Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-06-13
The Strike
Situation
SOME IMPROVEMENT REPORTED
In pOcahontas CoaIfieId.
Twenty Per Cent of Regular
Force ONO Operators
Meet Miners-N & w Ad-
vices-President Mitchell Con
fident.

Roanoke, Va, June 10. Official re
ports today show that there is some inl
provenient in the strike Situation in tn
Pocahontas fields More men returne
to work this morning, and il is estimat
ed that about % per cent OF the regula
force is at work.
The output OF coal is in about the
same proportion. The shipment for
yesterday wefe one fifth OF the average.
No violence is reported in the Poca-
hontas territory, and the operators
claim to be satisfied with the outlook.
There is a complete tie-up in the Flat
Top district. The men who have start
ed to work, including the guardsmen,
have been refused board, and others
have been warned by the union men
not to GO to work.
Biuefield. w. Va, June IL Repre-
senatives of the United Mine Workers
!. arc OF hand at Bran we'll this m orning
e ri, The OPERATORS but as had been
sxrectad. none of the operators we're
tneTa 10 meet them. Many of the mine
officials offer to meet their men indie
bendently to arrange settlement of
the strike, but are unanimous in refus.
ing to treat with the strikers as union
This means an indefinite struggle.
n & w. Advices.
Roanoke, Va, June 1.-THE follow
Ing statement regarding the situation of
the Pocahontas coalhelds was furnished |
the associated Press at noon today by |
Tie general Offices of the Norfolk &
Western Railway:
"Our advices are to the effect that
there are quite as many men at work in
TIE mines this morning as on Yesterday,
which indicates that the force at work
is at least Copper cent of the full numberI
Everything is quiet throughout the
district. Only few men are now
about the fields who are actually on
strike. a number of men are still there
who are not participating in the strike,
and large numbers have left the field
during the past two days to avoid be-
cunning involved In the Strike. These
men are all expected to return to work
as soon as all the mines are in opera
tion
aThere is little or no work being done
In the Tug River field. The Thacker
and Clinch Valley fields are still work
ing full forces with but little indication
il any. that there will be a tie-up in
those districts
"Tbe stories being sent out from some
of the mining towns that quantities of
ammunition and great numbers Of Win
Hhesters are being sent info the field,
are misleading in many respects. The
men placed at the tunnels and bridges
along the railroad to guard against |
violence are always armed, and at the
present time they have been reinforced |
In numbers. There has been no intimi-
dalton, bit the strike agitators are still |
doing all they can to get the men to
quit work"
Two car loads of striking miners pass
ed through here today enroute nome
from the coal fields In the afternoon |
number OF negroes from eastern Vir- |
ginia and a car load OF Hungarians
passed through enroute to the coal |
fields.
President Mitchell Confident,
Wiikesbarre. Pa, June 1l.-"Well,
gentleman the anthracite strike is COM
plete, and we are going to win."
This emphatic statement was made
to the assembled newspaper correspond
ents by President Mitchell IN bis Office
at strike headquarters this evening.
Asked what he had to say regarding
the correspondence between himself
and the presidents of the coal-carrying
railroads, which control more than 80
per cent. OF the anthracite mines, he
said1
II have nothing to say now. We ask
no better presentation of our case than
the operators statement makes for u.s. /.