New-York tribune., 1902-06-29
COAL STRIKE LOSSES.
NOW ESTIMATED TO REACH S4o.oo,ooo
PRESIDENT MITCHELL 6OES
WEST SUDDENLY.
lnr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE

WiIkesbarTe Penn. June 2S.-over $4,000
900 or close 81 .'-oo,0Ui for each week day OF
The seven weeks the coal strike has lasted. IS
The estimated general loss. The items are: Loss
opera tors in prices Of coal tnormaD. Sii--
go 060; loss mine workers in wages, SS.Soo,
600: loss to employees other than miners made
idle by the strike 81 Ig5 600: loss to business
men in Goa, regions s. 100000; loss to busiEcs'
men outside Of region 81 100000: cost of main
tanning coal and iron police, S4SoVoo; cost OF
maintaining non-union workers Sl1o.ooo; estl-
mated damages to mines and machinery. 81
S90eoo; total si0.320eto
The unexpected departure of President Mitch
ell for Chicago at 5s,i this afternoon has caused
much speculation here. which his final words
did not lessen. He said:
II am going so hook after some local matters
and family
Why local matters should take him all that
distance and why they will keep him until next
Wednesday Thursday. ne would not explain
IL is well understood that the trip means con-
ference with the chief strike leaders of Illinois.
Ohio Indiana and Iowa. with view TO making
ARRANGEMENTS for the national convention, and
II possible staying the rising opposition to a
strike in the States where the miners are work
ing under contract.
This has increased SO in the last few lays that
Mitchell has been much worried and [sarsonai
visit to the central point the district may en-
come favorable 10 him. The belief that he does
not want the States having interstate agree
-rr1ent TO strike grows al the same time as does
the understanding that he intends the national
convention TO order sectional and not ma
fional strike Another thing which may take
him to Chicago is the fact that the Michigan
miners who have been strike since April L.
are on July , to meet in convention 10 settle the
strike on the agreement reached with the opera
he inf
week.
pESERTIoNS FROM STRIKERS
The committee from Ohio accompanied Mitch
ell going with him far Buffalo. He
bought a ticket straight through TO Chicago
BEFORE his departure he spent some time, both
last night and this morning, in conference with
district officials, discussing the several I'M
rortant matters that they are to attend TO IN ms
abeence Chief Of these is to prevent any fur-
trer desertioas from the ranks of the strlkers.
rI,sily the number OF men who apply for work
10 the companies increases, ard the whole out
look for the miners is gloomy. One man, in ad-
niftjpe that the prospect was not bright said:
II is Just at this point that the fight really be-
Gins Now will fight, and every labor organ
ization in the country viii aId U.S. Pans are
under way 70 have $4,000 a day raised for the
strikers and this Will keep them, while from all
parts of the country come offers OF ald ana in
many places other labor organizations are !rS
ine 10 get work for men, In a snort time
half the strikers will be out of the region ana
we Will have difficulty in providing Tor the
remainder
The desertions. however greatly worry the
district officers and they will do what they can
10 prevent them. Men who have gone back TO
work viii be induced, if possible, to rejoin the
strikers. mass meetings are to be held and COM
,nittees appointed.
Another source of worriment to the strikers is
the operation of the several washeries. which
are producing about six thousand tons a day,
despite the efforts of the strikers to get the
workers 70 join them Most of these workers
are housed at the washer:es and il is impossible
10 get at them. The teanlsters do not respond
readily 10 the requests Of the strikers to stop
hauling non-union coal, and the situation has
rot been improved from strikers standpoint
in the week the fight has been on. The end of
the week finds three washeries going.
THREW DYNAMITE BOMB.
Continual attacks irritate the coal companies
and threaten the lives of the guards. Shortly
after midnight to-day dynamite bomb was
thrown over the fence of the William cofery
of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company at Duryea.
and though the entire colliery was shaken by the
explosion and the town awakened one was
injured, and there little damage done The
persons who threw the dynamite evidently crept
close to the fence Of the coIliery and threw it
revolver shots We're free at the stockade- By
the time the guards reached the scene there
was no one in sight, and although they awaited
II no other attack was made during the night.
The dynamite injured the fence somewhat but
did no other damage. More alarm was caused
in the town than at the mines the residents
did not know what damage had been done and
were afraid to find out until daylight.
Earlier in the night number of boys had
<<o sho ards in he Watkins
Glen colliery of Simpson & Watkins. not far
from the william A mine. When the guards
nred over the boys heads to frgflten them
crowd of men gathered quickly and the guards
were threatened More stones were thrown; they
.Ared again over the heads of the crowd and then
charged the crowd and arrested Horace Moses
ind hustled him back to the stockade. Later
he wae held under bail for hearing before a
justice
DKuMMED OUT OF REGION.
In the vicinity Of McAdoo q crowd of some
two hundred men captured a Of nom
urion workers who had just into the
region last night and were on their way to the
Panther Creek region They were not injured.
but headed by drum corps. and surrounded
,,.y the crowd they were drummed out of the
region marching through McAdoo with ban
ners waving and horns blowing to some dis
tence away from any colliery and then told not
to come back.
At lolyphant Peter Miller, striker who
threatened blow up the house of non-union
man. was sent to Jail. iii default Of bail
President Mitchell would not discuss the ac-
zion of Presid snt Roosevelt in directing Attor-
ney General Knox to investigate the coal COM
pauies and the coal carrying roads if
there exists an illegal combination He said
shat he had nothing more TO say than appeared
in his statement of last Sunday. This was