Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-16
NO SETTLEMENT.
Slight Hope That Strike Will
Soon Come to End.
Great Oestitution and Want in the
Anthracite Region.
Troops Sent 10 Panther Creek Reaion 10 Pie.
vent Expected Trouble.

quietly. The few colleries that have
continued in operation since the strike
was iEaugurated are working as usual
| today, with the same number Of men
they had in the mines. last week
| Two crowds gathered. this morning.
one ut No. 40 shaft Of the Lehigh Val
ley Coal Co., in this city, and the other
at the Cranberry mine Of Pardee & 90.
on the outskirts OF the town. but they
dispersed before daylight, without
causing any trouble.
The march planned for this morning
70 the Panther Creek valley, where q
| majority nt the mines are still in op-
| GRAFTON, WAS called off on account of
rain.
President Mitchell will return from
Scranton. this afternoon.
| Want and ruin has followed ~ the
wake Of the strike in the anthracite
region Families who lived in comfort
while the mines were in operation now
! feel the pinch of privation. and tn,
bare necessities d. existence seem lux
uriI = business men. upon whom pros
perity had smiled, have been brought
to the verge If bankruptcy. Thriving
| towns have become stagnant: casual
| newspaper correspondents and labor
| leaders constitute the most important
| element of thr floating population.
1t is difficult for persons at a dis
| lance TO conceive the fun horror ~ the
| situation. The production Of coal con
stitutes the sole industry Of this sec
ton. There is no ia ming in the neigh
| borhood Of the colleries. The land is
rocky and barren. When tnore Is pIen-
~ Of work for the miners the country
| GouIishes: when work ceases general
suffering follows.
When President Mitchclls order for
a strike went into effect. four weeks
ago. every mine in the LackaWauna
and Wyoming valleys came to a sudden
stop, and work was suspended in many
parts of the Schuylkill and Lehigh dis
| tricts. leaving only the comparatively
small Panther Creek section in full OPP
GRAFTON. Since them the majority Of
the remaining collieries have been
| closed, the neighborhood If TamaquJ
| alone escaping.
| Strikers who have had a little money
| on hand for an emergency have cut
| their living expenses down TO mini
mum. buying nothing but food ana lit
tie of that. In many instances they
are able To obtain credit from local
| dealers, but the bills cannot run very
| high.
IL many towns it is nov impossible.
| 20 obtain coal for domestic use at any
| price The weather in the mountains
Is far colder than in New York
The stagnation Of trade here is. Of
! course. felt BY the manufacturers and
| wholesale rs Of the Eastern cities. who
| furnish supplies. and as the merchants
can obtain no cash from their custom
ers. they must appeal to their credi-
tors for lenicncy.
| Hazclton, Pa. Oct 15.-President Mitch
| ell arrived at the national headquarters
from Scranton, tonight. lie had nothing
| to say in regard u the strike situation
ana declined 70 give his views as to what
probable action the operators Will take
on the convention position.
Deputy Coroner Burns of Schuylkin
county. held an inquest at oneida, today.
over the body Of Ralph Mills the private
guard. who was killed. last Wednesday. in
q small riot. After several witnesses hal
testified the inquest was adjourned to a
future day in order that the testimony Of
| two other persons who were injured dur
ing the riot could be obtained.
Shamokin, Pa. oct. EXPEDITIONS
We're circulated here, this afternoon.
by unknown parties. asking men to 90
to work pending IL settlement between
operators and strikers. The strikers
feel that the agents are authorized by
coal companies to spread these reports
in order to cause a break in the ranks
Of the organized and unorganized men.
Committees Of strikers are actively en-
gagged warning men not to pay atten-
ton to any orders unless officially is
sued by President Mitchell.
Shamokin. Pa. Oct. 15.-Not a col
iiery resumed operations in this portion
OF the coal region this morning. While
miners generally think the terms of
their convention will be accepted by
operators and coal carrying companies
operators hereabouts insist that so far
as they are concerned they will not
unless forced to by the coal carrying
companies. sign an agreement to pay
10 per cent George Hartlein, secre-
tary of district No. 9. made this state
ment:
The terms | believe will be accept
ed by operators. Miners will not go
to work until President Mitchell de-
clares the strike off officially. Big dem
onstrations will be held throughout the
region on the day previous to work.
being resumed. | think the collieries
will be working before next Saturday"
Shamokin Pa. Oct. 15.--CommitteeS Of
the United Mine Workers have been call
ing on miners. this afternoon and even
ing to warn them not to pay attention
to petitions being circulated by agents
of several Coal-carryng companies ask
ing miners to return to work pending a
settlement between the operators. coal
carving companies and miners. The COM
mittees are informing the men that the
Operators are trying to effect a stampede
among the men in order to break UP the
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