The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-05

from New York, where they went with the
idea that a strike would he averted, have
changed their minds also and now believe
that there will be a strike. One of those ia
General Superintendent Phillips Of the Lack
awann company. He brought the infor-
nation that the operators will in all proba-
bility stand pat on their proposition TO
continue the award of the strike commits
sion.
The Oxford mine OF the Peoples Coal
Company continues to operate. The only
other colliery operating in the valley
is the Bellevue Mine of the Delaware,
I~ackawanna and Western. To the twenty
miners who cut coal in that mine
yesterday, between fifteen and twenty,
it is said, were added to-day making the
total approximate number of men
now at work in the mine a little over
a hundred. In their efforts TO work the
mine the company officials are profting by
their past experiences and are guarding
against any clashinGs which may result
should the men at work in the Bellevue come
in contact with their brethren who are idle.
Sixty cars of coal were hoisted yesterday.
With the exception of the Delaware, Lack
awanna and Western which already has its
police force completed, preparations are
being made by the companies, espe cially
the F. RE, to police their workings. G. j.
Soho effel Of New York, superintendent
of t he police department of the latter COM
rany, spent all day yesterday in this city
and r eturned to New York late last night.
1t is estimated that at least $50 special
officers have been hired within the last two
days,
It is felt here this evening that the Della
ware n Hudson Company in the event
Of a strike will work its mines at all odds.
IL is making the most thorough prepare
tions to that end of any of the companies.
At the co~mpany's Offices the purposes of
tho officials are said to be most pacific,
but there is plenty of evidence of a set
purpose which cannot be turned aside.
The West End washery near here, owned
and operated by c. D., Simpson of this city,
former president of the Individual Opera
tors Association, was attacked at an early
hour this morning when a mob of nearly
100 union strikers, chiefly foreigners, armed
with guns and clubs, drove away the work
ing force. There are about fifty nom
union mine workers at the West End COL
liery and several of these are employed in
the washery.
The strikers then marched in a procession
with a beer keg in the lead up a culm dump,
Upon the apex Of which they fixed a red
flag to n piece of Gaspipe and proceeded
10 enjoy their victory and the beer. which
had probably been the chief agent in incit-
ing the riot. The State constablIlary were
called and the rioters scattered in great
haste.
The West End washery worked all through
the last strike as well as during the one
of 1900 without molestation. 1t is situated
four miles from Mocanaqua in an isolated
spot. H, II. Brady, Jr., son-in-law of Mr..
Simpson and general manager Of the COM
pany, said to-day that warrants will be
served tomorrow morning on several men
by the constabulary and that the company
proposes to work the washery right along
at any cost.
Other serious disorders were reported
to-day, one occurring last night at the
Borten washery at Yatesville, where a
mob gathered in an adjoining field and
later smashed the windows of the washery
with stones.