The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-11-03
COAL MINERS
HOLD OWN
No Disturbances - President
Lewis, of United Mine Work.
ers, Maintains Silence.
STRIKERS SEEM TO GAIN
Some Plants That Operated Sat-
urday Now Closed-Unor-
ganized Men Also Idle.

| Springfield, ILL.,, Nov. S.-The third
| day of the coal strike in Illinois saw
an unchanged situation from that Of
the opening day. Saturday. Not
mine is working. No disturbances
| are reported at either union or coal
operators headquarters.
| John l.. Lewis, acting president OF
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea, visiting in Springfield today. re-
fused to discuss the strike.
Members of the Illinois executive
miners union board will meet at noon
today to discuss the strike situation,
It Is said. II was learned that ted
eral officials with copies of the In
dianapolis injunction will be on hand
to serve the writs as none Of the
| state union officials have as yet been
| approached with the documents. The
writs will first be filed in the federal
court here.
$4,000 Out in Pittsburgh Alone.
Pittsburgh, Nov. 3.-No attempt
was made by operators TO work the
| coal mines in the unionized terrific
| ries of central and western Pennsyl-
vania today. according to men in
| touch with the policies OF the opera-
| tors in the Pittsburgh district. They
declared also there will be no effort
10 operate until the miners show n
| disposition to return to work.
With strike headquarters here
| claiming that there are $4,000 men
out in the Pittsburgh district alone.
and 60 per cent. of the unorganizcd
miners idle, operators asserted that
the figures~were not indicative of the
| effectiveness of the strike, as the
hunting season OF the year always
takes many miners on their vaca-
| tions.
The strikers gained in strength in
| the Cambria and Clearfield districts
of the central Pennsylvania field to-
day. A few operations that were
working on Saturday were closed
tight today.
The Somerset field, employing
$4,000 nonunion men, was operating
in full
ohio's $4,000 to Stay Out.
Columbus, o., NOV. 3.-That Ohio's
moro than 10000 union coal miners
are all out of the mines today and
| will stay out was the claim made
here this morning in union miners
| circles.
Michigan Will Hold.
Detroit, Mich Nov. 3.--Reports
from the coal mining districts of
Michigan this morning indicate that
the $500 miners in the soft coal fields
are remaining away from the mines
| today.
President William Stevenson, Of
| the Michigan miners union district.
Ga ,t,xs. . kI,at
| men would remain out until the strike
Is settled one way or another.
Seattle Holding soIidly.
! Seattle, Wash, Nov. Sat tho
headquarters of the union mine
workers, district No. 10. it was as
serted that the strike in this state
is an unqualified success, not a sim
| gle worker in the coal industry hav-
ing returned to his job. No effort to
| break the strike by employment of
nonunion miners, for the present at
least, Is contemplated by the coal
| operators of this state.
st. Louis. Nov. 3.-No change in
| the strike situation in the coal fields
adjacent to St Louis was noted to-
| day, The mines in the southern ILL.,
nois district were well supplied with
| coal cars and had steam up ready to
| operate the machinery and blew
whistles at the regular time, but the
miners did not report for work.
| The 1850 workers in the Belle
vile and Staunton subdistricts
obeyed the strike order to the letter
and remained away from the mines
Reports from the Missouri fields
indicated that not one of the approxi-
mately 5000 unionzed miners who
quit work Saturday had returned to
the ninns this morninu