The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-15
MARKLE'S MINERS
WILL NOT STRIKE
Their Grievances Will First Be Sub
mitted to the Company-Mass
Meeting at Jeddo.

Hazleton. Pa. Sept. 1.-THE Rev.
Father Phillips. of st. Gabriers
church. tonight received the following
telegram:
philadelphia, Sept. l4.-Can the
archbishop assist you in strike trouble.
(Signed) James p. Turner,
Secretary"
Father Phillips called up Monsignor
Ioughlin, of the cathedral at Phila-
delphia, by telephone and Informed
him to thank Archbishop Ryan on be-
half of the anthracite miners, the
operators and the public in general.
Monsignor Loughlin assured Father
Phillips that the archbishop was ready
at any time TO do anything to pro-
mote q better feeling between en-
ployer and employees and should the
occasion arise he would not hesitate
to be at the service of all interests
concerned.
AS the archbishop is one of the most
eminent churchmen in the country
his services may yet have an import
ant bearing on the strike question and
bring about a solution of the Difficult
" between the operators and miners.
About five hundred miners repre-
senting the 1875 employees of G. r.
Markle & Co., at Ebervale, JeGdo and
Highland, met at the Jeddo school
house tonight and decided not to
strike unless a list of their own
grievances, which were drawn up at
the meeting, and which will be sub
mitted to John Marklo. a member of
the firm, are not granted. Mr.. Markle
is to have ten days in which to con-
slider the grievances.
William Butler, a miner. made a
speech at the meeting in which he said
that the miners have lost every strike
In the last ten years. He advised the
men not to strike. Other speeches
were made along the same line after
which committee of nine was APP
pointed 10 take the grievances to the
head men Of the company The gTiev-
anccS are as follows:
They ask for the enforcement of the
somi-monthlY pay law. ten hours pay
for ten hours work, that men engaged
in the robhing of pillars be paid fol
dead work, that when the slope is clear
and men present themselves at the
bottom to be hOisted to the surface {
ear be provided so as not to obligt
them to wait until the bottom men ge
-eady. that powder be reduced to a!
ow price as possible, that the com
7any provide a tool car in the morn
ing and evening to take all tools III
and down the slope, that the men re
Ceiving Sl.75 at present get an increas,
of per cent. and those below S1.7
an increase of 10 per cent.
The men decided to work until al
answer has been made to this griev
ance. so there will be no shut down a
the Markle colleries on Monday Al
arbitration agreement exists betweel
the company and the employees of tn
q. b. Markle mines and tonight
meeting may be considered signifcant
Regarding the Jeddo meeting Benja
min James tonight said:
THE meeting was called at the in
stgation Of G.. b. Markle &, Co. who's
foreman went through the mines an
told the men that they must attent
Thomas, the man elected chairman, wa
recently granted an assistant min
foreman's certificate, and is now seeh
ing a position of that kind. The chic
spokesman was a Mr.. Renshaw,
father of the mine boss, which prove
that the meeting was called by III
company and not by the men. Every
thing had been arranged beforehan
as to how IT should be conducted. The
refused to let me speak, but / calle