Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-09-16
STRIKE Is SPREADING.
SEVERAL NORTH SIDE COLLIERIES
TIED UP THIS WEEK.
Drirton Employees Met Last Night and
Presented Their Grievances This Morn
ing Troops Sent to This Side Yesterday.
Situation Since the Massacre.

Presented Their Grievances This Morn
Troops Sent to This Side Yesterday.
Situation Since the Massacre.
The strike situation is becoming more
complicated every day. The entire
South Side, except Coleraine, where the
demands of the men were granted, is
still out. These mines are now idle:
Coke Bros. & Co., Eclley, Beaver Meadow
and Oneida, about 1000 men; Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre Coal Company's Honey
Brook and Audenried mines, about =, 500;
Frank Pardees Cranberry and Crystal
Ridge, LOO; Lehigh Valley Coal Com
| pany, Halle Mines, Yorktown, Jeanes-
willie and Audenried, 5000; Calvin Pardee
& Co., Lattimer and Harwood, 1000
| Drifton employees met at the Grand
opera house last night, and, after or
ganizing, a committee of ten men was
chosen to present at 6.30 a. NJ. today to
! Superintendent Smith q scale of wages
which they want paid. If u favorable
reply is not made by Saturday general
strike will be declared on. Also, il any
member of the committee is discharged
| for taking part in this matter, strike
will follow Immediately. The scale, as
| follows, was presented this morning:
Miners wages, So, 10; laborers' wages,
Sl.66; Big vein, car price, soc; team
drivers, four mules, $1.75; two mules,
$1.50; single mule, $l.25; car runners,
81 sc; patchers, 81; door tenders, 75c;
hitchers, Sl.66; stripping miners, 81 &C;
stripping laborers, $l.25; breaker men,
81; breaker boys, soc; platform men,
Sl.35; outside men, $l.25; engineers,
SITS; head tremen, SLIGO; helpers, 81 40;
ash wheelers, $l.25; pumpmcn, 81 &C;
company, timber and road men, 81 &C.
a reduction in price Of coal to $2 per
load, including hauling, and of powder
to 81 per keg is also asked.
STRIKES ON TIE NORTH SIDE.
On Monday Coke Bros. employees at
Buck Mountain marched to Ecklcy and
induced the men there to quit work
Both places are now idle. Increases of
from 10 to % per cent are asked. On
Tuesday the collierieS were paid, and all
the leaders, as well as several who took
no active part in causing operations to
be suspended, were discharged by Super
intendcnt kudlick and ordered TO i'm
mediately vacatc the companys dwell
lings.
On Tuesday the Ecklcy men marched
to Highland No. to call out the en-
ploycs of Marklc & Co. They were met
by John Markle, who promised that any
grievances of his men would be promptly
remeded, and this was accepted, the
Eckley men dispensing with no attempt
to insist upon an immediate settlement.
At Upper Lehigh the same day the
slate pickers went out for an advance.
This was promised them. Immediately
after No. drivers stopped work An in
crease was also granted them and they
returned to their mules. Drivers are to
get Sl.66 and patchers 90 cents per
day.
On Monday evening Jcddo employees
to the number of 300 met at Japan
school house, formulated their griev-
ances and sent the same to Markle & Co.
They decided to work until Saturday
and if favorable reply is not received
by that time they will cease work. They
ask for an increase of wages and the
price of powder and mine supplies to be
reduced
MILITIA HAS NOTHING TO DO.
The 1900 troops in the region have
absolutely nothing to do. There has
been no disturbance of any nature, and
the soldiers are already tiring of camp
life and are anxious to 90 home. The
first appearance of the militia on the
North Side was on Tuesday, when the
City Troop, of Philadelphia, and the
Governors Troop, of Harrisburg, rode
from IIazleton to Eckley and return,
passing through Drifton and Jeddo.
Yesterday amid 4 lot of bluster and
warlke preparations the Fourth regi-
ment 500 strong, arrived in Drifton over
the d. S. & S. and pitched their tents in
Drifton ball park.
Several of the soldiers have been ar
rested for drunkenness in the several
camps. Their uniforms were promptly
taken off them and they were sent home
in disgrace.
On Tuesday Major General Snowden,
state commander of the National Guard,
accompanied by Adjutant General Stew
art and other officers and were taken
through the region over the d. S. g. S.
No arrangements whatever have yet
been made in regard to sending the
troops away. General Goblin says:
''The troops will not leave for some
time. 1t will be week or ten days be-
fore any CO. and then detachment will
be kept for any emergency case which
may arise"
SAYS HESS GAVE TIE ORDER.
Gradually the mystery which surround
ed the starting of the firing by the depu-