The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-06-08
SOFT COAL STRIKE FlzzLES.
m >rO\>y 10 ORDf ~ 70 orr
~ NOR GINIh ~.
,iin-rS In u->t NrEinis D,a No, 60 Out
10 the E,,~n' mat ~s> Anticipated
umr- are t.sssi and me, Have No
Real Iri~, anc~s Wa, lie n ma Out.

CiAREsErRa " Va june : Tho order
~ National Nus Workers mon for a
general tnkr IN this district to-day ~ss
oi.v,i bv very small T-rr'utag" uf io.opo
miu'r- In 10" fsIrmuut rrgiun or NORTHERN
fields - M" state. with "a few rNcrpt,ons all
~ M" >iItv mines ot the fsirmunt Coal
Company, extending Tor sixty miles along
the Monunsah"la River. ran "a usual to-
daV III" tact that work has lsSn plenty.
wages gusi and that th"rr - no general
gricNauCr accounted for IN" small atten-
tlon uaid To- the order to g. ont.
n Some # ~" mines have suspended opera
tiuu- Ihc-r arr chiefly smaller Colli.rie-
~ independent operators. The Fleming
ton miners are out. Tho Perry Goal NOM
Iany'- mine At Adamston j. al~p suspended.
cut Of the took mlnc az Meadowbrook
fifty struck A. this mine an Italian agi-
ta,ot was arrested and brought TO Jail her.
this morning for threatening pror"rty.
Most Il the Cook miners ar. Italians. MANY
are arn.d. Truubl. with the superintendent
over a discharge of two union men several
day- x cGu-nd the trouble, rather than the
strike order
Mos 81 the miners scem Contented and
no trouble IL cared Mother" Jones,
the famous woman a~gitator. held an OPEN
air meeting today near herr. Lrss than
?o NOR. women and children heard her
The address was Of an infanmstory char
aCter and was loudly ch,-red.
Thomas Hagrrty. an organizer. and
Bernard Rio- Of the National Executive
Committee al~o addressed the meeting
They are holding n meeting to a larger
crowd Tonight at ~Shinnston, nine miles
from here.
WHEELING. W. Va June THE strike
order is-Ied bv the United Mine Workers
Ia the men Of the bit luminous fields Of this
State. Virginia and Maryland went INTO
effect this unl
In ia. Norfolk and Western field 4, l. as
serted. Dos men arr out. tying up 81 Irr
cent of the mines Tn Tug River one-ihird
u the men arr out. The 1lacker field is
tied up A. Ding-ss IN" works are idle.
and on Elkhon 3.oo men have quit one
Elkhom company wired To Philad' lphia this
morning for five dorm Winchester mfr =.
The Hungarians arr drinking heavily and
regard II a. "a holiday Trouble IL feared IN
tlkhurn from the intoxicated f~orrigners.
RiCHvoSD. Va. June 7.-Advices hero
show that une-'hird Of the miners in tho
kanawha coal fields came out to-day in
rrsInn-' 90 thu strike order and about on'-
half ~ the total number In the New River
dit riot. Gov Montague Is keeping IN
clrs. touch with the P~ocahontas mines and
no SERIOUS disturbances have been reported.
c. J. whittenberg. President Of the Che~a-
peake and Ohio Goal and Coke Company.
-aid yesterday:
In the New River and the P~ocabontas
districts and the West Virginia districts Of
tho Bal,iu,rc and Ohio road there vcre
about jo.y1 men emplovrd in the mines
81 which atrut ~ I-r cent. were not work
lng to-day. | haven't quite made out yet
whether thc-. men are taking a day on or
arr actually On strike A large part ~ them
arr uegrurs, who. | think, will not remain
on Of work hong and only about W per
cent arc ORGANIZED m any way.
MIR W~hitt.uirrg'- opinion Whatever
strike j. started wont last long