The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-07-08
EFFORT TO BE MADE To START
THE COLlIERIES
SUFFICIENT men ENGAGED
Including Returning Strikers and
Imported Men TO Man Several OF
the COllieries-Work Will Prob
ably Commence Next Week-Of-
fciais of the Union are CoEnizant
of all That is Being Dose and are
Keeping n Sharp LoOk-Out-They
Will Try to Dfssuade all Miners
from Returning to their Work.

Wilkesbarre. Pa, July 5.-The move
nient of empty coal cars along the rail-
roads and the unusual activity about
several Of the collieries in the region in
dicate to the strikers that an effort is
to be made in few days to start work
at some of the collicrieS The opera
tors assert that they have sufficient
men under engagement, both returned
strikers and imported men, to man sew
eral of the collieries. While they will
not admit that the work will be resum-
ed next week, there is Q general belief
that the effort will be made. In the
HaZelton region the Pardees are ex-
pected to mass men at the Harwood
colliery which is on the outskirts of the
regions and is in less danger of attack
than a mine in the heart of the district,
and the coal can be shipped from it
without being sent past any mining viii
lage. A number of miners are said to
have applied for work in response to the
notice Of the company that it was ready
to receive applications.
~ In the Wyoming region, all indica-
,tions point to a resumption of work at
the Nanticoke No. colliery Of the
Susquehanna Coal Company. This
mine is situated at the edge Of the
wyoming basin and it's output goes
over the Pennsylvania railroad.
It is also stated that from the Wyo-
ming division mines of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Company,
one colliery will be selected at which
work is to be started. Tile officials say
enough miners of the division have
Esasked for work to man a colliery. Some
empty coal cars were today placed on
sidings near a couple of those collieries
and there is a hustle about the work
ings which indicates that some move is
about to be made.
The Delaare and Hudson and the Le-
high>Valley companies are also busy
with preparations which make it appear
as if at a time understood by the ope-
rators each company w:l1 try to break
the strike.
The officials of the union, cOgniZant
Of what is being done ,aie busy. Pickets
are watching the mines, and all moves
are reported to headquarters and if any
effort is made to gather men the strik-
ers will endeavor by .ai ge picket COM
mittees to see them before they go to
work and dissuade them. In the Hazel
ton region they turned many back this
morning, an especially strong picket
line being established about the Drift
ton colliery Of the Coke Brothers & Co.,
where the building OF a strong barbed
wire stockade backed with barricades
yesterday, lends color to the belief that
an effort is to be made there to resume
work
Roanoke, Va. July 5.-When work
was resumed In the Pocohontas Flat
Top field this morning almost all of the
men who had left the field for the
Fourth of July holiday, returned to
work The situation in the Tug river
field shows more improvement and It Is
believed that next e.k a considerable
number of miners Will be put to work
in that district