Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-17

idle.
The engineers firemen, carpenters,
car repairers, blacksmiths and helpers
at teyeryDelaware, re,Lackawanna& & West
ern Company mine here, Joined the
strikers today. They were. asked to take
care of coal outside the mines and han.
die it in the breakers. They refused and
quit.
In the Haze ton District.
Hazelton. Pa, Sept. 17.-Lauching Of
the strike in this district was attended
by varying success. With the excep-
|tion of Coxe's colliery at Beaver Mead
ow. the entire territory known as the
South Side, which includes about twelve
mining towns, Is completely tied up
The territory is strongly organized. On
the north side which takes in ten
towns, it is not well organized and near
ly every coiliery started UP, but only
one operating was able to muster full
complement of men. Several collieries,s
after starting the works, had to sus-s
pend on account of a lack OF men. A
conservative estimate Is that nearly 81
900 OF the 5000 men in the district
started to work today.
/ President Mitchell, OF the United Nine
i Workers. who tablisheds headquarters
/ here, and is personally directing the
! strike. estimates that over 100000 men
4 struck today. and that $1,000 more will
I.join them tomorrow.
AT Other Points.
Harrisburg, Sept. It. The miners at
lsLyckens and Wisconisico went on a
/ strike this morning. About fifty out of
4 i 600 employees of the coal company went
to work, but not enough to start a
4 breaker. The men at Tower City and
1 Williamstown are working and no trou-
bic is anticipated The colliery at Lyck
ems and Wisconisco employs LOO men
and boys, and that at Williamstown
about 1000. Both are controlled by the
Pennsylvania road. Tower City em-
ploys 1000 men and boys.
Many Golfers ut Work.
Pottsville. Pa. Sept. 11.-Reports
come from Shenandoah. Ashland. Cir
4 ardville, Mahoney City, TaWaqua, Ire
mont and Minersville, indicating that all
the collieries in this vicinity are at work
4 with full lcomplement of men. with the
exception of Morea, Buck Mountain and
4 Mahoney City, deported short-handed.
The Lehfgh Coal Company's colliery is
a at work as we'll.
Majority of Men Idle.
a Shamokin, Pa, Sept. 1.-THE collerief
q operated by the Mineral, Union, Phila-
q delphia & Reading Coal and Iron Com
ipany8and by individual operators IN the
4 suburbs of this place, employing be.
4 Tween $500 and 10000 hands, are com
q 3lpletely tied up this morning. In Mount
a Carmel and Locust Gap districts 1t ].
impossible to give the exact number o.
q men on strike. owing to the colleries be.
q ing widely separated.
AT the United Mine Workers head.
quarters the leaders claim IS per cen
8 of the men in the above districts did no
Il report for work this morning. Ths
operators had no figures to give out
Several fist fights occurred batweer
4 strikers and men going to report fol
duty.
. President John Fairy, of the Nintl
district, United Mine Workers, said be
q fore the end of the week all operations
a in Schuylkill, Columbia, Northumber.
!. land and Dauphin counties would b,
Idle. President Samuel Gompers. of tn,
! Federation of Labor, said before ieav
81 ing for Hazleton today there was nj
3 victory for the men.
Quiet Sunday Among Strtk ers.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Sept. 1.-THE lag
a details for the general strike of the an
y thracite mine-workers this morning
!. We're arranged at their meetings yester
s day afternoon by the various locals
: thruout this valley. Inquiry thruout tn
tlWyoming district last evening show:
| that fully 95 per cent Of the mine-work
ers are organized and that the striker
will number about $1,000. Reports from
Lackawanna county are that the tie-ul
there will be complete and in this coun
J, lty, exclusive OF the small district arouns
6 Hazleton, 1t Will be thorough also. Th
! strike leaders say attempts may b.
made at one or two of the small collier
leg OF Individual owners to work. bu
they do not anticipate any success. TIL
!, operators on their part cay they believ
the tie-up will be complete.
The miners of the Pennsylvania Goa
Company at Pittston, about whom som
doubt was felt by the leaders. nearly al
joined the union Saturday night an,
! Sunday afternoon. They say they d
z not want to strike. but believe It will b
! fer the interests OF the union IL they 8
D out with the others. ts
5. Big meetings. were held Sunday in thi
district. The majority Of the men wan l1