The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-09

Bosses Join the Strikers. ...
Saturday last thirty-nine men passed
through Scranton, Ell route to Wilkes
Barre, to work for the Lehigh and
Wilkes-Barre Coal company. They were
recruited in and about Factorvville.
Two of the number were formerly en-
ployed as engineers on steamships.
Several others had had experience with
engines and boilers III sawmills. 1t is
understood they are to take the place
of the imported men who quit at the
Stanton collery.
The ten men who quit work at the
LuZerne separator at the NOTCH
Thursday, propose to return to work
tomorrow morning. They had been re-
ceiving s1.50 a day'for ten hours work.
Last Monday they demanded and were
granted an eight-hour day without re-
duction in pay. Thursday last crowd
of strikers marched to where they were
at work and succeeded in calling them
Off They went to District President
Nichols to explain that they had been
granted the eight-hour day and desired
to resume work The output of the
almost solely to two charitable insti-
tutions. the House of the Good Shep-
herd and Hillside Home, and the rest Of
1t to farmers living in the Clark's Sum-
init region.
ANSWER NOT SATISFACTORY.
President Nichols did not give them
satisfactory answer to their request
for the unions approval of their con-
t!nuing work. and at a meeting Satur-
day they decided to return to work,
whether or not the union approved Of
it.
Thirteen men, some of them sub
bosses, who have been manning the
boilers and pumps at the Delaware and
Hudson and Temple companies coll
lieries in Olyphant. have been persuad-
ed by the strikers to quit work. Com
mittees from the Olyphant locals Of the
United Mine Workers waited on them
at their several homes and succeeded in
inducing them to stay away from work.
The Erie company is enclosing all it's
breakers with high board fences. Those
in the Pttston region are already en-
closed. At the Dunmore and up-the-
valley collieres the work is under way.
Another evidence of this Company's
belief that the strike will be a long one
is found in the fact that it's railroad
department has withdrawn the limit Of
$50 put on the number of eXcursionists
who would be carried in one day to
Lake Ariel. 1t was only out of con-
sideration of the pleasure of the people
of the community that the company
agreed to renew excursion business to
the lake. The big increase in coal traf-
fic made it inexpedlent to give the road
over to excursion trains and for a year
they were withdrawn. This year it was
decided to book not more than one ex-
cursion of not more than $50 persons
each day. The coming Of the strike
and the cessation of coal traffic has re-
suited in the removal Of these limita-
tions.
MEETING THIS AFTERNOON.
A meeting of all engineers. flremen
and pumpmen Of Scranton and vicinity
has been called for this afternoon at 2
O'Clock, in st. David's hall. West Scran-
ton. District President Nichols will de-
liver an address.
The practice of hanging effiges Of
men continuing at work is prevalent on
the West Side. especially in the Boone
Hill district. Three were cut down by
the police Saturday.
w. p. schilling, chorister of st.
Peters cathedral, has undertaken a
benefit concert for the strikers. The
project has the approval of President
Mitchell.
On Saturday rumor was circulated
to the effect that 5000 men We're to
parade the streets Of Olyphant after
nightfall and march on to the various
collieries. President John Mitchell heard
of the rumor at Wilkes Rarre and called
up Stephen Reap on the phone at the
headquarters there, who assured him
that there was no foundation to the
story, and that everything was peace
full thereabouts. A number of stuffed
figures adorn the telegraph poles in diff
ferent parts of Olyphant.
1t is expected that a number of
washeries will be opened up this week
by the larger companies, as first step
towards gradually resuming general
operations.
Thomas Mahon and Michael Nc
Namara were arrested last night on
warrant, in West Scranton, by Patrol-
men Mcdonald and James Thomas.
The charge was disorderly conduct, the
pair having been fixed upon as the men
who hung two non-union workers in
efligy on telegraph poles In the back
section of West Scranton.