The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-18
THIS REGION
EXPERIENCES A
TOTAL TIE-UP

tConcluded FROM Page IL
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a few colleres at all costs but some
thing intervened between Saturday
and Monday to change their plans.
| The advices of the likely happenings
of the day in the lower districts. it is
understood, was at the bottom of their
change Of plans. The operators of this
region seem bent now on playing u
quiet, waiting game, trusting to the
events in the regions below the
Wilkes Barre mountains to settle the
strike question to their satisfaction.
Different Views.
These conditions are viewed very diff
ferently by the contending sides The
operators say that in the regions be-
low the Wilkes-B Barre mountains. and
in various places in the upper Luzerne
district, the strike order was not
| obeyed. and that in the Pottsville and
Shamokin region and a large portion
OF the Hazleton region scarcely mine
s,tdle.
When the miners Of this region come
| to understand this, the operators argue
| the great mass of men who went out
| because they were assured the tie-up
would be complete throughout the en-
| tire anthracite belt, will hesitate to
continue a fight that their leaders
| themselves admitted would be hope
less, when they told Of the absolute
necessity of the strike being a general
| one.
The Mine Workers officers scout the
| idea OF the strike being unsuccessfully
| inaugurated in the lower districts and
| unreservedly declare that the press
| reports of large numbers of collieries
| being at work are untrue. Organizer
| Dilcher said last night that he had re-
| ceived official figures from the strike
| managers of all three districts and
| that it was shown that 900 of the
| $4,000 men were out. He received d
| short message from President Mitchell
| at 10 o'clock, saying that everything
| so far was satisfactory.
No one expects that every man Is
| going out on strike the first day. Mr..
| Dicher said. In a few days the lower
| districts will be tied up as tight as is
| the LaCkawanna district, he prophe-
| sled.
| Executive Committeeman Henry Col
Inns, of Carbondale, and John Kearney,
| of Archibald, were at the headquarters
in the afternoon, and were kept busy
| answering the anxious queries regard
| ing the lower districts. They claimed
| that all the mines of LaCkawanna and
all of Luzerne, include in District No.
| l, were tied up tight, with the eXcep-
| ton of couple of Pennsylvania Coal
| company COlleries at Inkerman and
some few openings at Shickshinny.
| The Inkerman collieries, it was re-
ported, were gradually losing men
each hour, and would not be able to
open up this morning. They were con-
| fdent of being able to close the Shick-
shiny collieries today or at the least,
| tomorrow.
Their Contention.
To a Tribune reporter Messrs. Col
Inns and Kearney pointed out that this
district, which is admittedly tied UP,
contains $4,000 miners, or 56 per cent.
of the whole force of the entire region.
If only those were out, they argued,
the strike could be said to be success
fully inaugurated.
When the miners of the lower dis
tricts hear of the unanimous action
of their brethren Of the First district
the committeeman contended, they will
hasten to place their district on the
same footing. Once the three districts
are tied up, victory is assured, they
averred
The miners from all the suburbs We're
in the central city in large numbers
during the afternoon and the strike
headquarters on LaCkawanna avenue
were crowded till late at night with
anxious seekers for the latest from
| MI
ciated Press dispatches, printed exclu.
sively in The Tribune, will be eagerly
devoured by the men Of this region.
Shaft Sinkers Quit.
Eleven men employed in sinking q
shaft to attack the fire in the ole
Cork and Bottle" workings under the
Jersey Central yard, yesterday morn.
ing quit work when some one passing
along the Linden street bridge yelled
something that they considered opprO
brious. The contractor pleaded and
reasoned and almost swore, but it was
in vain. They didn't propose to rur
the risk of being called that name
again. In distress the contractor pre-
sented himself to the strike headquar
ters and laid the case before Organizer
Dilcher. He received a note addressed
to the men advising that they Nigh
continue at work.
Even the men employed by the Peo
pies Coal company and paid by thu
day for cleaning up and repairing tn
old oxford shaft, which the People
company soon expects to operate, de
clined to work yesterday. In fact
some of them quit Saturday.
All the culm dumps We're attacke,
yesterday by men, women and chill
dren picking coal. None of the com
panies made any objection Superin
. tendent Rose said he had advised nj
local superintendents not - '",'"fer
! Chief Clerk Tobey, of Sup-.i..t den
Loomis' office, gave simii~r alVic
when queries came from the variou
collieries as to what should be done Il
the matter.
, While a Tribune reporter was in tn
office of a large corporation, yester
q day, he heard the man in charge in
form the president of big industr
7 that there was nd coal for sale, an
the next minute he gave an order to
strikers wife to get a load of coal q
credit at one of the company's mines
Parade and Mass Meeting.
There will be a parade and mas
| meeting in PittstOn this afternoon