Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-09-20
RANKS OF STRIKERS SWELL.
Recruits in the Hazclton District obtaine
From Nearly Every Colliery.

Recruits in the Hazelton District Obtained
From Nearly Every Colliery.
Associated Press Dispatch by Special Wires.
Hazleton, Pa, Sept 19.--The ranks
Of the strikers in the Hazletpn district
were considerably increased today by
recruits from nearly. every colliery in
the region that worked yesterday and
Monday.
The most important movement
occurred south OF here this morning,
when ITO striking mine workers OF
McAdoo made victorious march
through the South Side. They sue
ceeded in tying up several operations
and in further crippling the Coleraine
colliery. The marchers started from
McAdoo for Coleraine at O'Clock,
headed by a drum corps, Coleraine
colliery employs 917 men when running
full, but of this number only half went
to work yesterday. When the McAdoo
men arrived at Coleraine this morning
the news spread through the town, and
considerable excitement was oceasioned
for fear that the mafchers had come to
make trouble. They, however, were
orderly, and confined their energies
principally to persuading the men not
to start work. The women, both
English speaking and foreigners, were
| badly frightened, and advised the
| Coleraine men to remain away from
| the mines. When tbs whistle blew at
the Coleraine coliery, it was found
that only about $50 men had reported
| fol- work at No. . slope, which usually
employs about $50 men. Buck Noun
tain slope and No. slope OF the same
company were completely shut down.
| The breaker which handles the coal of
| the three slopes had only 2E boys work
| ing out OF about 100. The Van Winckle
striprings, employing $50 men, failed
| to start this morning, the men there
also having been persuaded to quit by
the McA doc narchers. From Coleraine,
| the McAdoo men went to Tresckow,
where they succeeded in closing the
| Tyler 4 McTurk washery, employing %
men, and also prevailed upon the 30
men working at Crawford & Dugan's
strippings not TO go to work. From
that place, they proceeded to Honey
brook, and persuaded the men at
Carson's washery not to begin work.
The only other collieries working on the
South Sids besides the crippled
Ccleraine are Coxe's at Beaver Mea low.
which is short handed. The Haale
mines at the Hazleton shaft of the
Lehigh Valley Coal Co., in this city,
are practically dead, only handful OF
men being at each place. No. 2 shaft
Of the same COMPANY IS working very
short-hanued.
Operators in this district today COM
plain that mine workers are being in
Inundated. They claim that many men
are anxious 10 work, but they fear
bodily harm, and do not go to the
mines for that reason. The Van
Winckle Coal Co. sent coal and iron
police to the homes Of its men on the
South Side this morning to get then
to return to work. They promised them
protection while on their way to anc
from work and at the mines, but very
few men, IL any, went back.
At noon today, President Mitchell
said: "Most encouraging reports have
been received from the Hazleton and
Schuylkili districts. The most giati
flying reuort was that 3, 500 employees o.
, the Philadelphia 4 Reading 10. al
, Maharoy City ard in its vicinity de
cided to strike. This is the first breal
of any magnitude amoog the employs
, OF the Reading COMPANY, and it is in
dicative OF the course to be followed
, by the remainder Of their employe:
from this time on. AS we pr dictet
, at the beginning Of this contest !, tn,
miners have in NJ instances violated
| the law, and are all conducting them
, selves quietly, with an apparent de
termination 10 continue the contes
, until their eminently just demaEd
have been acoeded to- "
Mr. Mitchell estimated that LOO
, men are now out.