The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-30
LEADER OF THE STRIKERS WILL
ENDEAVOR TO ENLIST SYM
PATHY FOR MOVEMENT
RELIEF FUNDS REACH
ONLY MOST DESTITUTE
At Shamokin and Mount Carmel
Crowds of Strikers Collect and Pre-
vent Resumption of Work by
Threatening Demonstration-Ston
and Sticks Are Hurled-Many Ar
rests Made.

WILKESBARRE, Pa, July 29.-
PRESIDENT Mitchell will start this week
to fill engagements to deliver ad-
dresses before United Mine Workers
assemblies in different parts of the
anthracite region. 1t is said he will
visit the Schuylkill region first and de-
liver addresses at Shenandoah and
Mahanoy City,
National Board Member John Fall
lon reports that they are satisfied with
the relief plan as carried out in the
wyoming region. The first instalIment
or the relief funds was not large, and
succor could be given to only the most
destitute cases. But President Nit
cheli says when the money received
from the assessment levied on the BIZ
luminous miners comes in there will
be easier sailing for all concerned. Mr..
Mitchell desires to say that there is
no truth in the report that he stated
TO a committee of merchants who
waited on him that there would be
no more money to distribute among the
strikers until Aug. Is.
seven striking miners from Nanti-
coke were arraigned before Magistrate
Brown, of this city, today charged
with committing an assault on William
Young, an engineer employed at one
of the collieries of the Susquehanna
Coal company.
Crowds Threatening.
A crowd of 1900 men and boys pre-
vented the resumption of work at the
Wanke Washery at Duryea this morn
ing. A number of men came down
from Scranton to work at the washery.
They were at once surrounded by
threatening crowd. The men who had
been hired to work at the washery
We're badly frightened and when the
train for Scranton came along they
jumped aboard and returned to that
place. A volley of stones followed
them. The operator of the washery
says he will not make another at
tempt to resume operations.
Curse Non Union Men.
Y. SCRANTON, Pa, July 29.-One
thousand men, women and children as
senbled at the Mineral companys
Cameron colliery this evening and
kooted and cursed non-union men
as they quit work. A delegation of
boys stoned several sub-bosses as they
entered town. Chief Burgess Thomas
and the police charged the crowd and
put them to flight. The coal company
officials say they will ask for troops
tomorrow If there is continuance Of
the attempts to annoy the workmen.
Strikers Are Violent.
MOUNT CARMEL, Pa, July 90
Two crowds of strikers numbering
fully 5000 men, women and children
collected at all the Reading and Union
companies operations between here
and Shamokin this evening and hurled
stones and sticks at the non-union
men. Six of the latter were captured
by the mob near Richards colliery and
were badly pummeled. On promising
to remain away from the colliery un-
til the strike ends they were liberated
Several scores of non-union men re-
n1ained at a couple of the mines to-
night afraid to face the strikers, who
are picketed along roads leading into
town.
Strikers Threatened to Blacklist.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, July 29.-
One Of the points which was brought
out in the trial of James Richards and
others in the federal court here before
Judge, Keller today is that Rich
ards threatened to blacklist all miners
who refuse to come out and join the
strikers. When Richards was speaking
to a crowd and the working miners
were listening, he turned to the work.
ing miners and pleaded with them to
quit work and said that when the
strike was over and the union had been
recognized, which it surely would be,
they would not be able to work in any
section of the country. He told them
he had list of all their names and it
would be furnished to every local
union in the country and where
ever they went they would be pointed
to as "scabs" and would not be allowed
to earn a living