Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-25
NO ARBITRATION
MEN WOULD NOT ACCEPT OFFER
OF MARKLE COMPANY.
BRAVE STAND OF A PRIEST.
Says Men Deserve the Coming Misery
If They Reject Arbitration
Offers. ,,

New York. Sept. 25.-A special to the
Ilnes from Hazelton, Pa, saws: The
STRIKE OF the coal miners is not yet COM
plete IN the Lehigh region which Presl-
oeht Mitchell Is most anxious to an
nounce as no longer a source of the an
tthfaclte coal upply. But he has ex-
tenueo slightly here at Hazelton and it
may include Tomorrow a, ,reater NUM-
Der OF men than on any day since the
strike began a week ago. tfF
<AilhouSh ne important operators OF
the north side. who lave continued oper.
atoms with crippled forces about held
that to-day may find the collieries of the
Coke company, the largest operators
here, employing 5000 men and those of
". 3. Markle & Co.. idle anu possibly
destined to be idle for months. This will
Ibe a very important day to the EMPLOYEES
of Markle & Co, and one much more
important to all who have hoped to see
a victory for the principle of arbitra-
ton as a result of the strike. with such
gains to the miners as they could obtain
oy submitting their grievances to i'm
partial judges. Less than a week ago
Father Phillips voluntarily addressed he
Jeddo miners in support of the principle
praetlced by the Markle Co. He said he
had fought for arbitration and was
lighting for it and if he believed the
IN "ouiu TEL use the
right of a man to arbitrate his grievances
with his employer he would denounce it,
THEIR OWN ENEMIES.
IF you refuse to arbitrate." he said.
you are dealing the hardest blow organ
lied labor has ever received. If you re-
fuse to accept these propositions you WI"
deserve all the misery that will be yours
for a century,
If the Markl collieries should not open
to-day because of the failure of the men
TO go to work., the operators of those
mines will attribute the stoppage of work
to the advice of Father Phillips. That
advice may involve thousands of poor
people in a share of that prolonged mis-
cry that Father Phillips declared would
be a just penalty for violated pledges:
"A chance remains for the continuance
at Jeddo for amica.ble relations between
employer and employees. -
, 1t may be assumed that G. b. Markle
s& Co. will seize the opportunity to nut
arbitration to a real test by submitting
the powder question to a decision by ar
bitration. They have already
as willing to accept Archbishop Ryan in
case OF disagreement W the two
other arbitrator. ---f. n
The impression here among other OPP
orators is that the offers of the Markles
will be spurned and that they will have
to stop business.
COLD WEATHER DISTRESS.
After the strike has run another week
without some advance from one side or
the other looking to some reasonable set
Element, the distress that must follow
will begin to assert itself. The cold
weather that will worry the city house
keeper will find the idle miner who will
then cease to have credit, obliged to draw
on his savings or the relief fund sup
posed to be at the command of the Unit
ed Mine Workers.
City tradesmen already have begun to
feel the necessity for protecting them
selves. A notice appears in this after
Moons paper that the butchers of Haz-
elton have decided that on and after to-
day they will sell for cash only. This
action, the notice says, was forced upon
many butchers on the verge Of ruin, ow-
ing to the strike. and it is necessary to
: adhere to the cash system until tram
guilty is restored. An unverified report
was circulated last night that several
operating firms have intimated that when
their employees stop work they will be
asked to vacate the houses they - oc-
cupying as tenants of the companies. So