The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-12
IN Progress Twenty-Five Weeks
and Cost millions.
ROOT AND MORGAN CONFER
They Spend Several Hours Together,
But SO Far as Known No Resul, Is
Reached-Irhe President Still
Trying 10 Find Way TO End
the Handicapped
for Miners.
Especial Dispatch to The T1mes.)

Especial Dispatch TO Inc 1lmeS.)
w1LKESBARRE, PA, October Ia
careful canvass of the strike regions to
day disclosed the fact that not one ad
sa1t1onal colliery was started.
The operators say the situation Is
about the same; district leaders OF ths
mine workers report continual assertions
from the ranks OF the non-union men.
It is apparent that the presence OF
troops throughout the region has not
enabled the operators to resume They
cannot get the men to work heir mines
Efforts have been made. under cover. tc
induce them to return to work. but they
have failed. So certain are the opera
tors that they cannot get men that they
have sefrained from posting notices a,
the mines inviting their former en-
pboyes to return. This is regarded as
proof that they are unable to get al
sufficient force to operate their colliertes.
TWENTY-FIVE WEEKS OLD.
To-day ends the fwenty-second week OF
Ghe strike. The miners are more de-
eePnined than ever to stand out until
kneir demands are granted
Following Is an estimate OF losses 90
casionca by the STRIKE duFink the twenty
two weeks il has t>s.s on:
TAbulated loss to operators, and price
OF coal &67.6n0.0Oo
Loss 70 strikers ia wages. s2s3oo,o 0o
Loss to employees other than strikers In
wages. s6,6oo.00o.
Loss to railroads IN earnings, SIP. $780,
900.
Loss to business men in the regions.
4 e1G. 200. 900.
Loss to business men outside the re-.
gions. s93oo.coo.
Cost of maintaining coal and iron po-
lice se,1cc, 600.
Cost Of maintaining non-union men,
sGopoe'
Cost of troops In the region, SEQ 800.
Damage to mines and machinery, So
boo.ooa.
Total. s1s5. $1,000
There are very few men at work, and
the output is practically nothing.
AT Mahonv City the operators bluff
has been called. At onrbreak lhie morn
ing two battaiions of the Fourteenth
Regiment under. the command of Majors
Fowler mi. Ewing. appeared on the
streets Of the city. ostensihls for prac-$
Gce drill but really to escort waverinS
strikers hack IT. work - thew .aid they
desired 10 go The result Justified Presi-
dent Nitchel!'s repeated claims. Not
nan deserted the strikers. The soldiers
came into town from their camp on
Smiths farm on double quick time, sep
aTafing at the intersection OF Main and
Center Streets. one battalion going east
and the other west. A guard was de-
tached and left near the mansion house.
The battalions marched about the streets
OF the town for one hour and . half, dur
ing which tlsno moi solitary miner was
picked UP. At 6 a. NJ the troops re-
turned to camp.
Reports to-day indicate further deser-
tions from the deputy raakr at North
Afahanoy and St Nicholas coineries.
I AT 5 O'clock this afte~nonn4anotler train
load OF washed coal corte.ring sixteen
cars. was esnt out Under a military
guard OF two battalions Of the Fourteenth
REGIMENT. COMMANDED by Lieutenant
Corbett- The incident attracted only a
few people.
Just few minutes previous a train
made up Of twenty-one cars OF GOAL from
st. Nicholas or Potts collie.y passed
down the main line. protected by coal
and iron policemen Rrgnaier- General
Wiley. Of the Second arrived at head
quarters IN Ashland at noon to-day. He
was met at the station by the Fifth Reg
ament band and escorted to the Union |
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