New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-07-06

4>ss 70 buslless 6.150OO0
Loss 10 business outside Of regton...... 100000
C o. % [naintainlng coal and iron Polce.. 56o0o9
damage TO mines and machinery 20o00OO
-'la $4,000 10000
Instead Of the Indianapolis convention declaring
Tor national strike originally proposed II IS
Understood that modified plan of strike cam
PaIshihg mas already been agreed will be
proposed at the convention which will prevent the
soft coal workers breaking their contracts and
give the operators further opportunity make
concessions, While the same time STRENGTHENING
the position Of the strikers
The plan is that the convention shall agree that
weekly per capita tax shall be levied upon all
the soft coal workers for the support of the an
thraclte strikers sufficient provide for them for
Two or three months; at the end Of that time there
Is 10 be another convention which may then con-
slder the question Of national strike, providing
there is no indication of the operators giving in.
This would provide for the strikers until about
october l, when the demand for anthracite coal
would again be brisk. and when the operators
would begin to suffer much if the men remained on
strike This plan, II is understood, came from the
mlne workers Of the soft coal region. who have
contracts, and who, while willing aid the
thracite strikers in every way. desire all other
means to be used before a strike is ordered What
ground there is for 1t, it is impossible to learn.
President Mitchell said regarding the possible
outcome Of the convention: i shall leave every
thing in the hands OF the delegates and what they
decide to DO will be satisfactory 10 me-" 1t may
have been that during his recent Western trip
when he many OF the soft coal officials this
plan was proposed and discussed. but pending the
convention, nothing will be said regarding it.
REPORTS ABOUT RESUMPTION OF WORK
Rumors that the operators are soon to attempt to
resume work at one mine another still rife
and there is such activity several indi-
cations are the rumor is true. The strikers are
however, at loss tc know where the companies
will get certihcated miners TO do the work They
assert that they know Of no cases where these
men have offered to return TO work. and the com
panies will not be able 10 mine with unskied labor
1t is not only against the law, ut in the present
condition of the mines. when the roof is in bad
shape and the gas in quantity II would be risking
all kinds of serious accidents to send incompetent
men into the mines. They do not believe enough
bosses who can DO miners work can be concen-
trated at any mine TO operate II and produce COAL
and are certain enough miners cannot be had for it,
To-day ii was stated that the first effort 70
sumo would be either at the HARDWOOD colliery Of
c. Pardee & Co. in the Hazleton region, or at
the West End Coal Company mine. at Mocanaqua
twelve miles down the river from here, and in an
/ isolated part Of the region. the very end of the
Wyoming basin. There the men remained at work
during the last strike. and it is stated that the
superintendents have been asked for work by the
strikers. The mine is such a point that coal
could be shipped without passing any other mining
town or colliery. and could be sent by way OF Har-
risburg to Philadelphia. Regarding the prospect
the company officials are silent
President Mitchell smiles AZ these rumors. They
cannot get men to return TO work" he said;
they are hrmer than and not in the least
disturbed by the assertions that work is to be re-
sun STAY o Strike seey h u hs is a2E s
factory. and the CONDITIONS are pleasing 4heFe Is
President Nichols issued long statement TO the
strikers declaring that all the reports that work
strikers that agents are soliciting men 10 return
strikers are arm and will remain so, and that %
settlement takes place
STRIKE sYMPATHIzERs ARRESTED.
Wholesale arrests OF strike sympathlzers were
made this afternoon eight women and five men
being brought into this city from Miners Mills
/ TWO OF the women carried babies and couple OF
them were over fifty years old. They were charged
with unlawful assembly and disorderly conduit
/ The crowd of prisoners and witnesses was too
large for the office of Alderman Pollock before
! whom they were taken, and The courtroom nae 10
be borrowed. This, large as II Is. was hea; Inc
prisoners were chaIgeq with hooLIhg al aa thleae
f the Henry coery Of the Lehgh Valley Coal
MineG S Mills. The defense offered no evidence
keen the peace After the hearing the prisoners
refused 70 ride home on the same car on "hl,h
sergers TO leave it, There was for time great
( excitement. but the accused persons were not
The strikers. in retaliation for the arrest Of
nae !oeT OF axe, , INTO cUstody 1bev were charged
with assault ana battery ana melting to riot and
neid in 5000 pail pe a.h for trial -, co,,
have made the statement that they have all the
! ste m
back any of the strikers who apply for work This
is characterized another effort of the operators
/ Al Carbonate there have been posted on tele-
eraph poles notices containing list OF who
caption ITO the public" the poster says: The
following those who are stealing the bread from
the wives and little ones Of the miners during the
Notices were posted at westmoor. where miners
IN the employ OF the Delaware and Hudson and
Kingston Coal Company work. containing 10
names under the reading To the members OF or
ganized labor" and the statement, The following
is a list of those working unfairly the mines.
worthy OF the and contempt OF their fellow
men This list contains the names OF fifteen fire
nspector two carpenters. three blacksmiths seven
driver bosses five electricians three pump
one shaft man. cook "a girD, three supply men
six clerks and thirty-eisht under the list OF min
ers. breaker boys and men.
BRUTAL. TREATMENT OF MINE WORKERS
A crowd of strike sympathizers caught George
Eisifyre, a Jersey mine fire fighter. walking
through field in lower Plymouth about O'Clock
on Friday morning. and stripped him Of every
stitch Of clothing. Afterward the mob gave him
a start Of about hundred yards. and then
in pursuit. Eisifyre nearly a mile in his nude
condition and reached the mine stockade. His feet
were covered with and bruises from running
over sharp rocks and his body black and blue
being pelted by sticks and stones in the hands
Of the mob The company complained TO the Plym-
outh authorities but as Eisfyre knew none of his
a6Ite that the strikers are Suffering are denied
by the district officials and also the fact that the
men are short OF funds and the union is unable
is truth in the rumors and they are started by
1T is too important fight" he said Ito be lost
for lack Of funds. II means everything 70
win it, The strikers have disciplined themselves to
some hardships Of course. but every soldier in
Submission however. is weak threat Soldiers in
the Civil War suffered more than the strikers will
the emancipation OF their colored brother while the