Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-20
NEARING CRISIS
0eSel Strikers Will Hear Iemething Very Soon.
MORGAN TO ISSUE ULTIMATUM


 shaffer Will Not Say When Strike Will
 Be Extended ed-Temporary Injunction
 Obtained By Lehigh Valley Coal Co Twenty Men Served With Papers
 To-day.
 Pittsburg, July 2O.-The steel strike will reach it's most critical point in the next seventy-two hours. An ultimatum is expected from J. F. Morgan that will change the complexion of the whole affair. At present all is hurry and hustle at strike headquarters At weIIsviIle mills it is said that full force will be at work Monday morn ing. The managers look for no trou- ble. Several plants at other places are running
 President Shaffer will not say when the strike will be extended to other trades, but he intimates that such thing may happen He hopes for settlement very soon, however.
 WiIkesbarre, July 20.-The Eehigh Valley Coal company obtained a tenn pOrary injunction to-day restraining strikers from interfering with work men who have gone to work in the col Iieries. The strikers have posted pick cts and in other ways interfered with workers The arguments will be heard Monday. Papers were served on twenty-four strikers.
 Wilkesbarre, Pa, July 20--Opera- tiOns were resumed to-day at the Avon dale mine of the Lackawanna Coal company, the striking firemen who were members of the United Mine Workers having returned to work. The strike situation in this district has inn proved materially to-day, reports re- ceived at headquarters indicating de- sire on the part of the miners to re- turn to work
 HazIeton, Pa. July 20.-The leaders and executive officers of the United Mine Workers organization who came here to participate in conference with the officials of the stationary firearms association, have returned to their homes and a truce has been declared pending a joint convention of miners and firemen in Wilkesbarre tomorrow. There is a feeling among the officers of the anthracite miners organizations in the three districts that the strike of the firemen should not be allowed to in- terfere with the work in the mines. They want to control all workers con- nected with che mines.
 All the firemen in the Lehigh district belong to the United Mine Workers. Ninety per cent of the firemen in the Wyoming district belong to the fire mems organizations
 In the Schuylkill district 50 per cent of the firemen belong to each organiza- ton.
 The miners want the firemen to re- turn to work and to defer the enforce ment of their grievances until next spring, when the miners one year agreement with their employers ter inmates This sentiment may end the firemen's strike for the present and send everybody back to work. The mine owners feel that they have the best of the situation at present.
 HolyOke. Mass, July 20.-The opera lives of the Chemical Paper company's mill here are uneasy over the alleged violation of the agreement recently signed between the workmen and the mill managers and a mass meeting is to be held tomorrow afternoon to dis cuss the question. If the charges are maintained the operatives say that q strike will be ordered at once. The grievance committee of the labor union has been informed that only 3 or of the eI,Nire force of 16 finisheTs in the Chemical mill have received the ad- vance called for in the new schedule. The union officers say that this trouble must be remedied at once.