The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-14
FEARS AT HAztLT0N
Miners Marching on the
Coke Mines at ECkley-
Troops Moving Too.
LARGE ACCESSIONS TO THE STRIKE
influence of the Priests to Pre-
vent Violence and Blood
shed by the Men.
VENGEANCE on MARTIN SOUGHT
Warrants Out for Deputies But Not
Served on Account of General
Gobin's Resistance.
VENGEANCE on MARTIN SOUGHT

HAzLETON, Pa, Sept. A. 1Ss7-Wide-
spread as is the strike in the Hazleton
region, there has been no concerted ac-
tion by the men at the different mines.
All the strikers are working for the same
end-an increase of about ten per cent
in wages-but they go about it as sepa-
rate clans.
Some of them are raising side issue
about the company store, where they are
subject to its abuses, but others have no
complaint of this nature to make.
At the Coke Brothers mines at Drift
ton, Stockton and Eckley, the men are
paid in cash. They had been uneasy,
however, for some time, and this un-
easiness resulted in about 800 men at
Eckley joining the strikers yesterday af-
ternoon.
To a great extent the strikers have
been restrained from open acts of vio-
lence by the priests, whose influence pre-
walls to a remarkable degree. At sew
eral turbulent meetings, which threaten
ed to end in bloodshed. the priests have
gone among, the excited foreigners, COM
manding silence and forcing them back.
They warn the men that to destroy the
food from their own mouths by shutting
off future employment.
The priests, however, have no plea of
mercy for the Sheriff's deputies who shot
the men at Lattimer, and some of them
are active members of the committee
that is to push the murder charges in
court.
It is now certain that no attempt will
be made to arrest the deputies SO long
as troops are camped at Hazleton. Cen
eral Gobin's declaration that he will
protect the Sheriff's men just as long
as he is in command has cooled the ardor
of those who are for going about the
matter hastily.
The strike leaders and their attorneys
deny the right of General Goblin to en-
force such an order; but they admit that
he has too many guns for them. Dis
triet Attorney Fell, it is said, is against
an immediate serving of the warrants,
though he is interested in the prosecu-
tions
Several of the deputies who left the
town Immediately after the bloody af-
fray, are known to be in Philadelphia
and Easton, outside of General Gobin's
territory, but it Is not likely that they
will be arrested before those who are
under military protection.
Hazleton, this morning, is awaiting def
mite news from Eckley, the mining vii
lage a dozen miles away, which now
seems to be the seat of the operations
Immediately upon the receipt of last
nights despatch that a number of strik-
ers were marching on the Coke mines
hot ryio1o hod o1ro
resorted to, measures were taken at Bri-
gade Headquarters to send a body of
cavalry to the scene. The Governors
Troop of Harrisburg and the Philadel-
phia City Troop were split up and half
of each body, in heavy marching order,
started at an early hour this morning
1t is a tiresome ride over rough noun
tain passes to Eckley. which lies in
valley. Another troop of cavalry is kept
on the qui vive at headquarters ready
for an emergency call. Meanwhile a
despatch from Roam Junction, about two
miles from Eckley, confirmed the news
of trouble and contained the additional
information that a body of deputy sher-
ifs had been sent to Eckley in response
to a call from the mine superintendents
there. At ten o'clock this morning
no word from the Cavalry Troop
had come to Brigade Headquarters
but General Goblin was momentarily ex-
pecting news, either by telephone or by
the flag signal system established on the
hilltop throughout the environs of Hazel
to. He had already received phone dis
patch from the Jeddo district which was
not of reassuring tenor. It stated that
one hundred strikers from Coxe's Drifton
mine had marched on Colliery No. 5 with
signs of turbulence and openly yowing
that they would bring out the men there.
Arriving at the colliery the marching men
were halted by E. B. Markle. who came
from the colliery. He asked for a con-
sultation with the leaders of the men,
and after a few moments talk among
themselves they selected committee of
three. At this writing these are in con-
ference with Mr.. Markle, while the other
strikers are waiting on the road General
Goblin said that the cavalry troop was in
that neighborhood somwhere and would
be on hand if any trouble arose. Reports
of this character were reaching Brigade
headquarters with alarming frequency
this morning, all the trouble lying in the
district where the Coke mines are situ-
ated.
The men at Stockton, about 1000 in
number, will go out this afternoon after
the paymaster has visited them The
Foervale, Jeddo, Highland and Oakland
mines of the Markles; the Eckley. Buck
Mountain and Oneida mines of the Coxes.
and the Upper Lehigh mine of ex-Con-
gressman Leisenring are all idle today.
This leaves scarcely working colliery
in the entire region and within the next
twenty-four hours 1t is safe to say that
in the neighborhood Of 10000 men will be
idle.
The Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Audenried
men who accepted the 10 per cent in
crease offered them last Saturday and
decided to return to work this morning
did not do SO. They say they are waiting
to see what the day will bring forth. The
Beaver Greek men, two or three hundred
IN number, who have been out about two