The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-09-11

| Stories Prove to Be as Wholly I'm
founded as Their Predecessors-C.
7 E. Tobey Says There will Be No
Notices Posted.
Two more of the Delaware. Lacka-
wanna and Western company's col
| lieries resumed operations yesterday.
| They are the Woodward, at Kingston,
and the Brisbin, at Providence. This
makes eight in operation. The other
six are the Cayuga, at Providence; the
Dodge, at Bellevue; the Hampton, in
| Keyser Valley; the Avondale, at Nanti-
coke: the Bliss, near Nanticoke, and
| the Pettebone, near Kingston.
The daily output of these eight COL
| lierics and the five washeries the COM
pany is working amounts to more than
1000 tons. The washeries turned out
| nearly 5000 tons yesterday, and the
collieries about 1900 tons.
According to Assistant Superintend-
ent Tobey, the force at each Of the
company's mines Is increasing daily,
and since Monday last the increase has
been especially large. If the ratio con-
tinues for another two weeks the COM
pany will be operating most of its COL
lieries.
At present some of the collieries do
not work regularly, because of the in
sufficient force. AT such places, the
men cut and load coal for two days
and then Il portion of them assist in
running the breaker for a day. 1t is
expected that in the course of week,
If the increase in the working force
continues at the rate that has obtained
this week, it will be possible to work
the breakers every day.
PRODUCT OF ERIE.
The Erie company is officially re-
ported to be turning out 1000 tons of
coal daily. The highest of the printed
estimates Of the Erie's output was $500
tons. The Delaware and Hudson COM
pany is working three colleries and
three washeries and increasing it's
working force day by day. Both the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
and Delaware and Hudson companies
expect to open up other collieries in the
course of few days.
Regarding the report, which was
again in circulation yesterday, that the
companies would post notices at the
various collieries Offering an induce
ment in the way of increased wages to
it's former employees, with assurances
of satisfactory adjustment of all
grievances, the local superintendents
all agreed that it was quite as absurd
as the many other settlement rumors.
Assistant Superintendent Tobey of
the Lackawanna company said: "There
will be no notices posted offering an
increase in wages or any other such
inducement. In fact there will be no
notices whatever posted. The men will
return to work on the old terms with
out further inducement or not return
at all. 1t is up to the strikers in
dividually to end the strike. The COM
panies will not coax them to return to
work. The mines are open to them;
the first come will be first served"
WAY IT WILL END.
1t is now very generally taken for
granted that the strike will end only
by the strikers giving up the conflict.
One after another the stories of pro-
bable settlement by concessions from
the operators, turn out to be pure, un-
adulterated canards. The thing Of
prominent personages irtermediating
for settlement of the strike has come
to be SO ridiculous that yesterday there
was a story freely circulated that King
Edward VII was to be induced by the
British trades unions to use his in
fuence with Morgan ct al. to effect a
settlement.
An instance of the manner in which
some of the sensational papers are
handling strike news (?) was to be
found on the first page Of yesterdays
Scranton Times. Across six columns
at the top of the page in flaring type,
occupying rs square inches of space
appeared a despatch setting forth that
the operators would post notices at the
mines today Offering concessions.
At the bottom of its general strike
story, in small type headed with Il
single line and occupying five square
inches of space was printed a despatch
declaring that the first despatch was a
mistake. The first despatch was dated
3 p. M, and the second $50 p. m.
The coal companies have begun to
take their mules from pasture and put
them back at the collieries. The Erie
company, yesterday, took large num-
ber of mules from Susquehanna county
and distributed them among the Dun
more collieries. The Delaware and
Hudson company has sent men after
the mules that belong at the Olyphant
collifries.
Anthony Belti, Donnie Towbezi,
Hugo Towbezi and Paola Mamma, strik-
ers residing at Jessup, We're held in
$500 bail, each. by Alderman Kasson,
yesterday on charges of disorderly con-
duct and surety of the peace, preferred
by Frank Capoucha. The prosecutor
who Is employed at the Oxford, swore
that Il crowd of half-a-hundred, of
which the defendants were part, sur
rounded his house last Friday night
and made threats to kill him. Joseph
O'Brien and r. III. Patterson appeared
for the prosecutor. The defendants
We're represented by John j. Murphy.
District President, Nichols returned
from Wilkes-Barre, yesterday, and
said the union had received no PROPOSE
ton of any kind for a settlement of the
strike. Mr.. Nichols went to Mayfeld,