Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-16
Mob of $50 Amazons Invade the
Mines at Hazleton.
FORCE The MEN 10 QUIT WORK
They Were Armed With Clubs and
All Sorts Of Weapons.
STRIKE IS NOW GENERAL

HAZLETON, Pa. September 1.-two
hundred and fifty women made more trou-
bic this morning than the ten Thousand
striking miners have caused since last Fri
days shooting.
They were the foreign women of the Nc
Adoo and Audenried district. Armed with
clubs. rolling pins, pokers and any weapon
they could find. they invaded the wash
cries, which have hitherto been working
and forced the men, about three hundred in
number, to quit work. AS the men were
husbands, sons or brothers of the wome:,
in most instances. they made no resista nee.
although this is the first successful move
n e'it to get them out. In every other part
of the region quiet prevailed.
Tie strike may now be said to be general
as there is not collery of Importance
iE operation.
VIII Refuse StSiE.ers' Demands.
Calvin Pardee of c. Pardee & Co., who
operate the Lattmer Nos 1 and > and
the Harwcod collieres. and who employ
2,500 men. arrived in Haz.eton last night
He was the Only operator found who ex-
pressed a willingness 20 discuss the si:ua-
tion. Mr.. Pardee said:
at Harwood our work is almost all I'M
der ground, and we have for twenty wears
peen payinS on the $ basis, what is known
as sliding scale, based on the price of
cGai at tide water. Now, our only trou-
bic is with the inside men, who have been
stirred up by those asitators
=. ne EnSiiSh h-speaking element is not in
thi5 tang: they have 10 complaint eyccpt
; IN so far as miners are always dissatisfied.
1 nave been among then, for fcTty wears
and nave always said that miners were
the greatest grunlbiers there are
Ihey Were driven from the mines by a
ife.
they Will go back 10 work without getting
one cent advance FOR their trouble If thew
VIII not go back to work for what they
were getting. then our mines are for sale
fer they will never be s arteti UP otherwise
,-~ At Lattimer our work is mostly on Che
surface. 1he. coal IS auarried in what we
call strippines Our Latti,ner men were
also satisfied until driven ag.ay fro,,, their
Wcrk by mob. At these coiiier;es stand
ready TO pay as much as is paid in the
region
DO you mean by that that you will raise
wages all around for outside workers 2''
Mr. Pardee was asked.
Nc; fer to pay what il paid elsewhere
IN the region we would have to eQualize.
We would have 10 raise those who were
paid lower than at oti3er Mines
Strike Presents Curious Features.
PHILADELPHIA September ia spo-
cial to the Record from fazieton SAYS:
Originating, as it did, il the petty dis
agreement between the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Company mule drivers and their en-
pioyers, and having spread until it row af-
fects nearly 10000 men and most of the
principal operators CT the middle coal
fe!Gs. this strike has been ore Of the mes:
re culiar ever inaugrrated in the reg1cn
The micers have no organization In
many instances they DO not know exactly
for what they struck, except that they feel
that they have been unfairly treated. and
mat they want more pay. In 80 per cent
of the idle collieries they are at a loss to
say now much they want, and in such
cases they have cult work without even
asking fer an increase.