Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-18

operating with reduced forces strikers
say some workings are not mining amy
coal, but are running the machinery TO
give outsiders the Impression that the
strike has not affected them. with
one eXceptlUn-th8t of the Eckley COLI
lleries-reports show that fewer men
are working at all the mines ON the
North Side Of Hazelton today than on
yesterday
STRIKERS THROW STONES.
Shamoklu. Pa. Sept. ls-About 20
per cent ut the men who worked no
Mount Carmel yesterday Joined the
strikers this morning, having cleaned
up their work yesterday afternoon. and
the strike leaders declare that the in
dieauuns are that ull the mines thereWiu
DE- tied up as light as those I'm the VIZ
entity OF Shomokin,
some Of the strikers at Mount Carmel
THIS morning gathered in the neighbour
hood NJ the mines operated by The Read
ing Coal company and the Union Coal
company and stoned the men who per-
sisted iu going 20 work, The operators
are calling IN the services of "a large
force of deputies ana declare they win
protect those men who choose tU work
superintendent i. Brennan. OF the
Pennsylvania and Reading Coal and
Iron company, gave out a statement toe
day 10 the effect that the Henry clay
and other mines belonging to This COM
papy To- the vicinity OF Sham0kn would
not resume work until the strike had
been settled He left Tor TreVerton
today and says that unless conditions
there are more favorable he win close
mp those mines also. The Mineral
Coal company.s mines are 10 the same
condition.
NO BREAK IN RANKS.
Scranton. Pa. Sept. lS.-Thera is mo-
break In the ranks Of the United Mine
Workers in the Lackawanna region.
Every coll.ery and breaker tied up
Yesterday is idle today The only places
iu this extensive industrial valley with
its nearly 5000 mine workers. which
are operating today are tha Diamond
Washerlgs. of the Delaware Lackawau-
ma O. western company employing 2j
men and boys. ana capable of turning
out 10000 tons of screened birlseye and
buckWheat coal day, the oxford
Nashery employing about twenty
hands; the Anthony waqherv and the
Gibbons drift iu the same locality the
former working go men and boys, and
the latter about i0
The Anthony and oxford washerles
supply coal trade only. and they grant
cd The Increase 90 their employees today
before WORK commenced The Gibbons
drift has the contract Tor the Scranton
public schools and several large build
ings, and the prUpIiotors today entered
upon an agreement 10 pay the advanced
wages. ON none but the school demand
and retail 90 none but private families,
iorulyInG thCir agreement by q bond 90
continue while the strike lasts
WHOLE VALLEY QUIET.
Scarcely one hundred men and boys
are "a work throughout the entire yal-
ley thirty.hye miles long. from Pitts
ton 90 Forest City Even the washeries
of the big corporations which may I'M
dertake To work may only Doe able 10
ON the cars un their tracks for there
they viii De left as the railroad men
have given Fred Dilcher. the member
Of the national executive board, 20 uu-
dnrstanl they win not De drawn out Of !
The branches on To- The main lines
The Columbia Cull.gry which provides |
coal for thc electric l.ght company the |
street railway and the steam heating |
operate lbs works None of the coal |
goes 90 az outside market. they say !
ana no coal corporations profit from &c. /
l,t-h t's t.,.,s ,i' sl irur,yn o9i,,t'"S
e. Rose made the announcement to-
day uat as soon os there is a demand ]
anywhere for their coal they VIII hnd l
men 10 operate one or more collierles
and provide them with protection.
HOPE For Split
a call az the score Of Offices Of the
mine operators today showed the MAG
nituie Of the STRIFE. There was hope
expressed that the split in the Hazel
ton and Schuylkill regions would serve
90 dlsintegrate the ranks and cycutu-
ally bring about "a solution that would
put the mines 90 work 10 q large eN-