The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-25
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Stanton mine of the Lehigh & Wilkes
barre Coal company has about thirty
men employed. The washeries of the
Pennsylvania Coal company, at Pitts
ton, are also in partial operation. The
big mines are all idle with the exception
OF the colliery of the West End company
at A1ocanaqua- The West End officials
say they are in better shape this MORN
ing than any day since the strike began.
Fully 80 per cent of their men are at
work. At strikers headquarters they
make light of the resumption of work
at the Washeries. They say the en-
ployes are mostly bosses and older em-
that none of the union men have gone
back to work.
FIGHT is WARMING UP.
Philadelphia, Sept. 25.-There is more
activity today in the coal miners strike
situation than for several days past.
Men are marching from mine to mine in
the Hazleton region inducing workers to
quit and go home, being careful to so
conduct themselves as not to transgress
the law.
Near Wilkesbarre several small wash
cries that were idle are producing fuel
today and around Scranton the opera
tors show a disposition in one way or
another to move things
In the neighborhood of Shenandoah,
where the soldiers are located, every
thing is quiet, though the Reading COM
pany has three less mines at work to-
day than were working yesterday. TAX
ing the entire coal field as a whole it
may be said that fewer men are at work
today than at any time since the strike
began and consequently less coal is be-
ing produced.
From Hazleton come the information
that Markle & Co. have granted some OF
the demands made by their men ten
days ago, leaving to arbitration, how
ever the main question of a reduction
in the price charged miners for powder
MGINNIS MAKES DENIAL
Shenandoah, Pa, Sept. 25.-Reports
received here today from various points
indicate that out of SIS collieries in the
Shamolxin, Mahanoy City, Mount Car
mel and local district only five are in
operation; the Trevorton, at North
Franklin: Locust Spring at Locust Gap;
Rast at Ashland and the Cambridge
and Park Place collieries.
Four hundred miners last night
marched from Centralia to Locustdale,
a distance of four miles, and held a
mass meeting. As a result the Pott col
Iiery at that place employing 200 men, IS
idle today.
Gen. Goblin at noon said he had re-
ceived no report of any disturbance in
the region. The governors troop was
released from it's practice march, with
the announcement that no crowds had
been encountered.
J. G. McGinnis of the Cambridge Coal
company, made a statement today In
which he denied emphatically the story
telegraphed from here yesterday that he
advised his men at work to shoot to kill
in the event of strikers attacking them
STRIKERS PRESENT SOLID FRONT.
Scranton, Pa, Sept. 25.-There was no
apparent change today in the anthracite
coal miners strike in the Lackawanna
region. Extra guards are being placed
about some of the breakers and the
owners are enclosing their property
with wire rope fences.
The Iackawanna company'S washer
les, oxford, Diamond and Bellevue are
at work, but with the force reduced by
some of the foremen quitting. At sew
eral mines where attempts were made to
get engineers and fOremen to take up
the work of laborers today the men re-
fused and they We're at once discharged.
This was the case at Briggs, Archibald
and Holden mines. The Bowen washery
at Taylor was finally closed this morn
ing.
Watchmen at the Bellevue collfery,
kept firing at intervals during the night,
but no crowd was attracted as the
strike leaders had warned the men to
give the mine operators no excuse for
saying mob was assembling.
The strikers hereaboutS continue to
show a solid front and there is no evil
dence today of a disposition on the part
of any of them to return to work.
The coming of bituminous coal to sew
eral Scranton factories heretofore using
is stirring up the miners and
ing telephoned to President Mitchell at
Hazleton. What course he will pursue
is eagerly awaited, as well as the course
which the railroad switchmen and
trainmen will take on the question of
hauling nOn-union coal.
1900 TRAINMEN IDLE.
Reading, Sept. 25.-During last night
but $50 cars of coal were brought down
from the Schuylkill region. This in
-ludes the Reading company and fndi-
vidual collieries in operation, and is less |
than one-third of an average days run |
with all mines going. It is estimated |
that 1900 trainmen in the coal service |
are idle and many more will be thrown /
out of employment. Engines are now |
being stored in the shops and round |
houses. Hundreds of carloads of BIZ |
luminous coal are being delivered to the !
Reading company at Williamsport and |
and rushed through this city |
FOR the larger cities as well as manufac- |
ng towns.