The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-10-26
STRIKE SITUATION
Belief that it May Come to an End
This Week.
BITUMINOUS COAL. WE'LL LIKED


Elemental Notices-A Collision at
Wilkesbarre Between Strikers ana
Men Going to Work.
Wilkesbarre. Pa. Oct 2l.-The gen.
eral belief here is that the coming
week will see the wind up of the
| strike, The strikers do not admit this
openly but II is the feeling that the
lockout cannot be continued much
longer. Both sides are expected to
make concessions.
The operators say they have none to
make but under certain pressure they
are expected to make them neverthe.
less. The politicians have had their
say In negotiations looking toward a
settlement and now the sales agents
OF the big coal companies and the re-
tail dealers in the big cities are taking
hand. They are writing and tele
graphing every day to the coal com
panies that unless something Is done
very soon to bring the strike to an end
and an effort made to get some hard
coal on the market at reasonable fig
ures. the anthracite trade will be de-
moralized for years to come and some
Of 1t will be lost forever.
One sales agent writes:
"One Of my largest customers tells
me that consumers are getting to like
bituminous coal and that they think
they will keep on using it,"
Hazelton Pa. Oct. 23.-President
Mitchell in an interview Monday night
practically admitted that the anthra:
cite coal miners strike would end as
soon as all the operators posted no.
tice guaranteeing the payment of 10
per cent advance in wages until April
LIST. President Mitchell said:
1.-THE prospect of an early settlement
of the coal strike is becoming bright
er. Some Of the operators who have
not yet posted notices signifying their
willingness to fall in line either with
the Reading company or with the prop
osition made by the Lehigh Valley Co.
in the Hazelton region. If all of them
notify their employees by posting no
tees or otherwise that an advance of
10 per cent will be paid each mine en-
ploye and guarantee its continuance
until April 1st together with the abo
lition of the sliding scale, l believe
that the terms would be accepted by
the mine workers. The reduction in
powder from SITS to $3.50 has con.
fused the minds of the miners, but
some of the operators have SO fully
explained how contract miners could
receive the full advance of 10 per cent
as well as all other employees that
believe that this obstacle can be over
come"
Discomfort Growing.
Wilkesbarre, Pa. Oct. 23.-Discon-
| tent among the striking miners of the
| Wyoming valley is growing and unless
| the strike is settled soon they will be
| hard to control. A majority of the men
are willing and anxious to go to work
| and if President Mitchell should call
| the strike off tomorrow even with the
powder question unsettled he would
| receive more credit from his followers
| than to allow the contest to drag on
| with the chance of losing in the end.
The strikers say they are well organ
| lied now and they can afford to wait a
while before demanding other conces-
sions. But in the opinion of many q
| prolongaticn of the strike will mean
| only a repetition of history. They say
| the companies will starve the men ont
the same as they have in other strikes
and then when they do return to work
| 1t would probably be at old wages and
| no union back of them
| A Collision.
| The discomfort of the strikers was
shown at the works of the Lehigh and
| Wilkesbarre Coal company in the east.
ern part of the city Monday morning.
| gang of men were going to work to
| screen coal on the bank of the Empire
| mine when they were set uDon by q
mob OF men. women and boys. John ]
| O'Hara, foreman Of the gang, was
Knocked down with a stone and his
| nose fractured. Several other work
men were slightly injured During the
| melee several shots wc:c fired. One
| bullet gr5zed the ear Of coal and iron
| policeman Mccall The mob destroy.
ed all the tools &C the worknen. The
! 6istUrban-e took place within the city
| limits and detachment of police were
sent to the scene When they arrived
they found a large crowd of women
and boys. but very few men. The To-
cal officers Of the United Mine Work
ers say none of their men were en-
gagged in the fight.
The police found an effigy of O'Hara
hanging to a telegraph pole. There
was placard on it which read:
The highest price every paid for res
idence property in the city of New
York and perhaps in the country, was
given Friday by Harley I. Proctor
an opulent soap man of Cincinnati
5000. coo for n lot 100 feet front by Ia
feet jea the corner Of Fifth avenue
ard FIFTY ond street.