Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-06-25
PRESIDENT
HAS REPORT
Wright's Strike Findings
in Roosevelt's Hands.
Labor Commissioner Com
pletes His Investigation.
Situation at Sandy Run.
Drifton Stockade.

Carroll ID. Wright upon his investiga- |
tion Of the coal strike and its causes is
in the hands of President Roosevelt. 1t
reached Washington last night, and the
president was too busy preparing for
his trip to Boston to give 1t more than
cursory consideration. He has taken
the document with him to read and con-
slider it during his "trip, and will prob
ably hold a conference in Boston with
Mr.. Wright respecting it.
The report is a volumlnous one, and
goes thoroughly into the cause which led
to the conflict between the mine work
ers and the operators, and it is under
stood that it discusses at length the
merits of the controversy.
Beyond this it is impossible to Judge
the character OF the communication,
except by the nature OF the investigation
which Mr.. Wright was understood to be
making in New York.
1t is not believed Mr.. Wright has
shown any way in which the president
can invoke the law to bring about
settlement of the difficulty.
1t is understood the president will
make public a statement of some kind
respecting the report and the strike
when he has returned from Boston.
RETURNED TO WORK.
Fifteen of the Susquehanna Coal Com
panys engineers, firemen and pump
runners returned to work at the Nanti-
coke collieries yesterday. The men at
meeting on Monday night voted to re-
turn In body and appointed com
mittee to walt upon General Manager
Williams to apprse him of that fact.
A surprise was in store for the com
mittee, which was that they were in
formed that the men must make ind-
vidua applications for work. The re-
suit of these individual applications was
that the men who went out and remain
ed passive were given work, while those
who had become aggressive were turned
down. The men who returned did so at
the old rate Of wages.
President Mitchell says the return OF
the men at Nantcoke has little or no
real significance.
The companies are offering these
men big premiums to go back to work, -
he said. sit is a temptation to some,
and here and there few men may re-
turn for time. But we are dealing
with 147, 900 men, and individual cases
of this kind do not count for much.
The anthracite strikers are determined
to win this fight and there will be no
breaks"
SITUATION AT SANDY RUN.
Sandy Run Local Union, of the United
Mine Workers, has decided to pay no
attention to the alleged statement Of M.
S. Kemmerer, in which the head of the
irm operating Sandy Run colliery is re-
ported having said he did not sanction
the granting of the steam-men's de-
mands The union, a week ago, receiv-
ed positive assurance that these demands
were conceded, and upon this assurance
instructed the engineers, firemen and
pumpmen to return to work.
Inasmuch as the union or the steam
men have not received any notice that
the concessions have or are to be with
drawn, the employees have been notified
to continue at work. The pumping of
the water out of the mines is going on
steadily tho wnrkipn nj rb =
hour shifts.
BEHIND TIE SToCKADE.
To Judge from the murmurs which
reach the outside world, everything is
not serene with those who have volun-
tarily imprisoned themselves behind the
stockade at Drifton. When the clerks
striking fremen and pumpmen on June
they expected to be relieved from
their irksome labors in y short while.
Coke Bros. & Co., however, found them
so willing to work that they are making
little effort to replace them. This is not
pleasing to the volunteers" and their
woes are now beginning to leak through
the barricade.
With an unappreciative corporation
piling work on them on one side and the
contempt of the public on the other the
stockade gang is finding that "the way
of the transgressor is hard"
"MoTHER" JONES ON TRIAL.
ha ri al of MI
eleven others who are accused of violat-
ing an injunction of the Federal court