New-York tribune., 1902-08-24
MITCHELL is NOT HERE.
srpIKF LEADER HAS NOT PLANNED TO
SEE ]. T. MORGAN.
7>-nr.-aTfoN THAT SEVERAL CoLLIERIES
WILL BE STARTED TO-Mohko"
coal. MOVING TO THIS CITY

COAL MOVING TO THIS CITY
FRY TELEGRAPH To THE TEIRUHEl
y-lIkesharre. Penn. Aug 2$ President Nit
lell returned here this evening. He has not
been IN New-York holding a conference win
F,ierno-,t Morgan relative to the settlement
the strike an6 there are no plans for nm
90 there So persistent were the rumorS
al, Aitcheu had gone 10 New-York that the
A strike leaders. although they knew nothilg
.-,,1,s-antfate Them We're wondering if Mitchell
i moi quietly gone away with the intention OF
-inz Nj Morgan When he arrived this
ernool1 they were eager 10 hear what he had
say John Falon. National Board member
"a Paul Pulaski. secretary of the Ninth Dis
i,.; awaited Mr.. Mitchell at the station His
first few words informed them that he had come
...rsigtlt through from Chicago and that there
,-as no plan Of settlement in sight
Il have not been n New-YOrk-' said Mr.
Mitchell and have not seen Mr. Morgan, nor
DO ] know that shall sec him on any matter
There is nothing. as far as know, in the re
l-ort fiat, any committee Is 20 ne sent TO see
l2:ln. either
Regarding The many proposed plans of ar
litration the strike leader says ne knows
nothing It has been sald that when he re
turned arrangements were 10 he made for him
n see Senators Penrose and Quay, who have
promised to do what they can 10 have the strike
settled by arbitration. but he says that he
knows Of no such plan.
why should I them" he asked 4 do
-ot know what has been proposed to them or
hat they doing in the matter"
OF the general condition of the region he
aid.
The men are firm and determined. and there
nothing to indicate that there will be an
riy resumption Of The men will not
4noA pf1-p he
ons desired.
To Nr. Mitchell was shown the statement
ade lay President Fowler Of the ontario and
'.-eStern Railroad that the strike fund was not
Icing collected in a satisfactory manner. and
inat the fan amount collected from the soft coal
workers was only Si4000 He said that there
was nothing in such a statement, and that it
MAS absurd
MITCHELL TELLS ABOUT HIS TRIP.
In telling Of his trip he said he went first to
Indianapolis and there transacted some bust
ness. and that he then went 10 Spring Valley and
saw his family. After that he went to Chicago
and spent two days. He some of the soft
coal leaders there
His present plans are not to leave this city
until he goes on Labor Day to Philadelphia.
~ here he is 10 make address TO the work
inenen. on that day the Ancient order Of Hi
hernians' State organization VIII give him $1,000
toward the strike relief fund.
According to President Nichols of the First
District, $4,000 OF the strike fund has already
been distributed in this district. and this is
about The same size as the other two combined.
the full amount distributed is estimated a about
NIoAHih- The relief committees which have
Iicited aid in the various towns have not met
much success as expected. The requests of
hese committees for aid viii proba bly, be dis
o-,5 .l,is haTF,
'cnsdered that the district viii he thoroughly
sanvassed by that time
To-day the indications are that an effort is to
he made as early next week by number of
the operators to resume work at several of the
mines Which these are il is impossible to say
IS the operators viii not tell. and it can he
judged only by the fact that at several Of
them there is such activity that it indicates
work is going on either in cleaning up or in
cutting coal At several of the mines there is
10 doubt that men are cutting coal and that
the force is being increased as fast as the or-
orators get the men to return to work
President Nichols of the First District SAYS
hat not enough coal is being shipped from the
'oranton region 70 equal the output IF good
~lliery working with fun force The oper-
.ors Do not state the amount shipped hut point
the fact that several trainl0ads were started
yer the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western
.tSlef12N Tor New Hrh. ana thaT large trains
e recently mined coal are being made up each
day
~Wo HUNDRED MEH CONCENTRATED
IN the Hazleton region the Lehigh Valley Coal
Company is concentrating all the men it can
get At the No 40 colliery. and is said to have
Two hundred men there now. many of whom are
in the mine cutting coal II is stated unofficiay
that effort work viii be made on Monday
The strikers declare that none of the men at
the No 4n are strikers. nut that they
union men who have been imported 10 do the
work Company officials intimate that they are
strikers hut have been taken from other parts
e the resion. and are not known to the strikers
II Hazleton Attempts being made pre-
vent the workers AT the Dodge mine going to the
so3liery. and several have been interfered with
IN the last days. This morning six Of the
strikers were arrested and held under hail for
Owed every time a crowd tries to stop the
workers.
Speaking Of the report THAI President Mitchell
was 10 ask J. Pierpont Morgan 10 intercede with
the operators Superintendent c. G Ross Of the
Delaware and Hudson Company said:
Il wonder who is going to he the next man
settle The strike. that Bishop Potter. Nor
gan and two State politicians have all been sug-
gested and nothing mas developed as yet? There
is something certain, and that is that the COM
panies are not going 10 hack down They can
stand 4 long siege Of II better than the men can,
end there not going to he any weak hearted
moves the part of the corpora tionS. This
strike is certainly terrible Thing. hut it has
lie gone through with now and carried def
Tise conclusion. II is strange the way the com
faanies are generally misapprehended. Now this
rise IN the price IF coal is generally attributed TO
rs and We viii get all the blame attending upon
strained conditions which may result from il.
~ a matter Of fact. the coal carrying COM
sar,ieS had all their contracts made some time
80. and soon the strike is declared on
nd they are in 4 position to do must de-
se.- the contract amount that fixed price.
ny At the close OF the last strike
any did not make n cent above the original
s,rtrscf rates until the following April.''