The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-03
STRIKE ORDER
ineffective
IT WAS NOT GENERALLY
oBEYED HEREABoUTs.
Eighty Per Cent. Of D., L. q w. Co.'S
Engineers, Firemen and Pumprun-
ners Remained at Work-Perhap
Fifty Per Cent. Of the Firemen
Quit but the Engineers and Pump
runners as Rule Refused to 90
out-Nicholls Satisfied with Sit
uation.

uatt0n.
The order of the United Mine
Workers, effective yesterday, calling
out the engineers, pump-runners and
firemen, IL they were not granted an
eight-hour day without decrease in
wages, was not very generally obeyed
in the Lackawanna region. Probably
fifty per cent. of the firemen quit work,
but the engineers and pump-runners,
as a rule, remained at work. There
were many rumors of violence, and
two reports of shooting affrays, but all
melted into air when Investigated. The
proclamation of Sheriff Schadt and
the instructions of the Mine workers
officials to all strikers to religiously OBJ
serve the law had their effc.t in pre-
venting disorder. Tne companies
claim that the places of the strikers
were filled Immediately. The United
Mine Workers officials say they are
confident the men who remained at
work will come out in the course Of a
few days.
Superintendent Reese A. Phillips. Of
the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern mining department. stated that
eighty per cent. of their men remained
at work and that practically all Of the
twenty per cent. that quit were fire.
men. Only two engineers quit he said,
and these were inside men, for whom
the company has no immediate use,
because of the fact that the planes
are not being operated. In the first
of the Lackawanna's five districts.
which includes the Storrs Nos. ], and
Tlvich
collieries, not single man quit work.
dt Is claimed. The flremen who went
out arc scattered throughout the other
four districts. The company had men
ready to take the strikers places and
as a result there was no difficulty
whatever experienced as result of
the strike order.
CONDITIONS THE SAME.
with the Delaware and Hudson com-
pany practically the same conditions
prevailed. General Superintendent
Rose said that while there was only
about third of their regular force of
firemen at work, the engineers and
pump-runners remained at their posts
almost to a man. The places of those
who quit were promptly filled by men
recruited from the ranks of the EN-
ployes who did not belong to the union,
such as teamsters, inspectors. fire
bosses and the like. These latter will
be gradually relieved by men who are
to be engaged permanently.
Tie Erie men, according to General
Manager w. A. May, kept faith with
the company. They notified the super
intendents they would continue at
work, and they did. At the collieries
about and north of Scranton. the fire.
men as we'll as the engineers and
pump-runners ignored the strike Or
der.
The Ontario and Western men had
decided by vote of SO to 46 to obey
the strike order, and did so very gen.
orally. Some engineers and pump-run-
ners remained at work. The company
claims it succeeded in filing the places
Of all the strikers by drafting the fire
bosses, inspectors and the like.
Superintendent S. B. Tnorne, of the
Temple Iron company, made the state
ment that in the four collieries located
in the Lackawanna region, the percent
age of men who quit was not large,
but in the four collieries in the Lu-
zerne district there was a general obe-
dience of the strike order. No attempt
men who quitat the BABYLON colliery in
Duryea. The veins being operated
there are all above the water level and
the coal is taken out by way of a
Lehigh Valley company's adjacent col
liery. No harm can come to the mine
or adjoining workings by allowing it to
ill up to the water level, so the COM
pany closed down the pumps, pulled
the fires and boarded up the boiler
room.
'-., HAD TO GET OTHER MEN.
1t was necessary to secure men from
the outside to man the pumps and
f. collieries of the Temple company, at
Wyoming. superintendent Thorne
went down yesterday afternoon with
fifteen imports secured through the
Drummond agency. and led by one of
the Drummond superintendent. Sew
eral Of them wore street car mems uni
forms.
Imported men, some of them Drum
mond strike breakers, and some Pin
kerton detectives, are reported to have
arrived at various places in the Lacka-
wanna region during the past three
days. Thirty arrived in Forest City
yesterday and being refused accommo-
dations at Cunningham's hotel We're
cared for at the homes of the mine
bosses. Shanties are being built for
them inside the limits of the colliery
grounds.
President 4. d. Nichols, of District
No. /. said yesterday that he was en-
tirely satisfied with the situation.
Fully ninety-tive per cent. of the fire.
men and seventy-fve percent of the
steam men have obeyed the strike Or
der, he claimed. He also expressed the
belief that the men remaining at work
will be found In the ranks of the