The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-10-12
COAL PITS TIED UP
Strikers Have a Mammoth Parade
And Demonstration at Lattimer
MANY WOMEN AND GIRLS TAKE PART
"ofkors Arc Overawed By tho Hosts aud
Failed 60 Show UP when Coniery
whistles Blew.

A special from Hazleton, Pa, saws:
Nearly 1000 strikers, with Fifty wo-
men and girls, marched into Lattimer
early Saturday morning and complete.
~ tied up the two collieries Of Calvin
Pardee Co., located at that place.
1t was the greatest march that has
taken place during the present strike.
The crowd was made up of strikers
from McAdoo, Audenried. Jeanesyille
and Hazleton on the south side and
from Harwood, Ebervale, Free Land
and Upper Lehigh on the north side.
The women and girls came from the
now famous borough of McAdoo.
Sheriff Harvey and a handful of
deputies were at Lattimer when the
strikers arrived, and they and the
marchers were instantly on the move
There was no disturbance at any time.
Iha men and the women were we'll be-
haved.
1t was the most exciting day Latti-
mer has had since the tragedy three
years ago. The strikers from the south
side concentrated on the back road to
the place. They had left their homes
at midnight.
The women, including Mother
Jones, were conveyed in wagons,
while the men walked. 1t was little
S, before 6 o'clock when the 1000 south
side men entered Lattimer, headed by
a fife and drum corps, and the women.
The leader of the females, who was a
pretty Polish girl, carried a large
American flag. They marched and
counter marched on the JIattimer pub
lie road until o'clock, when the whis-
tie blew for the starting of work at the
collieries.
A great shout went up from the
crowd as it saw that no one responded
TO the call. Shortly after this faint
cheer was heard in the distance, and
suddenly a crowd which proved
to be the north side marchers
who had gathered on the opposite side
of the town, burst through a gate OF
the further end of the company
property, about half mile away
They came streaming in by the hun
dreds and rushed down the company
property, then across the stripping
aud joined the south side force on tn,
public road on the very spot wher,
the twenty-five marchers were shot b,
the deputies in 1897.
The combined forces, after a shor
rest, formed two by two and with tn
women and girls in the lead, started
on another parade through the town
The women marchers called the Latti
mer men black-legs and other har,
names, whole those thus assailed re
NAMED mute for fear Of being attacked
This was kept up until 8 clock, whel
the marchers began to leave for thei
various home towns.
Shenandoah also witnessed the big
gest demonstration ever held With
its limits on Saturday. Over 500
striking idle mine workers marche
through the streets and up to soldiers
monument park, Locust mountain
where they held mass meeting an
listened to words of encouragement
FROM President John Mitchell, of th
United Mine workers of America Th
strikers came from all sections of tn
anthracite coal regions, those frol
nearby points marching in bod
headed by bands, while those frol
remote points went in trolley cars.
President Mitchell spoke briefly an
was frequently interrupted by cheers
His most important statement was on
Informing the strikers that they woul
soon meet in convention. He said:
II wish to announce today for til
first time that in few days q conver
ton will be called. Every mine wi
be requested to send delegates.
you believe a net advance of 10 pc
cent in your wages is enough, the
your votes will decide the question
If you prefer that the strike shall 6
on, Mitchell will be with you. In thi
strike we must all win together or 6
down together"
Mr.. Mitchell again took OCCASION
deny the charges that the strike We
brought on for political reasons, an
that the bituminOus coal operator
h were connected with it.