Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-07-30
MITCHELL WILL
MAKE A TOUR
National President to Visit
the Lehigh Region.
Union Officers Decide Upon
a Series of Mass Meetings
in the Region--Several Dis
turbances Are Reported.

turbances Are Reported.
The leaders Of the mine workers are
| preparing to hold a series OF mass meet-
| ings, the object OF which will be to keep
the strikers firm. The intention is to
have President Mitchell address these
meetings and give advice and encour-
agement to the miners. The mass
meetings well be held throughout the
region and 1t is expected that they will
keep the officers OF the union busy
during the remainder of the struggle.
President Mitchell will make trip
through the Schuylkill and Lehigh
regions the latter end of the weak. lie
will first go to Schuylkill county, where
he has promised to deliver at least two
| addresses. A committee from the
Schuylkill miners waited on Mr.. Mitch
ell three weeks ago and asked him to
deliver an address. He expects to be
absent three or four days and will visit
the Lehigh region before his return.
Addresses will be delivered in the prin-
| cipal towns OF this section, but it is not
yet known II he will speak In Fresland.
Reports received from the secretaries
of many of the locals, and they report
that they found no dissatisfaction in
distributing the relief fund. The aid
given was not as large as some expect
ed, but that was due to the fact that
only one contribution had been received,
and that was for a limited sum. Most
of the strikers understood that and they
had no complaint to make.
The report that some strikers who
were well to do were finding fault be-
cause they were not placed in the same
class as some Of their brethren who
were not so well OF in this worlds goods
finds no credence at strike headduart-
ers.
National Board Member John Fallon
said: "The reports are being circulat-
ed by agents of the coal companies, who
think If they can create dissension
among the strikers they will be able to
break up the strike"
National Board Member p. G.. Gala
CHER stated today that recent advices
from Indianapolis show that the relief
fund will be the largest ever raised for
strike purposes and will within a short
while be ample to provide for every
m N N @ trilya nd for a
on the strikers. The money received
last week was for those who were in
actual need Hereafter all strikers will
share in the distribution.
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company is making the most determined
effort to break the ranks of the striking
miners that has yet been done by any
coal company since the strike began.
All this week the company has had
emissaries circulating among men of
Lansford, Summit Hill and Coaldale.
and 1t Is said that fabulous offers are
being made to the men to induce them
to man the breakers. The miners are
increasingly at work, visiting and
strengthening those of their brethren
whom they think might perhaps be
weak.
Seven striking miners from Nantcoke
were arraigned at Wilkesbarre before
Alderman Brown, charged with com
mitting an assault on William Young,
an engineer employed by the Susque-
hanna Coal Company. The men gave
bail to appear at court.
AT Duryea yesterday crowd of men
came down from Scranton to work at
the Wanke washery. They were at
once surrounded by crowd. The pro-
prietor appealed to the sheriff. who sent
four deputies to the scene, but when
they arrived the crowd had dispersed.
On the charge of rioting and assault
and battery, forty-seven Lansford men
were held last night under 5000 bail
each for their appearance at court.
These men are accused of being In the
crowd who attempted to march William
Eagle, of Hauto, Saturday night.
MERCHANTS CALL UPON MITCHELL.
The distribution OF the relief fund,
the Wilkesbarre Record said yesterday,
continues to be the absorbing topic OF
interest about the Wilkesbarre head
quarters of the mine workers. A COM
mittee from the Retail Merchants As
sociation waited on President Mitchell
in regard to the matter. The object OF
the committees visit was to present
plan of distribution by which all the
merchants will receive their share of
whatever money is distributed.
The committee informed Mr.. Mitchell
that the retail merchants believed that