Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-10-07
THE LATTIMER MINES
CLOSED BY MARCHERS.
WOMEN AND GIRLS FROM McADoO
HELD PLACE AT HEAD OF
PROCESSION.
A CLASH NARROWLY AvERTED
TWO THOUSAND STRIKERS Az
SYMPATHIZERS MADE UP
THE CROWD.

HAZLETON, Pa, October g. Yearly
1000 strikers, with fifty women and
girls, marched into Lattimer early this
morning AID completely tied up the W
collieries of Calvin Pardee & Co., locat-
ed at that place. 1t vas the greatest
march that has taken place during the
present strike.
The crowd was made up of strikers
from McAdoo, Audenried, GAINESVILLE
and Hazleton, OF the south side, and
from HARDWOOD, Ebervale, Juddo, Free
land and Upper Lehigh on the north
side. The women and girls came from
the now famous borough of McAdoo.
Sheriff Harvey and a handful of depu-
ties were at the Lattimer when the
strikers arrived, and they kept the
marchers constantly on he move
There was no disturbance at any time,
the men and women being well-behaved.
1t was the most exciting day that
Lattimer has had since the tragedy OF
three years ago. The strikers from the
south side concentrated on the back
lOdu w I1c pldCc. 4 ncy la L StNtA
homes at midnight. The women, in
Guiding Mother Jones, were conveyed
in wagons, while the men walked. 1t
was a little before 6 o'clock when the
1000 south side men entered Lattimer,
headed by a fife and drum corps and
the women. The leader of the females.
who was a pretty Polish girl, carried
a large American flag. They marched
and counter-marched on the Lattimer
public road until Z a. m, when the
whistle blew for the starting of work
at the collieries. A great shout went
up from the crowd as it saw that no
one responded to the call. Shortly
after this a faint cheer was heard In
the distance, and suddenly a crowd,
which proved to be the north side
marchers, who had gathered on the OPP
posite side Of the town, burst through
a gate on the further end OF the COM
pany's property about half a mile away.
They came streaming in by the hum
dreds and rusned down the company's
railway then across the %strippings and
Joined the south side forces on the
public road on the very spot where the
twenty-five marchers were shot by
deputies in 1897.
While the men were running across
the company's property it looked as II
the leaders of the South Side strikers
would lose control of the men and they
would break and overrun the private
grounds, but they were held in check.
If they had gotten on to the property
the sheriff, with his small force, would
bo,,o IaaD ahea1,,+a1x, pOUvar1aoc RI 1ao1
with the two thousand cheering march
erS.
The combined force, after a short rest,
formed two by two, with the women
and girls in the lead, and started on
the parade through the town. The
women marchers called the Latimer
men black legs and other hard names,
while those thus assailed remained mute
through fear of being attacked. This
was kept up until nine o'clock, when
the marchers began to leave for their
various home towns.
Just before the whistle blew at sever
o'clock the McAdoo women gathered
on the public road at the junction of a
private lane leading from the COM
pany's stables to the mine. Their pur-
pose was to prevent the driver boys
from taking mules into the slopes. The
officials of the company saw the move,
and quickly summoned the sheriff, who
was watching some of the marchers
a short distance away. He came gal
Looping down in his buggy, and 1t looked
for a minute as If he and the women
would clash, but a pleasant word and
a quietly spoken request of Girls,
please move on" prevented trouble.
While the two small armies were
marching on the roads In the vicinity
of Latimer pickets were on duty at
every point where workmen passed on
the way to the collieries, but they had
nothing to do, for very few men at
tempted to reach the mines. 1t was ru-
mored that Sheriff Harvey had called
for troops. That official, it is known,
had a telephone communication with
General Goblin, in command of the SOL
diers camped at Shenandoah. A dis
patch 10 the Associated Press from
A Harrisburg, however, is to the effect
that no request for the sending of troops
into Luzerne county has yet been re-
ceived by Governor Stone.
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