The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-27

What was the most exciting scene OF
the strike, thus far, and one that prob
ably could not be duplicated III any
other city in the country, occurred last
night at the Delaware, Lacka wanna
and Western station.
The train arriving here at 9.O5 o'clock
had attached to 1t, at the rear, Il coach
containing flfty-three men recruited in
Greater New York to take the places
OF the strikers. News Of their coming
was received at strike headquarters
early in the afternoon. and when the
train pulled in there We're 200 strikers
and 500 sympathizers on hand to re-
ceive them.
The train had hardly come to a stop
before the crowd located the car and
began to pile in from both ends.
Superintendent Patterson, Morgan
Sweeney. Daniel Hef1lecker, Chief
Clerk Reilly and others Of the trolley
company's representatives had the
greatest difficulty in getting aboard
and when they did they found every
one of the importations surrounded by
the strikers missionaries, listening to
beseeching appeals to desert the COM
pany and accept the offer of the strik
ers to pay their way back to New
York.
Martin D. Flaherty, president of the
Central Labor union: ]. +. Hammes,
the well-known labor leader. and En-
ecutive Committeeman Reeves, and
one of the executive committee Of the
strikers made addresses, appealing to
the men to desert and accompany the
strikers to their headquarters.
STRONG APPEALS MADE.
Don't disgrace the honest mother
that bore you" "Save your children
from the Stigma that YOU will bring
upon them by taking q fellowwork-
mans place" Think of your own
wife and little ones" For Gods sake
and humanity's sake don't take the
bread and butter out of the mouths of
poor mans wife and children"
These and the like We're the strong ap-
peals made to the sympathy of the
New Workers. While all this was going
on q prominent young lawyer was in
dustriously circulating among the
timid-looking ones and telling CORY
stories of how they could expect to be
kidnapped and carried into the mines
to be starved and tortured by the
miners KuKlux society, which had
sworn solemn swears in their cham
Der of horrors, three thousand feet
underground, that no man should ever
come into these parts to take a union
mans place.
The car was cut from the train and
pulled into the siding back of the troll
ley company's offices, but the eXhorta-
tions kept up and continued for a full
half-hour later.
Don't follow the Mark Hanna of
Shanty hill; come with u.s." a striker
shouted when the company's agents
tried to get the New Workers started
towards the rear door.
every man that's a white man, come
this way" one Of the strikers beloved.
If you go the other way you will have
to sleep on Il pallet of straw in a barn,
like dog. Come with us and we will
pay your bill at any hotel in the city,"
Finally one of the New Workers.
jumped up, shouldered his valise and
started for the door in company of n
striker His appearance was the sig
nal for a great outburst of cheering.
Then another. and another was COR
rallied and taken out by the strikers,
and finally a. general stampede to the
strikers cause occurred, and before the
trolley company's men could check
them, thirty-flve Of the fifty-three men
had gone out the strikers end of the
car and We're being escorted to the
headquarters, surrounded by a madly
cheering mob.
POLICE ON HAND
Chief Robling and few police Off
GERS We're outside during all the COM
motion ready to quell any breach of
the peace, but they religiously observed
the recent decisions of the law that
strikers are permitted to use moral
suasion to prevent men from taking
their places When the strikers had
themselves that the remaining
eighteen We're either detectives or men
too obdurate to listen to their reason
ing they left the car and chen Chief
Robling came through and requested
everybody to get out, which request
was readily Obeyed.
During all the time there wasn't
as much as threat made. Sometimes