TO take deputies to
the scene. There are a few Italians
and Hungarians among the strikers
who went to st. Mary's and it is feared
they will offer resistance to the depu
| ties
Affairs at Shawmut are somewhat
quleter ana some OF the deputies now
there will be taken to st. Mary's.
EvIcT1oNs POSTPONED
MoNoNGAHELA CITY, Pa, June s.
There was no trouble at the works of
Youghiogheny Gas Coal company at
Manown this morning. but the axcit-
ing events Of last night have had the
effect o. bringing the operators to the
position Of doing everything in their
power to gain the good will of the
strikers Through lack of sleep. the
deputies were in sad plight this morn
ing. 1t was not known until this morn,
ing that the number Of deputies guard
ing the works is less than sixty, but
they have all seen service and IL an
attack were made would offer stiff
fight
This morning the managers of the
mine notified the strikers that they
might stay in the company's houses
free OF rent until the strike was set
tied. This was done to prevent riot
which would surely Socour should an
eviction be attempted. No coal is be.
ing brought out of the mine this morn
ing. though eleven men went down
the slope.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, June 9.-Pana is
again threatened with an invasion,
this time by miners of the Springfield
district. All day long they have been
coming In and cJngregating on the
railroad tracks on the Baltimore and
Ohio south western on the southern
edge of Springfield. 1t is impossible to
get from the miners any specific knowl-
edge Of their intentions.
QUIET AT CRIPPLE CREEK.
CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo. June S.-The
long strike in Cripple Creek ia ended
and the settlement has bsen effected
without bloodshed. At 10 o'clock this
morning such contamination seemed
among the most improbable Things
that were liable TO happen. About 0
o'clock the deputies began leaving
camp in ,quads of hundred or more,
ostensibly for the purpose of scouting
but really to make concerted attack
! unknown to the militia on Bull Hill.