Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1902-10-09
Entire Y. q. z. Called.

AFTER long COHlcIcbSC AcAN O. '~
Executive Mansion in Harriburs, Mon
day night, with Gen. Miller, Gen Cob
in. Gen. Stewart, Gen. Hulings and
Others. Gov. Stone decided to call out
the entire National Guard of the state,
and in his order gives his reasons. as
follows:
Headquarters National Guard,
Adjutant Generals Office,
Harrisburg, Oct 6.
In certain portions of the counties OF
Luzerne. Schuylkill, Carbon, Lacka-
wanna. Susquehanna, Northumberland
| and Columbia tumults and riots fire.
ouently occur and mob law reigns. Men
who desire to work have been beaten
and driven away and their families
threatened. Railroad trains have been
DELAYED. stoned and the tracks torn up
The civil authorities are unable to
maintain order and have called upon
the governor and commander-ln-c chief
of the national guard troops
The situation grows more serious eacn
dav. The territory involved Is so ex-
tansive that the troops now on duty are
insufficient TO prevent all disorder. The
nresence of the entire division national
guard of Pennsylvania is necessary IN
those counties to maintain order and
peace. -,
The major-general commanding will
place the entire division on duty, dis
tributing them in such localities as Will
render them effective for preserving the
public peace.
As tumults, riots, mobs and disorder
usually occur when men attempt 10
work in and about the coal mines, ne
will 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
engaging in acts of violence and lntlm-
| idation and hold them under guard un-
| til their. release will not endanger the
public peace; will see that threats, ln
Limitations, assaults and all acts OF
violence cease at once
The public peace and good order will
be preserved upon all occasions and
throughout the several counties, and no
| interference whatever will be permitted
with officers and men in the discharge
of their duties under the order. The
dignity and authority of the state must
be maintained and her power to sup
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be asserted. BY order of
WILLIAM A. STONE,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief
| THOMAS J. STEWART,
Adjutant General.
Orders followed to every Colonel and
every Captain in the state; every man
of the Guard was notified, transporta-
ton and rations provided, and by the
end of the week ten Thousand men will
be in camp at the $50 different anthra-
cite coal mines of the seven counties at
a cost to the state of a million or more,
according to the length of time they are
kept there The expense to date of the
three thousand now there is put at a
quarter Of million.
At Wilkes Barre, Monday, President
Mitchell of the Mine Workers Union is
sued the following:
ITO District Secretaries and All Mine
Workers in the Anthracite Field:
"You have, no doubt read IN the
daily papers the proceedings OF the CON
| ference at the White House last Friday
| in which your officers proposed an I'M
mediate resumption Of workif the opera
tors would agree with us to refer the
questions at issue in the strike 70 the
decision of the President Of the United
States and a tribunal named by him.
You have noted the reply of the presi-
dents Of the coal-carrying roads, IN
which they responded to our overtures
| by denouncing your union, its members
| and officers in the most vehement ana
| malicious manner possible. They also
| declared that a large majority of the
| strikers would return to work II gwen
military protection, and they dem anded
| that the President send United States
| troops to the coal fields.
I'm order to demonstrate to the peo-
| ple of our country that the statements
| of the operators are unfounded and that
| the mine workers are law abiding, citi-
zens. the officers of all local unions
| should call mass meetings OF all men on
| strike, union and non union, such meet
| ings to be held in each mining town at
| 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, OCTOBER
le. We know that the mine workers are
| not restrained from going TO work Dy
| fear of bodily harm. and If this is the
sentiment prevailing at the meetings
resolutions should be adopted emphatic
ally declaring the statements OF the
operators to be untrue.
1--WE also advise that acts Of lawless-
ness by the coal and iron police and by
strikers be denounced and the services
of members Of the union rendered the
local authorities to preserve law and
| order
Great care should be exerised that
those on strike do not permit themselves
to be provoked by the coal and iron po-
lice into the commission OF overt acts.
The operators, failing to break the
strike and deprive you OF your well
earned victory, are now attempting 10
array public sentiment against you by
making false claims that reign OF
terror exists in the coal fields Be stead
fast and true while this struggle for
living wages and American conditions
of employment is going on, and we have
no hesitancy in sayiog that victory Will
be achieved in the not distant future.
| The heart of the Nation beats in sym
pathy with you, and all good citizens
favor your cause.
This is the first time the entire guard
has been called out since the Home
stead riots of ten years ago, 1892.
The Butler company was called to
arms, Tuesday noon, and waited around
till that night.(at about a. M when
their train came along, and they started
with other companies Of their regiment
for the East
The War Department received an
order from Governor Stone Of Pennsyl-
vania, Tuesday, for 10 900 pairs Of shoes
and 2, 800 blankets to be delivered inn
mediately. The blankets and shoes are
now available at Philadelphia and at
New York
The State Of Pennsylvania has ex-
hausted it's quota Of the appropriation
allowed by Congress for militia supplies,
so that Governor Stone, though getting
the goods at cost price, will have to pay
~ per pair for shoes and $3.50 per pair
for the blankets.
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