The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-19
Scranton and Shenandoah Miners
VIII Insist that All Strikers BE
Put to Work This Week.
STATEMENT FROM MITCHELL
HE SAYS MORGAN AND CAssATT
WANTED TO END THE STRIKE.
New York's Great Financier Friendly
Toward Organized LabOr-Ship-
ments OF Anthracite Coal.

wILKESBARRE, Pa, Oct. 1S.-what Is
probably the last full week of the anthra-
cite coal strike closed to-day without any
thing developing to change the peaceful
trend of events 1t a quiet day at
headquarters. and busy one in the district
ard subdistrict headquarters throughout
the entire coal fields on account of the
election Of delegates to Mondays conven-
ton.
All the locals" have met and selected
their representatives to the Wilkesbarre
gathering. There seems TO be little doubt
that the convention will accept the offer
of arbitration Reports have been received
here, coming principally from the region
iaround Scranton. that there will be con-
the plan. but these reports are not taken
seriously at President Mitchells headquar-
ters- There Will be opposition in the con-
vention, but 1t is expected to disappear
after Mr.. Mitchell explains the proposition
to the delegates. Probably the most diff
cult question which will come before the
convention is the one relative to the strikers
securing their old places. The companies
are on record as saying they will take
care OF all the employees who have stood
miners want the convention to withhold
acceptance of the arbitration plan until the
union is assured that the strikers will be
re-employed in their former places This
will likely cause long debate, but the
officials of the union say the matter will
be fixed up satisfactorily to all concerned.
president Mitchell was asked tonight
wnat he knew Of a report cabled to the
Manchester Guardian from New York that
j. Pierpont Morgan was forced TO inter-
vene In the coal strike, and in reply said:
TO my personal knowledge Mr.. Morgan
has been trying to settle the coal strike
ever since he came back from Europe two
months ago. II others had been as fair
and reasonable as Mr.. Morgan was the
strike would have been settled long time
ago / know nothing about Mr.. Morgan's
financial interests compelling him to seek
settlement of the strike, but 1 am in
formed that he has keenly felt his respon-
eibility to the public in connection with
the fuel famine and has done his best to
bring about the end. Both Mr.. Morgan
and Mr.. Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, were working for a settlement when
President Roosevelt made his last and sue
cessful move. Mr.. Morgan could not very
had been trying TO achieve for several
weeks. i make this statement in Justice to
Mr.. Morgan. We have had no quarrel with
him and we wish none. We do not fear
him. but prefer his friendship II he is will
ing 10 give IL to us. / am credibly in
formed that he is friendly to organized Ia
DOT. AS an organizer or capital ne con-
cedes the right OF labor to organize also,
and when labor organizations are fair and
conservative he believes In dealing directly
with them for the advantage of both en-
ployer and employe. Ii Is this relation
ship which the United Mine Workers seek
IN the anthracite field, and we invite Mr..
Morgan to cooperate with us in securing a
permanent and scientific solution of the
labor problem in this region"
The shaft of the Mount Lookout colliery
of the Temple Coal and Iron Company at
Wyoming was wrecked to-day by one of
the small locomotives used for hauling cars
containing culm. The engineer left the
locomotive for moment. and IL suddenly
started and ran full speed 200 yards TO the
shaft and plunged down, lodging $40 feet
below the surface at the red ash vein
Fortunately the boiler did not explode but
the big machine in its fall tore out the
lining of the shaft and did other damage
that will cause suspension for a week or
more. A few seconds before the accident
a cage holding ten men lowered down
the shaft. and they had just stepped off
at the bottom when the locomotive plunged
down.
Major General Miller, in command of
nearly 1900 troops in the field, who has
been inspecting The camps in the vicinity,
went to Scranton to-day. II is probable the
homsward movement OF the soldiers will
begin about the middle of next week 1t is
costing the State more than $4,000 a day to
keep the National Guard in the field.