Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-02
MINERS HOLD MASS MEETING.
Strikers Hold Enthusiastic Session
Mitchell Cheered.

Scranton, Pa Aug. 2.-The first of
the strikers mass meetings planned to
take place al the various strike centers
was held yesterday afternoon in the
Round Woods. There We're 1000 stril-
ers present from all parts of the city
and adjoining towns. some locals hav-
ing marched four miles to the meeting,
headed by band or drum corps and
carrying flags and banners. National
President John Mitchell. District Presi
dent L. ID. Nichols, District Vice Presi-
dent Adam Il. Ryscavage, District Sec
l1etary John 7. Demsey Organizer Nor
TIM Memolo and Sub District President
r. Phillips delivered addresses. Vice
President Ryscavage spoke in Polish
land Organizer Memoo in Italian. The
tcrowd enthusiastically cheered all the
speakers and fairly went Wild over
Mitchell Mr.. Mitchell sad
1T has been said by some who are
not your friends that the miners of the
Scranton region are getting tired of the
strike and are about to return to work.
"If the strike is lost. may God AL
mighty help the men, women and chill
drer who depend for the subsistence on
the mining of anthracite coal. If the
strike is lost you will pay the cost of
the strike.
Il want to say that the anthracite
miners Went on strike themselves. They
voted for the strike. 1t was not the Of
fieerstof the United Mine Workers un-
ion who called the strike. 1t viii never
end until you vote it ended.
From the offices of the coal presi-
dents in New York comes the deciara-
ton that the strike will be settled only
in their own way OF settling 1T. | would
direct your attention to similar declar-
ations made in the 1900 strike. The
coal trust may be powerful and strong.
but the American people, whose hearts
throb in sympathy With the miners
cause, are stronger than the coal trusts.
Ninety per cent of the people have
agreed that the miners are right and
the operators wrong.
Il understand there is some dissatis
faction and misunderstanding about the
distribution of the relief fund. The OPP
orators have sent men among you to
urge you to be dissatisfied. While we
have not got our millions, we have
CROUCH to see to it that no miner will
starVe during the continuance of the
strike. | want to appeal to men with
means to refrain from applying for re-
LIEF. Be patient With your committees.
Put your shoulder to the wheel and do
your share of the work. Don't depend
altogether on your officers to win your
fight. The one among You who violates
the law is the worst enemy you have. l
wart our men to exercise their rights
that nure to them under the laws. but
want that no man shall transgreSS the
laws. The operators are trying to make
III appear that the strike is beginning
to break up. AT Shamokin the operators
tell the strikers that the men at
Wilkesbarre are returning to work. AT
Wilkesbarre they tell them the men at
Shamokin are returning, and at other
places they tell them the men at Scran-
ton are weakening. l fail to see any
signs of weakening here. ! want to inn
press on you the importance of winning
this strike. If you win, as you surely
Will win there will be no more
strikes; there will be a basis of adjust
ment arrived at which will prevent
Strikes
Chairman Phillips asked all who fa-
vored a fight to a finish to raise their
bands. Every one went up.
Twenty-Five years ago yesterday,
Aug. /, 1877, 10000 striking miners, who
bad been out for six months, met at this
same Round Woods. in almost the iden-
teal spot where Yesterdays meeting
was held, and with uplifted hands
avowed that they would not return to
Work until their demands We're granted.
That afternoon occurred the memora-
bic riot on Lackawanna avenue, when
captain of hastily formed vigilants
killed two men, fired upon procession
made up of strikers from this and an
other mass meeting who We're bent up
on burning breakers and who had near
ly killed Mayor Mckune when he tried
to halt them.
A week later the miners went back to
work without gaining amy concessions
and with their union disrupted
AS a precaution against a possible
disorder. big squad of police was kept
in reserve ut headquarters and twenty
patrolmen We're stationed in the neigh
torhood of the Oxford colliery, which
has resumed operations.
BROTHERHOOD WILL LEND AID.
Railway Trainmen to Assist the Strk-