West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-05-31

ARMED MEN BEING SWORN IN.
Philadelphia and Reading Company
Will, if Necessary, Allow SO Col
lieries to Become Flooded, but VIII
Protect Others.

Scranton. Pa, May 81 1t meet
ing attended by over 100 engi aesrS,
pumpmen and fremen employed at
the eight collieries CT the New 1or1
Ontario and Western company, held
here yesterday morning, the strike
order calling out the men next Mont
day was Endorsed. District President
IT. D. Nichols addressed the meeting
and stalk brought many of the men
into, line. A secret ballot was taken
at first, showing 58 in ia favor OF and
A against a, Strike. A motion to I'M
sdorses the strike order was then unani
imously carried. 90
4 Wilkesbarre, Pa, May 31.-A large
4ly attended meeting Of engineers, nre-
men and 'pumpmen was held at Dom
nolly's hall, this city, last night st
is said every colliery In the wyoming 9
valley was represented. Addresses
were made by John Fallon, member
Of the national board of United Mine
Workers.; Henry Collins and d. j..
Reese, members. of the executive
boards. The speakers impressed upon
their hearers the necessity OF stand
ing together in the contest now on
with the operators. A resolution en-
dorsing the strike order of the execu-
tive board, calling out the engineers
firemenr and pumpmen, was adopted
by a vote of 315 to 81. The result
was received with cheers.
Doubted by the Employers.
Representatives of the coal COM
panies doubt the correctness of the
vote. They claim there. were not that
many men at the meeting and that
an overwhelming number Of those
present were fremen. The coal opeGi
ators still insist that majority Of the
engineers will not desert their posts
on Monday.
The committee of engineers from
the Lackawanna region, who came to
this city to have President Mitchell
and the executive committee rescind
| the order calling out the engineers,
| firemen and pumpmen, returned to
| their homes last night when they
| learned that President Mitchell would
not reach here until late today. All
hope Of having the strike rescinded
has now been given up.
| Wfikesbarre, Pa, May 31.-An
agent of the West Virginia Coal com
pany, who has been in the city the
past week, hiring men to go south
was assaulted by striking miners and
their sympathizers at a Slayish set
Element in the northern part Of this
city yesterday. The party making the
| assault said the agent was endeavor
ing to get the anthracite miners K
go to West Virginia to take the places
of strikers there. \ The representative
of the coal company tried TO escape
by jumping on an electric car as !
was passing, but he was pulled from
the car and severely, beaten. Cooler
heads in the crowd saved him from
probably fatal injuries.
Coal Companies Aiming Men.
Hazleton, Pa.s May S1.-All the Goa
companies here are commissio ninl
special officers to guard their prop
erty. Fifty.fiye special policemel
were sworn in by G.. B. Markle & CO
yesterday, and an additional 30 be
. fore Monday. Coke Brothers hav
deputized their Office clerks and trust
ed men to do guard duty. A meetin
of the engineers, firemen and pum
runners employed at the collierie
north of the city, which includes tn
, Coke, Markle and Kemmerer mer
will be held Sunday.
Shamokin, Pa, May 31.-At a meet
ing Of colliery ffremen, engineers an
pumpmen between Hickory Ridge an
Centralia, Thursday night, it was d.
cided by a vote Of 1872 to to go o
strike next Monday unless the Opera
A tors grant an eight-hour work day a
the present scale Of wages. 1t wa
q reported that if the Philadelphia an
\ Reading Coal and Iron company cal
's not man the fire room of So collierie
: in the district without the necessit
N Of guarding those who may wish
4 work, the operations will be above
L to fill with water. The company, it
stated, will keep the fires going {
three collieries in Schuylkill count
at any cost and will protect those
3 the fire rooms with guard Of 81
coal and iron policemen.