New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-04
STRIKERS SHOW TEMPER.
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after a night with the strikers agreed this
morning to return to their homes in Philadel-
phia. They We're accompanied by District Sec
rotary Gallagher and several strikers. who will
a committee and do what they to
prevent other non-union men from being sent
to the region.
A big march is being arranged for Miners
Mills tomorrow night The strikers say that
they have hired band and will visit all the
collieries in Parsons. Plains. Midvale. Mill
Creek and Miners Mills, and serenade the
''scabs.' number of the young women of the
Miners Mills this morning refused to ride
the same with non-union men.
At the Stanton colery of the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal Company tonight there was
great disorder. number of the men and boys
attacked the big fence which surrounds It, and
with battering broke parts Of it down be-
fore the coal and iron police could reach them
to drive them away. The operators sent in
call for aid, and the chief of police hurried
squad Of police to the scene, but too late to
make arrests. This afternoon a number of boys
stoned the special police and were driven away.
At a number of other places the operators re-
they were their way to and from the collier
les. Several efIigies were hoisted tonight, de-
spite the order of President Mitchell. There are
still four hanging in Duryea. three four in
Pittston, and as many in Nanticoke. Edwards
Vile and othe. towns while fifteen have been
strung up in Plymouth. but are now mostly de-
stroyed
President Mitchell, worried over the failure OF
the union to induce the men in the Scranton dis
trict to come out strike, tonight went to
Scranton and present at several meetings.
Pickets will be placed at all the approaches to
the mines. and will do what they can to in
duCe the men 20 stop work They hav hee1 told
to use violence, but the companies will have
a number of coal and iron police hand.
President Mitchell was angry about the pres
ence of the coal and iron policemen, and said
of them:
II is queer to a lot of men, the majority
of whom are absolutely irresponsible persons.
CARRIED in the blue and brass OF coal and iron
police. stalking about the mines with guns in
arm. while the strikers without have thought
of damaging the property of their employers.
The power vested in these coal and iron police
is not generally known. They much the
private standing army Of the operators were
the slaves of feudal barons. ridiculous State
law which has been taken advantage of by the
anthracite operators. has made it possible for
them at such time this TO arm mob of
disreputable men who will ncite more trouble
than they will prevent. If ever there
la the books of a free country that should
be wiped out. il is the statute that created the
coal and iron police l have looked into this
matter in the last week and have had advice
upon It. l propose to take active measures.
The operators said:
We feel that our men need protection, and
this VIII be afforded to workers in spite Of any
abuse that may be heaped upon the operators.
We look upon the statement of President
Mitchell issued this evening the purest kind
OF bunCombe and as begging the question The
work of intimidation is known TO him. and we
point TO the fact that, while the men from the
Hollenback Colliery were stoned and hooted last
night. not a sign OF trouble appeared tonight.
We are more than ever determined TO pro-
teCt the who stay with u.s. and although we
somewhat troubled by the supinness of off,
Gals who were sworn to preserve the peace, we
intend TO make every effort to guard our men.
and. If cannot do So to call upon the proper
authorities and insist upon them doing so.
Owing to the reticence of the operators It is
not possible 10 determine the exact conditions Of
the collieries in the lower district. but that the
Philadelphia and Reading the Lehgh Coal and
Navigation and some of the Susquehanna coal
companies are in bad shape is evident tonight.
Several OF the smaller companies. with one or
two shafts. haye closed entirely 1t being i'm
possible to get non-union men TO work them.
At the larger colieries of the larger companies
the bosses and clerks making a pretence of
keeping the pumps going. but II is said that
they not ejectlng one-fifth of the normal out
put, and the water is gaining rapidly. The
bosses and clerks. unaccustomed to keeping up
steam in the big boilers and keeping the pumps
in order. lose much of the power they make. and
constantly in trouble with the machinery.
At the forty coeries of the Philadelphia and
Reading Company there is hardly one that is
not making water.
In the Hazleton region the condition is not
much better although many collieries still
pumping and keeping clear of water. The Lee
high Valley Coal Company has stopped the
pumps at mine one of the Lehigh and
Wikesbarre corlieries is badly crippled. and
some of the Coke. the Kemerers and the Van
Wickle mines are idle or crippled large num-
Der of non-union men were rushed to this re-
gion, but many of them have gone away. and
the others owing to the fact that almost every
union man has gone out. are not capable of
keeping the mine pumps going. Efforts are now
being made TO get more nOn-union men, Some
of the clerks asked to take places in the fire
rooms have refused and resigned and the out
look Is not favorable for keeping the mines
clear of water.
In the Wyoming district the condition remains
practically the same, although the workers at
the Conyngham colllery of the Delaware and
Hudson company came out this morning ana
the colliery, being the pumping station for NO.
. and No 3 shafts. was crippled The Laurel
Run Colliery. of the same company, was SINH
larly crippled. A big mass meeting has been
called for Friday morning when determined
effort is to he made to get all those out VINO are
now at work.
Tonight occurred an outbreak which, only
for the prompt answer of the coal and iron men
and the police. would have been serious strlk-
ers attacked the Stanton colliery of the l.. q
w 3. Company, where there had previously
been disturbances, and set fire to the fence, IN
one place burning quite a large gap in 1T While
the coal and iron police were extingulshlne TINS
a shanty top of a culm pile was set on IRE
The fire department was called out. as there was
fear the breaker would be next attacked put
the coming of the firemen and the police drove
the strikers away, and there was no furtner
trouble A strong guard has been placed at the
Colliery for the night.
There was a cutting affray at Edwardsville
late this afternoon. A striker hung an efigy OF
one of the workmen telegraph pole. and
when the victim of the prank, q Hungarian,
learned of the act he sought out the man and