Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-19
STRIKING MINERS
BEGIN MARCHING.
| eaders Are Confident Every Mine Will be
ClOsed-C Calvin Pardee Says Operators
Will Never Yield Men Quit Work.

Al OINlFlcl lehNVuhl AtlH IT. WAo ~
dicted this morning boy Nicholas burke
a committeeman, that within anothef
week. II some terms Of settlement are
not arranged. the strike would make
many more thousands idle
An important conference Is on az
Hazelton today. President Mitchell, Ma
tional Committeeman James. Harris ana
piersaU. District Presidents NICHOLS,
Duny and Fahy. and Secretaries Demp-
sey. Gallagher and Hartleln being as
sembled there. National Committeeman
DHcher goes TO Carbonate where big
meeting is to be held and TO which
companies OF strikers viii march from
Forest city Archibald and the inter-
yoning points
OPERATORS WILL NOT YIELD.
Philadelphia. Sept. lg.-Calvin Pardee,
owner of the Lattimer and Harw0Jd
collieries in the Hazelton district In an
Interview today. said
Under no consideration viii the oper-
ators yield 70 the United Mine Workers.
IL viii be a fight 10 a finish and the
operators will win, So far as l am
personally concerned. ] have ordered
the mules TO be taken out OF the Har-
wood mine and put 20 pasture. / am
preparing for a long strike.
MY superintendent reports this
morning that the pressure brought 10
bear upon my men at Harwood was 50
great that only a few came TO work
today. and that the HarWOod mine is
practically AZ a standstil today. At
Lattimer the men living at a distance
from the mine did not arF ear for work
this morning. The mine Is working but
with a reduced force.
81 am informed that this morning, a
marching body went TO Coleraine 20 in
tercept the mine workers there.
80 much has been published about
the small wages paid 20 mine workers
that ! desire TO make a statement show
ing the average earnings Of an ems
ployes at the HarwOOd and Lattmer
colieries. AT Harwood, from which 25,-
600 tons Of coal Were shipped In August,
the net earnings of the li0 employees for
that month amounted 90 &23. 46ij3, or
an average OF $40 06 per capita. At the
Lattimer colliery $4,000 tons OF coal
were shipped In August We have there
So employees. Their net earnings were
$3l509.2l, or an average Of S3S.33 per
capita, The miners are better paid
than the average working man
Two more Of the 30 collleries operated
by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal
and Iron company were compelled TO
close this morning, according 10 official
adyices received at the COmpany's Of
fees in this city. These are the Reli-
anCe and Alaska. situated In the Mt.
Carmel district, and employing over
800 men. This makes the total Reading
c0llleries now In operation "a. and a
number Of those are working short
handed. Besides the Reliance and Alas
ka, those already shut down are the
Burnside, Henry Clay and Bear Valley,
situated around Shamokin
General Manager Henderson. Of the
coal company. stated today that the
Reliance and Alaska colllerles closed
because the strikers inundated and
threatened those willing to work. With
respect 10 the other colliefies he said.
no attempt would be made by the COM
pany 20 start them up as they were
losing ventures az the best
No news Of the reported marching Of
the'striking miners al Lykeus upon the
people operating the WilllamstoWn col
lleries was received up 10 noon today
at the office Of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road company, which controls those OPP
erations Manager Williams. who has
AllNNA AAdl - Oh lhf UlllitH III tue
Lykens district is on his way 10 this
city for a conference regarding the
situation.
Secretary George H. Ross. OF the coll
lieries management. today said that if
the men from the Lykens colliery follow
out their published announcement and
march on the WllIamstowu mine, ser
ious trouble win almost unquestionably
result, as a bitter feeling, he says. ex-
lists among the Wllliamstown men
against the Lykens workers, because OF
the latter's attitude In past strikes at
the Williamstown colliery, and any at
tempt 20 force the Williamstown men
out means fight
MOREA COLLIERY SHUT UP.
Potsvlne. Pa, Sept, l9.-Morea col
liery is still shut up as tight as a drum.
The other collleries In the Mahoney
City districts are al work today. des-
pite reports last night that some Of
them might be tied up. The precaution
has been taken TO swear IN fOrty-lve
special policemen 10 give protection to
the non-strikers In that district