The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-17

Strike In the Pittsburg District 10 on Ex
| cept at tho DeArmIt Mines, Where the
Fight Will Re Kept Up as Before-Dis.
trict in Illinois Which supplies St
| Louis Resumes Operations Except Tive
Big Companies-Queer Things About
| the Hazleton strike-Petticoat Con
| tingent-Operators Want Troops
Pittsburg, Pa. Sept. 16.-After nearly
| three months of idleness, between Is. 200
and $1,000 coal miners in the Pittsburg
district returned 10 work today in ac-
| cordance with the action taken ar yes
terday'S convention, authorizing the
, men to resume work in all mines comply
ing with the provisions OF the scale OF S.
cents adopted at Columbus. The re-
mainder of the $4,000 miners Of the dis
trict will be at work before the close
Of the week. It is estimated that the
strike, which lasted sixty-five working
days. cost the people Of the Pittsburg
district from s5,000OO0 to s7.OOo.OOO OF
this amount the miners lost about ST.
100000 in wages.
The strike against the De Armits will
continue Indefinitely, arrangements hav-
ing been made to assess the working
miners per cent of their wages TO de-
fray the expenses OF keeping up the
fight until the G5 cent rate is made uni
form throughout the district.
ILLINOISANS AT WORK.
st. Louis, Sept. 16.-The coal miners
strike is over, SO far as the district sup
plying the st. Louis market is concern
ed.
Seventeen mines in the Sixth Illinois
district resumed work today. 1t is prob
able that all the small operators in the
district will come into line before the
end of the week The DuQuoin will re-
turn to work Friday morning.
The representatives of the strikers
were met by seventeen OF the independ-
ent operators. The men submitted a
proposition for a scale Of 81 cents ton,
ton weight, mine run. After long con-
sultation it was accepted late in the af-
ternoon.
The big Consolidated and Madison com
panies ignored the call for the confer
fight on their hands. The independent
operators and the miners agreed 20
make common warfare on the big COM
panies. The small operators will en-
ploy as many as possible Of the strikers
formerly employed by the Madison and
Consolidated companies. It is probable
that double shifts will be worked. The
Consolidated and Madison companies
will not be able to get men to dig coal
for them until they sign the scale.
QUEER KIND OF STRIKE.
Philadelphia, Sept. ia special to
the Record from Hazelton says:
"Originating as it did in the petty dis
agreement between the Lenigh and
Wilkesbarre company mule drivers and
their employers. and having spread until
it now affects nearly 10000 men and
most of the principal operators OF the
middle coal fields. this strike has been
one of the most peculiar ever inaugural
ed in this region.
The miners have no organiZat ton. In
many instances they do not know exact
ly for what they struck, except that they
felt that they have been unfairly treat
fifty per cent Of the idle GOLFERS they
are at loss to say how much they want
and in such cases they have quit work
without even asking for an increase in !
THE BROOMSTIC KBRIGADE.
Hazelton, Pa. Sept. 1.-two hundred |
and fifty women made more trouble this |
than the 10000 striking miners |
have caused since last Fridays shoot |
ing
They were the foreign women OF the |
McAdoo and Audenried district. Armed |
with clubs, rolling pins, pokers and any |
they could find, they invaded /
the washeries which have hitherto been |
working and forced the men, about 300 |
in number, to quit work. AS the men |
were husbands, sons. or brothers Of the |
women in most instances. they made no |
although this is the first sue
cessful movement 10 get them out. In |
every other part of the region quiet pre-
vailed. The strike may now be said to |
be general as there is not colliery OF !
Importance in operation.
OPERATORS WANT TROOPS.
Wilkesbarre. Pa, Sept. 16.The length |
d the stay Of the military in the Hazel
ton district will depend on Sheriff Mar
tin. General Goblin says he stands
ready to withdraw the soldiery if the
sheriff says so.
A rumor that the sheriff had concluded /
to assume responsibility brought an
avalanche OF kilograms from the coal |
companies, advising the sheriff not TO
let the militia 60 until there was a more
settled feeling in Hazel,on and vicini-
~. Labor leaders say the troops pre-
vent settlement Of the strike and give |
no ~