The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-29
Sent Back Home

or the f1fty-two me who were inn
ported from New York, on the 11.S0
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western,
Thursday night. thirty-three returned
on the LAO train. at the solicitation and
expense of the strikers. They admitted
they knew there was strike on here,
but did not know of the conditions sur
rounding 1t. The fact that the police
force, even If so disposed, could not
hope to cope with the crowd Of active
strike sympathizers and the further
fact that there Is no chance for loot
ing" fares, because no one rides on the
cars. were chiefly instrumental in turn
ing back the New Workers..
Twelve men arrived from Syracuse
at o'clock yesterday morning. over
the Lackawanna, to take the strikers
places. Nine of them were corralled
by the strikers scouts and prevented
from going to the company's offices.
-Four were returned home and the other
five concluded to remain and visit for
awhile. The three who refused to be
converted are supposed to be detec-
tives.
A New York importation, who has
been working for two days as motor
the strikers union that the new men
are very much disgusted with their
jobs and are quitting every hour. He
and six others, he said, would demand
settlement from the company, last
night, and then quit in body.
-Four New York men quit last night
and went to strike headquarters. They
said they We're going home, and that
many of the others would do the same
tomorrow. They do not like the brand
of police protection furnished in a city
which has only half hundred patrol
men to cover twenty square miles of
territory day and night.
Thirteen cars We're taken out OF the
barn yesterday, but the company was
not able to run more than six or
seven Of them at one time, owing to
the necessity Of sending out five or
six men on each car to make sure
that there would be enough left to
bring it back to the barn.
No attempt has been made as yet to
run any cars outside the city limits.
When cars do start to run up and down
the valley it will taken several days
to open up the roads, as many of them
are buried for miles beneath several
inches of frozen mud.
The company officials could give no
definite idea, they said, as to how
many men they had. The strikers
claim that there are only twenty
seven men in the company's employ
and that half of those are threaten
ing to desert. Many of the men who
came here, and who refuse to be sent
back by the strikers, do not go near
the company's offices, it is claimed,
but scatter about the city to have
lark or in some cases turn their hand
at making an honest or dishonest dol
lar. as the case may be.
The company officials practically ad-
nit that they are having very poor
success with the imported men. The
possible results to them, in case there
should be an outbreak of, serious di-
mensions, are not pleasant to contem-
plate, they say, and before such an
outbreak comes they want to be safely
away.
An aged man. who is here peddling
tracts, and who has been taking
what might be considered an unwar-
ranted interest In the strike, has been
spotted by the strikers as a detective
employed by the company to watch
the police officers.
William Walters, one of the men
whom the strikers sent back to New
York. wrote the committee yesterday
that he went to the Drummo1d Detect
i've agency's recruiting station and
made a. speech to the men assembled
there urging them not to go to Scran-
ton. A big crowd commenced to gather
and the police called him off. He says
he will do all he can to dissuade men
from coming here.