Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-07
A "BlACkLIST."
Miners Who Worked Were Threaten.
ed with 0ne-Nobs Said TO BE In-
timidnting Miners who Want to
Work in the Anthracite Region.

timldnting Miners who Want to
Work in the Anthracite RegIon.
Charleston, WA, July 3O.-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 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 a 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 a
living.
1t has developed that, if the injunc-
ton issued by Judge Keller in the
suit of the Gauley Mountain Coal Co.
- i'll'N'h HIi l'lIf - II w III prevent liiC
strikers from going into the incOr-
porated town of Anstcd, 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 the
defendants. WilSonA Mother" Jones,
Purcell and others, and are unable to
protect the property of the company
or the persons or safety of the en-
ployes, and that the police have been
openly defied. The injunction of the
court prohibits the defendants from
gong on the property of the com
pany, or camping or marching on 1t,
50 it Includes most Of this municipal
corporation.
Mt. Carmel, Pa, July 3O.-Two
crowds of strikers numbering several
hundred men, women and children
gathered between here and Shamollin
yesterday and caught several non
union worllmen and badly pummelcd
them.
Shamollin, Pa, July 3O.-One thou
sand people assembled at the Mineral
\ ~ ''lilNl IdHi 'NNllilS anu ll''l''l
and cursed nOn-uniOn men as they
quit work. \ 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 flight.
Willlesb barre, Pa, July 20.-Scvcral
striking miners from Nanticokc were
arraigned before Magistrate Brown,
Of this city, yesterday. charged with
committing an assault on William
Young, an engineer employed at one
of the cOllicrieS of the Susquehanna
Coal Co.
Charleston, w. Va, July 31.-Tn the
trial yesterday of John Richards and
others, the defense produced evidence
to disproye the statement of prOsecut-
ing witnesses that the strikers cursed
the injunctions, the courts and the
marshals. Mrs. Snyder. wife of one
of the defendants. testified that one
of the guards employed by the Col
Inns Colliery Go. had met her as she
was coming from the post Office at
Gleniean and told her that She could
not come to the post office again, and
that he had orders from Mr.. Collins
to prevent her coming there.
Judge Keller leaned from the bench
and said: Madame, | want You to
understand. and those with you to
understand, that no person has .
right to prevent you going to Il
United States post office, it matters
not upon whose property it is located,
and YOU are free to 90 there when
You please, and | will protect you in
that right"