The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-27

a trolley company agent and a striker
would be working on the same man.
but they very commercially refrained
from harsh words or utterances that
would tend to provoke trouble.
Superintendent Patterson was stand
ing in the street in front of the COM
panys offices when couple of strikers
laughingly caught him by the shoul-
ders and proceeded to hustle him down
towards strike headquarters, declaring
that he would have to be converted.
The superintendent took the thing
good-naturedly and upon being re-
leased at the entrance to the head
quarters stopped a moment to pass a
pleasant word with the men.
The men saved from the wreck by
the trolley company We're fed in one
Of the rear rooms of the general Of
tices. Those who were corralled by the
strikers We're taken out to the best
restaurants and given the best the
land afforded after which they We're
provided with beds in one or the other
Of the hotels.
These new comers unlike those who
preceded them, admitted THAT they
knew there was a strike in progress.
One of them in conversation with u
Tribune reporter said:
This is all bosh about saying they
didn't know there was a strike on here.
Why we're professional strike break
ers. was in the Brooklyn strike and
so was most of these other fellows
The detective agencies know where to
get us whenever they want us and We
often get a great snap out of it.
amt often moved by sympathy, but
1 couldn't stand out against those
fellows tonight Anyhow. you've only
got 4 handful of cops here and a buck
is liable to have his bloody nut cracked
if he hangs around here and tries to
run a car. We're in this for the
dough. We We're promised $3.50 Il day
and board as long as the strike lasted
and besides that we cabbage pretty
nearly all we take in. That's an un-
derstood thing that we don't turn over
very much of what we collect. l made
$500 during the Brooklyn strike Thare
isn't anything much in it here. though,
as the people won't ride on the cars,
they tell me-"
The men We're secured by Drum
mOnd's Detective agency. The man in
charge of them gave mis- name as
Henry Smith. When asked if he didn't
mean Harris" instead of Smith," he
smiled a knowing smile, as if to say
Yes, come to think of it you had
another Detective Smith up this way
not long ago"
Twenty-Five of the thirty-five men
Went back to New Yorl. on the 1:4)
a. IN. train. Three others went to
Wilkes Barre declaring that was their
home. The other ten of the corralled
New Workers said they would take a
look at the town and go home tomor-
row night.
OTHER ARRIVALS.
The train that took these men away
brought in six new recruits Of the
company from the North. supposedly
Buffalo They We're accompanied by
three detectives The strikers were not
expecting them, but the few who We're
about the station to give the New
Workers. a sendoff spotted the new
comers and proceeded to convert them.
Their efforts. however, met with Ill
success. The imports were hustled
quickly to the trolley company's Of
fees and slowed away in the bunk
room with the others.
One of the new comers thought he
was going to get hurt when the strik-
ers' missionaries surrounded him in
front of the offices and made a last
desperate struggle to win him over,
and putting his hand to his back
pocket drew a revolver. The detec-
tives and company officials rescued
him and hustled him into the offices,
before the strikers succeeded in bring
ing a patrolman to the scene, al
though two of them who saw the dis
turbance from the block above We're
on a run down the avenue at the time.
The strikers will issue warrant for
the fellows arrest.