The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-04

M, in company with District President
Nichols and after greeting a few
friends at the st. Charles, disappeared,
very suddenly and mysteriously.
Druggist John j. Lotus, a personal
friend of President Mitchell, met the
920 p. m. Erie train at the Washington
avenue station and took in tow a
stranger who alighted therefrom, and
who afterwards proved to be MIR, Sar-
gent.
Proceeding in a cab to the central
city. Mr.. Sargent and Mr.. Mitchell were
brought together at a pre-arranged
meeting place and remained together
until o'clock this morning, when they
repaired to Hotel Schadt. Mr. Sargent
went to bed without registering. Mr..
Mitchell sought the st. Charles.
To Tribune reporter President
Mitchell said, just before retiring, that
Mr.. Sargent's visit had no especial sig
nificance. He learned that Mr.. Sargent
was to pass through Scranton and took
run up from Wilkes-Barre to have a
social chat with him.
1t is safe to ASSUME. however, that
the strike was not entirely ignored in
the conversation Of the two great labor
presumption to believe that Mr.. Sar-
gent was possibly an envoy of the civic
federation, of whose executive commit
tee he is a member In his conversa-
tion with Tribune reporter, President
Mitchell took occasion to particularly
mention that Mr.. Sargent is member
of the civic federation.
Mr.. Sargent left an early call and will
likely leave the city on one of the first
trains this morning.
CONDITION UNCHANGED.
Both the strikers leaders and opera
tors say there was no material change,
yesterday, as regards the engineers,
pumprunners and tiremen. The night
shift men went to work in about the
same proportion as those of the day
shift and the number who were yester-
day added to the list of strikers was
counterbalanced by those who went out
Monday and now are applying for re-
instatement.
Assistant Superintendent Tobey of
the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern mining department stated ycster-
day afternoon that number of men
who struck on Monday had applied to
General Superintendent Phillips for re-
instatement, and that he had agreed to
hold their jobs open for them until to-
day. He also stated that the company
is in receipt Of many applications from
outsiders for positions as pumprunners.
and firemen, but all were referred to
other companies as the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western is not in need
of any men.
Superintendent Rose of the Delaware
and Hudson company said his company
was in about the same shape as it was
the day before. Every engine, pump
and boiler has been manned, he said,
without half eXhausting the companys
resources.
The only serious disorder reported at
the offices of any Of the local companies
occurred Monday night in Wilkes
Barre, when a pumprunner at the Bal
timore colliery. named John Lynch, was
pursued and so badly beaten by a mob
that he had to be taken to the hospi-
tai.
NO DISTURBANCE HERE.
In the Lackawanna region no dis
turbances whatever have occurred. The
strikers keep away from the compan-
les property and the worst the work.
men have to deal with going to and
coming from work are cat-calls from
boys. Committees of strikers continue
to quietly visit the workmen at their
houses and endeavor to induce them
to refrain from working.
Local superintendent of the coal
companies assert that the talk of the
Civic Federation securing concessions
or even arbitration is the heighth of
absurdity. Superintendent Rose of the
Delaware and Hudson and Superinten-
dent Phillips, of the Delaware. Lacka-
wanna and Western, which companies
are reported to have been induced by
appeals to the Vanderbilts from the
Civic Federation to favorably consider
arbitration, declare the idea is prepos-
ferrous. Superintendent Rose declared
that the Civic Federation Is not in
good odor with the operators as 1t Is
the firm belief that If the miners We're
not deluded into the hope that Mark
Hanna and the Civic Federation would
rescue them, they would not have pre-
cipitated the strike.
One of the largest of the individual
operators, who has Just returned from
Philadelphia where he had an interview
with President Baer. of the Philadel-
phia & Reading, when seen yesterday
by a Tribune reporter, and he was
told In the most positive terms that
there will he no concessions and no ar
bitration and that the strike will only
be ended by unconditional surrender OF
the strikers. 1t may take year, but
no matter how long it takes. he was
told, the operators will not make even
the semblance of a concession or agree
to any arbitration or other outside in
tervention.
LEAVING THIS REGION.
The speaking miners. who
have nothing to hinder them from 60
Ing whittier they will. continue to flock
to the old country to visit and do farm
work or to the west to work in the soft
coal mines. English speaking miners
who have their homes here and families
to look after are left to fight the bat,
tie and suffer the hardships of war;
When the trouble Is over the foreign
ers will return at their leisure and
take IN their old nlaces littla nr pnna