The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-10

cording to the Views Of the Local
Representatives of the Operators.
First Penalizing for Breach Of the
Peace by Strikers.
Local representatives Of the coal com
panies deny emphatically that there Is
any movement afoot to open up rev
centrally located collieries with men to
be contributed by each Of the COM
panies.
THAT is one thing we have no
thought Of doing" said Vice-President
Il. f.. Loomls, head Of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western coal depart
ment, who ran up from New York yes
terday, to look over the situation. "For
the present we are content to confine
our efforts to keeping the mines from
being flooded and getting out some culm
fuel for our own use. The time Tor
starting UP the collieries Is not ripe
Another prominent coal man said
that it would be time enough to talk
of starting up the collieries when some
thing was to be gained by it. At pres
ent, he said, the only thing that would
1t may not be long, however, he added,
before conditions may warrant an eff
fort to resume operations generally by
starting a few colieries here and there.
Little faith is had by the local repre-
sentatives of the coal companies, in
anything tangible being accomplished
towards settlement Of the strike by
the interference of the administration at
hi utn nf
communication yesterday with two Of
the coal presidents. said he was more
| firmly convinced than ever that the
| operators will not bulge an inch from
the stand they have taken, no matter
what pressure is brought to bear on
them, and no matter what may be the
consequences of their steadfastness.
| WHAT CAN PRESIDENT DO?
| "What can he do any more than any
body else?' Is the general response that
comes to a question to the operators
side, as to what will be the likely re-
suits of President Roosevelt's intcrfer-
encc. They view the presidents ac-
tivity as being inspired by Senator
Hanna and the Civic Federation and
that in itself would be enough to induce
the operators to look upon it with any
thing but kindly glances. The opera
tors feel that but for Hanna and the
Civic Federatio the miners would not
have ventured a strike. IT is proposed
that Hanna and the Federation shall
encourage no more strikes.
Speaking along this line yesterday. a
superintendent said: Nothing can
come of outside interference. Arbitra-
tion in this case is simply another name
for concession. as it will Of course mean
"split the difference" Concessions will
have the disastrous effect of increasing
the prestige of the mine workers lead
ers and their allies. the Civic Fedora
tion and Mark Hanna. This would
mean that the present conditions would
gradually grow worse until they be-
came intolerabe The miners have pre-
cipitated a fight and the operators have
decreed that it will be a fight to a fin
sh. 1t will not be settled by outside III
telligence."
AS an instance of the conditions
which We're threatening to become "in-
tolerable." the superintendent cited the
case of an Old Forge mine where thir-
ty chambers had been "boycotted" and
closed to all members of the union, by
order of the local, because men who
had been working in them had been
disciplined for violation of rules
NO CHANGE.
| Locally there were no unusual deVel-
opments in the situation. The week
started in with conditions about the
same as prevailed during the four pre-
ceding weeks. There was the usual ad-
ditions to the ranks of the strikers,
,hnr nfr ifc
dispatched by the companies to take
their places.
George Lighthall, of Chicago, inter-
national president of the Stationary
Engineers. came to the city yesterday
to join with the mine workers in efforts
to call out the engineers still at work.
At a meeting in Peckvlle Sunday
night Rockmen's union No. S,6S4 decid-
ed to refrain from working during the
strike. These men are employed in
sinking shafts and driving tunnels.
There are about $50 of them in the
county,
Another squad of twenty Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western employees re-
ceived their commissions as coal and
iron police and We're sworn in yesterday
by Recorder Emil Bonn.
Railway company to haul culm from
the Luzerne dump at the Notch" We're
put to flight yesterday by crowd OF
stone throwers.
A mass meeting of mine workers,
pumprunners, firemen and engineers
was held in st. David's hall, West
Scranton, yesterday afternoon, at which
addresses were delivered by District
Organizer Courtright, Executive Board
Member Healey, National President
Lightall, of Chicago, head of the Ma
tional Organization of Stationary Engi-
neers, and District President Thomas
ID. Nichols, of the United Mine Work
ers of America.
OBJECT OF MEETING.
The object of the meeting was to en-
list the sympathy and cooperation OF
the men who remain at work about the
mines, and to have them join in the
general movement for an eight-hour
dav.
The meeting was called to order by
Organizer Courtright who referred tc
the struggle of the mine workers II
1900. and how they helped the engi'
neers, pumprunners and firemen about
the mines to obtain better conditions
He expressed the hope that all those
who are not now identified with thu
movement for shorter workday vii
join and help make 1t victory for al
who are employed in and about thu
!, mines
National President Lighthall stated
that at Pittston but one man refused