The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-09-13
QUIET At
HAZ1ETON.
Funeral Of Ten victims Took Place This
Morning.
FOUR THOUSAND MEN ATTEND
No Disturbances MARRIED the Ceremonies
and No Trouble is Anticipated To-
morrow, According to Late
Dispatches Received
To-day.
Special to EVENING HERALD.

HAzLEToN, Sept. 10, p. m.-Everything
continues quiet here. There is not the
slightest indication of any more trouble and
people who anticipated trouble to-day are
satisfied that peace has been restored
The funerals Of ten of the dead strikers
took place this morning, proceeding from the
respective residences at Harwood to the
Polish church on Carson street. where Rev.
Aust read mass The funeral procession was
the largest ever known in the history of the
coal regions. Fully 1900 men were in at
tendance. There was not the slightest dis
turbance other than that necessarily attend
ing the moving of such throng. No trouble
is anticipated for tomorrow.
THE SCALE OF WAGES.
General Supt. laval, of the Lehigh &
Wilkesbarre met the men on the South Side
on Saturday and agreed upon an advance in
wages that is satisfactory to the committee
and through the committee to the employees,
who will return to work Tuesday morning
provided the strikers at the other collieries
want them to resume. If the latter demand
that they remain out, they may do so out of
sympathy though not rejecting the PROPOSE
tion of the company.
Following is the new scale of wages as
agreed upon by Supt. laval: Stripping and
outside laborers, 81 10 per day drivers, 1st
class, 81 ,35, end class, $1.3O, 3rd. class, S19O
Hitchers, 1st class, S1.15, End. class, S1.1O ;
water boys, 70 cents slate pickers 40 cents
to ST. platform men $125 footmen at
breakers, 81 rs; stripping Miners 1st. class
$1.5O, End. class, $1.25; inside rate on
Lehigh region basis stripping engineers
$1.47 to $1.S5; hoisting engineers, $1.47 shall
be the lowest class; and agree to adjust all
difficulties as speedily as possible.
A SOLDIER HELD UP.
One of the soldiers camping at Beaver
Brook was held up on the highway at Nc
AdoO last evening He was relieved of his
revolver, $13 in cash and all his ammunition.
CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE.
The cause of all the trouble dates back
nearly six weeks ago when the Lehigh &
Wilkesbarre employees first went out. AT
that time the company promised to adjust
the matter if the men would return to
work. The men accepted the terms but
when the time came for an adjustment the
company failed to keep their word. This
Immediately precipitated another strike
which ended in murder last Friday. Had
Superintendent laval and his company done
two weeks ago what they did on Saturday
there would have been no murder committed
and all miners would now be at work.
Mr.. FAHKY INTERVIEWED.
President Fahey, Of the United Mine
Workers Association, to-day gave out the
following interview, as the best means of
avoiding further trouble: "In my opinion,
if the proper thing were done, operators and
miners throughout this entire district
would come together and agree upon uni
form scale of wages and conditions of en-
ployment to govern all alike. 1t seems to
me that if this were done it would give more
general satisfaction and go further toward
preventing discomfort between employer and
employed. than can possibly be expected
from not doing this, 1 beieve, too, that
something of this kind would be fair to all
concerned, employer as well as employed.
In this district natural advantages and dis
advantages in the production of coal are
practically the same to all, therefore it seems
that no employer in the district should have
an advantage over another employer when
paying wages to or imposing conditions on
employees for performing the same grades OF
work. fail to see where any person could
in fairness object to bringing about a condi-
tion such as this, that would in its operation
in this region treat all alike and give neither
an advantage over the other. At this time
know of nothing else that is better calcu-
lated to promote and continue healthy
feeling of satisfaction and contentment be-
tween the employers and employed of this
district"
The Hungarians employed at Lattimer,
enraged at the killing of their countrymen,
have decided to remain out until they are
granted an advance. Thus Latimer is added
TO the towns on the strike list.
OPERATORS CONFER.
All the principal operators are in attend
ance at a conference this afternoon at Bethle-
hem with a view to bringing about a settle
ment. They will endeavOr to agree upon a
rate Of uniform wages, the adoption Of which
will mean the general resumption Of work at
a rate which they believe will prove satisfac-