The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-15

the Hills of Pennsylvania Much
to Their observation-disclosures
Around Pittsburg Are Defiant and
Say They Will March When and
Where Their Pleasure Suits Them
AT Plum Greek There Were
Marches Yesterday-General Re
view of the Situation.
Hazelton, Pa, Sept 14.-Despite
variety of alarming rumOrs and
morning movement 10y a body of min
ers who locked formidable. today
PASSED without serious disturbance III
the strike region. Matters wear such
an uncertain aspect, however. that Cen
eral Cohen declares that the removal
CT the troc3s or any portion of them
has nCt been contemplated. The strike
Itself is spreading with great rapidtty-
E0dOc. estimates Cf the number Of men
who have quit work are hard to obtain,
but conservative figures place sit close
to 10000 with Indications that in a
short time every coldery cf Importance
in the region will be idle Although
some disposition has been shown by
small bodies of strikers in the outlying
| districts TO make demonstrations, they
have been of d rather feeble character
| and the great majority of the men are
docile The First City troop Of PhiIa-
| delEh1a, which was dispatched at an
early hour this morning to the scene
of the reported outbreak at Ecllley,
! found nothing for it to do when it
reached that place, about 3 O clock this
afternoon Several hundred miners
!
Ec4hley mines and brought out the
men there
ARE ROUGHLY HANDLED
A few of the men who showed dis
position to continue work were roughly
! handled and the mine sIuDeriutendenI.
fearing trouble, wired to General Goblin
for troops He also sent word to Drift
ton. and 70 deputies from that place
AMI Roam Junction. nearby. were sent
over. They kept themselves under
cover az Eckley, however, waiting de-
YelopEnents. Nothing further happened
Meanwhile the cavalry troops were
sent by General Goblin and had a weart-
some march over the mountains. OnI
to find everything at Ecloley peaceful
The day had scarcely opened before an
other ANNOYING story came to brigade
headquarters by telephone, It was to-
the effect that a gang OF miners from
Drifton had marched on collieFy No.
at Jeddo. with the expressed intention
of bringing the Hlen out Upon reach
ing the colliery, John Markle. the super
intenden., met them, and after a con-
! ference with the men at the mines.
succeeded in turning them off without
trouble. This was the only incident Of
the day which paptOOk Of the nature Of
a demonstration.
LARGELY ATTENDED MEETING.
st L1atimer this afternoon a, largely
attended meeting Of strikers was held
| to receive the answer of the company
/ to their demands With a large body
/ of strikers gathering in the open space
before the conDany's store. SuDerin-
/ tendeni. Blake came to the door and
gave them their answer. 1t was short
| and TO the point and it was met with
/ action equally as decisive. The de-
mands had been formulated as follows:
I I'VE desire and wish the privilege of
/ buying our provisions where We think
/ proper, instead of being forced TO buy
/ at the company's store. We want a 20
! per cent advance on all classes of Ia
( bor We demand the dismissal of all
/ parties who took part on last Friday,
! Sept. 10, in the shooting affray. We de-
mand shat all classes OF labor be paid
/ thu same for rock as for coal on idIe
! days We demand that no man shall
| be discharged for acting on this COM
j rairtee.'
ANSWERS TO THE POINT
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. Secondly, that the
advance would not be granted because
the company was paying the average
rate of the region. Third, the company
absolutely refused, without assigning
/ any reason, to discharge anybody who
| participated in the shooting Fourth,
that the men suspended on idle days
! have the privilege Of taking some other
{ persons place, thus making good the
I difference in rate between rock and
coal work and. fifth, that no man shall
! be discharged for acting on the COM
mittee Superintendent Blake made q
special speech to the men, urging them
to return to work and arguing that they
could gain nothing by remaining idle.
What do you say?' he concluded
win you come back"
There was a moments buzz and a
chorus of Nos" went up. The super
intendent attempted no further persua-
! sion and the men dispersed.
JOURNEY TO ECKLEY.
The mountain journey of the cavalry
to Eckley. although agreeably disap-
pointed of it's purpose, had a salutary
effect in that it deeply impressed the
miners with the extent of the military
power. at DriftOn the officers visited
the main office of the Erie company.
and Superintendent Saith told them of
the attempted raid on the Eckley min
4 ers yesterday. He said the only vio-
lence was a threat by the marcher5 to
throw one worker who declined TO go
out into the breaker chute. He, as well
as the other men at the mine, promptly
quit work There were no additional
deaths here today. Four or five men
who have been lowering between life
and death ever since the shooting were
unchanged. but all of the others were
4 doing we'll and many already have
been discharged from the hospital. The
funeral of Jacob TonaShOntas. the lad
who was shot through the head and
. fingered until Sunday. occurred today
at McAdoo. It was attended by one Of
the largest gatherings seen since the
. outbreak of the trouble. There was no
j demonstration and the service passed
! off quietly.
Guards are still being placed around
the houses of several of the mine su-
perintendents and. during the day, a
sheriff's deputy was seen about the