The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-26
Operators Claim Strikers IntimidatC
Men Willing to Work.
VICTORIOUS MARCH AT HAzLRToN
Pardee Makes Statement as to
Earnings of Slincrs-NIore Collier
les Close In Hazleton District.
Everything Tight In Lacka.
wanna aud Wyoming
Valleys With Many
Railway Train
Crews Idle.

Philadelphia, Sept. 19.-Calvin Par
dee, owner of the Lattlmer & Harwood
collieries in the Hazleton district, in
an interview said:
"Under no consideration will the
operators yield to the United Mine
Workers. 1t will be fight to finish
and the operators will win. So far as
l m personally concerned, have or
dered the mules to be taken out of the
Harwood mine and put to pasture.
am preparing for a long strike. My
superintendent reports that the pres
sure brought to bear upon my men ut
Harwood was so great that only few
came. to work Wednesday, and that
the Harwood mine is practically at n
standstill. At Lattimer the men liV-
ing at a distance from the mine dill
not appear for work and the mine is
working, but with reduced force. so
much has been published about the
small wages paid to mine workers that
1 desire to make statement showing
the average earnings of all employees
at the Harwood and Lattimer collier
les. At Harwood, from which 25,OO0
tons of coal were shipped in August
the net earnings of the 74O employees
for that month amounted to $29,64G5",
or an average of $4,000 per capita. At
the Lattimer collicry $4,000 tons OF
coal were shipped in August. We have
there S22 employees. Their net earnings
were $31 ,5O0.21, or an average of S3S.3S
per capita. The miners are better paid
than the average workingmen."
Two more of the 80 collieries oper-
ated by the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and iron company were compelled
to close according to official advices re-
ceived at the company's office in this
city. The two are Reliance and Alas
ka, situated in the Mount Carmel dis
trict and employing over GOO men.
This makes the total Reading collier
les now in operation "a, and number
of those are working shorthanded. Be
sides the Reliance and Alaska, those
already shut down are the Burnside,
Henry Clay ana Bear Valley, situated
around Shamokin. General Manager
Henderson stated that the Reliance
and Alaska collicries closed because
the strikers intimidated and threaten"
ed those willing to work. With re-
spect to the collieries, he said no at
tempt would be made by the company
to start them up as they were losing
ventures at best.
President Mitchell of the United
Mine Workers, after getting partial re-
ports at Hazleton from his lieutenants,
made the unofficial statement that
about 12G, ,O0O out of the 141,O0O mine
workers in tho anthracite fields are
idle. All of the strike leaders say they
are confident that every mine Will be
tied up before the end of the week and
the production of coal will be at a
standstill.
Marching, the form of persuasion or
coercion used by the Hazleton strik-
ers in 1897, began in earnest in the
Hazleton region. A determined band
of strikers from McAdoO went to sew
eral mine settlements before daybreak
and induced several hundred men not
to go TO work.
What is likely to become serious
feature of the situation is the stop
page of coal traffic and the consequent
laying off of coal train crews. Carry
ing of coal is almost at standstill in
the Wyoming and Lackawanna re-
gions, and many hundreds of railroad
crs are idle These men are likely to
take action designed to force the strike
to a quick conclusion. Even the Read
ing company, which has more coal for
sale than any company, is feeling the
effects of the strike and is shipping
less coal