, 1900-09-19
STRIKE GROWING
MORE MEN ADDED TO THE
STRIKERS RANKS YES
TERDAY.
Talk of Arbitration Increases and a
Settlement of the Trouble is Quite
Possible Novelist March Of the
Strikers Occurred at Hazelton-
No Violence Was Done.

dent Mitchell of the United Mine
Workers claimed last night, liz, 900 of
the l4l, 900 mine workers in the Penn
sylvania anthracite coal fields were
idle yesterday, it is certain that this
number has been considerably aug
mented today by additions to the
strikers ranks. Reports from the
four big districts embracing the hard
coal region are to the effect that fewer
men are at work today than were
working yesterday, and that Collieries
that worked ~fullhanded, or nearly so,
yesterday are either badly crippled or
shut down today.
Talk of arbitration is so persistent
that the hope grows that his method
OF settling the strike will finally be
adopted, although the mine owners
declare they will deal only with their
employees as individuals, and the strike
leaders say they will insist upon form
al recognition of the union.
oHt HUE DdHu vi UllleTS Ill tnt w y
oming valley, those of the West End
Coal company at M%ocanaqua, number
ing a few hundred men, stand out
prominently Is the only men at work
out of nearly 81 $1,000 in the Lackawan-
ma and Wyoming region. Efforts to
induce them to join the strikers have
failed. They say they have always
been treated kindly, they have no
grievance and they will, therefore, re-
main loyal to their employers.
First March of Strikers.
Hazelton, Pa, Sept. 1S.-The first
march of strikers in this region took
place early this morning. when about
100 men from McAdoo, Audenrcid and
Yorktown, headed by a brass band,
marched through the south side en-
route to the Colleraine colliery with a
view to inducing the men at that place
to quit work. The strikers did not at
tempt to force them to suspend work,
but merely asked them to do so. In
this the strikers were quite successful
as a number of n%on-union men return
ed to their homes. The marching min
ers then went back to McAdoo and dis
persed.
A crowd of Hungarian women of
McAdOO, some of them carrying clubs,
surrounded the Crawford and Dugan
mines this morning and requested the
men working there to quit. Matters
looked squally for a few minutes, but
the ONE were told that the work be-
ing done there did not interfere with
the strike and they returned to their
homes satisfied.
At Evansville washery last night a
number of men were held up on the
Hazelton.
Pottsville, Pa, Sept. 1S.-All the
%Schuylkill region colleries resumed
work this morning with the single ex,
ception of Morea, operated by the
Dodson company. The Vulcan and
Buck Mountain, near Mahoney City.
are short handed, however. The latter
was idle yesterday, owing to the alb
sence of men who were in attendance
at a big Polish wedding. The Lehigh
Coal company's Centralia colliery.
which shut down at noon yesterday
owing to scarcity of coal resumed this
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men than yesterday. 1t is reported
from Nesquehoning that last night.
when Hugh Dempsey of Scranton and
James Gallagher of Hazelton, labor
leaders, attempted to address a meet
ing, they were jeered and pelted with
stale vegetables and had to stop.