The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-11-04
RUSH TROOPSTO
N0N-UNI0N ZONE
Regulars Now in Brownsville
w. Va, to Keep Organizers
Away.
DIGGERS STICK TO JOBS
Strike Reported 100 Per Cent.
Effective in All Organized
Districts.
DIGGERs STICK TO JOBS
Speoidl DeSpdtch TO TIE SUN.

PTTTsBuRG. Nov. 3.-To insure con-
tinued operation Of the big non-union
coal fields in Fayette, westmoreland
and Somerset counties, this State
United States troops from Fort Mag
ara. Buffalo. areHcheduled to arrive at
Brownsville to-fight.
Brownsville is situated on the Monon-
gahela River in Fayette county, with
lines OF communication radiating to
every section of the three counties
where oituminous mines are located.
Particular significance is placed on the
TACT that Government troops are being
placed in the unorganized fields in both
pennsylvania and West Virginia,
while the known union fields are being
left to shift for themselves in the mat
| ter of protection.
According to coal operators and Off
Gals Of the mine workers organization,
the Government is depending on the
great unorganized fields in PENNSYLVANIA
ana West Virginia TO supply the country
with coal. and every measure will be
taken to protect the men who remain
at work there and at the same time
prevent organizers from entering these
f'elds to ply their vocation, that Of bring
Ing coal diggers into the United Mine
Workers of America
Inc Westmoreland Fayette Someret
non-union fields give employment to ap-
proximately $4,000 miners, more than
SO,0Oo,O00 tons of coal being mined in
this field annually. In West Virginia.
the principal non-unlon fields embrace
the Guyan Valley, Tug River Poca ahonta S
district, more than 10000 miners pro-
ducing $4,000, 600 tons of coal annually
In the pits of this field
with troop projection the non-union
men in both fields undoubtedly will
greatly Increase their output. Trouble
in securing cars has handicapped mines
in the tri-State district for months in
getting out anywhere near their normal
production. With this difficulty removed
1t is believed by operators in both the
West Virginia and Pennsylvania non
union helds that greatly increased pro-.
duction can be had.
Persistent reports from the Connells-
Vile fields in Fayette county are that
union miners are arriving there by the
hundreds seeking employment The Gov
ernment injunction, restraining officials
OF the United Mine Workers from TAX
ing any part in or directing the strike,
so far is dead issue here. Contrary to
all precedent no official notification that
such an order exists has been received
by either the Federal officials here or
officers OF the mine workers oSganlza-
tion. In the western Pennsylvania Fed
eral district the only knowledge pos
sessed by any one holding constituted
legal authority in the territory has been
CLEANED from the newspapers.
The tri-State situation can be sum-
med up in a few words The strike in
unionized mines is 100 per cent. ef-
feotive. In non-unionized mines It is
not known at all Not union mine is
in operation not a non-union mine
has lost man rather, to the contrary,
they are putting on men and are in
creasing their output.
The curtailing of freight trains enter
ing the idle coal fields and the closing
down of manufacturing plants IN west
ern Pennsylvania. West Virginia and
eastern Ohio. due to the lack of fuel. are
the only new developments In the strike.
At Cumberland, Md. f; Steubenvile, Ohio,
and Wheeling, w. Va. many large
plants were forced to cease operations
because of the lack Of fuel.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Nov. 3.-According
to reports to the State Department OF
Mines to-day by Inspectors. there are
SO 900 to 10000 miners working in the
bituminous field. The normal number
is 10000.
The inspectors have not yet been able
to get detailed information relative TO
the strike conditions in their disthCts,
but with comparatively few exceptions
the men returning to work to-day were
non-union men.