Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-04-12
ROUND THE REGION.

A meeting was held at Pttston by
the officials Of the Central Labor Unions
of Wlkesbarre, Scranton and Pittston
that may result in bringing to an end
the silk mill strike which has now been
on in three cities for the past two
months. 1t was decided to 90 to the
mill owners who are still holding out
against the strikers and ask them to
agree to arbitration. They will be
willing to leave the question to a sole
arbitrator or to board of three, each
side choosing one and the two the third
The employees of Ashley car shops OF
the Central Railroad of New Jersey
struck at noon yesterday. Without
notice twenty-seven of the most exper-
fenced men we're laid off. The other
employees demanded an explanation, but
none was forthcoming. The men then
came to the conclusion that their CO.
workers had been laid off because they
had taken an active part in organizing
the employees into union. The matter
| "as tdil lCu w but uIRHST OUltlulS Ol inc
road, but they refused to interfere.
Two hundred miners employed at the
Harry E. collery, at Forty Fort, went
on strike yesterday because three mem
bers of the United Mine Workers were
discharged. The miners employed at
this colliery have insisted on all men
entering the mine showing their union
cards. The company officials say in
timidaton was resorted to by some of
the men and the leaders of the move
ment were discharged.
At the quarterly convention OF the
United Mine Workers OF District No.
at Olyphant it was decided not to divide
the district 1t was decided that all en-
gineers, firemen, pump runners, stable
bosses and others employed in and about
the mines must become mem bers of the
United Mine Workers Of America. Res
| olutions condemning the Scrantonian
were passed. 1t was also decided to
issue an appeal to the operators for an
eight-hour day.
Pottsville will soon have a big in
dustrial boom. The Williams collery,
which shut down two years ago, will
resume full handed on July /, employ
ing about 400 men. The Pottsvile
Bridge Works, after an ideness OF
several years, will resume on May /,
employing 100 men and the rolling mill,
furnishing employment to about 600
men, will be started later.
Michael Crook has been arrested on
suspicion of being the murderer Of Adam
Rhoades, who was stabbed to death
while on the way to his home in Parsons
early Tuesday morning in company with
Matthew Cooper. Cooper has Unidentified
Crook as the man who was singing on
the street and whom Rhoades told to
shut up.
The stockholders of Allentown Music
Hall Association, whose theater, the
Academy OF Music, was destroyed by
fire on the night Of January 9, have
decided to rebuild the theater. A build
ing fund OF S25, 900 TO start with has been
secured
DIR. and Mrs. Thomas j. Wheaton, of
Wilkesbarre, yesterday celebrated the
fiftieth anniversary of their marriage
They are the parents of Attorney f. j.
Wheaton.
All the laborers employed in the
moulding department of the Vulcan
Iron Works, Tamaqua, have struck,
complaining that their wages were too
small.
Work has been commenced on the
rapid transit road connecting the cities
of Wilkesbarre, Scranton and Pittston.
which has been projected by Senator
Quay, Congressman Connell and several
Philadelphia capitalists.
In the United States court at Scran-
ton the case against ex-Postmaster E.
F. Bogert, of Wikesbarre, was mol
pressed on Wednesday, Bogert was
charged with opening letters.
The Spencer and Nay Aug colleries
at Dunmore were shut down yesterday
because nearly all OF the workmen re-
ported for duty without their working
cards. They were not allowed to 90
into the mines.
Having pleaded guilty to robbing
Hunters store at Weathery, John Rose,
fifteen-year-old boy Of that town, was
sentenced at Mauch Chunk yesterday to
the Huntingdon reformatory.