The evening times., 1900-09-15


SCRANTON. Pa, Sept. 15.-Today fnd
the anthracite strike situation de-
eidedIy agreeable 10 Fred Dilcher.
Executive Board. who is II charge
in district No. I, of the United Mine
Workers President Nichols, who was
at his home in Nanticoke over night,
sent in early reports Of an almost total
suspension OF mining operations about
Nanticoke, Plymouth, and Wilkesbarre.
Here in the Lackawanna field taking
the valley from Pittston north TO Forest
City, the mines which are working today.
principally Delaware and Hudson and
Pennsylvania Coal Company operations.
have upward of ten thousand men and
boys in, but when evening comes these.
too. will have joined the ranks of the IN
employed, and no less than fifty thousand
men and boys will be this sections con-
tribution 10 the nearly three times that
| number who will be on strike on Monday.
the day for President Mitcheiis order 10
| become effective
There was a hope even la last nteht
that the Pennsylvania Coal Company.
which has always been ere lited in tbs
section. where 1t operates. with beiEs
! decidedly fair with its employees, who
I worked under about The best cGnd.ti ms
! prevailing here, would agree - treak
/ away from the rest of the coal. eCmoine
| which has been endeayoring 5y every le-
! sal means 10 block its new rai!rCEd COZ
nectfon from Lackawaxen = / f-inGston,
/ y. Y. and which is 20 make it indc-
! pendent of the opposing coal-carrying
| roads Third Vice Presideat George B.
Smith. however. dispeiled this report By
/ announcing there was nothing in it.
That the operators are determined 10
hold cut against dealing with the uaited
| Mine Workers as an organization seems
i positive from the statement vi General
| Superintendent Loomis. Of the Laeks-
wanna 5 coal department early this
| morning.
Never will we allow bituminoUs inter
ests TO command US were the words he
used He added: Their scheme is to re
gain the markets which anthracite has
worked hard 10 obtain aHd this IS he
| course taken: To send their men with
whom they have secretly connived 10 IN
settle his region and then grab what they
want The operators stick TO their abso-
lutte refusal to consider any proposition
to deal with the United Mine Workers as
/ an organization. We Will deal solely with
our own employees. as We have always
| been willing ana anxious to do before
and since this agitation began"
Fred Dilcher intended to place himself
in communication with Sheriff Pryor yes
! terday.I but was obliged to defer the visit
by reason of the continued receipt of
strike conditions at the mines. This
morning he met the sheriff. had pleas
ant talk. and said that while there was
no need so far as the striking miners were
concerned Of having deputies on guard at
the mines, he would furnish any number
OF such and guarantee the absolute pro-
lection OF property under their care.
sherih Pryor said he would be guided en-
tirelv by the conditions as he found them.
| The district executive board is planning
the running of a trainIoad OF the breaker
and driver boys, in their work day
clothes. Of all ages and sizes TO New York
city al an early day and parading them
through Fifth Avenue as a living example
of child life in the anthracite coal regions
each boy to be tagged with his age and his
daily earnings. Such an undertaking, it is
held. headed by miners with their half
empty dinner pals and black bread, and
the tin bottle Of Geld Tea. or water, will
most forcibly awaken the metropolis to
the conditions the miners now ask 10 be
readjusted.
The district executive board meets this
evening and will then have full knowledge
OF the strength OF the strike movement
They already say it Will be conflict il
which every mine worker viii take part.