The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-23
GRANTED INCREASE.

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GRANTED INCREASE.
In the afternoon the teamsters gave
In and agreed to pay $3.50 for coal. the
pickers resumed work.
Hundreds of the strikers and their
families are making good living pick
ing coal and selling it to teamsters. All
through the valley they can be seen at
work on the dumps. by the hundreds,
filling sacks with coal and carrying it
to piles which are disposed of to the
teamsters.
In all the anthracite coal region the
only persons marketing any coal are
the strikers.
The district executive board of the
United Mine Workers met at the head
quarters, Saturday to devise means OF
shutting down the washeries. Nothing
would be given out concerning the de-
lberations. District President Nichols
returned from Philadelphia Saturday
morning, but was here only short
time, when he was called to Wilkes
Barre to confer with President Mitch
ell. He reached home again Saturday
night. but had nothing to give out.
National President Mitchell will be
here tonight to attend the commence
ment exercises at ST. Thomas college.
There will be a joint meeting of the
five Olyphant locals this afternoon at
. o'clock. 1t will be addressed by Dis
trct President Nichols, Vice-Presi
dent Adam Ryscavage and Committee
man Anthony Schlosser. Committeeman
Schlosser and Llewellyn addressed a
mass meeting at Old Forge, Saturday.
Last Thursday the six tiremen at the
johnson colliery, in Priceburg, went on
strike for an eight-hour day They had
been enjoying an eight-hour day for
several years, but they wanted an
agreement in writing that they were
having an eight-hoir day and would
continue to have it. Saturday the writ
ten agreement was made. and the men
returned to work.
POLICEMAN ARRESTED.
Joseph Jopek, a coal and iron police
man, working at Jessup, was sent to
the county Jail yesterday. in default of
$500 bail, to answer at court for making
threats and carrying concealed weap-
ons. Justice of the Peace j. F. Lotus
committed him.
Strikers continue to leave here in
large numbers. Scarcely a train goes
out on the Delaware Lackawanna and
Western and Delaware and Hudson
roads but what carries away large or
small bands of strikers bound for 9TH
er parts in search Of employment. Ac-
cording to the estimates of steam
ship and railroad agents, 5000 strikers
from Lackawanna valley have left here
since the strike began.
The current issue OF Bradstreet's
trade journal has this to say:
The supply of anthracite coal is slowly |
cbbng. and the use of soft coal is grow |
ing despite city ordinances. The bitumin- |
Gus product is in growing demand, $2.75G
$500 per ton being obtained at the mines |
and there is even talk of bringing coal
and coke from new and old England to
New York. What anthracite coal is
available is mostly small steam and stove
sizes, and the prices paid are largely |
what the traffic will bear. If the strike |
spreads In the bitumnous fields, the out
look in manufacturing VIII become SER
ious because of the high prices necessary
To secure fuel. The strike Is causing |
some additional furnaces to shut down. |
and thus accentuating the scarcity in the |
eastern part Of the country.
The Engineering and Mining Journal !
said Saturday about the condition of |
the anthracite coal market:
CONDITION OF MARKET.
Trade all over the country is light be- |
cause coal Is not to be had except at |
heavy advances. In many cases, conser- |
vative dealers in the East are refusing |
profits of So to 81 ii ton on coal bought |
In April, preferring to keep their stocks |
to supply their regular customers At |
the head of Lake Superior the docks are |
nearly bare, and supplies in dealers |
hands are light In Chicago territory, the |
demand continues fair Dealers report a |
considerable volume of inquiries: most of |