, 1900-09-24
AID Of CHURCH
FOR THE STRIKERS IN THE PENN.
SYlvANIA ANTHRACITE
COAL FIELDS.
There is No Alternative Now But a
Conflict Between Labor and Capt.:
tal-Father Phillips Issues a State
net In Which He Says Arbitration
Is Impossible.

HaZleton, Sept. 22.-Father Phillips
of St. Gabriel's Catholic church, who
has worked diligently for arbitration
as a means for settling the strike, has
issued the following statement, in
which he m out fatty on the side
of the strikers. In the, statement he
says:
IF the executive officials of the big
coal companies have been correctly
quoted by today's papers arbitration is
no longer "a means to the end desired
by the general public. namely, a dis
continuance of the conflict between
labor and capital.
There is now no alternative but a
fight to the finish between organized
labor and organized capital. Honest
efforts for peace have been throttled,
and since reason and justice and
mercy will not be heard, the operator
must either arrogate to himself the
title of coal king and sway his scepter
over unwilling subjects, or the miners
must meet the issue by renewed eff
forts to deplete the markets by the
complete prevention of production"
Philadelphia. Sept. 22.-President
Harris of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railway company, employing men
who were attacked by the strikers at
Shenandoah yesterday, gave out today
the following statement:
Nineteen of III collieries are at
work this morning and twenty are
idle. The die ones are those about
Shamokin, Mahony City and Shenan-
doah. In the two last named districts
our men generally vent to work yes
terday and remained at work till even
ing. They were attacked by Poles and
other rioters as they went home and
many of them were injured.
The sheriff's forces were overpow-
cred and he called upon the governor
for troops. This call was indorsed by
the borough council and leading citi-
zens of Shenandoah. A considerable
body of military is now on the ground
and it is probable there will not be
further violence.
so far as we are informed our men
are DESTROYS of working wherever they
will be properly protected. Our own
protective force has been largely in
creased and everything possible has
been done to keep the situation well
in hand"
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Sept. 22.-Strik-
ing miners here regard the Shenan-
doah tragedy and the sending of troops
into the mine fields as a severe blow
to the strike. The operators look upon
the affair as the beginning of the end.
They say the miners in the Schuylkill
and Lehigh districts who want to go
to work, but who have been prevented
by intimidation. will now flock to the
mines, and there will be no difficulty
in keeping the collieries in operation.
The Ninth regiment, N. G. p. Colo
hSl bouSHSlly SoIllIldluluE 10 ullNlSl
waiting orders here. Fourteen cars on
the siding nea the Lehigh valley rail
road station, are in readiness to carry
the troops to any point. A regiment
can be mobolized by signals in a few
hours. 1t is not believed, however,
that the regiment will be ordered to
the S%chuylkill region. but will be held
in readiness here in case of an out
break nearer home. General Goblin
does not think it would be good policy
to take the Ninth and Thirteenth regi-
ments cut of the Luzerne and Lacka-
wanna regions.