The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-03-27

II can't tell you anything about my
motive for leaving" he said TO II Trib-
une man at the Lackawanna station,
just before he left the city. "All that
| can say is, | am off for Indianapolis
and a quiet talk with the boys. You
will have to put one and one together
and read between the lines"
Earlier i'm the day Dilcher had de-
clared a telegram he received in the
morning was sent him by his wife in
Ohio, and the reporter therefore inter-
jected at this point
"Then that telegram from your wife
contained the indianapolis summons,
did it?"
The big national board member
smiled broadly, but declined to answer.
He declared that he expects to be back
in n day or two, but as he will only
arrive at Indianapolis al Z o'clock this
evening, it is not likely that he will re-
turn before Friday at the earliest.
CONFERENCE AT INDIANAPOLIS.
a fact which strengthens the belief
that "a conference is to be held at In
dianapolis is the fact that National
Organizer Christopher Evans, who has
been in the city during the past two
weeks, left yesterday morning. Evans
| remarked to persons at the hotel that
"he was off for headquarters" and as
indianapolis is the recognized national
center Of doings in the mine workers
union, it was Immediately conjectured
that the Indiana city was his destina-
tion. Dilcher confirmed the supposition
before leaving.
In event of a conference at Indian
4. IL 4
Mitchell and District Presidents Fahy,
Nichols and Duffy left for it yester-
day afternoon from New York, and
that the telegram received by Dilcher
yesterday morning was the announce
| ment of it by the national president.
A meeting of the officers of the board
| of trade was held yesterday morning
and it was decided to decline the offer
| of Rev. Father Phillips, of Hazleton.
who last week acquainted Secretary
Atherton with his project for a trip to
| New York of the presidents of the
Scranton, Hazleton and Wilkes Barre
boards, in company with himself.
AS has already been stated, the four
| delegates from the anthracite districts
| would meet Bishop Potter and Arch
| bishop Corrigan at the metropolis and
| call upon J. Pierpont Morgan and en-
| deavor to persuade the latter to meet
| the mine workers officers. The local
! board yesterday decided that in view
| of the fact that their intermediation
| was asked by neither miners nor oper-
| ators, any such action would be mere
| ly intrusive, and particularly so when
President Mitchell's own presence in
New York is considered.
MORGAN WILLING.
Father Phillips called up Secretary
Atherton over the long distance phone
| from Hazleton Monday night and in
formed him that he had received q
special delivery letter from ]. Pierpont
Morgan, responding to the communi-
cation which he sent him last week in,
forming him of the proposed visit. Ii
his answer Mr.. Morgan declared tha
| he would be delighted to meet repre-
| sentativeS from the boards of trade
any day this week. between the hour.
of and 4 o'clock in the afternoon
The Hazleton clergyman further an
nounced that he had made all arrange
ments for meeting of the committe,
at the Astor house at IL o'clock Wed
nesday noon.
Secretary Atherton notified Fathe
Phillips of the local boards action, AM
yesterday afternoon the Hazleton di
vine left his home for New York.
Committeeman Dilcher received m
communication from President Mitchell
yesterday. and declared that the stor.
in an afternoon paper to the effect tina
the operators agreed to a conferenc
was an entirely suppositious one.
"The statement that ] received
telegram from President Mitchell is en-
tirely false he said. Il received
telegram this morning, it is true, bu
it was only a communication from m
wife, Some one evidently jumped a
the conclusion that this was a mes
sage from Mitchell. and the conferenc
yarn was the result"
EFFECT OF THE STRIKE.
William H. Logan, the manager q
II, G.. Dun & Co.'S Office in this city
; | yesterday spoke as follows with refer
, ence to the threatened mine strike:
p Scranton is unfortunate in that, probably n
, / other important business community IN Il
United States has been more disturbed by in
: pending or actual labor troubles. In almo
tmce years there has been hut few mont!
= when thc business interests ol the city have y,
|
. tion OF work in some industrial branch, The who
f eliminating in the strike OF the United Mh
Workers last fall,
We found then, by widespread inquiry anon
|, | all branches OF retail trade, that there eNistl
= a universal sympathy for the miners and the
- brother workmen; merchants were outspokcn
'ncir willingness 70 carry them as credit cu
toners TO the full limit OF their Own capt.
e and credit. During the month Of October no
tl.n Incl. anII
Y zerne counties largely exceeded the same mont
for Eve years past lut with the settlement
s the strike, the promise OF scmi'monthy pa
aud the general favorable outlook, came renew'
= confidence in all lines of local business.
The results were notably observed IN Jan
alJ OF this year when not one outright mcrcl
q tile failure was recorded in tie city OF Scra
ton with its more than fifteen hundred trade
n | men aud manufacturers. The mercantile agen,
Il records do not disclose any similar condition +
/, many years, January. 1900, having shown 5
n | failures With indebtedness oi $4,000 and ia
uary, lsOo, four failures with debts Of $4,000.
:, With the announcement that the United Nil
Workers had delegated TO few OF their oifcia
il'e power 10 terminate by a suspension OF Ncl
the existing favorable conditions, has come q
other period OF local business depression a,
alIcady the record oi mercantile failures /
,r March threatens 10 eSceed that Of the san
nt month for many years. Investigation amcl
s the classes OF traders who usually have TO be
~ the brmt OF strikes develops an absolute
D. | versal OF feeling compared with last TALL,
e. regards sympathy for prospective strikers MAJ
:, are pronounced in their refusal to "carry" ~
70 striker and declare 'he present disturbed GO
/. ditions TO be absolutely useless and unnectsssr