Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-23
President Mitchell Waiting for Opera
tors to Act.
70 POST NOTICES TO MEN
General Belief That End of the
Trouble is Near.
PREPA TO RESUME

HAzLEToN, Pa. October 23.--There was
not one person around the national head
quarters of the United Mine Workers to-
day who did not believe that the end Of
the strike would come within very short
time. President Mitchell, notwithstanding
contrary reports, has set no date for call
ing off the strike. AS soon as all the op-
orators signify their willingness to pay the
10 per cent in wages in April the national
executive board will be called into
sion and will vote to end the contest.
The operators are not posting the notices
rapidly as the mine workers expected,
but the strike leaders appear to feel con-
fident that all of them will soon have done
So President Mitchell appears to be more
anxious about the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western and the Delaware and Hud-
son Coal Companies than any of the others.
These companies have taken such promi-
nent part in the struggle that it is believed
that as soon as they post supplemental no.
tees the other operators will fall into line.
President Mitchell and a number of other
labor leaders left here at 1850 O'Clock to
participate in a parade and mass meeting
at Pottsville. Up to that time no addi-
tional notices had been posted by the coal
operators. The officials of the mine work.
ers expressed satisfaction at the Associate
ed Press dispatch from Scranton that tho
Forest Mining Company, which employs 800
men, had posted a notice granting the 10
per cent advance in wages to April / and
decreasing the price of powder to S150.
such reduction to figure in the wage ad-
vance.
Preparing to Resume Work.
WILKESBARRE, October 23.-Empty
coal cars are being placed today at all the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Com
pany's mines, and 1t is apparent that the
company is preparing to mine and ship coal.
This Is taken as an indication that the COM
panies are getting ready for the return Of
their men to work following the posting of
notices at every mine
General Superintendent Lothrop of the
Lehigh Valley Coal Company is said to be
in New York today preparing for resump-
ton of coal shipments.
No attempt was made this morning to re-
sumo work at the Stanton washery of the
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company,
which was closed yesterday, following an
attack on the men by a crowd Of women
and boys. Shots were fired this morning
from the windows of houses nearby at the
coal and iron policemen who were guarding
the coal bank. The company, rather than
see any loss of life, withdrew the police
men from the bank and stationed them at
the coal breaker. AS soon as the policemen
took their departure crowd of men, pre-
Sumably strikers marched on the COM
pany's property, tore up 200 feet of railroad
track and set fire to a tool house. This
afternoon all is quiet at the works.
More Mott 'es Posted.
SCRANTON, Pa, October 23.-The Forest
Mining Company, at Archibald, employing
300 men, today posted notices giving the 10
per cent increase in wages, reducing the
price of powder to S1.5O keg, the new
price to figure in the increase to contract
miners, and guaranteeing the increase to
continue until April 1 next, and thereafter
until further orders The employees of this
company have been on strike since last
January.
Notices of like character are expected
today from all the large companies in the
region that have not yet posted their mines.
Thomas Nichols, president of District
No. 1 of the United Mine Workers, today
admitted that the end of the strike is near,
and that it would come in very few days.
A meeting of all the district and national
officers has been called for tomorrow. he
said, and at this meeting positive action
will probably be taken, provided, however,
that all the coal companies will guarantee
q 10 per cent advance until April 1.