The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-14
MILITIA IS
| UNDER ARMS
The yIvania
Guard Called
Out.
MINERS VOTE TO
STICK 1T OUT
The President Still Active in His
Efforts to Settle the
Big Strike.


vania, numbering about 10000 men, tc
do duty in the anthracite coal regions
The soldiers will be in the field tomor-
row. The order calling out the guard is
as follows: In certain portions of the
counties of Luzerne, Schuylkill, Carbon,
Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Northum-
lberland and Columbia tumults and riots
frequently occur. Men who desire to
work have been beaten and driven away
and their families threatened Railroad
trains have been threatened and stoned
and the tracks torn up. The civil au-
thorities have been unable to maintain
order and have called upon the COVER
nor and commander in chief of the Ma
tional Guard for troops. The situation
territory now involved is so extensive
that the troops now on duty are in
sufficient to prevent all disorder
1.-THE Major General commanding will
place the entire division on duty, dis
tributing them in such localities as will
render them most effective for preserv-
ing the public peace.
''As tumults, riots, mobs and disorder
usually occur when men attempt to
Iwcrk in and about the coal mines he
viii see that all men who desire to work
and their families have ample military
protection. He will protect all trains
and other property from unlawful in
reference and will arrest all persons
enga ging in acts of violence and in
until their release will not endanger the
public peace, and will see that the
threats, intimidations, assaults and all
acts of violence cease at once. The
public peace and good order will be
preserved upon all occasions throughout
the several counties, and no interior
ence whatever will be permitted with
officers and men in the discharge of
their duties under this order. The dig
nifty and authority of the state must
be maintained, and her power to sup
press all Iawlessness within her borders
be asserted
! The formal order was given out at
the executive mansion shortly before II
o'clock tonight by Private Secretary
! Gerwig.
Governor Stone called a conference of
the general officers of the Guard, at
which it was decided to put the troops
in the field. The canvas and other
camp equipment will be shipped from
the state arsenal, and it is expected
that all the troops will be in the field
within twenty-four hours.
ALBANY. IN. W, October 6.-Gover-
nor odell late tonight issued an order
directing the entire second regiment,
composed of six separate companies
from Albany and Plattsburg, to protect
the property of the Hudson Valley
Railway Company, upon whose lines a
strike has been in progress for some
weeks.
Adjutant General Henry is on duty al
the National Guard headquarters to-
night, and prepared list of additional
available troops should their services be
deemed necessary by Colonel Lloyd.
MINERS WILL STICK.
WILkESBARRE, Pa, October TN
accordance with the address issued by
President Mitchell last night calling on all
local unions to meet and take vote or
. mine workers of the Prospect, OakdaIt
and Midyale coal collieries of the Lehigf
Coal company held meeting in this city
today and at its conclusion it was an.
nounced that the men had unanimously
voted to stay out in body until they hao
won the strike.
This is the first meeting held in thi.
anthracite field under the instructions Of
President Mitchell since the strike be
gan.
The news of the calling out of the en-
tire National Guard did not become gen
lerally known throughout this region unit
this morning. 1t did not cause any com
motion or much surprise The entir,
Wyoming valley. of which Wilkesbarre il
the center, was extremely quiet th
morning. The sheriff has received no re
ports of violence anywhere and in fac
there has been no disorder of any eonse
quence since last week.
The situation, so far as the mining O
!. coal is concerned, remains absolutely un
changed. The quantity of coal being ship
I ped is very small compared with the nor
NAL production
The absence from strike headquarter
| Of President Mitchell and the distric
presidents, who are in Buffalo today il
conference with representatives of tn
| National Association of Manufacturer
made things rather quiet here Nations
Board Member John Fallon, who was i
charge. said the situation was unchanged
The coal company officials and other