The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-09

literature of the strike,
properly credited to the source from
which it came:
A systematic boycott of all persons and
establishments that in any way supply
the wants of non-union men has been in
augurated and is having its effect in
bringing men out of the mines. Men Of
all callings, including bartenders, butch
ers grocery clerks, etc. are organized in
the coal region. A non-union man In
most places cannot be served and IL he
is. the establishment is Immediately boy
cotted. Families of union men are
consequently having much trouble in
buying the neceSsaries of life in Stores.-
Associated Press Dispatch. dated Wilkes
Barre June 4.
Valentine Starke, an engineer In the
employ of the Lehigh Valley Coal COM
pany, reported to his boss to-day that he
could not go on. His wife had been cons
family bounded while he was at work and
the night before strikers had come to his
house and threatened to blow him and his
entire family up if he continued at work.
There has been a systematic campaign of
this kind all through the region and in
some cases open violence was resorted to.
This morning man named John Thomas
was dragged from a trolley car in Plains
near the Prospect mine and thrown into
creek because he would not turn back
when on his way to work and go home.
Half dozen men in the employ of the
Lehigh company were forcibly prevented
from going to work to-day. Samuel Scott,
Delaware and Hudson mine employe
was set upon and so savagely pounded
this morning that he Is now in hospi-
tal.-Wilkes- Barre Dispatch, June 4, print
ed in the Scranton Republican.
This morning a mob Of women dragged
man from II trolley car and with the
aid of men who We're at work prevented
him from going to work. To-day the girls
in the lace mills demanded that the man
ayers of the mill dismiss all children Of
men who remained at work in defiance
of the strike. The manager of the mill
meekly obeyed the order and some Is or
20 girls were turned out of their jobs. To-
day, instisated, it Is said. by the factory
girls. employees of one of the traction
companies. waited on the superintendent
and demanded that he refuse to permit
men who remained at work to ride OH his
Wilkes Barre dispatch in the
Scranton Republican.
Very soon the men at work either will
have to send their families to remote
places and remain within the fenced in
closures of the company, or else quit
work. The courage with which the wives
and even the children of these men face
some instances astonishing. Only yester-
day little twelve year-old girl made her
way through scowling mob gathered in
front of the gates to one of the mine in
closures. Her father was working inside
the enclosure and he was one of those the
mob was waiting to waylay when he
started for home. The child at the gate
sent word to her father to come to her.
When he appeared she cautiously pulled
revolver from under her apron and
handed it to him. Her mother had sent
1t. she said for her father to defend HIM
self with. If need be. on his way home
Wilkes-Barre dispatch in Scranton Re-
publican.
The first violence attempted upon the
part of the mine workers in this region
since the strike was inaugurated was at
New Philadelphia at an early hour this
morning Twenty masked United Mine
Workers entered the miners boarding
house at that place kept by Mrs. Caro-
line Fogarty about 80 o'clock. The gang
were armed and they gained an entrance
by breaking window, sezns as their
victim non-union miner. Thomas Cres-
son, aged % years. who up to the time
the colliery was closed was employed as
loader at the Silver Creek coliery.
Cresson was taken from his bed, bound
hand and foot, and then rope was plac-
ed about the young mans neck and he
was lowered from an upper window. sew
eral shots being fired to intimidate the
other boarders into making no resistance
all OF whom, like the assaulting party. are
union men. Cresson was saved from the
fate which awaited him by some friends
In the lower story pulling him in through
n window and cutting the rope. Finding
that their victim had disappeared all the
masked miners spersed.-Pottsville Dis
patch I'm Philadelphia Times.
Although the coleries in this section
are guarded by armed deputies the pumps
We're again idle to-day. There have been
several outbreaks and the situation is very
critical. A non-union pumpman who re-
turned from work at the East coliery was
mObted and stoned by three hundred men
and women. The engineers at Brooksde
and Lincoln colliery who persist in work
ing We're followed home by 1000 miners
with drum corps mt their head playing
''rhe Rogucs' March" At st. Clair the
non-union men We're forced to run the
gauntlet of 5000 miners who formed lines
through which the workingmen were
compelled to pass, being loudly jeered as
they did so, The Reading company to-
day was obliged to bring one of it's engi-
neers to work between two deputies
Pottsville Dispatch I'm Scranton Republl-
can.
At the No, II mine number of armed
strikers visited the pumphouse and
forced several pumpmen and steam mon
to stop work. Shortly afterward the
same men, reinforced by about 200 strik-
ers. hung pumpman In efiigy at Coal
dale. Early last evening two men, sup
posed to be strikers visited the Spring
Tunnel boiler house and asked the watch
man for drink of water. When he
turned to fill cup for them one of the
men struck him on the head with large
rock and he fell to the floor unconclous.-
Associated Press Dispatch from Tamaqua
An exciting riot occurred at the Bliss
colliery of the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Coal company this morning
hundreds of strikers their wiyes aud