Evening journal., 1902-06-24
union TO TRY TO
CLOSE WANHRRIRS
Operator Says MitChelfS s
Statement IL Misleading
H. N. OIyphant Thinks There Will Be
ArbitratiOn-WiII Force Miners
to Submission

Wilkesbarre, Pa, June 24.-The min
ers' union will make an attempt to
shut down the il washeries between
Pittston and Carbondale that have re-
sumed operations since the strike be-
gan. A committee of the local unions
at the places where the washeries are
located will be appointed, and a thor
ough canvass of the men working at
these places will be made in the effort
to get them to quit work. 1t is said
at strike headquarters that most of
these men are clerks and other COM
pany employees. Several thousand tons
OF coal, It is said, are taken from the
eulm banks and sent to market each
day.
There is still much speculation as to
what the special national convention
will do. One of the district officers
here said he was of the opinion that
If the supply of soft coal could be cur
tailed to a certain point the proposi-
tion to call a general strike will not
be pressed.
1t was reported here last night that
the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern, the Delaware and Hudson and the
Scranton Coal Company are jointly
making up a roll of names Of uen who
have applied for work, for the pur-
pose of operating one or two collieries
within the near future. This cannot be
confirmed, but it is known that nearly
all the coal companies have been talk
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who apply for employment They have
been told that they would be sent for
when needed. Some Of them have been
given places about the mines to help
engineers, firemen or pump runners.
ELEPHANTS Answer to Mitchell.
New York, June 24-President H.
M. Olyphant, of the Delaware and Hud-
son Company, made the following COM
ment on the statement of President
Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers
OF America, issued in reply to that of
the operators, in which the correspond
ence leading up to the strike was made
public.
"Mitchell's statement is misleading
and unreliable as to facts and figures.
If Mitchell proposes to call out the BIZ
luminous miners and paralyze the en-
tire industries of the country he will
find that he has taken upon his should
ers a job bigger than he is able to cope
with. There will be no arbitration,
that is certain. We will operate our
mines with the men that are on strike
now. They will be only too glad to
come back, and no strike leader will
be able to keep them out"
Mr.. Olyphant declined to enter into
any detailed denial of the assertions
made by President Mitchell.
Thomas p. Fowler, of the New York,
Ontario and Western Company, said:
Il have not had time to read Mitchell's
statement. Therefore, of course,
have no comment to offer. When 1
have read it I may have something to
say" ~
Reading Company Abandons collieries
Shamokin, Pa, June 24.-The Phila-
delphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company yesterday withdrew the po-
licemen and non-union firemen from
the Henry Clay and Big Mountain col
lierles and will, it is said, abandon
these operations. The water is within
a few feet of the upper level in the
Henry Clay mine, and will soon run
into the Sterling mines, which will also
likely be abandoned. The workings
are all connected, and before the strike
employed !, 400 men and boys.