The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-09
QUIET IN STRIKE REGION
DULL SUNDAY IN THE GREAT
 LABOR STRUGGLE.
President Mitchell and His Secretary tho Only Ones at Headquarters-- Former Declares That the Few Union tho Week--Spell Of Dry Weather For tuMaSe for the OperatorS
tumate for the Operators.

NIeh NOW dt " OER " HI DC out Elh C the Week--SpelI of Dry Weather For tumate for the Operators.
 Wilkesbarre, Pa, June S.-Strike
 headquarters of the anthracite coal
 miners were very dull to-day and pre-
 sented a deserted appearance. There
 were no mine workers about the place
 excepting President Mitchell and his
 secretary, all others who are detailed
 here from various parts of the coal field
 having gon to their homes to spend
 Sunday. Although the president is
 leading great struggle for a shorter
 work day he is not limiting himself to
 any prescribed hours of labor. He
 works late every night. Most of his
 time was given up to-day to receiving
 reports by messenger or by wire from
 his men in the field He said he had
 nothing of any importance to make
 public, his information, he added, being
 of satisfactory nature.
 Among the reports sent in were sev-
 eral to the effect that additional engin-
 eers had stopped work last night and
 that several fire bosses, who had taken
 the places of strikers, had also quit.
 At a meeting of engineers at Pittston last night, thirty engineers who had not
 obeyed the strike order, decided not to go to work tomorrow. The few union men who are still at work. Mir. Mitchell says, will be out during this week. Most of the general superintendents of the big coal companies were seen to-day but as rule they had nothing to say on anything bearing on the strike. One superintendent admitted that good many companies are scratching pretty hard for good competent men to run their engines and pumps. Any number of volunteers have come forward, but the men desired are not so plentiful.
 The coal companies have been fa- vored with long spell of dry weather. There has not been enough rain to do any damage in the way of flooding the mines. The strikers are wising for heavy fall of rain. They are of the be- lief that most of the lower levels of the mines are filling because the companies are short handed and that the pumps cannot keep up with the water that is draining into the workings A heavy rain, they say, will send a correspond ingly heavy volume of water into the mines which would overwhelm many pumps.
 President Mitchell was in telephonic with National Secre- tary- Treasurer Wilson at Indianapolis to-day, over the situation in the West Virginia soft coal field, where strike was inaugurated yesterday. MT. Mitch ell said there was nothing to be given to the public at this time because he had not yet received full particulars of the situation in that region. MT. Will son, he said, did not know any more than himself The national president also talked over long distance telephone with other persons in the soft coal re- gions in different parts of the west. The conversation, he said related to general business of the organization and had no bearing on either the West Virginia or Pennsylvania strike.
 Tomorrow begins the fifth week of the suspension of anthracite coal min- ing and a settlement of the dispute seems to be no naerer than it was when the strike began-May 12
 The house to house canvass of min ers' committees in an endeavor to bring out those who have refused to strike and also those who have taken the places of strikers is still being vigor- 1usly prosecuted. Many of the men who are still working complain that their houses are stoned almost nightly. | These assaults are made usually be- tween D. m. and midnight. The | method is to gather a small body of | nen and boys and at a given signal send q storm of stones against the | dwellings,, breaking window panes and | the inmates.
 The police department of this city to- | lay ordered the removal of all effigies l hat have been strung up since the | strike began. A large number have | been removed but the police managed l o find eighteen of them in the city o-day. Twenty of them were seen in he city to-day. Twenty of them were een in the region above Wilkesbarre $ far as Pittston. A new method has | ,een found for' holding up to ridicule hose men who refused to stop work. \t Forty Fort and at Miners Mills hounds were built in imitation of raves and on them were placed pla- ards with these inscriptions:
 "Death to scabs" Here lies the re- mains of -," the card giving the ame of the man held up to ridicule.