The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-09
TIGHTENING UP.
All Glasses of Trades UniOnists
Help the Miners
Who Are on Strike In the An
thracite Regions.
RAILROADERS FALL IN
Refuse to Handle Trains Carry
ing Deputies.
COllieries Are Beginning to Fill
With Water.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, June 9.-The tight
enlng up process which has been IN
progress since the anthracite coal strike
began four weeks ago today continues.
All classes Of trades unions in the hard
coal belt have taken a hand in helping
the miners, and now the long predicted
move of the railroaders in the region
has been made. The decision Of these
men at meetings held in different parts
Of the region yesterday to refuse to aid
the companies in their fight against the
miners has encouraged the strikers
greatly.
At F'reeland yesterday the railroad
N en- of the Delaware, SusQuehanna &
Schuykin railroad decided to refuse to
handle the trains carrying deputies,
coal and iron police or non-union men
The Lehigh Valley company men met
at the same town and wilI not handle
soft coal that may be wanted to dis
place hard fuel and at Kingston the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
company employees protested against
the hauling of soft coal and condemned
the action of railroad conductors in
acting as deputies
It IS reported that 6s new men were
taken into the No colliery of the Sus-
quehanna Coal company at Nanticoke
early today It is not yet known
whether the men are to man the pumps
/ or be placed on guard duty. A crowd
gathered near the colliery, but no dem
! OnStra tiOns were made.
| MITCHELL GOES TO SEE WRIGHT.
| Wilksbarre, Pa, June 9.-President
| Mitchell left here at. IL o'clock today
for New York where he will meet Car
roll D. Wright, United States cOnnis-
! sioner Of labor, at Z o'clock this evening.
| He expects TO return to this city to-
morrow morning.
| Mr.. Mitchell went to New York at the
request of Mr.. Wright, with whom he
/ was in communication today. When
! this Information became known rumOrS
| Of peace were revived, and for while
( they few thick and fast. Mr.. Wright,
| it is believed, viii directly represent
| President Roosevelt. According to Wash
| ington dispatches, Mr.. Wright and Sena-
l tor Hanna have held a conference with
! the president during the last two days
| on the strike situation in the anthracite
4 field. Whether Mr. Wright carried a
4 plan for peace is not known at this time.
: Mr. Mitchell said before leaving that
1 he did not know what Mr.. Wright want
! ed to see him for. It is not believed that
| the president or the commissioner Of
! labor will interfere, because they have
| no authority to do anything more than
| Investigate the cause of the strike. It
may be that the president wants to OBJ
! tain thorough knowledge of the dis
! pute and that he wants it officially and
| for tnat reason he has sent his per-
sOna1 representative to New York to
meet the labor president.
MINES FILLING WITH WATER.
Hazleton. Pa. June 9.-Unable to Sc
| cure fremen and pump runners, J. s.
Wentz & Co, will permit the Halle
/ brook colliery to be flooded. Coxe's
| Stockton colliery is reported by the
mine workers as filing with water ow-
| ing to the depleted force of fremen and
pumpmen.
The mine workers have given permis-
! sion to the local light companies to
haul culm for their plants from aban-
doned banks.
! A committee of citizens went to Mauch
| Chunk today to protest against the sta
/ tioning of deputies at Yorktown colliery
/ by Sheriff Gombert of Carbon county.
I hos. 1,e1~ Iar7 ~
| Coke Bros. & Co. to furnish protection
/ to nOn-union men on their way to and
/ from Drifton.
ATTACKED BY WOMEN.
Hazleton, Pa, June 9.-Superintend-
ent Kudlek Of Coke Bros. was attack
/ ed by women on the streets of Freeland
today, but was not injured.
About 800 strikers gathered today at
Ebervale and about 1000 at Jeddo to
/ intercept traction cars carrying non
union men to North Side collieries.
( Sheriff Jacobs was notified last night
| of the strikers intention and accom-
early car to Freeland to prevent any
| demonstration. The mine workers
/ learned last night that the sheriff had
! been appealed to for protection and to
make interference on his part unneces-
sary, District Secretary Gallagher pre-
ceded Sheriff Jacobs to Freeland. As
his car neared Ebervale it was board
( ed by the strikers in search OF non
/ union men but Secretary Gallagher ap-
I pealed to the men to disperse and per-
suaded them to return to their homes.
/ At Jeddo the car was again stopped and
! boarded by strikers but no nOn-un1on-
( lists were found. Mr.. Gallagher talked
to the men at Jeddo and told then it
was for the best interests of all that
| they discontinue these tactics. They
! returned and when an hour later the
/ car containing the sheriff came along,
| no strikers were in evidence. The sheriff
proceeded from Freeland to Wilkes
| barre.
A Pardee & Co. today issued a state
| ment that they have no intention of
! starting up operations at Cranberry col
| reported last night that an effort would
| be made today to resume work at the
! Cranberry washery-
REFUSED TO GO OUT.
! Afiddlesboro, Ky, June 9--About 900
| miners and coke workers in Buchanan
Scott counties, Virginia, refused to obey
| strike orders and are at work.
SEEKING INFORMATION.
J New York, June s.-CarrOl D Wright
United States commissioner Of labor,
| said today that for him to tell whom
| he expected to see or what he intended
| to do might seriously interfere with his
| investigation of the anthracite coal
miners strike. He said that sections
| andS of the law under which the labor
/ bureau is operated charged the commits
| sioner to investigate and report upon
| Mr.. Wright, I cannot interfere or act
| as arbitrator. Although possessing no
| power under existing conditions. as a
/ patriotic citizen President Roosevelt is
| interested in settling this trouble He
| cannot interfere, but can advise or sug-
gest, and the official investigation ma Y
| reveal chinks in the situation which have
not as yet been touched upon in the
general report upon which he may be