The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-13
STRIKERS TO DECIDE.
President Mitchell Will Call Conven-
ton to Take Action on OHer
of the Operators.

Philadelphia, Oct. Sit is the gem
eral belief that President Mitchell, OF
the United Mine Workers, will to-day
issue call for a convention of miners
to consider the offer of increased
wog1s, to be held at Scranton, and the
supposition is that Thursday next will
be named as the time. Mr.. Mitchell,
however, declined to give publicity to
the matters discussed by himself and
other officials of the organization at
secret conference Sunday at Halle
ton, and he gave no intimation as to
when the convention will be held.
This and other questions to be con-
sidered at the convention are sup
posed to have been fully discussed at
Sundays conference. Indications are
coming to the surface that hasty ac-
tion will not likely be reached on the
question by the convention, and that
recesses will be taken pending con-
ference of committees with the oper-
ators. These conferences will be re-
quested with the purpose of obtaining
a clear understanding as to the per-
manency of the increased pay, if ac-
ators' view on the proportion of the
increase to be respectively allowed
the miners and mine laborers.
More collieries were closed Satur-
day, the most important being the
mines of Calvin Pardee d Co. at Lat
timer. Mr.. Pardee. announced that
work would be suspended at the
mines. until further notice, because,
as he said, the authorities did not af-
ford sufficient protection to his en-
ployes from intimidation by marching
mobs of strikers, and he therefore
would cease work to prevent injury
to property and possible loss of life.
Many hundreds of strikers, accom-
panied by women. marched TO the
Lattimer mines Saturday morning,
and though they did not attack the
workmen or commit any violence
they marched back and forth on the
public road near the mines in such
a menacing manner that the Pardee
employees feared attack should they
emerge from their homes to go to
work. In this way. the strikers eff
fectually prevented the starting of
operations and Mr.. Pardee's decision
to close the mine followed.
Hazleton, Pa, Oct Sit is learned
that Sheriff Harvey has reached the
limit of his patience in regard to the
marching of large bodies of men and
that the marchers must obey his re-
quest to remain within the pale OF
the law or take the consequences. 1t
is known that he feels he has been as
| lenient with the crowds as he could
possibly be and that the action of
several hundred men in running
across the property of Calvin Pardee
g. Co. at Lattimer Saturday has had
much to do with the decision to be
more stern hereafter. A carload of
| the sheriff's deputies fully armed lies
in the Lehigh Valley railroad yards
ready to start at a moments notice.
| A locomotive is nearby with steam up
and all the telegraph operators on the
Lehigh Valley system in this region
are on duty for the purpose of send
ing messages to Sheriff Harvey and
| to the chief of the coal and iron POI
licemen. 1t was also learned that ow-
ing to rumors of contemplated
marches this morning all the com
panies in this region have extra coal
and iron policemen on duty. All the
Lehigh Valley Coal company's col
| lieries in this city are heavily guard
ed. This company had squads of its
policemen brought here from Wilkes
barre, Mahanoy City, Ceptralia and
Lost Creek.
Sheriff Harvey called on President
Mitchell at the strike headquarters
| Sunday afternoon and requested him
as president of the United Mine
| Workers to use his influence to have
the strikers refrain from further
marching. and that if he did not then
! Mitchell would be held morally re-
sponsible for whatever happened.
Mr.. Mitchell, it is understood, in
formed the sheriff that orders for the
marching did not emanate from head
quarters, but, nevertheless, he would
do all in his power to have the men
on strike preserve the peace in every
| possible manner. AS far as can be
learned there will be no marching
this morning, in which event there is
hardly likely TO be any trouble. The
sheriff's deputies are sworn in by him
and are paid by the county, and the
coal and iron police are commissioned
by the state TO act as special police
men, but are under the orders and
pay of the coal companies which em-
ploy them.
Shenandoah, Pa, Oct. S.-Gen. Goblin
announces that if the weather condi-
tions are favorable to-day battery c
will break camp and leave for home.
The situation in this district, the gem
eral says, is not such as to require the
presence of troops, and he intends to
order all the soldiers away as soon as
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