The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-25
THE STRIKE GROWING
The Managers Claim That More Men
Are Joining Then and More Mines
shutting Down.

shutting Down.
Philadelphia. Pa, September co.
Everything quiet n orderly. Is the
report that comes from the strike re-
gion. A efw more mine workers join
ed the strikers ranks today, but not
many.
The temper OF the mine owners on
the question OF arbitration Is indicated
in interviews and statements given out
today Is very much against 3 propo-
sition- Nevertheless. Father Phillips
came here from the Haxeiton egion
tonight and Is with Archbishop Ryan
In consultation on the subject very
near and dear to his heart. the quick
settlement; or the strike by arbitration
or any other honorable means. Pro-
iestant clergymen in Hazelton have
also X up the matter and will en-
deaSor TO bring the opposing elements
together amicably. Coal scarcity is
more keenly felt here today and al
though the Reading Mining Company
Is mining and shipping Its usual quota
OF anthracite coal, dealers are finding
II hard 10 get as much as they need.
The tonnage OF the other great coal
carrying companies Is gradually d.
minishing. however, and in the natural
order OF things. unless the strike -
settled. viii soon cease altogether
from some districts.
Somewhat vague reports are coming
in OF preparation on the part Of the
sheriffs and the coal companies for a
clash with the reckless element among
n strikers Nearly everybody be-
lieveS that trouble must come, yet
there has been no sign OF an outbreak
and the men appeal TO be well handled
by their leaders.
Hazelton, Pa. September 2o.-In the
absence OF President Mitchell from
headquarters today Benjamin James.
who is next In charge OF the strike in
this region, issued a daily bulletin from
the United Mine Workers headquar-
tiers. II is as follows
"Hazelton, Pa, September %, 5.45 p. m.
The reports received at headquar-
tiers today have been NEST gratifying.
HARDWOOD, Colerain and the Sta wash
cry at Audenried shut down this morn
ing. The men at these places decided
last evening TO strike with their fell
lowmen. This Is a gain for tl.e mine
workers.
AT Jeddo, where John Markle tried
to influence the men TO go to work,
they remained firm, evidently realizing
the shallowness OF the offers made by
their employers.
Eight hundred more men are on
~ An1 al 1iLlo > aoAoy NAaA WI
any previous day during the strike.
The suspension in the Wyoming and
Lackawanna valleys is now complete,
the only mine which worked the fore
part Of the week being closed.
Reports from No. 9 (the lower an
thracite) show that there have been
large accessions to the strikers. great
inroads having been made on the Phil
adelphia n Reading employees.
THE situation over the entire an
thracite field Is such that we have
every reasons to believe that in a few
days the suspension will be general
throughout the three districts"
W~ilkesbarre, Pa, September 90
The first arrest in connection with the
miners strike was made this after
noon when Joseph Begos. a Hungarian
of Nanticoke, was taken into custody.
charged on oath of Alexander Monsy-
ock, with pointing a revolver and
while he was returning from work
The prosecutor is employed at company
work in one of the mines at Nanticoke
and when he started for home last
night he met Begos who asked him why
he was working. Monsyock did not
answer and was proceeding on his
way when 1T is alleged Begos pointed
his revolver. Upon his promising not
to report for work in the morning Be-
goS did not shoot. The prisoner was
brought to the city and iE default OF
81, 500 bail was committed To jail.
Scranton, Pa, September 20.-Scran-
tonites, strange to relate. are the first
to experience hardship as a result OF
the scarcity of o The men at the
Columbus washery out of sympathy
for n strike movement. refuse 10 pre-
pare any culm except for the electric
light plant Of which the wash cry Is q
part and this compels the trolley COM
pany to use unwashed culm just as IL
comes from the refuse heaps. Fifty per
cent. OF this is in~combustibIe AMI con-
s%equently 1t Is extremely difficult TO
make steam. AS a result the electric
lines are badly crippled.
Scranton also has the distinction Of
having the first operator to sign the
union scale. He is Michael Gibbons,
who conducts a small working IN South
Scranton, from which he supplies some
of the schools and a few private fami-
lies. He feared his fifty men might
quit at any time and agreed to sign
the scale IL the union would exempt his
place from the strike order. The dIs-
trict board of the mine workers union
told him to sign the scale and close
down his works and they would con
slider the proposition. He consented
and the board will pass on the matter
tomorrow
Scranton, Pa. September z0.-The
Pennsylvania Coal Company issued a
statement today showing by a re-
sumo of it's comptrollers reports that
the average a of miners and Ia
borers In all Of their twenty-seven coll
Ieries for the month Of August was
respectively $3.50 and s1.s7 per day and
that twenty days were worked