The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-11-12
CHINESE WILL AIBE.
Ceiestials to Be Put IN the PIaoe OF
Striking Illinois Miners
LABOR HEy PREDICT BL00gHED.
An Army Of 5000 Starving Miners Coz
goSted 1t Coal city, BraSevnle, Carbon
I'm and BraldwoOd- Appeal
to GOV. Tanner.

CHICAGO, EoY 10.-Preparations for
an armed siege are being made at the
General Wilmington Coal aonpany's
mines in the BraidW0od district Of
northern Illinois Hundreds of Chi
nese miners from Wyoming are being
imported 10 take the places of men
who have been on a strike since last
June. 1t is a course that promises
either rioting and bleodshedor Gquick
settlement Of the differences between
the strikers and mine operators 4
stout wooden stockade viii surround
the Carbon Hill shafts and guards
armed with rifles and reviewers viii be
ready TO repel rioters Barrels Of Cat
ling guns viii glimmer at portfolios ia
the Enclosure wall aud the gunners
will have orders to make them DO
deadly work in case Of an invasion by
the people who will resent the impoF-
tation.
Places of $500 white employees Of shs
company, who have been on a strike
since July 4, are to be taken by the
labor that knows no unions and recks
not Of strikes. Within "A hours the
first batch Of 200 Cinnamon, which has
been secretly shipped, is expected to
arrive at Carbon Hill, in the heart Of
the district, where the process Of at
tempting te crush the strike will be
commenced. Others viii be brought
as quickly as practicable, and within
few weeks the complementof 500, with
which IL is intended to pursue opera
tions until Chinese mine labor has been
tested in a new field will be on the
ground. Contractor Woo Cow admits
that he is hiring Chinese miners by the
hundreds from Lue Chez Chi, the great
Wyoming labor contractor
Labor men predict a reign Of riot and
bloodshed in the Braidwood district II
the Chinese come. An army Of 5000
starving miners is congested at Coal
City, Braceville, Carbon Hill and Braid
wood, within a few miles of the mines
where it is proposed TO put the coolies
at work this week. They are reported
to be already Ia a state Of frenzy over
the projected celestial invasion aud
ready to use any measure to prevent
their places being filed. They have
conducted the strike peaeeably for
iouT months in the expectation that
the Illinois coal companies would
come to terms. The dispelling of
their hopes is calculated TO cause
an outbreak such as has not been
experienced in labor troubles for
20 years The Wyoming massa-
ere Of 20 years ago occurr, un-
der somewhat similar circum-
stances White miners were on strike
at Rock Spring, WyO,, aud the com
Dany shipped in Chinese to crush the
strike. Armed guards were placed
around the mines and precautions
taken to avoid trouble One night a
mob drove the guards away, chased
Che coolies from the shafts and killed
30 Of them. The horror was accen-
!ustad by the further deeds of the
rioters, who imprisoned several China
Hen in q hut and set ii on fiFe. The
strike was lost and the mines have
been worked by coolies ever since,
Some Of the Chinese who were in the
mines at the time Of the massacre are
among those destined for BrsidwOod.
They do not fear trouble and viii
make formidable antagonists ia q
pitched battle.
A delegation of miners officials,
headed by President Cartwright Of
the Springfield sub-district, waited on
Gov. Tanner yesterday in regard to
the rumored importation of a large
body of Chinese miners into the Braid
wood field. The governor expressed
his sympathy with the white miners,
and said that while he could not re-
strict the importation Of the Chinese
miners, be would not permit them to
enter the state bearing arms, nor
would he permit the presence at the
mines of the reported large bodies Of
armed ex-Chicago policemen as guards
to the Chinese.
State Secretary W. D. Ryan, Of the
| Miners federation, states that If the
Chinese are imported and set TO work
in the northern coal field bl0Odshed
will surely result and a riot be insti-
/ gated over the Importation. The
action Of the operators, Mr.. Ryan
holds, if the Chinese are imported and
set to work, viii iRcite the strikers to
| open rebellion and warfare win result
/ If Gov. Tanner refuses 70 interfere
/ Secretary Ryan says the matter viii
| be carried to President Mckinley.