Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-09-20
Said to Be Over One Hundred
Thousand Miners Out in d.
Pennsylvania. ,~
SITUATION PLEASES STRIKE LEADERS.
Operators Surprised at Response to
the Strike Order and Will Now
Prepare for the WOrst-Some of
the Galleries Are Being Run Short
Handed. ~4,

more than 14Q, 900 mine workers is at
least as complete as the leaders of the
United Mine Workers of America, the
organization back of the strike,
claimed at any time. Companies and
individuals owning mines who had
claimed that their workings would
operate as usual. despite the strike
order, apparently reckoned without
accurate knowledge of the attitude
OF their men. 1t is true that some
operations in the Hazleton region
were working Monday with as high
as 80 per cent. of the men at work,
nevertheless the greater number of
men in the district were idle.
In the Scranton and Wilkesbarre
districts. the tie-up was practically
complete. AS was expected, the
Schuylkill region, with Pottsville for
a central point, was at work with
very few OBJECTIONS. These men have
not the same grievances that prevail
in the other districts, and if they go
on strike it will be largely through
sympathy.
President Mitchell. of the United
Mine Workers. who has established
headquarters at Hazleton and is per-
sonally directing the strike, estimat es
that over 100000 men struck and that
$4,000 more will join them Tuesday.
General Manager C. E. Henderson,
of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal
and Iron company, stated Monday aft
ernoon that 38 of the 80 collieries op-
Grated by that company were work.
ing Monday. The one idle colliery is
the Burnside. near Shamokin. The
Bear Valley and Henry Clay collier
les, he said, are running very short
handed. The Burnside colliery en-
ploys about 500 hands. Mr.. Hender-
son stated that he did not anticipate
| any further OBJECTIONS in the ranks
of the mine workers.
Says Strike Won't Last.
New York, Sept. 1S.-Robert NJ. Oily
plant, president of the Delaware &
Hudson Canal company, said Monday of
| the coal strike:
IT do not believe that the strike can last
or that it will permanently affect the price
| of coal in this city. There are 100000 men
who go down to work in the mines of the
| anthracite coal region. In their recent
! statement the labor agitators declared that
| they had but ST., 900 in their treasury. This
| would mean that they can pay each of our
| men who go out at their order the sum of
| so cents for one day. This will not support
| great strike very long,
At Hazleton.
Do
anthracite strike was begun Monday
throughout the entire hard coal re-
gion of Pennsylvania. The launching
of the strike in this district was attend
ed by varying success. With the ex-
ception of Coxe's colliery at Beaver
Meadow the entire territory known as
the South Side, which includes about
IL mining towns, is completely tied
up. This territory is strongly organ
lied, which accounts for the general
suspension of work.
No Politics in 1t.
In speaking of the charge that poll
tics might have something to do with
the present strike, President Mitchell
Monday said:
"Politics will not, cannot and must not
enter into the strike. Personally approach
| the contest as mother would her babe in
| it's first illness. The sole object of that
| mother is restoration of her baby's health
| The men who are called leaders in this
| strike are animated with the same consid-
GRAFTON. There cannot be and shall not be
any contention in political sense as the
| declaration of the strike. The leaders feel,
| and they want their men to feel, and they
wantthe public to think, this fight is for hui
man liberty. This would be nonsensical,
it would be cruel for anyone to inject poll
| tics
Strike Leaders Pleased.
Scranton, Pa, Sept. 1S.-Pennsyl-
vania's great strike of anthracite min
ers is now officially under way. Mon
day morning found the many thou
sands of mine workers in the Lacka-
wanna and Wyoming valleys ready for
the strike with the operators, and, when
the scores of breaker whistles sounded
for the day not enough men and boys
rallied at any one place to warrant the
beginning of work. ~ ......'..-* e..
| Fred Dilcher, the member of the ma
| tional executive board of United Mine
| Workers, who is i'm charge of district
No l, covering these two valleys, was
enthusiastic over the strike news which
rapidly came in from every direction.
Operators to Prepare for Worst.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Sept. The
coal miners strike is almost general
in the Wyoming valley. Some of the
Pennsylvania Coal company's collier
les in the vicinity of Pittston started
to work Monday morning short
handed. A Delaware & Hudson COM
pany mine at Plains is working, but
the big mines at Nanticoke, plymouth
and Parsons are completely tied up.
After hearing reports from the
mines the representatives Of the big
coal companies and individual oper-