Audubon Republican., 1897-09-23
MINERS RESUME WORK.
Song Of the Pick Heard Again in
the Pittsburgh District
Idleness of Two Months Ended-Per-
picking Situation mt Hazleton, Pa.
Women, Armed with Sticks
and stones, Make Trouble.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Sept. 17.-After over
two months of idleness between 49,
900 and $4,000 coal miners in the Pitts
burgh district returned to work in ac-
cordance with the action taken at
Wednesdays convention authorizing
the men to resume work in all the mines
complying with the provisions of the
scale of 65 cents adopted at Columbus.
The remainder of the $4,000 miners of
the district will be at work before the
close of the week. 1t is estimated that
the strike, which lasted 65 working
days, cost the people of the Pittsburgh
district from $5,O00,000 to $7,000,00O.
Of this amount the miners lost about
$2,250,0 900 in wages.
Unorgnnized Miners Go Out.
Philadelphia, Sept. ia special to
the Record from Hazleton says: Orig
mating as it did in the petty disagree
ment between the Lehigh e. Wilkes
barre company mule drivers and their
employers and having spread until it
now affects nearly 10000 men and most
of the principal operators of the mid
die coal fields, this strike has been one
of the most peculiar ever inaugurated
in the region.
The miners have no organization.
In many instances they do not know ex-
actly for what they struck, except that
they feel that they have been un-
fairly treated, and that they want more
pay. In so per cent. of the collieries
they are at a loss to say how much they
want, and in such cases they have quit
work without even asking for an in
crease.
Women Force Men to Quit.
Hazleton, Sept. 1.-Two hundred
and fifty women made more trouble
Thursday morning than the 10000
striking miners have caused since last
Fridays shooting.
They were the foreign women of the
McAdoo ndAudenried district. Armed
with clubs, rolling pins, pokers and
any weapon they could find, they in
vaded the washeries which have hither-
to been working and forced the men,
about 300 in number, to quit work.
AS the men were husbands, sons or
brothers of the women, in most in
stances, they made no resistance, al
though this is the first successful move
ment to get them out. In every other
part of the region quiet prevailed.
The strike may now be said to be
general, as there is not a colliery of i'm
portance in operati ton.
Women n Perplexing Problem.
Hazleton, Pa, Sept. IS. - Friday
opened with commotion at the head
quarters of the Third brigade and in
the various camps. At an early hour in
the morning a message reached Gen.
Goblin that there was more trouble at
Audenried. The attack made by the
women Thursday, which resulted in
driving the miners at these collieries
out, was repeated when another at
tempt to start up the collieries was
made Friday.
Over 100 men reported for work at the
Monarch washery, when the band of
Amazons armed with sticks and stones
swooped down upon them. Some of
their number again stationed them
selves on top of a culm bank, ready to
pelt the men with their weapons, but
violence was avoided by the men
promptly going out.
AS soon as the reports of this dis
turbance reached Gen. Goblin he sent
a squad of the governors troops to the
scene. When the cavalry reached
there all attempts of violence had
ceased, but the women followed the
troops about the street hooting and
cursing them.
Gen. Goblin is in a quandary over the
raids made by infuriated foreign wom-
en-. He says he cannot order his SOL
diers to fire upon them, even in the
event of greater trouble, and he is seek
Ing more patient means of keeping
them in subsection.
No Prospect of Settlement.
Hazleton, Pa, Sept. 1S.-The strike
situation may be summarized thus:
Over 10000 men are still out, with no
apparent prospect of settlement; spo-
radio outbreaks of violence are occur
ring near the outlying collieries, and
the withdrawal of troops is not only
without consideration, but the guard
lines of several of the camps are being
constantly strengthened.
File n Big Mortgage.
Chicago, Sept. 16. - A refunding
five Der cent. gOld bond mort pa pa for