New-York tribune., 1902-05-27
FIREMEN WILL STRIKE.
Continued from First PaEe.D


feared, The mines are close together, and the
workers, despite the fact that they
union at one and union at another are in har-
mony If they fail TO shut down the mines the
strike leaders will endeavor to get the rail
readers to refuse to haul the coal. a measure ap
proved by the railroaders of this district. The
coal is taken by way of the Towanda branch Of
the Lehigh Valley to the main line and then
north The output is about thousand tons
week.
There at the town Of Bernice about
hundred of the original strikers left, and they
have been supported by the union for fifteen
months The workers have seen the result OF
belonging to the union in the hundred idle
men. and they want none of IT, They want to
make all the money they If they refuse
to go strike they will be dismissed from the
union.
Much excitement caused among the strik-
ers to-day by telegraphic reports from Hunt
ngton, w. Va. which say that 10000 union soft
coal miners in that State and Virginia had gone
on strike. The figures absurd, for the gov
ernment reports show that there are of all
classes only 90. .163 miners in West Virginia, and
$500 in Virginia. and half of these are
union men. All the union men do not number
many more than $4,000
Committees from many locals this morning
notified the superntendents of the collieries
where they worked of the eight hour day de-
mand Of the engineers. firemen and pumpmen
They were courteously received and the notifl-
cation accepted. but no answer was made.
To-day began the third week of the strike
and President Nichols reported this morning
that no appeals for aid had been received, but
that so any came they would be cared
for. Not for a week two are the first de-
mands for aid expected
BOSSES HANGED IN EFFIGY.
The bitterness of the strikers toward the non
union men and the bosses employed at several
Of the collieries is still apparent in the efgie3
which are decorating many posts and wires.
Not day has passed in the last ten when there
have not been several. and the supply Of old
clothes anu hay is being sadly depleted. Some
times they directed at some man who is
obnoxious To the strikers, at others they are
labelled merely as non-union men. Some have
hung for days, until the wind and weather has
made wrecks of them.
A number of Central Railroad of New-Jersey
men report that women and boys in some of
the mining villages have hOoted and stoned tn am
as they passed through, apparently with the idea
| that as some Of the freight engines using
SOFT coal the trainmen opposed TO the strike.
| AS a matter Of fact, no more soft Goa! than
usual is being mined. but the black smoke from
! the stacks of the engines Is like a red rag be-
| fore a bull. They also see much more soft coal
| being moved than formerly. Although none of it
Is shipped to this city, it goes north TO the dis
| trlcts formerly supplied with both anthracite
and bituminous coal. The stand OF the rail-
readers Is that they will not refuse to handle
union soft coal, but will object to hauling soft
| coal mined by non-union men.
To-day the twelve engineers employed at the
1rahoerry mine of A. Pardee & Co, in the
| Hazleton district, went on strike because the
company refused to reinstate the pumpmen who
were discharged last week. The places Of the
pumpmen have been filed by the bosses and
! clerks and the engineers objected to this. When
the company refused to change the condition
1e 1he engineers went on strike. The company
| filled their places
| secretary George Hartlein. OF the Ninth Dis
trlct, United Mine Workers, this afternoon ad-
mltted that the engineers Of that district had de-
clded to remain at work. But" he said "aY the
nremen and the pumpmen will come out when
the calI IS Issued and there will be no nom
union men 10 take their places, so that the en-
siheers VIII have no steam, and the entire dis
trlet Will be tied up. The engineers will refuse
10 Keep the hres going, and there is thorough
| understanding between us"