New-York tribune., 1902-09-13
the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western s,i5


to-day:
II would be a public calamity for the oner.
tors to grant even the slightest concession Con
cessions would demands neyt
spring, and more demands next spring would
mean another strike. A victory by the miners
would also mean the encouragement Of strikes
among many other unions. Even though the
operators were disposed to make concessions
tba1y would be constrained to refuse by consid'
Grafton of the influence it would have on the
general business world Incidentally, let me
saw the operators not disposed to make anv
concessions
MOB HAS TO BE DISPERSED
This morning a mob tried to stop work at the
Prospect and Henry collieres of the Lehigh Val
lev Coal Company. and for two hours there was
intense excitement in the upper part of the city
s bout three hundred held up every street
car until they got the one they wanted. 1t was
instantly surrounded by a crowd, some with
clubs. end three non-union men were pulled off
One of the men proved to be "Will" Cramer,
a coal and iron policeman. and he tried to
cane and ran toward the stockade at the new
Prospect coIliery. The crowd gave chase. and
Cramer pulled his revolver and fired several
shots at his pursuers
No one was injured by the shooting but it
added to the excitement, and the crowd in
creased The city police and the sheriff were
telephoned for. and Deputy Sheriff Fred Rhodda
with eight men and a police sergeant rushed tc
the scene and after much work dispersed the
mob.
More trouble is expected at This point to-mor-
row. and the sheriff is preparing to be the
scene arly with large force of deputies To-
night a force of two hundred men marching
from coery to Colliery They armed with
clubs. After the trouble this morning another
crowd assembled the road leading to the
Pine Rids. colliery. and finding two men on
their way work in the brickyard adjoining
that colliery set upon them and choked and beat
them because they did not have union cards.
SCHOOL CHILDREN STRIKE.
This morning nearly three hundred pupils Of
the Lee Park schools of which James Pace is
principal. struck their grievance being that
| three or four children whose fathers were work
| ing as non-union men in some of the coal works
were attending school Efforts were made to
| induce the striking children to return to the
| schoolroom hut they held a meeting and unani-
| rnouslv decided not to do until the pupils
| complained of were dismissed. All morning they
| remained outside the school shouting and yell
| ing until at II o'clock Professor Pace was
| obliged to dismiss the thirty-one pupils he had
| until Monday.
| Wilson Houser of West Hazleton. owner Of
| the house in which William Applegate. nom
| union worker, lives. received letter this morn
| ing threatening that unless Applegate is COM
| PEELED TO vacate. the house would be destroyed
| by dynamite. It blown up several weeks
| ago and badly wrecked but no one was IN
| iured Houser turned the letter over to the
| police and the house is now being guarded
| President Mitchell before starting for Phlla-
| deIphia made the following statement regard
| ing an interview with Abram s Hewitt pub
| lished this morning:
| Mr. Hewitt's statements are at such vari-
| ance with the facts as not to require an an
| swer. My Indianapolis speech refutes much Of
| his Allegations He is either misinformed or Is
| deliberately and maliciously misStating facts
| and making statements which he knows TO be
| untrue.