The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-10
THE SCRANTON TR1BUNE-TUESDAY JUNE 10, 1902.

at work are subjected to, Mr.. Lighthall
said, they might better have their
fathers hung than have them prove
traitors to the cause of labor
He characterized the coal and iron
police as a lot OF ten-cent lodging house
buns from the slums of Chicago, and
predicted great victory for united labor
under the banner of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor which will sweep the
country in due time. In closing he said
to the men, For Gods sake, II not for
your own sake, come out with the
miners"
HEALEY's REMARKS.
District Board Member Healey made
an impassioned speech, in which he
stated that 9S per cent. of the firemen
are out on strike. but unfortunately
there are a few men who remain at
work in the Lackawanna valley be-
tween North Scranton and Pittston.
He intimated that the companies
have men at work trying to influence
these men to stay at work and others
to go back, but added that 1t Is only a
question of day or two before the
mine workers will control every man
In the anthracite region. Down the
valley, he said. everything is practically
suspended, and the strike cannot and
will not be lost He implored the few
men who now stand out to quit their
Jobs and join the strikers.
District President Nichols was the
last speaker and was received with
enthusiasm. He stated the object Of
the meeting was to get all the men
now at work to join the general move
ment, but added there is enough men
out already to insure a victory. They
are not fighting, he said, as mine work.
ers and tracklayere alone, but for all
men who are employed in and about
the mines.
There has been a misunderstanding
he said, but since President Lighthall
has been here, this has been cleared up
and will result in a victory for all con-
cerned.
AS the fight stands, he said to the en-
gineers and pump runners. you are
fighting for yourselves for an eight
hour day, and the question is, "Will
you make a stand for it?"
TOOK EXCEPTIONS.
Mr.. Nichols took exceptions to edi-
torial utterances in The Tribune and
said he would like to know if peaceful
supplicatiOn ever obtained anything for
the workingman. What they want, he
said, is some of the money made off
coal mining, and they are trying to get
some of the profits, and the operators
can easily afford to give the men an
eight hour day. AS it stands today.
there is nothing left for them to do but
to continue the struggle for success,
and he predicted that they will soon
have mine bosses and superintendent
leaving their jobs and joining the ranks
of the strikers. Everything points tu
| success, he said, and all the men need
is grit, and sand to keep the wheels
from slipping.
At the close of his address President
| Nichols requested all who were not in
cluded in the number of whom the
| meeting was called for, to leave the
hall, and all but few departed. A Sc
cret conference was then held, at which
ways and means were discussed for
reaching and influencing the men who
were at work to quit and joint the gen.
eral movement.
Tho first arrests for disorder in con.
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in this city since the struggle begar
! four weeks ago We're made yesterda!
morning when Thomas Mahan anC
Michael Mcnamara, two striking mine
workers residing in West Scranton
were taken into custody by the police
The specific charge against the mer
was disorderly conduct and maliciou:
mischief. At a hearing before Magis
%rot To Ior, f,.e
Thomas Morgan testified that an effig,
OF her husband was hung in front o.
her home on Saturday night by Mahar
and Mcnamara. Her husband, she eX
planned, has been working since tht
strike began and has incurred the dis
pleasure of many of his neighbors fol
so doing.
HOOTED AND JEERED AT.
Mrs. Morgan went out and cut the
| figure down and was greeted with hoot!
and ieers and calls of "scab," from {
large crowd of onlookers as she did so
The effigy was hung up again ant
when she went out to cut it down {
second time she was obliged to beat ;
hasty retreat because of fusilade o
stones which We're thrown at her. TIL,
house was pelted with stones after sh,
had entered.
She positively identified both Mahar
and Mcnamara as having been th'
ringleaders of the crowd which sur
rounded her house. They were fined So
each by Magistrate Millar and pait
over that amount without delay.
Magistrate Millar also issued a war
rant yesterday for the arrest of Johl
Thomas, of Taylor, who is accused o
having threatened the life of Rober
Potter a man employed at the Taylo
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