The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-05
MINERS HAVE IGNORED
OFFERS OF increase.
WILL BE NO INDIVIDUAL ACTION.
SAYS PRESIDENT MITCHELL.
and Assert They VIII Hold ORt
Until Their Leaders order Them
to Return TO Work in the Mines.

HAZLETON, Pa. Oct. Mot the
slightest notice has been taken by the
striking miners Of the 10 per cent. increase
offered TO the employees by several of the
larger coal companies. As far as is def
nitely known not one striking miner has
accepted the advance. but. on the other
hand more have Quit their places, nota-
bly, in the Schuylkill region. where three
additional collieries of the Reading COM
pany were shut down.
The United Mine Workers officials are
stfii hard at work trying to close the few
mines that continue in operation. All the
operators and the national committeeman
were In some parts Of the field during the
day, only President Mitchell being on
duty at headquarters Mr.. Mitchell did
little else than TO attend 10 his corre-
spondence and answer telephone calls
from different sections of the region.
When he was asked what was new In the
strike situation. he briefly replied:
We are waiting on the operators"
He said he had no information today as
10 the movements Of the mine owners
other than that printed in the newspa-
pers. He also remarked that the call for
an anthracite miners. convention is not
yet IN sight. When the convention Is
called. however. Scranton will probably
be chosen for II, because OF its available
Ivy for convention purposes But II Is too
early vet to say that a convention will be
held there next Wednesday.
Applications by striking miners for re-
lief are beginning to he received by local
unions In several sections OF the anthra-
cite fields. President Mitchell said to-
night that wherever applications have
been made for relief necessary supplies
were furnished
Compromised with Marchers.
About eighty men marched from Free
land TO Pond Creek today for the purpose
OF inducing forty men employed by the
Pond Creek and wiikesbarre Coal Com
pany to Join the strikers. The narchers
reached there at noon, just as the men
were leaving the mines. The strikers
were met by T. J. Latrobe, president OF
the company. and Superintendent Thomas
MacFaraldn. who explained to the strik-
ers that the company was only developing
the mine. and would send no coal to mar
ket II the strikers would not ask the men
to quit work. The marchers agreed TO
this proposition.
The United Mine Workers are making
extra efforts to get the men who are still
working in the Panther Creek valley to
strike and join the union. More organic
ers have been sent into the valley. with
the hope OF swinging the $500 men still
working there into line
President Mitchell TODAY said that tho
strikers Of the Lackawanna valley win
make an effort to Guido the wilkesbarre
demonstration at Scranton next wednes-
day, II IL the intention to have a hir pa
rade OF miners from the entire Lacka-
wanna valley. A mass meeting will fol-
low. nj which President Mitchell ana
other mine workers. officials will speak.
=, Gen Goblin. as a result OF the march 10
Trevorton tonight, rescinded the opder
Tor Battery G, Of the National Guard.
TO return home tomorrow.
Affairs were quiet In all other secttons
OF the anthracite feds today The strikers
scored important gains in the closing OF
additional collieries in the Schuyikill dis
trict
Win cessation of operations at the
North Franklin. all OF The PhIiadeinhia
y Reading Company's thirty-nine col.
lieries Will have ceased work