Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-01
EACH SIDE is FIRM
NO PROGRESS TOWARD SETTLING
STRIKE TROUBLE.
MINERS REMAIN PEACEFUL
This a Remarkable Feature of Great
Struggle Now in It's Second Week
A Few Mines Working But Coal
Shipments Gradually Growing
Smaller-Troops Still on Hand.

Philadelphia, Sept. 27.-Yesterday
was the tenth day of the miners
strike. There is no indication Of sur
render or concession on either side.
No overtures looking to settlement
of differences have been made by
either strike leaders or mine opera
tors. Various propositions of settle
ment by arbitration have been put for
ward by persons not directly connected
with the mining business, but thus far
practically no progress is made in this
direction A noteworthy feature OF
the strike is the remarkably good be-
havior of the strikers. There have
been some disturbances but none at
all serious, except one at Shenandoah
Friday, when a striker was killed dur
ing clash between the strikers and
a sheriff's posse. Affairs were quiet
yesterday throughout the region. A
shooting affray occurred near Scran-
ton in which three men were wounded,
but the participants were all strikers
and the ARRAY had no direct connec-
ton with the strike. The Cambridge
mine at Shenandoah closed down last
night, and the Schuylkill region is
pretty well tied up. Some few mines
are working in the Lehigh degion, but
in the Wyoming and Lackawanna re-
gions mining is almost at standstill.
State troops still remain in Schuylkill
county, rendezvoused in and about
Shenandoah.
Operators Are Determined
Scranton, Pa, Sept. 27.--The gains
that the strikers have been making in
the Schuylkill region have had the eff
feet of rousing the operators Of this
Uackawanna) district to activity.
Steps are now being taken to drive an
entering wedge in an effort to break
up the strike. A prominent operator
said yesterday the policy SO far pur-
sued, of waiting for the strike to break
UP of itself, would be abandoned early
next month, unless something should
occur this week to indicate that action
on the part of the operators would be
unnecessary. The plan Of the opera
tors is to have each of the big corpor-
ations start up a few mines and keep
them going at all costs. 1t is expected
the employees of the five collieries will
resume work when the big companies
begin to get under way. Two hundred
deputies have been sworn in under
Sheriff Pryor at the instance of the
coal companies during the past few
days. Commissions for four hundred
coal and iron police issued by Govern
or Stone were received yesterday and
distributed among the i've big COM
panies.
Many Miners Wavering.
Hazelton, Sept. 27.-The request by
Sheriff Harvey for troops, although
not refused, was not granted by Gov.
Stone. The sheriff and state officials
at Harrisburg, however, have an I'M
derstanding between them, and if the
necessity arises soldiers will be thrown
into this region in short order The
sheriff and Adjutant General Stewart
agreed that, in view of the calmness
now prevailing throughout the Lehigh
valley, it would be inadyisable to send
an armed force here now. There were
no disturbances reported in this region
yesterday. RumOrs of contemplated
marches of strikers are constantly in
but SO far as can be
learned there is no truth in them. The
move the strikers make in the way of
marching, and will try to be on hand
in every instance to see that life and
is not placed in jeopardy
Three strikers were arrested
by coal and iron police
yesterday charged with unlawful as
semblage and trespassing. They
were released in the afternoon.
The crisis at the mines of G.. B.
Markle & Go. has been reached. There
are many expressions among the men
Of dissatisfaction against some of the
The principal grievance is the wage
scale. The men ask for only about
half what the United Mine Workers
are asking and demanding. Opera
lions at the Markle collieries were
yesterday, SO the employees
could hold meetings to discuss the
firms answer. The employees agreed
to accept the firms proposition in re-
gard to the hosting of men from the
slope, aquiesce in refusal to pay engi-
neers by the hour, and want to arbi-
5rate other grievances. The men de-
cided to remain at work pending arbi-
tration negotiations.
With regard to the general strike
situation in the Lehigh valley not
many great gains were made on either
side yesterday. Some who quit work
at the Coke, Tomhicken, Derringer
and Gowen mines returned. The Lee
high Valley coal company reports
more men working than at any time
since the strike began. Labor leaders
claim accessions to their ranks from