Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-10-14
BOTH MAKE CA Ms.
Coal Companies Say II Col
liei es and q Washeries
Started Yesterday.
VI orker Yesterday Than Last neo~.
Man Conveying Non-Unionists Al
NEST Beaten 20 Death-MiIitia Ha,
Little Work to 20, Yesterday.

Wi1kesbarre, Oct 14.-What was
looked upon as an important day u
the matter of resumption CT work ID
the coal mines passed without am
serious trouble, and each side to the
controversy last night was claiming
a victory. Reports received here
from coal companies all over the re
gion was to the effect that at least
IL collierie3 and wGsheries started
operation yesterday. President Mitch
ell, in talk with the correspondents
asserted that reports received by him
from his lieutenants in the field
showed fewer men were at work yes
terday than last week.
Extra Efforts by Both Sides.
While neither side would admit 1t
it was quite evident that extra efforts
were made to gain an advantage. The
soldiers of the Third brigade were
sent into the outlying mining towns
in this region long before starting
up. time to patrol the streets and
roads leading 20 the collieries. In
some places the soldiers were scat
tered in twos and threes along the
streets and on street corners, but
they were not compelled to rescue
anyone from strikers. The company
superintendent were authority fol
the statement that for the two days
previous the mine workers had been
again making Louse to house can
vases all over the territory, holding
the men in line, and that if it were
not for this method Of keeping the
men from WORK there would have
been a large increase in the number
Of employees at work. One superi1
tendent, in speaking of the situation
as it existed yesterday, said:
Statement by a Superintendent.
"The number Of men who returned
to work today was not very large
but the movement in that direction
was gratifying. The companies die
not make a great effort to break the
ranks Of the strikers, preferring to
wait until the New York conferences
are over. They have held out false
hopes TO the men and as soon as they
are over the men will see that there
is no use to hold out any longer and
will be glad 20 resume work"
In an interview last night Presi
dent Mitchell summed up the general
situation az follows:
Statement Made by Mitchell.
Il have heard from every point in
the coal region today, and my infor
nation is to the effect that fewer men
were at work today than there were
last week. There were assertions
from the companies at Scranton
Hazleton, the Panther Creek valley
and Shamokin. The report that Il
collieries resumed operations is not
true. The Bellevue colliery of the
Lackawanna company, which, it is
claimed, was started, hoisted two
cars and then shut down; the John
son collieries, Nos. l and 2, of the
New York, Ontario and Western com
a wheel; at the Lattimer mines of c.
Pardee & Co. the mine foreman
raised some coal that had been gath
cred at the bottom, and no new men
started there, as is reported The
Prospect colliery of the Lehigh Val
ley, which is also said to have begun
work, did not ship any coal. / have
not heard anything of other collieries
but if they had started work | would
have been informed"
tie work, yesterday.