The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-11-19
FATE OF NON UNION MINERS

from Literary Digest
The non-union miner whose rights been feengy dis
daily press right work has been the prin-
cpe for which the said they were battling and who is
figure largely discussions before the strike arbitration
commission fast disappearing from the anthracite region the
dispatches say The companies have not dismissed them says
Scranton correspondent but with the stockade living quarters
gone and the almost impossible a; of securing boarding houses
confronting them the imported have packed and
left In places where the non-unonsts remain the str
refusing work Much sympathy had been eX-
pressed for the engineers and pumpme whose places
tcaly all filled by nonnion The miners te that they ought
by engineers pumpmen while the
said feel that they ought stand by the nonunion
who had mines being flooded But the
emigrang strikers getting their old
places This of the hega of nonunioniss followed de-
spatch that filled column in morning paper Thursday of
with stories of assault, dynamting and intimidation
aimed the nonunion One delegate in the Wikesbarre
convention is reported saying
There number of 'scabs in the where
Do you suppose going back work alongside
them? tell YOU now we will never 90 back until we clear these
people Just give the chance; tell us to ahead We
did in 1901 and do it Give us the because
if you don't will kill every Of them"
The New York Sun calls upon President Roosevelt Governor
Stone the strike commission, and every honest American citizen
directly indirectly connected with the strike to defend these
nonunion thus threatened with murder; but the non-unionss
DO not seem to ee confidence in the ability OF the 10
protect he and solving the problem by leaving the region
The operators tried to protect the no-non men
by requiring the returning strikers to sign agreements not TO mo
the communication to the PRESIDENT a
ceptng arbitration contained the following clauses
The coal companies willing make arrange
which will the working, and all now
hereafter wishing work, whether they belong to the mine
not the right and opportunity work safe
personal insult bodily harm to themselves or
their families
presidents the companies desire to make every effort
which does abandonment OF the who are
working and seeking work in their mines
They insist that the miners union shall not discriminate
against nOn-uniOn men.
1T being understanding that Immediately upon the con-
commission the miners will cease all interference
with and persecution of nOnunion who are working or
shall hereafter work
SAYS the New York Evening Post:
general rejoicing the close OF the great STRIKE the
non-unon who during the late coal famine has been the
all observers pretty well forgotten The labor
union however, forget him. for wishes his place Tor
its own members. Just what is be done with the non-non
men now at work the Pennsylvania coamines is the Chief
practical problem before Mr. Mitchels United Mine Workers
Upon this matter Frank Sargent Commissioner OF lmm-
grafton has shed certain light in interview his APP
AYERS settle itself and without violence intimidation he non
union men simply find the atmosphere congena and IL
is left TO be inferred that they to the more congea Gil
mate at another strike The lot OF the non-union aDoe
as Mr. Sargent presents happy one II he De goou
sort he is forced the on if he be disqualified Tor union
membership disincined thereto he is forced on to new
pbere which, temporarily agreeable soon come 10 De us
agreeably pervaded by clubs bckba and dynamite SUCKS Inc
GENERATORS and necessary the local authorities should Ill te
few laborers who nave Deel heiP
in great emergency their peculiar care and shd see
TO it that the disagreeabe atmosphere OF which Mr. sargent
spea so knowingly reinforced by less gurave means OF