The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-30
LETTER FROM
Mr.. CRAWFORD
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| of your members by name than you can
and 1 know their feeling is we'll as you
do. When / meet any of my old friends
| that have worked alongside Of, or those
| who have worked for me, they invariably
| tell me that they know the strike is lost
but they are ashamed or afraid to return
| to work.
1 also acknowledge that the majority
Of men that have applied for work at the
| oxford colliery and those who are now
| working. are men that have worked for
| me in former years, and l could call
nearly all of them by name on sight
| when they made application, and that
| the majority of them are miners holding
| certificates Of qualification and late mem-
| bers of your union.
]. L. Crawford.
SHERIFF AT CARBONDALE.
The anticipated repetition of the
riotous scenes of Monday at the North
| west breaker of the Temple Coal and
Iron company in the village of Simp-
son was averted yesterday by the
presence of Sheriff schadt.
The sheriff was hustled to Carbon-
| dale in u special train and thence to
Simpson, arriving at the Northwest
| about $50. He waited there until Z
o'clock, but there was even no ne
| cessity for him to alight from the train.
| There was little, If any interference,
| and when he was assured by the force
| of men at work on the new breaker
that his Intervention was unnecessary,
he withdrew and was conveyed to the
Powderly mine of the Delaware and
Hudson, in Carbondale township, just
| south of the city limits of Carbondale.
| The miners had couple of hundred
pickets about the mine and succeeded
in temporarily turning the few men
| back who are at work there. The
men returned, however, after the
strikers fell back somewhat. There
was no demonstration of any sort at
| this point.
Nothing happened at the Coalbrook
| breaker of the Delaware and Hudson.
A few pickets were at the Dundaff
| street crossing and further up Dun
| daft street, the approaches to the
| place. as early as $50, but there was
| no stopping of men.
| James Walsh, company man at
the Northwest. was stopped by a num-
| ber of foreign women, who carried
| stones and were assembled at Monkey
| Run. Walsh spoke threatSningly of
for an attack. This hint made the
crowd fall back and let him so in
peace.
OTHERS MOLESTED.
George Helmes. another company
| man, was aroused from his home at 4
o'clock on Monday morning by a
crowd, and was later informed that
| his life had been threatened by some
of the strikers. Still another one of
| the men had stones hurled at him,
while fixing steam pipe on the hill
below the breaker and had a narrow
escape from being struck. After these
| attacks, the men were provided with
arms and will likely resist another on
| slaught.
| 1t appears that it is not the car
penters on the breaker who are the
objects of attack, but the old em-
ployes of the company, minor bosses
and laborers, who elected to remain
with the company. They have been
| employed, principally, in grading about
| the breaker, laying tracks, etc.
| The women whom John Butler had
arrested on Monday night, on charges
| of attacking him with stones, eggs,
| ETC., supplemented by their tongues,
| waived a hearing and entered bail be-
fore Justice Thomas Holmes, of Simp-
| son.
Racket Brook Washery was Oper-
| ated yesterday without any interrupt
| ton. A gang of men assembled on
| Canaan street, at Pender's, but it dis
persed itself when it was realized that
only few men responded to work.
About $50 the washery was COM
| menced and ran uninterruptedly until
quitting time. Sheriff Schadt also vis-
tied Racket Brook to satisfy himself
that everything was all right.
A mass meeting of Dunmore strikers
| is to be held today. 1t will be address,
ed by President Mitchell and others.
mass meeting Friday at the Round
| Woods. President Mitchell will again
be one CT the speakers.
The first break among the firemen
| at Olyphant occurred yesterday when
they returned to work in a body to the
Miles steam plant and No. 2 collcry,
both places operated by the Delaware
& Hudson company
TROUBLE AT DURYEA.
Duryea almost had another serious
labor disturbance yesterday morn
ing when the Warnke Coal COM
pany brought a dozen or more men
to its washery just below the depot in
that borough for the purpose of re-
suming operations. AS was the case
yesterday, when it was expected an
attempt would be made to operate the
washery, several hundred gathered on
the scene early. When the D., l.. & w.
train arrived at Duryea this morning
about $50 o'clock dozen men alighted
and hurried to the office at the wash
cry, where they kept we'll out of the
crowd which was there to all appear
ances with the motive of preventing
all attempts to commence work. The
officials of the company telephoned to
Sheriff Jacobs for assistance and seven
deputies were dispatched to the scene.
Before the arrival of the deputies. how
ever, the officials decided to take their
men back to Scranton, and as the $50
train approached the depot the imports
made dash for 1t, amid shower of
stones from the crowd. One of the
men was hit in the neck with a rock
and felled to the ground, but was not
badly injured. The crew of shift
ing train which brought empty cars to
the washery also had lively time
with the crowd and before the engine