The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-11-03
ARE REIUaNlNG 10 WORK.

Striking Miners Go to Work in Most OF
b Colllcrles.
Hazelton, Fa., Oct. 31.-Operati...s3
were resumed this morning al a ma
|Iority of the collieries In the Hazleton
district.
The strike is still on at the mines OF
the Lehfgh and Wiikesbarre Coal COM
|pany and Coke Bros. & CO.. owing to
a misunderstanding on account of the
notices posted. Probably all hands
will be working tomorrow.
The colliery at Milnesville, where no
demands have been granted. is also
idle. Before the strike the company
Threatened to abandon the mine. 1t
looks as IL h threat would be carried
out.
A. the Lattimer and Cranberry COL
|lieries at Stockton about 200 strikers
are still idle owing to minor differences
between the men and operators, but
1T is believed In most instances a set
Element will be reached In a few days.
The Van Wickle company has grant
ed the Increase at its other collieries at
Colerain and Beaver Meadow. It is
said that Calvin Pardee, owner of the
those men who struck before the mines
were closed down by 800 marchers
some weeks ago;
The fremen and brakemen on the
Delaware, Susquehanna and Schuyl-
kill railroad have submitted a number
OF demands to the railroad officials.
The former demand that thirty hours
constitute three shifts, and that they
be paid 81 for the anne instead OF
1910, which they receive at present.
The brakemen demand an increase of
10 per cent in their wages. The engi-
neers have no grievance, The railroad
Is owned by Coke Bros. & Co., who
operate six collicries in this region, and
was built for the purpose of hauling
Lehigh Valley railroad.
All the coal companies in the Wyo-
ming valley, with n few exceptions.
have now posted notices granting their
employees the 10 per cent increase
asked for by the Scranton convention.
The exceptions are a few individual
operators who do not employ many
hands,
The Kingston Coal company had no.
tices posted Sunday granting the in
crease. This company employs 1900
men and was the last of the individual
concerns in the valley to grant the In
crease. ~
The officials Of the s%usauehanna
company had o conference with their
employees Saturday and agreed to pay
them the advance.
Higher Coal Certain.
New York, Oct. 29.-When asked in
regard to the announcement from
Philadelphia that the Philadelphia and
Reading company had broken ava
from the o syndicate and would
hereafter run all Its mines to their full.
capacity, which is said to be 10000, 900
tons a year, the company's officers said
that the strike just ended IVES an d
ditiona1 reason why Ice company
should get out Of its mines during the
next four months all the coal possible.
They claimed that the market was now
almost bare and all the coa the mines
in the anthracite region can supply
during the winter months will scarcely
satisfy h demand.
Jeremiah Pangburn, secretary of the
Wholesale Dealers Protective associa-
ton, said:
ut will be impossible for the Read
ing or any of the companies to start up
all their mines, for two reasons. In
the first place, many of the miners.
who are mostly Welshmen, Italians
and Hungarians, have gone back to
Europe. and in the4neSt place the pro-
tracted drouth In >the anthracite re-
gion has caused a shortage of water.
Coal will remain all winter long at
least so to rs cents a ton higher than
before the strike, no matter how much
Is mined"