Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-06-26
THE GREAT STRIKE
Anthracite Miners Still Stand
ing Firm.
A sympathy Strike Ties Up a Large
Lace Factory at WiIkesbarre,
Pn.-ReIief w Ork In Behalf
of Destitute strikers
Has Begun.


plant of the Wilkesbarre Lace Manu-
featuring Co., the largest in the Uni
ted States, was compelled to shut
down yesterday.
There is a persistent rumor afioat
that non-union men will be brought
into the coal fields to mine coal. This
cannot be done because practically
all the anthracite miners in the coun-
try are located in this region and all
are on strike.
New men cannot take their places,
because under the laws of Pennsyl-
vania no man can be employed as a
miner without first having obtained
a certificate showing that he has had
two years experience at anthracite
mining.
Relief work among the striking
miners has been started in several
sections of the region, but to what
extent cannot be definitely learned.
indianapolis. June 19.-An official
call for national convention of the
United Mine Workers of America was
issued Wednesday from the national
headquarters in this city by Sec
retary-Treasurer Wilson. The con
vention will meet here July II to de-
termine whether the soft coal miners
of the country shall go out on a
strike to assist the striking anthra-
cite miners of Pennsylvania.
ClearfieId, Pa, June 10.-The sub
district presidents of District No. .,
United Mine Workers, met here We'd
nesday and issued an order directed
a II. Il, Il.
and miners of northern central Penn
sylvania which will reduce the out
put of bituminous coal in this region
one-third. The order restricts the
working days to four each week. All
miners are required to suspend work
on Wednesdays and Saturdays of each
week at all operations where no coke
ovens are worked. The order will
90 into effect June 25.
The purpose of the order is to re-
strict the output and thus, to some
extent, prevent the operators filling
orders for bituminous coal to be
sent to points where anthracite coal
was used prior to the anthracite
miners strike.
Clarksburg, w. Va, June 2O.--The
.
here for working in this part of the
-Clarksburg region. Mar
shal Elliott arrived with deputies
/ from Monongah last night, also
armed with n new injunction issued
by Judge Jackson, restraining the
/ strikers from interfering with the
! operation of the mines of the Clarks-
/ burg Fuel Co. This injunction is more
stringent than the others, prohibit
/ ing the strikers from camping or con-
gregating near enough to the mines
/ to influence the workers of the COM
/ pany.
/ Wilkesbarre, Pa, June 2l.-Eleven
coal and iron policemen employed by
/ the Susquehanna Coal Co. at their No.
colliery at Nanticolle, were arrested
Friday by the chief of police of the
/ borough on the charge of firing re-
volvers and rifles in the built up por-
ton of the borough without provo
/ cation. Three of them were dis
charged and the other eight were
| fined $3.50 each.
Wilkesbarre. Pa, June 21.-The wife
of John Snyder, a fireman employed
in the Dorrance colliery of the Lee
high Valley Coal Co., at North Wilkes
barre, has reported to the officials of
the company that her home and CON
tents were destroyed by fire Friday.
Her husband, on account of annoy
ance that he has undergone. lives in
the colliery. The wife said she has
been so annoyed by her neighbors
that she decided to move from North
Willlesbarre to Stanton Hill. While
her goods were being removed to the
new house, a number of men upset
the wagon and damaged the furni-
ture. The goods were finally landed
in the house, but afterward the house
was burned.
Clarksburg, w. Va, June 21.-
Thomas Haggerty, Bernard Rice and
eight or ten other organizers and dis
charged miners, were arrested at Il
miners mass meeting here Friday for
violating Judge Jackson's injunction.
Mother Jones, the labor organizer,
spoke for some time, but was not
mOlested.
Indianapolis, June 21.-It is esti-
mated by w. b. Wilson, secretary and
treasurer of the Mine Workers of
America, that the present supply of
bituminOus and anthracite coal above
ground would be exhausted in less
than three months, if there should be
a general suspension of work in the