Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-05-26
THE STRIKE SITUATION
Strong Chances That Bituminous
Workers Will Go Out.
NEW PLAN OF OPERATORS
A Big scheme to Break Strength OF
the Employees MIR. MitchelIS
Trip West-Mtning Affairs
In HhzletOn.


Wilkesbarre, Pa, May 26.-President
Mitchell before leaving for the west
issued the following statement:
milne workers shall pay no attention
to agents now here from West Virginia
or other fields. as they come from I'M
organized places where strikes now eX.
list. Consult the district officers before
entering into negotiations with them.
Some Of the foreign miners on strike
had signed contracts to go to the SOFT
coal regions, providing. so it is alleged,
that there were no strikes OH, but the
leaders of the Slavs, Poles and Italians
got around among their countrymen
before they got away and persuaded
them to remain at home. President
Mitchell thought the best way to pre-
vent the anthracite men from taking
the places of the strikers in the BIZ
luminous regions was to give out warn-
ing notices.
New Plan of the Operators.
1t has been learned from well inform
ed representatives of the mine owning
interests that plans are fully matured
for making the order calling out the en-
ginecrs, firemen and pumpmen June 2
the first decisive defeat for the strike
management. Nothing which may oc-
cur on that date or afterward will take
the operators by surprise.
Those affected by the order are being
sounded, and if their declarations are
unsatisfactory they are required to en-
roll themselves as members Of the coal
and iron police. Those who permit a
doubt of their loyalty to remain will be
discharged before June . and their
places filled by men who can be de.
pended upon.
Substitutes will be held in readiness
to take the places of those who prom
Use more than they have the courage to
perform. So long as the technical STATS
of the miners remain loyal no difficulty
is expected in keeping the pumps 60
ing.
Quiet at Headquarters.
All is quiet at strike headquarters.
The departure of President Mitchell
makes things exceedingly dull at Hotel
Hart, where the chief officers of the
United Mine Workers and the newspa-
per correspondents had busy week.
A report from Shamokfn says:
"The Ninth district executive board
has returned from Wilkesbarre. Sec
rotary George Hartlein informed the
that the bituminous
miners will join the tieup.
LAS regards the breaking of contracts
signed by western Pennsylvania min
ers,' he continued, the resolution of
the national convention in January SUI
persedes these. The resolution gives
the national executive board absolute
to order national suspen-
sion without calling convention
should the situation in the anthracite
field render this move advisable. The
western Pennsylvania operators knew
of this resolution when they signed the
contracts with the men,"
Affairs at Hazleton.
A dispatch from Hazleton says:
"The men who will take the places
Of the striking engineers, fremen and
pump runners at the Cranberry colliery
of A. Pardee & Co. will be housed and
boarded at the company's expense in
a building near the breaker, which is
by fence erected about
week ago.
"This means that the company will
60 to all hazards in keeping it's pump
running and that if any attempt is
made to interfere with the nonunion
men there will be a clash.
Meetings of most of the locals have
been held to appoint committees to
call on the various colliery superin-
tendents and officially place before
them the demands for the engineers.
fremen and pump runners for an eight
hour day. Several of the local opera.
tors held a meeting here, but nothing
as to what transpired was given out"