The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-09-17
THE STRIKE
In the Hazelton Mining District Spread
ing With Great Rapidly.
Conservative Figures Place the Number OF
Strikers at 1O,OOO-SoOn Every Colliery
of Importance Will Be Idle-Miners
Hold Meeting at Latimer.

variety of alarming rumors and a
morning movement by body of min
ers which looked formidable, Tuesday
passed off without serious disturbance
in the strike region.
Matters still wear such an uncertain
aspect however that Gen. Goblin de-
clares that the removal of the troops or
of any portion of them has not
been contemplated. The strike itself
is spreading with great rapidity.
Exact estimates of the number of
men who have quit work are
hard to obtain, but conservative fig
ures place it at close to 10, 1000, with in
dications that in a short time every
colliery of Importance in the region
will be idle. Although some disposi-
ton has been shown by small bodies of
strikers in the outlying districts to make
demonstrations, they have been of a
rather feeble character and the great
majority of the men are docile. These
mines are now idle: Coke Brothers &
Co.; Eckley, Beaver Meadow and
Oneida, about 1000 men; Lehigh and
Wilzesbarre Coal Co., Honey Brook
and Audenreid mines, about 2, 500; Frank
Pardee's Cranberry and Crystal Ridge,
LOO; Lehigh Valley Coal Co., Hazel
mine, Yorktown, Evansville and Auden-
reid, 5000; Calvin Pardee & Co.'s Lat
inner and HARDWOOD, 1900.
The men at Coxe's Stockton mine
have expressed their intention of Join
ing the strike. Tuesday was their pay
day. Concerning the Drifton mine of
the same company, which was working
Tuesday, one of the firm said they un-
derstood the men were going out. The
collieries still working are the Derrin-
ger, Tom Hicl1en and Shipton, of the
Coke Co.; Weston, Dodson & Co., Bea-
verbrook mine and j. S. VENTS Silver
brook mine.
The First city troop of Philadelphia,
which was dispatched at an early hour
Tuesday morning to the scene of the
reported outbreak at Eckley found
nothing for it to do when it reached
that place about one o'clock Tuesday
afternoon. Several hundred miners
from Buck mountain marched on the
Eckley mines Monday night and
brought out the men there. A few of the
men who showed a DISPOSE ton to con-
tinue were roughly handled, and the
mine superintendent, fearing trouble,
wired to Gen. Goblin for troops. He also
sent word to Drifton and 20 deputies
from that place and Roam Junction,
near by, were sent over. They kept
themselves under cover at Eckley, how
ever, awaiting developments Nothing
further happened. The men at Eckley
| joined the ranks of the strikers. Mean
while the cavalry troops were sent by
Gen. Goblin and had a wearisome march
over the mountains only to find eYry-
thing at Eczley peaceful. ~
At Latimer Tuesday afterndodA
largely attended and decisive meeting
of strikers was held to receive the an
swer of the company to their demands.
With large body of strikers gathered
in the open space before the company's
store, Superintendent Blake appeared
at the door to give them their answer.
1t was short and to the point and was
met with action equally as decisive.
| The demands had been formulated as
follows:
''We desire and wish the privilege of
| buying our provisions where we think
proper, instead of being forced to at
the company's stores; we want 90 per
cent advance on all classes of labor;
we demand the dismissal of all parties
who took part on last Friday, Septem-
Der 10, in the shooting ARRAY; we de-
mand that all classes of labor be paid
4 hnc 3d., H. L. L.
idle days; we demand that no man shall
be discharged for acting on this com.
mittee."
The cOmpany'S answer to this was,
first, that the men are not and never
have been obliged to buy exclusively
at the company store; second, that the
advance would not be granted because
the company was paying the average
rate of the region; third, the company
absolutely refu sed, without assigning
any reason, to discharge anybody who
participated in the shooting; fourth,
that men suspended on idle days here
have the privilege of taking some other
persons place, thus making good the
difference in rate between rock and
coal work; and fifth, that no man shall
be discharged for acting on the griev-
ance committee.
Superintendent Blake made short
speech to the men, urging them to re-
turn to work and arguing that they
could gain nothing by remaining idle.
what do you say?" he concluded.
"Will you come back?"
There was moments buzz and then
chorus of mo" went up. The super
intendent attempted no further per-
suasion and the men dispersed
Valuable Gold Ore.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, Sept. 49,
Col. FL. S. Ervay has just brought from
Cripple Creek piece of ore weighing