The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-20
THEY WILL NEVER
YIELD, THEY SAY
Operators Refuse to ReCOg-
nize the Union.
MARKLE'S MEN ON STRIKE
Marching Begun and Many Other
Miners Coming Out.
MITCHELL SAYS $4,000 MEN ARE IDLE
Reading Mines to be Operated 10 Full Capacity.
They Cannot, However, Supply the De-
mand Made Upon Them Price
of Coal Rising.
(By the Associated Press.)

Philadelphia, Pa, Sept. 19.-An inter-
the coal miners strike was the meeting
at Jeddo, near Fazleton, of the mine
workers employed in the four collieries
of G. B. Markle and Company. These men
arc in a different position from the others
in the region as they have an agreement
with their employers to submit any griev-
ance and wait ten days for an adjust
ment. When the strike was ordered they
had not presented any complaint but the
day the tie UP began the United Mine
Workers officials had the union men in
Markles mines formulate grievances
similar to those Of the strikers and de-
mand adjustment. Since then Markle' S
mines have been in operation, but at to-
days meeting President Mitchell and
some of his lieutenants obtained the
adoption of a resolution calling for a
strike at once. The Markets claim the
meeting was a packed one and that
their men will be at work tomorrow as
usual. They offered TO submit to arbitra-
tion but President Mitchell said there
could be no arbitration without recogni-
tion Of the union.
The Reading Company is getting ready
to reap the harvest presented to it by
the tie up of the other coal districts.
Nearly all of it's collieries in the Cchuy-
kill have been working three quarters
time, but orders were today issued plac-
ing. them on full time, and henceforth all
the mines will be operated to their full
capacity. Even with this extra output
the company cannot supply the demand
and it served notice on the West today
that extraordinary orders could not be
filed Meanwhile reports are coming
from all parts of the country of large
increase in the price of coal to consum-
ers to keep buyers down.
All was quiet in the coal section today.
The much advertised clash in the Lykens
region of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Conuany was side-tracked through the
decision of the strikers at Lykens that
it would be unwise to march on the nom
strikers at Williamson and force them
to quit work. Nevertheless there were
fewer men at work today than yester-
day, President Mitchell claiming that
more than 10000 men are now idle. Con-
Trajectory reports come from the Schuy-
kill region, one to the effect that the
strikers at Moorea after being out two
days had decided tonight to return to
work tomorrow being received with in
credulity at strike headquarters.
The mine operators after generally
maintaining a silence for several days
are showing a disposition to talk for pub
lication and as a result several state
ments from their side are printed. All
breathe the same spirit No recognition
of the union mine workers and a fight
to the finish with President Mitchell and
his followers.
Marching makes the timid Inen and wo-
men in the Hazleton region nervous be-
cause of the terrible result of that sort
of campaigning in 1897, when the deputies
shot down marchers, but marching begaT
in earnest there today. The marchers
were peaceful. however, and they sue
cceded in inducing several hundred men
to quite work temporarily at least.