The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-10-14
MILITIA IS
UNDER ARMS
The Pennsylvania
Guard Called
Out.

the entire National Guard OF fennsyl-
vania, numbering about 10000 men, to
do duty in the anthracite coal regions.
The soldiers will be in the field tomor-
row. The order calling out the guard is
as follows: I'm certain portions of the
counties of Luzerne, Schuylkill, Carbon,
Lackawanna, SusQuehanna, Northum-
berland and Columbia tumults and riots
frequently occur. Men who desire to
work have been beaten and driven away
and their families threatened. Railroad
trains have been threatened and stoned
and the tracks torn up. The civil au-
thorities have been unable to maintain
order and have called upon the COVER
nor and commander in chief of the Ma
tonal Guard for troops. The situation
grows more serious each day. The
territory now involved is so extensive
that the troops now on duty are in
sufficient to prevent all disorder.
THE Major General commanding will
place the entire division on duty, dis
tributing them in such localities as will
render them most effective for preserv-
ing the public peace.
LAS tumults, riots, mobs and disorder
usually occur when men attempt to
work In and about the coal mines he
will see that all men who desire to work
and their families have ample military
protection. He will protect all trains
and other property from unlawful in
reference and will arrest all persons
engaging in acts of violence and in
timdation, and hold them under guard
until their release will not endanger the
public peace, and will see that the
threats, intimidations, assaults and all
acts of violence cease at once. The
public peace and good order will be
preserved upon all occasions throughout
the several counties, and no interfer-
ence whatever will be permitted with
officers and men in the discharge of
their duties under this order. The dig
nifty and authority of the state must
be maintained, and her power to sup
press all lawlessness within her borders
be asserted"
The formal order was given out at
the executive mansion shortly before II
o'clock tonight by Private Secretary
6erwig.
Governor Stone called a conference of
the general officers of the Guard, at
which it was decided to put the troops
in the field. The canvas and other
camp equipment will be shipped from
the state arsenal, and it is expected
that all the troops will be lin the field
within twenty-four hours.
ALBANY, IN. ", October 6.-Gover-
nor Odell late tonight issued an order
directing the entire second regiment,
composed of six separate companies
from Albany and Plattsburg, to protect
the property of the Hudson Valley
Railway Company, upon whose lines a
strike has been in progress for some
weeks.
Adjutant General Henry is on duty at
the National Guard headquarters to-
night, and prepared a list of additional
available troops should their services be
deemed necessary by Colonel Lloyd.
MINERS WILL STICK.
WILKESBARRE, Pa, October I'm
accordance with the address issued by
President Mitchell last night calling on all
local unions to meet and take vote on
the question of remaining on strike, the
mine workers of the Prospect. Oakdale
and Midvale coal collieries of the Lehigh
Coal company held a meeting in this city
today and at its conclusion it was an
nounced that the men had unanimously
voted to stay out in body until they had
won the strike
This is the first meeting held in this
anthracite field under the instructions of
President Mitchell since the strike be-
gan.
The news of the calling out of the en-
tire National Guard did not become gen.
orally known throughout this region until
this morning. 1t did not cause any COM
motion or much surprise. The entire
wyoming valley, of which Wilkesbarre is
the center, was extremely quiet this
morning. The sheriff has received no re-
ports of violence anywhere and in fact
there has been no disorder of any conse-
Guence since last week.
The situation, so far as the mining of
coal Is concerned, remains absolutely I'M
changed. The quantity of coal being ship
ped Is very small compared with the nor
nal production.
The absence from strike headquarters
Of President Mitchell and the district
presidents, who are in Buffalo today in
conference with representatives of the
National Association of Manufacturers
made things rather quiet here. National
Board Member John Fallon, who was in
charge said the situation was unchanged
The coal company officials and others
VINO hold the same views as the opera
tors. predict that with military protec-
tons for the men who want to work there
will be no trouble In getting a sufficient
number of men to produce enough COL
to relieve the fuel famine.
The strikers, as result OF the COVER
uor's action are even more firm for hold
ing out than they have been at any time
since the suspension was inaugurated.
The leaders say they look upon the
struggle now as general one of capital
against labor and maintain that with the
help OF organized labor the country over
the miners can stay away from the mines
until the operators are compelled through
public opinion 10 yield point While
the miners generally condemn the calling
cut OF the troops they say they feel that
In the end II Will be HELM 10 them,
They recognize the fact that great pres
sure was brought 10 bear on Governor
Stone 10 send his entire military force
inio tue coal nelhs ana now that he has
some II the question ~ coal or no coal
this winter they argue, Is zap 10 the
slne owners" President Mliohell's re-
slaik On the correspondent Of the Assoc
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