The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-05-23

| Came in During Morning and
Twenty-one at Night.
Philadelphia is the city from which
the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
| railroad company Is now shipping
workmen to this city to fiji the places
of the strikers at the machine and
car shops. Early yesterday morning
| thirty-nine men were brought into the
yard, but during the day number
of these reported at strikers head
quarters and asked to be sent back
to Philadelphia, as they claimed ig-
| norance at the time they left of a
strike being in progress here.
large number of mon employed by
the company as fire pullcrs have now
joined the ranks of the nine hour day
strikers and their action impedcs the
| company not a little. as neither fire
men nor engineers. 1t Is claimed. will
consent to perform the duties of the
latest men to quit work. A Tribune
man was at the car builders head
quarters yesterday afternoon when
they received their first intimation
that more men had been brought into
the city. 1t was about 1850 o'clock
when four mon accosted one of the
board members and informed him re-
Sarding the matter. To a Tribune
man the Philadelphian said:
ADVERTISE FOR MEN.
"An advertisement has appeared in
the Philadelphia papers for several
days, telling all applicants for posi-
tions to report at the Office of the
agent, at the northeast corner of
Fifth and Walnut streets. Thirty
nine of us were hired Tuesday and
left the city at 10 o'clock in the even
ing.
mot a word was said about there
being strike on, but very good wages
were offered us all. 17la cents an hour
was held out for mach1nists' helpers,
Is cents for blacksmiths' helpers and
"a cents for machinists. The great
majority of the men employed were
regular mechanics. | myself have
done work in different positions at
the Baldwin works.
1--WE We're treated first rate. getting
supper before we started. When We
neared Scranton in our ear however.
all the lights went out suddenly and
a lot of deputies climbed on board,
and then we began to smell a rat.
We did not get off at the station here,
but We're backed into the yard, and
there taken off. and marched into the
shops at the lower end. where we We're
guarded by the deputies. Three men
managed to break away from the
crowd aIsl get out of the yards, dur
ing the early morning and several OF
us refused to do any work. and de-
manded to be allowed to leave the
place and go back home.
WOULD NOT STAY.
'"rhis was refused us and we We're
kept penned in until this afternoon,
when Mr.. Adamson took several Of
us over to the station. There extra
inducements and offers We're made us,
and three of the men agreed to stay.
We would not accept however, and
We're finally let GO"
And it is not likely that the men
at the shops will remain in ignorance
long. The strikers have had printed
a number of cards bearing the follow
ing legend:
SlO KEW .hkD
Will be paid any man working ir the u. l.. Il
W. r. r. shops who is matrcated or hndcrcd in
any way in trying to get through the line of
deputies and away from the company's premi'cs,
il he will report at Ilulbcrt's Hall, III Wyoming
avenue, and give evidence.
Scores of these have been smuggled
into the shops and distributed among
the men. The fire pullers VINO have
quit work number about fifteen and
were accompanied by about forty
pitmen and ash carriers. This move
ment is largely in the nature of
sympathetic strike, but the demand
for more wages is also an important
factor in it.
Tomorrow morning the fire pullers
will meet and discuss the question of
calling out the men along the line.
The report OF four firemen being dis
charged for refusing to pull fires,
which was made at strikers headquar-
ters yesterday morning, was declared
to be utterly groundless by Master
Mechanic Elvin, who declared that
not "a fireman was dismissed, and out
side help was already secured to at
tend to the duties of the striking fire
pullers.
GAVE DELEGATES POWER.
Meetings have now been held of all
the lodges affiliated with the councils,
and the delegates to that body have
been given fun executive power The
machinists conferred this power some
days ago, the blacksmths and pat
tern makers met yesterday, and the
Federal Labor Union took action on
the matter Tuesday night.
Fifteen of the men brought in by
the Lackawanna yesterday morning
were sent from the city last evening
by the strikers. Another batch of
about twenty men arrived on the S45
O'Clock train and We're escorted to the
shops without any demonstration of
any sort by the strikers The latter
have now practically abandoned the
rigid watch at first conducted of in
coming trains. and declare that as the
men appear to be leaving the COM
pany's employ as fast as they arrive,
il is a matter of no worriment to them
as to how great is the number of i'm
ports.
They claim that all along the line,
at Dover in particular. the Lackawan-
ma is NEE ting with great difficulty in
securing men to substitute for those
who have demanded the nine hour