The sun., 1900-09-19
THE KEWs FROM SCRANTON.
Report La That There Is No Break In
Strikers Ranks.

Scranton, Pa, Sept. 1S.-There is no
break in the ranks of the United Mine
Workers in the Lackawanna region, and
every coiiery and breaker tied sup when
the great strike OF the anthracite miners
Was officially begun is idle.
The only places in this extensive in
dustrial valley, with its nearly $1,000
mine workers. which are operating are
the Diamond washery, Delaware,
l@ckawanna and Western company, en-
ploying % men and boys, but it is capa-
hla OF turning out 1000 tons of screened
hsrdsege and buck wheat coal day; the
Oxford washery, an individual concern,
!, pl0Tias about 20 hands: the Anthony
W. {.lcly, On the south side, and the Glib
hons DRIFT, i'll the same locality, the for
mer working 80 men and boys and the
latter about 40.
The Anthony and the Oxford wash
eiics are supplying local trade only. and
they granted increases to their employees
beforc work commenced. The Gibbons
drift has the contract for the Scranton
public schools, some 40 large buildings,
;iid the proprietors entered upon an
agreement to pay the advanced wages to
their employees, fill none but the school
Ndemands and to retail to none but pei-
'AvaIe families, fortifying their agreement
by a bond to hold good while the strike
lasts.
q This, then, is the situation Scarcely
iu3 men and boys at work throughout
*the entire valley, 35 miles long
8from Pittston to Forest CITY AMI
n Hscarcely an average of two miles
Hin width. Even the washorics of
z the big corporations, which may I'M
dertake to work. may only he able TO
n till the cars on their tracks, for there
4 they will be left, as the railroad men
have given Fred Dilcher the member
of the national executive hoard. and
President Nichols Of the district board
y to understand they will not be drawn out
{ of the branches on to the main lines.
The Columbus washery, which pro-
vides culm for the electric light plants,
the street railway power house and the
steam heating plant, will enter upon an
agreement TO operate its works. None
of their coal goes to an outside market
they say, and no coal Corporations profit
from it.
The Delaware and Hudson company,
through its general superintendent. c. G..
Rose, made the announcement that as
soon as there is demand anywhere for
its coal it will find the men to operate
one or more of its collieries and provide
such workmen with protection.
1t is possible that such effort will be
made at Carbondale for at all the other
operations of the company in the valley
they have had strike troubles of different
degrees during the past few months. and
trouble would follow an attempt to oper-
ate any of these.
A call at the score of offices of the
m ina nfn,, hnuo Oh. ,n
upon the enormity of the strike move
ment, and for the most part all the SUI
perintendents are apparently chagrined
at its wide extent, especially in district
No. l. There was hope expressed that
/ the split in the Hazletm and Schuylkll
.',regons would serve to disintegrate the
ranks here and eventually put the mines
TO work to large extent
Meanwhile they will dp nothing toward
starting the mines. Thi, is positively de-
cided upon. and the superintendents feel