The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-14
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being anxious to put in the day and to-
morrow, the last two days allowed by
the union mine workers for preparation
for the strike. Strike leader Benjamin
James was busy all day preparing the
headquarters to be occupied by Presi-
dent Mitchell and his staff. Mr.. James
IS in close communication with the
union leaders throughout the district,
and says he has received reports from
every mine to the effect that the men
will go out on strike as ordered The
mine workers are busy enlisting recruits
and meetings are being booked for
every town within a radius of twelve
miles for the next two nights and on
Sunday afternoon. A parade and mass
meeting will be held in this city to-
IN SECRET SESSION.
Wflkesbarre, Pa, Sept. 14.-The griev-
ance committee of the Lehigh Valley
city. All the proceedings are secret.
A call has been issued for a. meeting
tonight of all union men residing IN
Wilkesbarre and vicinity.
A story was circulated this morning
that the chief object of the meeting of
the grievance committee at this time
was to mark out a programme which
the brotherhood men should follow II
an attempt is made to ship bituminous
coal over the Lehigh Valley railroad
during the strike of the anthracite mine
workers. A member of the grievance
committee was asked by the reporter
meeting and whether the Lehigh Valley
employees would quit work in case an
attempt was made to ship bituminous
coal over the road. He replied that he
had not heard of such a report, and did
not think there was anything in it.
MITCHELL IS PLEASED.
Indianapolis. Ind, Sept. 4-John
Mitchell, president, and w. B. Wilson,
acknowledgements of the miners union,
today say they are very highly pleased
with the manner in which the general
anthracite coal strike order has been re-
ceived by the public. Mitchell says he
regrets deeply that politicians are under
taking to make capital out of the strike.
Il had hoped he said, that there would
be no political significance attached to so
serious a matter as this great strike IN
volving, as it does, the very living of
143 900 wage earners, who have felt the
merciless foot of capital for two de-
cades."
Many kilograms were received from
the national board members, Fred Dill
cher, Edward Mckay, G. w. Purcell and
Ben James now in the anthracite fields
today. Mitchell is keeping informed on
every move made by the miners and the
local operators in the entire anthracite
fields. He is preparing to leave for Haz-
elton tomorrow night.
Thomas D. Nichol and John Fahey and
Thomas Duffy, presidents of anthracite
districts numbers 1, Z and 9, will also re-
port direct to Mitchell. Several organic
ers will probably be appointed to work
tional board members will no doubt be
sent to the anthracite regions. Mitchell |
proposes to hold many mass meetings |
and his policy, he says, as well as that |
of all other leaders in the strike, will be |
to persuade the workers to remain away |
from the mines.
NEAR A COMPLETE SHUT DOWN. |
Scranton, Pa, Sept. Interpretations to- |
day in the is mines owned by the Della |
ware, Lackawanna & Western railroad |
10000 mine workers, were al |
most at a standstill, there being a few |
men gathered around the mine openings |
but none of them going to work. Besides |
these collieries those of the Ontario & /
Western Railroad company, embracing |
the Pinebrook, Briggs and West Ridge |
mines, employing 1,s00, and the Mt. |
colliery, with 800 employees were |
shut down today.
The individual operations embracing |
more than 80 mines and breakers are |
likewise doing little today, and the con-
dition existing throughout the region /
this afternoon is very near to complete |
midtown.
The miners and their leaders say they
are not disturbed as yet over the means |
OF support for the strikers. During the /
past week, the workers have received |
their August pay, some for the full |
month and others only to the goth and /
as the month was one of the best for a
long time their pay was corrspondingly |
high, especially among the Lackawanna /
company'S men. They now have two or |
three weeks pay due which they will Sc
cure early in October, and the general |
feeling is that the miners and the labor
ers are better prepared financially than
the public has been led to believe.
All of these facts warrant the state /
ment that the strike is on nearly 4S |
hours in advance of the time set for it to
begin.
GOMPERS TO TAKE A HAND.
ShamolSin, Pa, Sept. IA telegram
received by John F'ahey of the Ninth dis
-rict union from President Samuel Com
oers, announces that he will be here on
Sunday to address a mass meeting
which the strike leaders expect will be
by at least 10000 mine work
ars
This is interpreted by the strikers TO
mean that the American Federation of |
Labor viii assist them in their struggle.
COMPLETE TIE-UP TOMORROW.
Scranton, Pa, Sept. 14-President |
Nichols of district No. 10, u. M. w,
his afternoon issued the following
statement from headquarters heres
The situation as we view it this af-
-ernoon is satisfactory. Many Of the
sollieries are already closed down. AS
he powder on hand is exhausted, our
men are quitting work, expecting to |
buy it for less than $275 a key when |
hey need it again. From reports re-
eeived it is our opinion that tomorrow |
viii see a complete tie-up and that on |