The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-26

Ii.S illHe-ONHeTS uecidre lney VIII zeal Z
only with their employees as individuals :
and the strike leaders say they will in
sist upon formal recognition of the /
union. This difference would appear |
sufficient to keep employer and en-
ploye apart forever. if persisted in.
One little band of miners in the Wyo- |
ming valley, those Of the West End
Coal Company at Mocanaqua, number
ing few hundred men, stand out
prominently as the only men at work
out of nearly 10000 in the Lackawanna
and Wyoming region. Efforts to in
duce them to join the strikers have
failed. They say they have always
been treated kindly; they have no
! grievance AID they Will therefore re-
main loyal to their employers.
| WILKESBARRE, Pa, Sept. 49,
There is no. change in the strike situa-
tion in the Wyoming valley this morn
ing. The collieries that were conpall-
led to suspend operations yesterday, are
idle today. The United Mine Workers
had watchers in the vicinity of every
coiiiery to- see if any miners reported
fer work.
The colliery at Mocanaqua operated
by the West End Coal Company, is the
only mine in this district that is work
ing.
HAZELTON, Pa, Sept. 1S.-The sec
ond day of the anthracite coal strike
began very quietly in this district. Ac-
cording to reports received from all
parts of the districts there was no
break in the ranks of the strikers, and
in many mines there were fewer men
working than on yesterday. Some of
the collieries are so short of men that
it is doubtful If they can continue work
during the entire day.
Every official connected with the
United Mine Workers now in the dis
trict, with the exception of President
Mitchell, started out before o'clock
this morning for picket duty at various
collieries. All had returned to head
, quarters by o'clock, and reported that
they had been successful in inducing
men to stay away from various work
ings.
a number of leaders also reported
that several of the mines are being
: guarded by watchmen to prevent union
men from attempting to induce nom
junior strikers to quit work.
The first march of strikers in this re-
: gion took place early this morning when
about one hundred men from McAdoo
2 Audenreid and Yorktown, headed by a
( brass band, marched through the south
side en- route to the Colerain colliery
with view to inducing the men there
2 to quit work. The strikers did not u.s.
force, but were quite successful, as a
number of non-union men returned tC
i j. their homes. The marching miners thel
: went back to McAdoo and dispersed
A crowd of Hungarian women of Nc
Adoo, some of them carrying clubs
t surrounded the Crawford and Dugar
mines this morning and requested the
!, men working there to quit. Matter!
"a looked squally for a few minutes, tbu
: the women were told that the work be
:. ing done there did not interfere will
IT the strike, and they returned to thei
d homes satisfied AT Evansville wash
;. cry last night a number of men wer
held up on the Hazelton road while re
turning from work and were forced t
: promise not TO so to the mines today
n They kept their promise.
l. Workmen Of the Lehigh and Wilkes
,e barre Coal Company at Audenreid wer
engaged this morning in pulling tn
fires from under the boilers at thos
strippings This indicates a suspensio
of work there.
Other reports from the south side tc
- day give instances of individual cases
- violence yesterday against miners VIII
did not quit work, but no one was sc
riously hurt.
1t was estimated at noon today thu
the number of additional men in tn
district who Joined the strikers tn
IF morning was about 500 On the mort
operating with reduced forces Stril
. ers say the workings are not minir
IL any coal, but are running the machil
is cry to give outsiders the impressio
n that the strike has not affected ther
With one exception-that of the Eel
H. ley collieries-reports show that few
al men are working at all the mines
D. the north side of Hazelton today thu
10 on yesterday.
q GRIEVANCES DISCUSSED
rs NEW YORK, Sept. E.-John b. Garret
wee president of the Lehigh Coal Coz
r parry, in an interview made the followil
n ststement in review of the various grie
f. lances alleged by the United Mine worke
s. TO exist in the anthracite coal fields:
be This company conducts no stores. n
u. does 1t exert any influence upon employ
he to rrefer one merchant above another
employs no doctors and makes no charg
n iagainst its employees for medical servi
t. Is, them or their families. Inquiry h
,e. satisfied me that the above is also t
Ic- case with the companies generally Sen
me nthIy pay is observed by in f,
ng cases, being in all in which the men ha
of demanded il. 1t would DE observed an
d. where, were the demand made, call
Die for by law.
at "The use of the word ton as appli
ng 10 $3.50 pounds is misnomer; 1t is simI
RS Cnit of measure. which might be call
on a car or CARLOAD or by any other nan
let and is the quantity of actual coal pl
ty, bore, slate and other foreign material
ch the removal of which a certain payne
is made under the agreed scale of wag
me ''The price charged for powder is
th apparent but not a real grievance.
he SINE regions $275 per keg lis charged:
uls others $50 per keg. This of itself shol
of be sufficient evidence that the compen'
tion of the miner is set Independently
of the price of powder. net return
les a days labor must be essentially the sa
at in neighboring fields, whether one or
red other price is charged for the powder.
ra- Another evidence that the price
ON DC WIDER does not create an injury to
ose miner Is shown by the fact that vi
the subject was agitated some time &
,ir- one of the larger companies offered
ous reduce the charge for powder to its II
OILS current value, provided the men wo
len eorsent to such revision of their wa
in IA would continue the same compensat
or fer their labor as they had previously
sly ceived undef the agreement which
ath then operative.
This was promptly rejected, snow
uls that their purpose was TO effect an
os- crease of wages, and that II this could
the obtained they preferred to maintain