The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-07-29

1t now leaks out that coal in con.
siderable quantities is being cut ant
loaded at many collierles. The work is
being done by under-bosses company
hands and returned strikers. To avoid
drawing the fire of the strikers. and
thereby making the workmen, less liable
to be held up by strikers pickets, the
companies are covering their operations
by not hoisting the coal to the surface
1t is simply loaded and run to the foot
ready to be taken up when the COM
panies see fit to do so.
Superintendent Rose, of the Delaware
and Hudson company, when told by a
Tribune reporter yesterday that it was
learned, on reliable authority, the COM
panies were doing some mining, said:
Yes, coal is being cut and loaded every
day in dozen different places by our
company, and other companies are
doing the same thing" When asked
where this work was being done, Mr..
Rose smiled and said: "1ll tell you
later"
The Cayuga colliery of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western company is
one place where it is known to almost
being cut. This colliery has also hoist
ed coal and sent it away.
The first stir among the striking
miners in Carbondale in many weeks
was made yesterday morning, when
acting on instructions given out at
meetings held on Sunday, in which
National Organizer Collins was the
leading spirit, pickets stationed along
the highway turned back men from the
Racket Brook washery and from the
big Coalbrook breaker. Both are Della
ware and Hudson company properties.
RESUMED AT NOON.
Though the force of pickets at the
Racket Brook apparently over-awed
the workmen who have been operating
the washery throughout the strike and
caused them to turn back, the attempt
to shut down the place was not the
success the miners built on when they
withdrew. At noon, the Delaware and
Hudson company recalled a sufficient
number of men, the interrupted opera
tions We're resumed and continued until
nightfall.
1t does not appear that the strikers
had much missionary work to do at the
Coalbrook. for only few men came
along to go to work. 1t appears that
the report that this attempted resump-
tion was false alarm. The miners,
however, We're out in force and were
stationed along the approaches to the
immense breaker as early as 6 o'clock.
The handful of men who approached
the breaker have been at work about
the mine for several days. The miners
themselves We're pretty certain that
there would not be enough men on hand
to resume. but their officers decided to
take no chances and the miners We're
ordered to come out. The few employees
or supposed employees. who We're met
with. would be mighty small factor in
the operating of breaker like the
Coalbrook.
There was a demonstration at the
Northwest breaker of the Temple Coal
and Iron company, at Simpson, in
which the women of the settlement,
mostly foreigners, We're the most con-
spicuous. They succeeded in turning
back the score or more of men who
have been at work about the new
breaker that has been in construction
for several weeks. This is the second
lime that the women of this locality
have taken a hand in inducing the
builders at this breaker to desist.
ASSAULTED A CRIPPLE.
There was a riotous time in connec-
ion with the demonstration at the
breaker.
John Butler a former mine boss, but
low acting as watchman, was specially
he victim of the warning women's
wrath.
Butler is a cripple; he has one leg,
and in the charge by the inhamed
women he was forced to flee to his
lome in the morning, amidst a volley
'f sticks and stones, some of which
struck him.
In the evening, when he sought to re-