Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-08-01
a "BLACkLtST."
Miners who Worked wero Threatcn'
! ed with One-Mobs Said to BE In
tImidating Miners who Want ts
Work In tho Anthracite Region.


Charleston, w. Va, July 2.-One OF
the points which was brought out in
the trial of John Richards and Others
! in the federal court here before
Judge Keller yesterday is that Rich
ards threatened to blacklist all min
ers who refused to come out and join
the strikers. When Richards was
speaking to a crowd and the working
miners were listening, he turned to
the working miners and pleaded with
them to quit work and said that
when the strike was over and the
union had been recognized, which it
surely would be, they would not be
able to work in any section of the
country. He told them he had list
of all their names and it would be
furnished to every local union in the
country, and wherever they went
they would be pointed to as "scabs"
and would not be allowed to earn q
living.
1t has developed that, if the injunc-
tion issued by Judge Keller in the
suit of the Gauley Mountain Coal Co.
is followed strictly, it will prevent the
strikers from going into the incor-
porated town of Ansted, in this state.
The bill of the complainants set up
that nearly all the employees of the
company live in Ansted, which town
is located on the property of the
company and that the municipal au-
thorities are unable to cope with tho
defendants, Wilson, Mother" Jones,
Purcell and others, and are unable to
protect the property of the company
or the persons or safety of the em-
| ployes, and that the police have been
openly defied. The injunction of the
court prohibits the defendants from
going on the property of the COM
pany, or camping or marching on it,
so it includes most of this municipal
corporation.
Shamokin, Pa, July 30.-One thou
sand people assembled at the Mineral
Co.'s colliery last evening and hooted
and cursed non-union men as they
quit work. A delegation of boys
stoned several sub-bosses as they en-
tered town. Chief Burgess Thomas
and the police charged the crowd and
put them to fight. The coal officials
say they will ask for protection if
there is a continuance of the trou-
BILE.
Mt. Carmel, Pa, July 3O.-Two
crowds of strikers numbering several
hundred men, women and children
gathered between here and Shamolsin
yesterday and caught several non
union workmen and badly pummeled
them.
WillSesbarre, Pa, July 30.-Several
striking miners from Nanticoke were
arraigned before Magistrate Brown
of this city, yesterday, charged with
committing an assault on William
Young, an engineer employed at one
of the collieries of the Susquehanna
Coal Co.
A crowd of 1900 men and boys
prevented the resumption of work al
the Wanke washery at Duryea yester
day. A number of men came dowI
from Scranton to work at the wash
cry. They were at once surrounded
by threatening crowd. The burgess
. was appealed to to protect the mel
: who wanted to work, but he though
he would not be able to do it, and h,
telephoned to Sheriff Jacobs. Th,
sheriff sent four deputies to tn,
scene, but when they arrived the mol
, had dispersed. The men who haC
been hired to work at the washer.
were badly frightened and when th'
train for Scranton came along the.
jumped aboard and returned to tha
place. \ volley o. . stones followed