Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-25
STRIKERS OBSERVE
THE LAW TODAY
Are MakingGains in the Great Coal Contest
Big Operator Yields -Strug-
gle Spreading.

pbnoaelphia. Sept. 25--There Is more
,aayity today in the coal miners strike
S.Yat6n than for several days past
a., .rs marching from mine to mine In
m. uazelton region inducing workers
>, anti and go home, being careful TO
q, conduct themselves as not to trans
gross the law u,
Near Wilkesbarre several small wash
,,iss that were idle are producing fuel
,olay and around Scranton the opera
,,r, show a disposition in one way or
tbsr to move things. Ia the neigh
S"rb1,I of Shenandoah, where the sol
H. are located, everything Is quiet
b1ugh tho Reading company has three
~ mines at work today than
y.sf.rday Taking the entire coal held
whole II may be said that fewer
,n.n ara al work today than at any
,,r5s s.nce the strike began, and cOnse-
crsnfy less coal Is being produced.
rrom Hazelton comes the information
mai Narkle q co. have granted some
NJ the demands made by their men ten
Jays aeo. leaving to arbitration, how
ever the main question Of a reduction
IN tbe price charged miners for pow
der
YIELDED TO THE MEN.
Nuddlesborro Ky. Sept 25,-J. 5. Nc
Crarkfn. secretary-tTeasurer Of the
Mine workers union. said today that
an the Jcllico. pineviIle, and Coal Creek
mine were now running, having agreed
+, the scale. except one company al
Goal Creek. and six hundred men were
san ont there. In this district a strike
WAS declared TO exist by the union yes
tsrdsy. and the mines are all shut down.
THEY MARCHED ALL RIGHT
Hazelt5n. Pa. Sept 25.-About l
O'Clock this morning 800 men gathered
al the Cranberry colliery Of A. Pardee
d Co.. and marched 10 Tom Hicken,
nine niles west Of here FOR the purpose
OF ,ndlayorlng 20 prevent the men en-
r.0yed there and at other places IN the
vicinity from going 90 work. Nnen
coal and iron police discovered the men
congregatng they summoned Sheriff
Harvey from Jeddo. Accompanied by
I'd few deputies, all miners he reached
Cranberry about 2 o'clock. The sheriff
tried 20 Induce the men to disperse but
they insisted on marching, lie sum
moned thirty deputies who left on a
special train, arriving at Tom Hickcn
after the marchers had reached there.
The marohers were quite successful,
The operators admit. IN intercepting the
mine workers who came over the hills
from Nuremberg ana Weston on the
Uay 20 Tom Hicken Derringer and
Gowen. The working forces at the two
latter places we're badly crippled. The
Tom Ilicken mine, however, was only
slightly affected.
No actual clash occurred between the
sherffs posse and the strikers. but
there was a war Of words. Four men
We're arrested, being charged with
breach OF the peace.
After the strikers had finished their
work at these three places, they
marched over the hills, two by two
and about 100 feet apart, in the direc-
ton Of Weston. II is believed they
VIII continue on to the Potts mines
O. Oneida
LEADERS ARE SATISFIED.
Shenandoah. Pa, Sept 25-There Is
no change I'm the strike sitautlon, All
the mines In this vicinity, with the eX-
copuOn OF the Cambridge collcry, a
small individual operation, are idle The
governors troop marched over toward
Preston No. az Girardvllle and passed
other Colleries IN that vicinity. but no
trouble was reported. Provost Mar
shal Millar took a squad over 10 Cam
bridge colliery, but no attempt was
made by the strikers to modest the EN-
p.oyes there.
The strike leaders express great salts
faction over the results Of their efforts
Organizer George Harris. who Is here
% enroll the English speaking mine
workers, says he considers the fight
practically Won
An employee az the Hammond colliery
IN The Ashland district Is authority foi
The statement that not twenty-five OF
The 500 mine workers there were mem.
bers u the union when the strike was