The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-19
I26,OOO men OUT
Production of Coal to Stop Be-
fore End of Week.
Mines Visited Before Daybreak
by Marchers.
MOB OF HUNGARIANS.
Working Miners Have Trouble
in ShamOkin District.
One Thousand More Men Stop
Work at Mt. Carmel.
SHARP LOOKOUT KEPT
By Detectives in the Employ of
the Operators.
Steady Additions to the Ranks
of the Strikers.
Working Miners Have Trouble
in ShamOkin District.
One Thousand More Men Stop
Work at Mt. Carmel.
SHARP LOOKOUT KEPT
By Detectives in the Employ of
the Operators.
Steady Additions to the Ranks
of the Strikers.

Philadelphia. Sept. 1s. - President
Mitchell Of the United Mine Workers,
after getting partial reports at Hazel
ton from his lieutenants this morning,
made the unofficial statement that
about 10000 out of the 141,000 miners
in the anthracite fields are idle today.
All of the strike leaders say they are
confident that every mine will be tied
up before the end of the week and the
production of coal will be at a stand
still.
Marching, the form of persuasion or
coercion used by the Hazelton strikers
in 1897, began in earnest early this
morning in the Hazelton region. A de-
ter7nined band of strikers from McAdoo
went to several mines before daybreak
and induced several hundred men to go
to work It was this marching from
mine to mine day after day in effort
to stop men from working that cul-
minated in the awful massacre of
sheriffs' deputies three years ago.
Calvin Pardee, one of the most influ-
entail mine owners in the Hazelton
region, gave out an interview today full
of defiance, in which he declared that
the operators will never yield to the de-
mands of the strikers and that it is a
fight to finish.
What is likely to become a serious fea-
ture of the situation is the stoppage of
coal traffic and the consequent laying
on. OF coal train crews. Carrying of
coal is almost at a standstill in the
Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys.
MOBBED BY HUNGARIANS.
Shamokin, Pa. Sept. 19-One thousand
more miners employed at five collieries
owned by the Union and Philadelphia &
Reading companies and individual op-
orators, ceased work today in the viciE-
ity of Mount Carmel compelling the
stoppage of the operations. This makes
the tie-up complete in the Shamolxin
region, excepting the Locust Gap and
North Franklin collieries operated by
the Philadelphia & Reading company.
A number of breakers are being run to
put loose coal through the screens With
the exception of few miners being
mobbed by Hungarians near the Penn
sylvania colliery last night everything
was quiet and continues so. Detectives
are maintaining a sharp lookout at the
various collieries.
Sheriff Eugene zerfing.of Northumber-
land county, is swearing in a number of
deputies.
President John F'ahey of the United
Mine Workers of this district reports a
steady addition to the ranks of the
strikers.
FIGHT TO A FINISH.
Philadelphia. Sept. 19.-Calvin Pardee.
owner Of the Lattimer and Harwood
collieries in the Hazelton district in an
interview today said:
Under no consideration will the op-
orators yield to the union miners 1t will
be fight to finish, and the operators
will win So far as 1 am personally
concerned have ordered the mufes to
be taken out of the Harwood mine and
put to pasture L am preparing for a
long strike.
My superintendent reports this
morning that the pressure brought to
bear upon my men at Harwood was so
great that only few came TO work to-
day and that the HarWood mine is prac-
tically at a standstil- At Lattimer the
men living at a distance from the mine
did not appear for work this morning
The mine is working but with a reduc-
tion in force.
4 am informed that this morning a
marching body went to Colerain to in
tercept the miners there. So much has
been published about the small wages
paid to mine workers that desire to
make a statement showing the average
earnings of all employees at the Har-
wood and Lattimer collieries. At Har-
wood, from which $4,000 tons of coal
were shipped in August the net earnings
OF the 440 employees for that month
amounted to $29, SAC. So. or an average Of
$4Osuo per capita AT the Lattimer col
ueries "a. goo tons of coal were shipped in
August We have there S22 employees
Their net earnings were $31. sos. .21 or an
average of S3S 80 per capita The miners
are better paid than the average work
ing man"
TIGHT AS A DRUM.
Pottsville, Pa, Sept. 19-Mora COL
nery is still shut up as tight as drum.
The other collieries in the Mahanoy CITY
district are at work today, despite re-
ports last night that some of them might
be tied up The precaution has been
taken to swear in 45 special policemen
from different parts of the country to
give protection to the non-strikers in
that district.
From that place they proceeded to
Ponybrook and persuaded the men at
Csfson's washery not to begin work The
other ~collieries working on the south
sides, besides the crippled Coleraine. are
Coxe's at Beaver Meadow. which is
working full and the Evans at Beaver
Meadow, which is short handed.
The Hazel mines at the Hazelton
shaft of the Lehigh Valley Coal com
pany in this city. are practically dead
only a handful Of men being at each
place Number 40 shaft of the same
company is working very short handed
Operators in this district today COM
plain that mine workers are being in
fimidated. They claim that many men
are anxious to work but they fear bod