The true northerner., 1900-10-19
CONFERENCE Held
Between Carriers and Operators
at Philadelphia.
PARTIES PLEDGED TO SECRECY


ment is Reached-The Gibbons Col
liery Preparing to Resume-No Oes'
ttution Among Miners.
Philadelphia. Oct IA secret con-
ference was held Tuesday In the office
of the Philadelphia & Reading Rail
way Co. between representatives OF
various coal-carring railroads and
number of individual operators. The
participants were pledged to secrecy
as TO the object of the consultation
and nothing could be learned of what
transpred. There were two sessions
of the conference The first began at
IL a. m and continued Until | p. IN.
After an adjournment for lunch an.
other meeting was held, continuing un-
Ill nearly O'Clock Those IN attend
anCe at the morning session We're
President Harris and Director j. Lou
ber Welsh and George + Baer OF the
Reading company. John b Garrett.
vice president of the Lehigh Valley;
DR.. Herbert NJ Howe of A Pardee &
Co NJ Kemmerer of Mauch Chunk
and VIM Connell of Scranton, and
John Markle, whose collieries are at
Jeddo General Manager Henderson
and General Supt. Luther of the Read
ing company, were called in at various
stages of the conference. President
Harris and Mr.. Welsh did not attend
the afternoon meeting. Ii is under
stood that another conference will be
held Wednesday.
After the consultation George F.
Baer remarked in a general way that
il might be some days before a set.
tlement of the strike is reached.
Agreed to Strikers Demands.
Scranton, Pa, Oct. 1.-THE Gibbons
Coal Co.'S colliery in Southh Scranton
is being put in order for work and the
company says ii will begin operations
Wednesday or Thursday surely This
company has agreed to grant the
strikers demands if the strike is rails.
ed and furthermore that it will only
mine enough coal to fill its contract
with the school district. District Sec
retary Dempsey of the United Mine
Workers said today that the board
had not acted on the matter but that
in all likelihood the request of the
company would be granted The Del
aware & Hudson companys two wash.
cries at Carbondale and Olyphant,
have resumed operations after an idle.
ness extending a month beyond the be.
ginning of the strike.
Hungarian laborer who went to
work at the Carbondale washery was
badly beaten in a saloon. He was not
able to return to work.
Regarding the placing OF long trains
of empty coal cars at some of the
Lackawanna company's breakers,
Chief Clerk Tobey. of the coal depart.
ment said Tuesday that there was no
significance in the move other than
that the railroad yards were over.
crowded and breaker switches were
being used to accommodate the empty
cars.
No Destituton Reported.
Shamokin, Pa, Oct. 17.-Miners in
this region were disappointed this
evening over the failure of the opera.
tors to concede the terms of the Scran.
ton convention. 1t was fully expected
that by this time the operators and
coal carrying companies would have
announced their determination to ac-
cede to the demands of the men. AS
yet no cases of destitution among the
men have been reported to strike lead
ers.
Don't Want to Recognize Union.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Oct. 16.-Repre-
sentatives of the coal carrying compa-
nies here have been in communication
with headquarters in New York re.
gardng the settlement of the miners
strike. The resolutions adopted by the
Scranton convention were mailed to
all the coal companies and individual
operators. They all bore the seal OF
the United Mine Workers. organiza.
tion and there was request that a
prompt reply to the communication
would be thankfully received The
communication still remains on the
desks Of some of the coal companies
unopened. The reason for this is some
of the operators do not want to com.
NIT themselves in any way as recog.
niZing the miners union.
To enter into any negotiations with
any of the officers of the organization,
in the opinion of the operators, would
be an admission that the operators
recognized the union One operator
said Tuesday night "Once we enter
into correspondence with the United
Mine Workers we are going to have
the same trouble the operators in the
DlluIiluOuS ltElOu nave, L mere VIII
be nothing but correspondence all the
time and owners of a mine will not
know whether they are running 1t or
the United Mine Workers are running
IL for them"
The Associated Press correspondent
called at the home of Supt. Lathrop OF
the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. Mr.. La.
throp is the chairman of the organiza.
of Of no i'm "A
Lackawanna valleys. The correspond
ent was told that Mr.. Lathrop was out
of town. The supposition is that he
IS in New York in conference with the
presidents of the coal roads.
The strikers here profess not to be
discouraged with the outlook They
say eventually the companies will give
in and the men will be ordered back 10
work
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