New-York tribune., 1900-09-22

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strt,,srs continue a menace 10 all who want 10
-, raoas NJ strikers are a. or near every
-. ,,,, TN operation. and their threatening at
.,.,,7o &c y source Of uneasiness. We no sooner
.,,ia, Aovn one disturbing element when aho'ner
:; heard from AT a more distant point
~ sheriff has only small force at his as
nasal which is not recruited from the sPi"
no1icemen sworn in In this city only 'We".s
man vent with him from Wilkesbarre anu ne
added q few men to his ranks at thzietoh' mo"
ing about forty In all. His friends say tna' IL
hos dome wonders in preventing an outbreak
and this is largely due 10 his great popularity
with the miners. 80.
The coal companies in this city and its vicinity
are not waiting for the Sheriff to protect '"eiii
hut are swearing in a large number OF speoia'
men, Yesterday and to-day 3'o received cou.-
missions and the time of two CLERKS en'HeiS
taken I'M each day in filling them out. The num-
ber Of specials is expected 20 reach '"o py TO
morrow night These have no uniforms
hut are armed with revolvers ana sneKs an
are placed about the collieries'
The lack of coal has already aftcted the
schools OF this city, and there is danger that
they will have to be shut down before long II
cold weather comes. for their supply O coal VIII
not keep them going more than week Cl'y
Superintendent CoughIin said to-day
The Board has a contract with ocal retail
oTf he entire year This expires on october Il.
When the strike was first announcer the jan
itnrs Of the different buildings PLACED orders
with the dealer The full amount oIoered was
not supplied but Just a sufficient qlantlty 10
keep the buildings in running order. In SntiVi i+
ration of the general teup, we presumed Vhat
| the contractor would for us and secure
! enough to cover the terms Of his contract we
| have this week applied 10 him, and ilnd that ne
! IS unable to supply us with ton
All the efforts of the Board to get coal have
failed It is not to he had, and the directors are
! in a quandary. They speak Of appealing to Pres
| ident Nichols of this district to allow some OF
| his men to work at mine long enough to pro-
! duce sufficient coal for the schools. They do
not believe he would object to this, as many OF
the strikers children would be without place
to go during the winter days II the schools had
| to close
| GENERAL EFFECT OF THE STRIKE.
The scarcity Of coal and the general effect of
the strike have affected many people. Nearly
| all the clerks and members OF the engineering
corps Of the coal companies have been laid off.
/ The number Of clerks in some of the stores has
been decreased. This morning the Delaware
and Lackawanna Railroad shops at Kingston.
employing fifty men. were closed. Forty-fve
men were suspended at the Central Railroad of
| New-Jerscy shops at Ashley Galland's under
factory laid off fifty hands. and the Wilkes
barre shirt waist factory suspended operations.
| The Pennsylvania Coal Company has issued a
| long statement to prove Its men had no cause
for striking It gives the wages received by the
| men and in summing up says:
The average amount received by each miner
| at all the coIIieries of the PENNSYLVANIA Coal
| Company during August. after paying for
| powder oil, etc, was So 30 a day, and the aver
age number of days worked was twenty The
| wages of miners laboTers were 81 90 a day
The total payroll of the Pennsylvania Coal
was S2G2 141 03.
For August the payroIls of the Erie and
| Wyoming Valley Railroad Company and the
| Dunmore Iron and Steel Company amounted e
S40.565 -, making grand total Of more thar
! $500 600 paid in wages by these three com.
panes
There are few company stores in this region
and there will shortly he less for to-day Slmp
son & Watkins advertised for sale the chain O
six stores they have conducted for many years
at Wyoming, Forty Fort, Duryea. Peckvile
Mayield and Carbondale-
| a big meeting Of the strikers which had beer
I arranged for tomorrow has been postponed. he
cause President Mitchell is unable 10 he here
owing TO severe cold
STATEMENT FROM OPERATORS.
The operators issued this statement to-day;
All the Reading colHeries in the Schuylkil
region are working. The Cameron ana HlcKoi.
! Ridge collieries of the Pennsylvania Railroa
Company working full handed. The win
p Jamestown mines. of the anne company, are ais
in operation. The Lehigh COllieries, in tn
Mahanoy region, are working full handed. TIL
report sent out from HaZleton that the opera
tors will surrender rather than lose big win
: ter's trade is misleading. The operators hav
made up their minds that they VIII not recogniE
the miners union if pound Of coal is m
mined all winter. The issue is not so much
question Of wages as it is the recognition of tn
I union The operators of the anthracite TeStC
can never consent 10 have a lot of btuminoJ
men their business. In the first place. II
r bituminous men know nothing about the cond
5 tious governing the anthracite trade. And
the second place it would mean ruin for I'll
anthracite interests If the soft coal men wei
in position to dominate the anthracite trade.
The exodus Of miners from this section col
tinues It is estimated that seven hundred me
| left the Wyoming Valley yesterday for the We
=, | and the bituminous regions Two hundred MOI
| left this morning. The English speaking mine
| are going West while the Slavs, Italians AT
, Polanders are going back to their old homes
- | Europe Owing TO the scarcity of anthraci
L many Of the locomotives the Central Raj
. road of New-Jersey are compelled TO use so
h ! coal