Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-10-10
! AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER
STRIKE SITUATION.

Despite the speculations ana hopes
expressed as to the speedy termination
Of the miners strike, the situation this
morning was practically unchanged.
1t is rumored that the operators have
determined upon the following plan;
First. to maintain their present posi-
ton of not Welding in the slightest de-
gree.
Second, to make concerted effort 70
omen the mines as soon as the entlre
division of the National Guard is actu-
ally on duty in the coal regions.
Third, to make representations imme-
diateIy to the governor that the State
troops are insufficient, specifying
breaches Of the peace.
Fourth, a demand that the governor
appeal to the President for regulars 10
make an armed camp of the whole al
fected district and secure the mining OF
| coal.
Those responsible for this rumor as
sert the knowledge of Morgan's possible
interference to end the strike by conces,
sions means the resignation of President
Baer and his railroad allies; and that
these magnates, to avoid higher inter
ference, have determined on the aggres'
siye course above indicated.
The further argument is made that as
! Senator Quay is comforting with Nor
gan to settle the strike, Governor Stone
because of recent political quarrels IL
the Keystone State-may be counted
upon to listen more closely to the APP
D al of the operators who are seeking
another solution.
AS President Roosevelt's position has
been all along that the public must moi
be permitted to remain innocent suffer
ers if any way out of the difficulty cal
be found. it is held that he will not hes
itate moment in sending the regulars
if Governor Stone makes the request
Should the operators then be unable tc
secure men to work in the mines, a:
President Mitchell and his associates de
clare will be the fact until their demands
are granted, martial law could be de
clared and the miners operated under
direction of the military, at such wages
as would be necessary to secure needed
help.
There is not the least doubt that /
matters should proceed 10 that stage thu
miners, freed from the operators rule
would go back in a body, and mine al
the coal needed for the winter through
out the country. Having accomplished
this, they would again stop work in thu
spring if they had not in the meantime
orofited by either national or State leg
islatiOn.
The numerous outrages yesterda,
throughout the Wilkesbarre coal region
in defiance often thousand State troops ha
virtually caused the operators to believe
A call for federal troops now opportune
They say the strikers have shown that
is impossible for the State troops Il
guard the workers, houses, railroads, anC
the collieries so as TO prevent violence
and maintain law and order.
Today, according to present plans
the demand for the re-inforcements vii
be made by most of the big operators
ind it is expected by them that Cover
nor Stone, if he follows his presen
policy, will have difficulty in refusing
He has sent the troops out to maintain
rider, and if they are not sufficient
must, to preserve his stand, send more
Pennsylvania has exhausted its quota
and the regulars will, therefore, have t.
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