New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-14
REFUSE STONES PLAN
FAHEY SA VS. UNION DOES NOT
LIKE HIS METHODS.
OPERATORS WILL CALL ON SHERIFF To-
PORTS OF COMING VIOLENCE.
IBT TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE. ]

Wiikesbarre, Penn, Sept 13-Presdent
Mitchell declines to make any statement regard
ing the details of the conference with Governor
Stone this morning. All he has said about it is.
Governor Stone made no proposition for set
Element of the strike"
AS the strikers throughout the region are
eagerly waiting for official utterance it was
believed that he would talk to-day The fact.
however, that when he returned here at
o'clock this morning he had been more than
twenty-four hours without sleep and worn
out by his long journey and hard work &C
counts for his refusal to frame statement, and
it is expected that he will do SO tomorrow,
after the district presidents have learned the
feeling Of the officers under them This, it is
EXP ected, viii be done early in the week.
The district presidents except Fahey, are as
silent Mitchell, but Fahey made a statement
which shows how the wind is He said: Il do
not doubt Governor Stones sincerity in en-
deavoring to effect ending of the strike, but
the methods that he wants 20 employ are not
the kind that the union wants to take up
The other men silent, while all Governor
Stone has said is embodied in little statement
which tells nothing of what the people in the
region want to know. 1t is follows:
Messrs. Mitchell, Nichols, Fahey, Duffy, Sena-
Finn, Colonel Richardson and Governor
Stone have been in conference All the differ
ences have been discussed with the best feeling
To-day number of cases of disturbance oc-
CURED at North Wilkesbarre and at Parsons.
beyond, and it is understood the operators
say that there will be more of these on Mon
day. They have been Informed that there will
be determined effort to have the workers at
the collieries in this and the Lackawanna dis
tricts remain away from the mines, and that if
they cannot be induced to do so peaceably. there
is to be violence.
WILL ASK FOR PROTECTION.
The reports of these plans are coming in from
all parts of the district, and the operators to-
day decided that Tomorrow they would inform
Sheriff Jacobs that he would have to protect
their property and workers If he does not do
this they will insist that he order troops to
the region without delay. They do not believe
that he protect all the valley from general
uprising to prevent work, and they confident
that If the threatened interference results the
soldiers will be called the scene.
Sheriff Jacobs after the riot of last Monday
at the Maitby colery. of the Lehgh Valley
company. went to Harrisburg, and there made
arrangements for the sending of troops here
whenever he called for them without the usual
red tape proceedings, that if they are needed
| they reach this city from Shenandoah in
| three hours. At Shenandoah a special train is
kept waiting for them siding. while sites
| for camps have been selected at Maltby and at
Duryea, where the chief points of disturbance
have been.
| Estimates of the daily output now place the
! figure at 5000 tons, and the operators say that
| it is constantly increasing. Next week they
| pect to il up to 10000 tons. District Presi-
| dent Nichols says that he is compiling figures
on the output in the first district and will prob
| ably have statement ready by Monday. The
! number of cars sent out from the breakers and
washeries, OF which the strikers have been keep
| ing tab, show, according Mr.. Nichols, that
| the published figures away in excess of
| what they should be-
The Oxford colliery. Of the Peoples Coal Com
pany, is now turning out between four hundred
| and fifty and five hundred tons of coal daily.
| President Crawford yesterday made a contract
| with a New-York concern to deliver within three
! days one thousand tons of egg and CRATE coal
| at $40 ton The company IS supplying all de-
1 mands made on 1t by local trade at advance
| of only % cents ton on the prices before the
strike, despite the fact that three times as much
could be got for the product in NeW-York
TO INCREASE PRODUCTION.
Superintendent Smith Of the Delaware. Lacka-
wanna and Western Company's washeries SAID
yesterday that the output of the five washeries
was $500 tons. He has arranged for record
breaking run, and, barring unlocked for acct
dents. viii turn out 800 tons on Monday. The
Erie company is bringing its mules in from
their summer homes. Nearly every day long
files of frisky workers be bound for
their old haunts beneath the ground. The mules
used by the Delaware and Hudson company at
the Manville breaker were shod yesterday and
made ready for work.
Statements that the miners in the Schuylkil
region are weakening are being made, ana TO-
day meeting of number of locals was held at
Mount Carmel. The result was not announced.
but II is said that there was a close vote be-
tween the foreign and the English speaking
men. and that the former advocated gong pack
TO work II is expected from the present feel
ing that a number of them will return to work
-tsa-- fIrnH a
lnent rumors unfounded
Thomas Flynn member OF Mount Carmel
local to-day began suit against 1t. he declares
that he does not get much Of the strike reliet
fund as he is Justly entitled to- and that he
wants the law to force the local TO give MN mis-
fair share.
Reports that the Philadelphia and Reading
company was to post notices this morning ash-
ing the men to return to work on Monday were
without foundation, and no notices OF such I'M
port will be posted. so the officials say. super
intendent Keith said TO-DAY: The posltoh OF
the company is unchanged, ana VIII continue so
even though the strike lasts for another year.