Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-10

that uniform price for labor shall be
paid throughout the region. This would
compel operators like the Drifton cor
porations to pay their employees wages
according to their occupation, instead of
the paltry 10 cents an hour which every
miner, laborer, driver or other skilled
worker must accept from certain en-
ployers when they are taken from their
regular work.
PREPARING SETTLEMENT PLANS.
The sort of scheme which will insure
all these and secure the agreement of
the operators to it is the work of the
convention. The miners realize that
they have some hard thinking before
them. The plan for settlement has not
yet been blocked out, but plenty of
thought is being given to it, especially
by officials of the anthracite districts of
the union.
President Nichols, of the Wyoming
district, has said: "The miners have
many things to take into consideration
have not heard single miner say he
favored accepting the proposal as it is
offered by the operators. OF course, we
all have ideas as to what we think
should be the way to settle. The work
of the convention will be to harmonic
these ideas and unity our opinions and
agree upon plan which we think salts
factory. What that will be no one
knows now"
On the other hand, If the convention
decides to accept the increase as 1t is
offered, there is every reason to believe
that the strike will be called off before
Monday next and that the strikers will
return to work on that day.
NOTES OF THE STRIKE.
special train, with Sheriff Harvey
and over 100 deputies on board, rushed
into town yesterday morning, in response
to call from Drifton. The officials
there imagined that the strikers intend
ed marching on their works. When the
deputies, with blanched faces and Win
chesters trembling in their hands,
stepped from the train and found they
had been hoaxed, they breathed a sigh
of thankfulness.
Calvin Pardee, whose Lattimer col
liery was closed last Saturday morning,
declares that he will bring suit against
the state to recover the losses sustained
thereby. He holds Governor Stone
responsible on the ground that he was
asked to send troops here.
The fact that no notices OF an in
crease of wages has yet been posted by
Markle e Co. and Wentz e Co. in this
region is giving the striking employees
of these firms something to think about,
and unless notices are posted before
Friday the matter will come before the
miners convention.
The Freeland correspondent of the
Hazleton Sentinel, in his column last
evening, says the report is untrue that
painters at Drifton were sent home on
Monday because they refused to act as
deputies. This information appeared
in the Tribune on Monday afternoon
and is true in every particular. The
Sentnels denial is false
A parade of 10000 strikers was held
yesterday at Shamokin. The men were
later addressed by President Mitchell.
AT Scranton today $4,000 strikers are
parading and will also be addressed by
the union president.
The spectacle of the superintendent
of the seven corporations at Drifton pa
rading up and down the streets, decor
ated with large coal and iron officers
badge, an emblem worn nowadays by
the riff-raff of the state, is one of the
early morning sights at Drifton.