The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-24
NO WORK FOR MANY MINERS.
OPERATORS REFUSE TO DISTL4CE
THE NON.VNION MEN.
IN some Places the Men Refuse TO Work
tntii III the strikers Are Taken back
Others Refuse 10 SiGn Peace Con.
tracts nnd stay Out -Most Of the Mines
~ the Indi, iduai Owners Remain shut.

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chasing rh"-" r"iri-al- cases OF di-crim-
mat ion Reports ar" to-uigh, being made
hy III" men 80 their locals and the recon-
mcnda, ions Of the locals will h" submitted
Tomorrow ard saturday 10 President
Mitchell All tine statements Of men which
show any cy id.ncr Of discrimination will he
submitted To- the arbitration commission in
an effort to show that the operators are not
treating III" men fairly
IN. strikers understood privately from
their officers that III" arbitration PROPOSE
ton was that all the men should bo taken
back To work while ia" commission exam
med into the questions at ISSUE To-day,
however they found when they applied for
work that the companies only took certain
men These men We're assigned to work
in the places designated 10y the company.
most of the best places being held by
nou-union men. This L. the alleged
discrimination
In the Hdzlcton district there was much
trouble The large individual operator,
there wanted the men 20 return to work
10y making individual application and then
agreeing To abide 10y the decision of tho
arbitration commission. They refused this,
although the agreement was to he only
verbal They also refused to promise that
they would not interfere with the non
union men. and they wanted 10 ba taken
back in body without appearing at the
offices The result was that only one col
liery of an individual company, the Upper
Lehigh of the Upper Lehigh Company,
worked. while the colierie~ of John Markle,
A. :. Vent and Company, Coke Brothers
and Company, and A Pardee and Company
were idle
The Silver Brook local. ,ha employees
working az the j. = Vent Il Co. mine Of
the same name. refU- d Ia return TO work
unless all were taken back and put in their
old places. Tha company oF"r' d to engage
all. but re-, sd to give ia ''u heir old places
and the local then d 'cd'd To- remain ON
strike until the company comes 10 its terms.
In tn Wyoming district .tabout two
thirds If thA workers We're taken back
70 The mines. but the company displaced
no hou-uniun iden and told the strikers
that they would have to take the places
which were left The men took The work
Steam men. who were turned away yes
tcrdav, applied again but wer" once more
told there WIS no work for III hm. There
i, much ill-feang on tn account. Tn,
i.
although here was much feeling against
them. there was no attempt 10 Interfere.
President Mitchell was asked tonight
what he was going To do regarding these
complaints
Il have nothing to say about it, ne said
Mitchell will not 60 TO Washington to-mor-
row. but will remain here completing the
work If getting together evidence about
the mine workers condition TO submit
to the commission.
SCRANTON, Pa. oct % Fully soper cent.
of the men of the Iackawanna and Erie
coal companies resumed work here to-
day. All the cOllieries but one Of the Lacka-
wanna company. that one the Sloane, where
an outside track is being built, resumed
operations. All but the But er collierics
Of IN" Erie company worked
The SUPERINTENDENT Of thu TaCkawanna
company here said that if the place of one
of their men j. now filed he will get anoth her.
Work is being provided for all. Practically
none of the old men was taken back at
IN" oxford to-day. The breaker boys re-
ported for duty III a great crowd, but were
sent away. tn" old men could he seen
walking away disappointed and deJect.d
The Delaware and Hudson Canal Com
pany SAYS that all of the old men who re-
ported at their collierieS got something
10 90, II lntN llI nov G'' 'lelr pll JOBS
work was provided II il estimated that
In" mines Of the Scanton district will be
IN normal working order by Monday next.
A. the oxford mine only twenty mon and
ten boys were reinstated Many of the old
men were told that they will never again
have work AT This colliery.
President Crawford came out with a
strong statement this afternoon that all
Of the men that were with him while the
strike was on can remain. As no has within
eight Of a full quota, this will mean that 800
of his old employee, Will have TO secure
work el-ev here. Steam men failed To &c,
former place, AT every Collierv in the region.
tn" retention Of non-union engineers
~ the mines to lower miners into he depths
greatly angcred the strikers here. A.
the Continental mine the refusal Of the
Lackawanna company 20 take back an
engineer who quit early in the strike caused
trouble The men refused 10 work until
the old engineer was relnsla'ed. This
tn" company fatty refused 70 do, and AZ
10 o'clock the miners loft 10 work The
union men would not speak TO the non
union men except when tho necessities Of
work demanded il.
PoTrsvILLE, Pa, DC, ~ All Of the
colheries in this nelghborhcod, with the
exception of five. resumed work to-day
The Richardson, Lytle. Lorbery, Oak Hill
and Pine Hill plants failed 10 resume. The
first four named are submerged with water
\ total of thir'y-nlnc Collieries resumed
operations.
A. Brooksido and Potts colleres, which
have been operated hv nou-union men,
the non-unionists who are strangers in his
region disappeared last night and their
places were given 20 strikers to-day The
Reading company discharged 800 depu les
to-day.
SHAMoKIS Pa. Oct. - Fifteen thou
sand men and boys reported al he mines
for work this morning, IN, owing TO So
much repairs being Necessary, half Of them
could get no work Several hundred non
Inionists resigned their places and We're
hootcd and lccrcd AT a. they boarded trains
70 60 away. \ large number of striking
engineers. pumpmen and fire bosses didn't
get work. Iy Monday mostly all of the
coll,eres are expected To IL, working
Before those who were employed TODAY
could enter the mines they We're cautioned
hv officials To he careful Of accidents 4
gas explosion did occur AZ Alaska shaft as
soon IA Robert Ma,Irer and Aaron Dreher
entered Slope No. |. They were badly
burned. II was not until this afternoon
t hat the rescuing party which was organized
when III" explosion occurred, to look for
men thought to have been imprisoned in Tho
breasts, came 10 the surface and announced
that Maurer and Drcher were the only
victims.
SHENANDOAH. Pa O., oct. ?3-Of the thirty
seven collierie- III Mine Inspector Sein's
district, only six actually resumed opera
tlCns this morning These were hadv