The Montana plaindealer. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1906-1911, 1906-04-06
COAL Miners STRIKE
GREAT STRUGGLE BETWEEN CAP.
ITAL AND LABOR is ON.
Companies Post Notices That They
Would Be Glad to Continue to op.
crate Under Award-ohio Awaits
observation-disclosures In Illinois
Stopped in Texas.

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tie usual hours Monday morning as
a matter of form. There was practi.
cally no response to them on the part
of the mine workers. 1t is expected
that all classes of employees, except
fremen, engineers and pump runners,
who are not affected by the order, will
quit, including even those who do
not favor a suspension of work.
All of the other big coal companies
are following the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna G. Western company in posting
notices announcing that they stand
ready to continue to operate under the
provisions of the mine strike commits
sion's award. The Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western company operated
four of its washeries with the regular
forces of men originally employed
among them.
There was a joint meeting of the
Dunmore locals of the United Mine
Workers at which it was decided that
all company hands, in addition to the
steam men and engineers, could work
al repairs and putting the workings in
COAlhAhlOh until u bilC LOlACCg plONl
ding, of course, that they mine no coal.
The Dunmore men were surprised to
find the Erie company with IS guards
and colored cooks on hand, ready to
go on duty, guarding the company's
property. The company is to UNDER
take at Onc the operation of No. 5
colliery in Dunmore by concentrating
tho gfnclo1n mound tho hrOaIrar onI
erecting eating and lodging houses for
the men who will work.
1t was an unusually busy Sunday
on the main line of the Reading rail-
way. Saturdays product of the Schuyl-
kill region, amounting to 1000 car
loads, al sent through, and this will
have reached it's destination by to-
morrow.
Many foreigners have passed through
Reading, Pa, and there is a regular
exodus from the anthracite region.
A Holiday at Springfield.
All coal miners in Illinois are idle,
not only because of the strike, but
because the men on that day will cele-
brate the eight hour work day, OBJ
tanned April l, 1898. About $50 miners
employed in the John Taylor mine in
st. Clair county will not go out, the
miners protesting to believe the oper- |
ators will sign the scale in the next
few days. This mine is outside the OPP
orators association.
No Excitement In Texas. i
Fort Worth, Texas, April 2.-Work
in the local mines of Texas stopped
Saturday night, and the situation is
merely one of waiting to ascertain
what will be the result.
Kentucky Mines Working.
Louisville, KY, April ALI the
Kentucky coal miners are at work as
usual. The contracts for the eastern
district do not expire until September
LIST.
Mitchell In New York.
John Mitchell, president of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America is in
New York.
Up to a late hour Sunday night there
had been no developments of interest
in the coal mining districts in Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Arkansas and the terri
tories, where the union men quit work.
quiet was reported, with
no signs of trouble.
Fire broke out at 1920 o'clock Sun.
day night in the basement of the Allen
Shoe company's store, 421 Riverside
avenue, Spokane, did more than $40.-
BOO damage, and for an hour threaten
ed to destroy the Marion building,
Known as the old Tull building. {
May Sign Scale. {
Dispatches to Pittsburg from the soft
,oal fields indicate almost a general :
announcement from the operators of
western Pennsylvania to pay the min
'rs the advance of 5.55 per cent called $
or in the restoration of the scale of |
SOB. With notices posted at the ma
of the mines, the strike in the !
oft coal field has lost that threaten I
ng aspect that has surrounded it since
asst January.
The executive board of the Ohio
nine workers has been called to meet q
n Columbus Tuesday to determine I
he policy of the Ohio miners with ref d
renee to wage contracts. i
Later Report. +
Although the greatest suspension of
Ioal mining in the United States since
he production of fuel attained is enor- {
nous occurred Monday. the fear of a t
complete tieup of the industry has pass I,
d and the situation is expected to i'm. e
rapidly with every day. Reports
eceived Monday night from the BIZ n
luminous fields show that many of the 4
eading coal companies have signed a
he 1908 scale, which gives the men an o
.dvanoe of sos per cent over the wage
hev received during the last two v
ears. The number Of miners who re. Ii
eived the increase is estima+a5 a.