Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-01-15

| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Tons OF AnCnra-
cite Shipped During 1890.
There is trouble brewing because
the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron Company has discharged 235
Polish miners employed at the Henry
Clay, Burnside and Bear Valley col
lieries, Shamokin. Last Monday Thomas
Boczkenski was killed by falling down
breast. He was member of Polish
beneficial society. The rules of the Or
ganization are that every member must
| attend the funeral of deceased brother,
or pay a fine OF So each. The men who
| expected to attend the funeral ap-
preached the bosses and requested per-
mission to remain idle the next day in
order to go to the funeral, but they were
ordered to work or forfeit their positions.
All the members stayed home to attend
the funeral. When they appeared at
| the different collieries next day they
were told to take their tools and return
home, as their services were no longer
desired. Many of the miners are mem
bers of the United Mine Workers of
America.
Later.-On Saturday the company re-
instated every one of the 235 discharged
men and harmony prevails again.
| In its review of the present situation
the Coal Trade Journal for last week
says: 1.-The anthracite coal trade is in
very fair shape, and the output of the
mines is moving of to the consumer In
good fashion, so that prices are held
about as they have been for some time
past. There is not the production that
there was during the past month or
| two, and in this there is wise dis
| erection exercised, as the great tonnage
then forwarded must needs be out of
the way before there is the place for an
other equal quantity. The output has
been reduced from the holiday season
or from the inclemency of the weather,
and these helps in this direction take
the place of any concerted action look
ing toward lessened output. The De-
| cember production of anthracite coal is
officially estimated at 4,5OO, 900 tons,
and this is not far away from the esti-
mate made at the close of the year, and
brings the total up in the round guam
tity of 4s,OOO,000 gross tons shipped to
market, which is a record year for this
important industry"
The constitutionality of the Labor
Union act, in the case of the common
wealth of Pennsylvania, appellant,
against George Clark, appellee, was
| argued before the superior court at
Scranton on Friday by attorneys repre-
senting several labor organizations of
the state. Clark was plumbing foreman
| for Hunt & Connell, of Scranton, and
discharged an employe Of the firm
because OF his connection, it is alleged,
| with labor union. In the suit against
Clark in the lower court, Judge Gunster
held that the labor act known as the
''Jere Weller bill," under which the
action was brought, is unconstitutional
because in singing out corporations
| from other classes OF employers it
| becomes special legislation. The appeal
is from this decision. An opinion will
be given today.
The remains of Fire Boss William
Galloway, which are entombed behind
pile of coal and debris in the workings
of Kaskawillam coliery, Schuylkill
county, have not yet been recovered, al
though a big force of men have been
working necessarily for the past three
weeks to that end. Mine Inspector
McGuire says that it may be another
week before the body is reached
The personal property of the Key
stone Coal Company, whose mine in the
Wyoming region suspended operations
a few days ago, will be sold today by the
sheriff to satisfy claim for $64, ,392.
The real estate of the company has not
been levied upon, but probably will be
If the personal property does not bring
sufficient money to meet the claim.
A strike is threatened at the Holen-
back colliery of the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Coal Company, in Wilkesbarre,
employing 500 men. For some time
they have been complaining of excessive
dockage, but the system was not altered,
and now they have called meeting of
all the employees, whether union or non
union men, to discuss the matter.
A structure is to be built in Scranton
by the Industrial Correspondence Schools
to be used solely as printing establish
ment. 1t will be the largest printing
Office In the world. The dimensions are:
Length, 465 feet; breadth, 167; height
four stories; site, whole city block; floor
space, five acres; material, brick and
stone; cost, $250,000.
The Lytle Coal Company, of Miners
Vile, has served notice on twenty-five
families who have properties on land
leased to them by that company to
vacate their homes by April /, as the
company intends to work the coal veins
underlying that tract. The people af-
fected own their homes.