Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1902-10-04
MITCHELL. MAKES |
| COUNTER CHARGES
President Of the United Mine
Workers Calls Coal and
Iron Police Lawiess.
MINERS AVERAGE A G
Baer's Own Figures Show They Are
Able to Earn but 1858 a Year, or
SLOT a Day-coaI Region
More Quiet.

Philadelphia. Sept. 29. - President
John Mitchell of the United Mine
Workers of America, took up at length
the charges of lawlessness on the par
OF the miners in a speech at the Third
regiment armory last night, under the
auspices of the South Philadelphia
Business Mems league. He made the
counter charge that the operators are
guilty OF lawlessness in the employment
Of professional criminals as coal and
iron policemen.
Mr.. Mitchell came here at the invita-
ton of the league to address its meet
ing. He received about 500, which had
been contributed by various organiza-
tions for the benefit Of the miners.
Mr.. Mitchell. in his address said
among other things:
Il have some doubts IN my mind
whether the residents of Philadelphia
have cause to feel aggrieved at MT.
Baer, president of the Reading COM
pany, or to feel grateful to him.. 1t Is
true that the trust he represents Is eX-
torting from you fabulous prices for
coal, but, as a ~compensating feature he
has taken from Philadelphia the larg-
est portion of the criminal class that
formerly resided here, n now has
them commissioned by the governor or
PENNSYLVANIA as coal and iron police.
Philadelphia criminals are now pre-
SeINlIls lHc law III IN NNoA iNfNS
I'm this strike the people have passed
Judgment. l am willing to say that If
80 per cent of the American people
would not cast their votes in favor or
the miners If 1t were left to them I
would call it off now.
Lei me call your attention to one au-
thority upon the earnings Of miners.
and no one will complain that that
authority is either friendly or fair to
| the miners, l am sure-Mr. Baer him.
| self. In a public statement recently is
sued he says that the average earnings
of men under his company was $1.S9 a
day. The largest number of days the
anthracite miners have worked was
1941k, which means that, under his COM
pany, and according to his figures, the
miners earned the grand total l.. a year
of 1868. 1t is $7.05 a week, or $l.Ol o
day"
No Disturbances of Moment.
Philadelphia, Pa, Sept. 29.-No dis
t%urbances OF moment occurred In the
strike region yesterday. There was 4
small riot 1T Centralia, in the southern
end Of Columbia county, where some
strikers attacked n"on-union men on
their way to the mines, n Sheriff
Knorr asked Governor Stone to send
troops to stop the disturbance. Thus
far no troops have been sent.
In the Lackawanna and wyoming
valleys universal quiet prevails and the
soldiers were not called upon to sup
press any disorder, While at Forest
City, Susquehanna county, the extreme
northern end of the anthracite coal
belt. the presence of soldiers has had
the effect of quieting the rioters.
At Lebanon, where tn employees or
the American Steel n wire
have been fighting against the impor-
tation of colored laborers, there Is a
temporary truce, with a likelihood thai
all differences will be settled and he
men shortly return to work.
Bribery Charged.
Scranton, Pa, Sept. 29.-In a state
ment District President Nichols &C
cuses Michael Grimes, an eX-mine
foreman of being "at the head of a
movement to bride a number of Mine
Workers locals for $4,000 apiece to
vote to return to work"
Mr.. Nichols declares at the close OF
his statement that his "informants
stand ready to prove their assertion In
court
Mr.. Grimes denies the Nichols state
ment, and the coal companies also say
1t is not true.
The Thirteenth regiment has been
kept busy patrolling the upper end of
the county. Mud and a cold, constant
rain were the worst enemies they had
to contend with.