Evening journal., 1902-10-07
BELIEF THAT END
(. OF STRIKE IS NEAR
Agencies for Peace Hard at
Work on Operators and
Miners
.NTIRE NATIONAL GUARD OUT

OOiuioES WHSTo iHcI ~Fo WOSl
Needed and to Protect Men Who De-
sire to Work
1t is believed that the action OF Gov
rnor Stone in calling out the State
iuard will have much to do with end
ng the coal strike. The result OF the
conference between F. P. Sergeant.
President Roosevelt's ambassador, TO
Mitchell has not been made public.
There is a general feeling all over
5he country that the strike is near an
md. M .i,i
Harrisburg Pa, Oct. Z. - Governor
Stone late last night ordered out the
entire division of the National Guard
Z OF Pennsylvania for duty in the anthra-
: cite coal regions. The soldiers began
Z arriving in the field this morning. The
order calling out the guard is as fol-
lows:
n Headquarters National Guard, Ad-
jutant Generals Office, Harrisburg.
October 6.
"In certain portions OF the counties
/ of Luzerne. Schuylkill, Carbon, Lacka-
wanna, Susquehanna, Northumberland
h and Columbia, tumults and riots fire.
quently occur, and mob law reigns,
men who desire to work have been
beaten and driven away, and their
families threatened. Railroad trains
have been delayed, stoned and the
tracks torn up. The civil authorities
are unable to maintain order and have
called upon the governor and COM
mander-in-chief Of the National Guard
for troops. The situation grows more
serious each day. The territory in
volved is so extensive that the troops
now on duty are insufficient to prevent
all disorder. The presence of the en-
tire division, National Guard OF Penn
sylvania, is necessary in these coun-
ties to maintain the public peace.
THE major general commanding will
place the entire division on duty, dis
tributing them in such localities as will
render them most effective for pre-
serving the public peace. AS tumults.
riots. mobs and disorder usually occur
when men attempt to work in and
about the coal mines, he will see that
all men who desire to work and their
families have ample military protec@
tion, and will see that threats, intimi-
dations, assaults and all acts of vio-
lence cease at once. The public peace
and good order will be preserved upon
all occasions and throughout the sew
eral counties, and no interference
whatever will be permitted with OIL
GERS and men in the discharge Of their
duties under this order. The dignity
and authority Of the state must be
maintained and her power to suppress
all lawlessness within her borders be
asserted.
WILLIAM A STONE, Governor"
The formal order was given out al
the executive mansion shortly befor,
IL o'clock last night by Private Secre
tary Gerwig. Governor Stone called
a conference of the general officers O
the guard, at which it was decided t
place these troops in the field. Thosl
present at the conference were Majoi
General Miller, General Goblin, Of thu
Third Brigade; General Schali, of tn,
First Brigade; Colonel Hulings, of thu
Sixteenth Regiment, who representel
General Wiley, of the Second Brigade
who is in Kansas; Assistant Adjutan
General Elliott and Assistant Quarter
master General Richardson. The can
vas and other camp equipage wa
shipped from the state arsenal, and
is expected that all the troops will b
in the field by tonight
This is the first time since the Home
stead riots in 1892 that the entire divi
sion Of the guard has been ordered ou
for strike duty. The cost to the stat
of this tour of duty will probably ez
ceed $1,000, 900. How long the troop
will be kept in the field depends entire
ly on the situation in the coal regions
AS soon as the strike is settled tn
troops will be withdrawn. Should tn
men return to work under militar
protection and there should be n
danger Of a serious outbreak, it
probable the soldiers will be gradual
withdrawn.
Twenty-three Soldiers For Each Min
Scranton, Pa, Oct. z. With II
whole division of the National Guar
in the field there will be % soldier
for each of the 4SO mining operation
and little more than one for evel
two men now at work about the mine
There is no settled opinion here as
what effect the calling out of the who
guard will have. The operators ha'
claimed all along that it would bres
the strike by inducing to return to Il
mines thousands Of men who are OF
deferred now from so doing by fear
violence. The strike leaders have be-
saying that the calling out of the Thi
Brigade had no tendency to break Il