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The Blyth Standard, 1902-10-16, Page 7THE COAL MINE had no fear of the see eel of any WORDS OF TIMELY ADVICE. attack that might be made through the Mnle Legislatures upon the 1 property lntereete concerned. Tile 1 seri or coal 01 Stoves WIII De Well brought the conference to a close. . to Head These Suggeslluns. ,hardy afterwards tie(. Thomas, of With a coal famine otarlug than Now York dee/pates: Numerous eel- the Erie, had a Iottg talk with J. )mope, in the face there hue been It e atm sale ferences looking to the ecttlement conrerwationnt r001. bring an, the 4 fecloture wltby boons w 11•U'Jlinlovns, ac`lurthe commie of the anthracite coal mittens' either of then'. It le useer'twl on winter will ono tlouwanls mote of 'strike were held in this eley to -ley, whet appears to bo goo.) unthority them '10 esu titan in pros uus }cars. but at W p. m. (hero was 110 oil- that Mr. Morgan was In communlca- foul oil is u gaud Item n •• but a denco given to the public that any tion during the day with some of bad tu+tnter, Treat a well and it 1 the pollticinns who conferred with returns tic oompeusent; grow Curr• results bad been reached. LLUlaUre ihn u{.etvlors, but that he k Ilueyl lore Ln Its are and It tttuy delstvy of settlement (lett- thick told fust, to 10 placed In the nttltude of a )Liu uu.l property and ()atom lusting put when au' one of the confreres leirty to the controversy. amt palatal measles. In new of the was approached the slave' invurl- Hooted Deed )tuff's Family, tviuter'u prospivi It he well to lay down u few rules in every te use- able answer to quehtents concern- Tamaqua, 1'a., despair;: one of the boll about the use of coat oil for lag the coneultatlous was,' '1 have motet dl gracefel nod brutal demon- furl. They aro here summarized in aothlug to iay:e mentions, that Mao occurred Niece the u daze)) dot's: telrlku began, took Pl+oe at Lane- 1. Janet fill the reoervolr when T'be coufereuees are one guing fort yestorduy. While runntug out tho stove le burning. ' On, but the Impreselon prevails that n trip of cars Joists Leee, a non -unto 2. Don't fait to have a thorough - If any brill■ of 0eLticment Is reach- man, was thrown to the tracks and ly goll stove in the first place. ed it 411 not be elemencad wall itul both his legs rruehed. }}e was 8. Don't burn any but oil of the removed to tole tome In Summit Hill, blest quality. tomorrow, following a meeting to where be died at about six o'clock. 4. Don't spill oil upon the stave, be held at Uultcl Stales SuuuLor teeter In the erenlug a mob of or, if you 'o eo by accident, wipe Ylatt'. duwptewyi 011le, nt 10 about 800 men marched to the home It off carefuay before approaching otlock. of the dead tion. They were headed it with a towed match ter other by a drum, corps. Halting In trout llam,. fuss 1'elltlolaus Try. of the house they hooted Lee's ram- 3. Don't fall to fill the tank out The interest In the day's proceed- Ilj• beat the druuw awl cried out : of doors, 11 the etovo bo provided lugs really ceutruN about Ole meet- 'tie wale a scab and deserved to tile." with u detachable tusle hag field lis the afternoon at 'sea- The demanetratl.on lasted about a 6. Don't forgot that the lose oil atter fla'i'r (Alice. Poemnl at this null hour. thus, to In the tank the vacs, gas meetlug Were 0uvcruur Udell, Sem- More cool Mined. there le generated1 from the oil, anti atom Quay and 1'eauwae, 0l Vella- enrs as esnull t New York deeNllce say,: -What rnonteolrthe L sugfflallntcape for tl'> ,iuescaptheee rylvaulu; liulraau)' Platt, I'resldeat is Lit eltuutluu at tie 111110,1 to- of tees guy It lo likely to flume uplune lo NVertoro; President Truce- than we have at any time Once the 'mite. The wt I 1.11.11ed lamp lei safest.awe Mountie of ties env; Jul111 T1110 lo Dorne out by reports' from 7. Don't fald at frequent intervalsto 'boll the perforated wick tubes'liatele, representing the iinlepeed- Independent isouteee. At the mines IL iv soda water or lye, that the vett- eta evermore; David Wilcox., nee- la salil Outgole llelperS awl Winelaborers are being recruited and illizilizatwtoionvmae ;Lib, eremfreeit:ois stn ill-sruell- elle Delaware & Iludeuu ; David lot- twought up quietly from New York. 8. Don't try to foroe tho wick toomar and kelward Lucie -bath. AL Jereey City ono Philadelphia, Of high or smoke and odor will bo tri- lls° conclueion uf the nieetlui none °curse theme men ealltiOt do 'the evitable. Some Move@ have auto- ' prereut would way wee'. had nate' work of the certificated miners, but mom wick mtpdato„.peace er whether toy solution of elie output le being gradually In- to no„it „peat pod „„th„tig,„elite ?strike trouble had beet' reachea creamed by a clever device. euce ma.untested you turti tho wick low atVila confereuce tollowed tale held un.on miners ea huve remidued faith- first until the cylinder lo leate4In the fermium' in Semitur Piutt'e uf- fel le tilts* and many other eollteritie through.IMO at which were preoent eenuturo are uow doing practically the work 10. Don't fail to frequently Herniatem: and Penrose, Ouvertow Odell, of two or three eueli nun in ordl- off the charred Incrustation on thehdeard Lauterbaoh and Senator nary time,. eetingulehed wick with a knife toVein. Tho coulereeo were very retl- inetead of vrorkine a eingles breast secure a clear flame.oene art to the oubJecia under eiscao- or gangway, the ekilled miner now 11. Don't forget that little oll inSou there. hovernor °Jell ufterward directe the work In two or three tho titrik cause* rapid coneumptionlatd lutschoen at the Lawyerte Clue such epots. Hu ineicaies where the or auks.with 'denature Quay wet Peurooe. drilling @hall be done. superviesest 12. Don't set your burning storethe ,lob and directs the blast or near the draft of a door or openo Nutmeg to stay." "shot." Marsh of the other manual window, or you iota heat and gainThe conference ended ubout Celt labor Is left to ouch recruits as enn ail unpleasant odor.o'cluuk. President Peeler wine the he onlleted and who under the Statefirrt tO leave, tile ether operators law du not require a certificate. Infoltowthe lam. ne Coal road Presi- this way, I bave been informed on OIMAgEo I DEsuillignoociente referred all inquirero tu the good authority, not a few skillednothing to eay. nero is nothing to districte aro netunlly earning now ,be sale," war uuv. ()della auewer tu a ao mach as $19 to $20 a day.nothlas to guy.lienater Platt was tlio loot to leave elite le KARON Heti.kis office. "1 do nut think. I can slay — day le Mr. Oly{uu it snot uek;d. Olyphuut, tit the eller, Delaware at Hai- when Ule a'kk In lighted, ean'ing u KM; 1'reldent Fowler, ul the U:r "We taro Min „g morn OA today 010011 explosion that WOY 101.1 big r..- laqutf4tr. "1'10 too tired. Thar( wGl Hoek to Work. be fur her meetings to -morrow, That Jluzrllon, Pa., deiquelah: \1'llh pear - Ig all I pun ray at present," flea' unanimity, when Judged be the Pre/Went Nicholls had title to Flay: "Unless the &mottle of the strikers roglxtered voice of the local unions, are greeted in full 1 don't eve how the turn of the ltnteltua coal Tfelds President Mitchell can settle the to -tiny volyd In mita:ala the Mellor without o,lileg a couvcntlon. 1f only a purl of the demands are strike. granted that would renter It 'toes- Irdependently of this report, pry to call a convention, and thee telegraphed to President Mitchell, would take two musks at toast." personal investigation by a corres- Ouutereucs Nrulnlba., nondent Justifies the belle( that reran what moy b: described ran ) took.+ a1)4 auLho•llative euuru'1, It under the prevent armed protee- testy to announced that the confer- tion, from el) to 50 per eeut. of emu at the ulllee 01 reel calor Platt the malcontents In some of the Was absolutely without result, the largest eolllerlee In the Hazelton operators. refusing to estea ler the district are ready to go back to polllle& aspect of the eltuatioc, ural work at the sound IA the %vhlolle, gveetiohnlwe. Ione )between m modem employthe er o Ile illlthever, hi mines bn Dlety no lrict rNo.true 7 and employee, as to the management and such a conclusion might be far Of tho properties concerned, wide of the. mink In either the Accenting to the uuthut ivy above Fchuy Hill l or the Lackawanna els- ttxileuted, Benaton Quay and Gov- treas. The Hnzchon men did not emus Odell expreteeed the epintol favor the strike heartily at the that *bound the 'strike, ountlniie for outset. and many of them have nether tortlgbt or longer the et- given It only lukewarm allegiance. .trot would be to em possess the pub- Many who ere ready, to eurrendor ter ailed with the one subject of short- did not take the trouble to attend . age Of fuel that petite:al duties would to-dny's meetings of the local un be neglected stud the voters* r:malu 101is, It would have been a bold away from ties voile on electio:day, man who would hove attended and With thio statute' result, that the then halm dared to flaunt his In - majority party In P1:nnby'lannlnaud divldual opposition 10 the faces of Turk would be the greater euf- ills fellows+. Ilut the tocol meettn,ts blew Poor. beuator Pi,nrose expressed hla'4:oucureenoe lis ills,, repreequtntt•oa of the others, and Senator Platt and Mr. Latrterbaeh *puke In a elmllur trtrofn. TQlrsr latter advised .ome- thirsg In the nature of an armistice, antler nn Implied prondae to the getters that their union Would bale- 0ogelsed by the operntore. On their part the operator, dt'elar- ed that the question at Issue Wall en- tirely apart from politice, and they refused to be Influenced by repreeetl- Malone n, to the effect the etrlke Might Sieve upon the fortunes or one Sleety or the other. Palled 10 Move Operators. Ono of the political conferees next suggested that to protract the raggle with the Mlnrre' Union Would be to open the way for the advocates of antl-corporatlon legle- Iation at Harrlehurg and Albany to move for the introduction of nmeas- ure@ calculated to Impala' tho value of railroad and coal properties, and that It was even ios01110 that In the Nitres of poh11, mentor' lairs might be enacted that would Impair for years the valets of the proper - tiers the operators represented. It'.. WWI Bald by one 'speaker that a hill of this antagontetle character had, already been framed and was reedy for eubmleelon to the Pennsylvania Legislature. Teo possibility of liar - raising litigation Troth In Pennsyl- vania and New fork was oleo dwelt , upon, and the fear expreeetd that to some anetancee the state of the public might Iuflnenco the determi- nation of sure aptlte. Those repreeentattone fulled to move the operatore, who, nocord- Iog to tho gentlemen already quot- ed, declared that panty politics should not be injected into the situ - talon. The eperntore further ex- pressed their confidence in the In- tegrity, of the courts, and anal they In and around llnzelloo were tu- tereoting. eine many of the strik- ers pledged their faith by such pie- turerque methods as swearing by the uplifted hand or klssing the oruclfix each In turn, At Bunker Hill the members of local No, 163. do the number of 100, wet in ilia 'mown -tent of the little Catholic Church. Resolutions were read and adopted, and then the men, nearly all of whom are Italians, advanced one by one, kissed an uplifted cru- cifix and eolemnly swore not to return to work until John NIRO1- e.11 eo ordered. Opel -Hair May Heturn. After talking with many mea affili- ated with either bide of this struggle, 1 have found none so conlldent ne to predict the return of more than flits per oent, of the old force under the encouragement of military protec- tion. Some any not more then fifteen per cent. In the Hazelton region will surrender. Many of them have gone to the soft coal fields or have found other employment elsewhere. WHAT THE STRIKE IS FOR. The Statement of One Familiar With the Conditions. A great many Remits have w'on:terve tend to the pumps. ole. The uuloner what the cetyl tirik+ is all eth.tt. No etlltenlleilt can be haul from the miners gulag'mere, pay, etc., cud (1lo operators' statements aro tie course all on one hid,'. 11rrr la the )(L1 1'. 111111 t of t11' editor of the Scranton Trlbune, sent In reply to a Boston buslneee mat's enquiry : " lieplying to your enquiry of the let Met., I will try, to explain minim; cuu'altluur to you us briefly us pus- oi.blc. 'l'bo heal Miner. Kron Prinz Wilhelm Was Running Amuck. detente] for an eight-henlr day was tie enlist them In the strike. They are getting geed wages—engineers $6O to p0 a mouth for long hour, but light work, and others in pro- portion. Nine -truths of tarots men were entirely *allotted and many of teem refused to go out. The cheap Latour. 'tVlirn the coal h1 big 1001110 comes from the mite) or pit It In passed 'trough a high etrueturc' called the breaker, where 11 le broken) by steam machinery Into the curious Nero and the tmplerltlee peeked out. eluch of the labor 111 the breaker Lo duuo by boys, " Tic miner drill•+ tho bolo In the, wuu average 75 newt" a dn,v. They coalecu w, tuner's the powder, fireshuve no complulut, for their pay is the blunt which kuuckr tit• coaldow•n, heifer than that of the uteruge Ind cud turn takes a rest, tvh00 his hu n city office. But they belong to helper pulls the coal out and loads the uednu and hut, vntee In the cail- lt tato tho 101110car. A wiuer, In tom, Sag vt elr,kew, anti the Ilea of striking to els bourn, with eery work, cau has deeeloped nmuug theist rtphlly. ordinarily knock down enough caul to Last year In thee end of the ural fluids busty for right to ten thus were a hundred odd local keep ale helper hours ter lunger. The waver Is Ixr l+I strikes, mostly over 111e, pottiest cot - 1y the ear In this region, uvnraging uelvable lhiuge, amt the broeker Troy about a dollar u car, and the usual and bar -room loafer dement had a day's work Is nes curs, ;witting about good deal to do with declaring them. :1,01)0 {,sands of lump coal, neck ileus el Vutldltluus. "bony' and slats. "I have lived Lu the anthracite re- " Of tele $6 grove earnings the glen fourteen years, and know that trifler lays $2 to tho laborer and in the year Peet the mluere (armee kmp'1 $4 for hl.mrell, out of which more money than ever before durtag It, must pay for the ponder to uses, my time. Our Witte are full of their all, wicks, fusee and the oharoenln; ravings, very little of which has yet of Ids picks. In some places the (alt been drawn out, In spite of their five of pay Lr tho eq lard yard of c, al mouths' ldlrneer. There Js no ,huller lis the seam and In others a weight grade of labor hi the country wldch unit of 2,700 pounds, It being claimed le better paid than the anthraelte coal by the operator,* that on as average miner, and no workman more lnde- it will take from 2,750 to 3,000 pendent, because the law of the Stale pounds of greet* coal, that to, coal prnotloully glues him n monopoly of as It comer from the Beam, to net the labor of mining by forteddlug any aur ton 01 1,250 pound* of coal as but a licensed mister to work at hula - prepared at the breaker for market. erg In the mimeo. me'Be sulk a he mart $00 W $100 a Month. first here worked at least tiro year. "Tar, miners Oahu that where the In the melee ae a laborer, and then milt of payment le the mine cur the {Noor an examination to ehww that he car of to -day ie bigger thar, la years knows enough about the peculiar re - gun(' by and coutlnullly growing. qulremente of meting to be n sate 01,o of their Jokes is that t1e mine man to admit to a clamber.' ear Is made of .live oak. The Demands of the Shakers, "However the, may lee land my Summarized, the, otrlkcrs demand nn personal belief 1e that there 1s Just 110.11se of .1O per cent. to miners ()lout as much honcety on 0110 side paid by the carload or tot, ) re tie on tho other) 1t is a tact that 'indica of .0 per cent. In the time the hihutrlemo miner averages, net, or label by the day, surto as p r month, for about twenty days' eliglbcern, pumpmen, breuker. boys, work of from four to els hours a eta, meaning an 8 -hour workday, tiny, all tho way front $60 to $10+1 That 240 pounds' of coal ae "kuock- a month, and cou'd make twice as re down," whleel Includes culm and mcch If he would blow enough cool flirt, 014811 conetituto the. ton on he keep two laborer employed In- which the miner's pay is based, In. stand of one. To -day miners who Mewl of 2,7 7,0 poaelul', as in the poet. ere 'Webbing work ae high as ten Nothing ut all has been oat I abort chambers apiece can earn, In some htcreneing the wages or shortening ewe, $20 a day. But it Is a peculiar the lion's of the, mluere' eutployeee, feet that under normal condllione the mine laborers, who recelvedonly the miner doe* not seem to be nmll- $2 out of the mincr'14 $6. tepee t0 do more than one chamber Th. l:heet Stumbling mock. nt n timo, or to work beyond flue The fork on wbkll all attempts at or bl\ bourn a day. eelllement has spilt le the miners' )teal Cause of Stripe. anion's drterwhutton to control the "The real cause of this etrlke was w'orklig of the mince and exclude all that the wtnero helper's. who arc non-union men from work. Crrn meetly lorelgnero, had got it Into now Mr. Mitchell declares that the their heads that the miner@ were not men will not return till the &Aire making a fair divide. They were or- demands of the Shamokin convention ionizing a mine laborers' movement are grunted. No. b, of ibe resolu- te force the miner to divide even. The tions of that convention, wee: operators have nothing to do with "R:eolved, That the United }fine hiring the helpers. They are hired Workers, tit any colliery, where the by the m luere themselves. To avert employees often to become mam- a eub-strlke among their "but lies,' berm of our organization awl wear ea the laborers aro called, the min- the button, the local governing 011)11 ens swung the general strike, os- coil r•ry, after wino all perhuueive tenelbly for the points set forth In mosey:, a to get such employee* to their Fubllehed demand's, but 111 rte- ton, and foiling In snob, shall have (lity to enable the union to eon- full pnwor to suspend operation at trol thecipllne and thee put•lt beyond btr•11 collieries, until snob empl'oyee's the power of the laborer to revolt. ; leonine member of our organize. ''in the mines also are many 'corn- time" pang hands,' men paid by the month That the operator@ any they will to run engines, act as firemen, at- never grant. THE WIZARD HAS TO BE DOCKED' London, Oct, 13.-1tesieles slueitg the British steamer Rubert Digitate, Wednesday, off Bcuohy plead, wild the lose of two levee, the North Mer- man Lloyd steamer Kron Prinz Wil- helm narrowly missed seudiug the lirllleh torpedo bout destroyer Wiz- ard to the bottom, As It L* the Wiz- ard has been docked with her bow's twisted and other Injurleo. On Wednesday the Wizard tuns steaming up Southampton water nt 11 speed of twelve knots, when ehr wive overhauled by the )iron Prinz 1111 - helm, which was going at ut estenat- eet speed of 16 knots. no Wizard did her beet 1.0 avoid the liner, but found herself under Kron Prinz Wllbelm s quarter and collider' with her. In al- terpllug to dear the *Iconic)* the W'hi'rl listed and touch water pour- ed throtrgU her port's. Her officers and crew, numbering between e0 and 60 men, were for u minute or two In the gravest peril, but elle rtghtel oaf clenrr'd the Kron Prinz Wilhelm. It waft thin (omit that her ixees were badly twisted and buckled, and that etre had eintnlned other Inetrieo whitei neceesltated gulag Mwmeefi- utrly Into dock, Another Dyuuutlte Outrage. Wiilt Intrre, Pu,, dexpatci: While troop trains were passing over the Lehigh Valley Road bearing soldiers of the Third Brlgede to pietas in the °peer coal Ileido last eight, dynnmlle, placed on the track near Jenkins'' NW'lach, tern melee from this city, wreck el a freight tram, Whether the dynamiter, exported to blow up a (rale carrying ee+ldicre or one bearing cot, 1s only surmise, but the work was thoroughly and skilfully 1on0. The train was wrecked, and ['even cattle care demolished, n number of the cattle being killed. The esploelonr was terrific, net the aleck was bard for many miles. The switch le In remote portion of the vahlry, and for hours the cause Willi not learned THANKS f Ofl CONTINSENTI Coronation Corps Praised by Chamberlain. SENDS AN OFFICIAL MESSAGE. Ottawa despatch: The tollowlug de- epw.tcll Ila, been received by Lilo Ex- cellency from Rt. Hon. Joseph Cham- berlain; "Downing Street, Sept. 18, 1902. "My Lord,—In view of the termina- tion of the coronation (eetivltlee and the departure of the co:onlal troops tt becomes my, duty to request your I,otdoirlp to expires to your Mlnie- teees the thanke of His Majesty's Government for arranging the de- epatoll of a military contingent to like part Lu tho ceremonies. "I "teed hardly say how glad the people of this country were to have In opporannily of welcoming the representatives of the colonial con- tingents which have dleptayed tort 'named qualities In the South Af- rican war. "Hes Mujrsty's Government only re- gret that' it w•ae not poerlble to pro - king the molt of the Canadian con- tingent till the una1ollably deferred ,tette of the coronation at their pre- sence, on that occasion would un- duubtedly have added to the 'luter- rel of the spectacle. Hix Majesty's Government truets that the members of the °entingsnl will carry back with them n pleas- ant recollection of their may In tells nountry on an ever memorable oma don. (Signed) ".f. Chamberlain." flt CAflNE6IEIS VI[WS shies, sou would scorn the use of force if these communities wlob, 1 W , net up ter lh1,1110 'vise This mother- land is act rerlucal to that. 'Oa Ihn contrary, union with her is a Zoon so precious that the new heUcment0 of our rice should humbly sue he ntlntisblon. The will of the pn+pin Is the only enduring bond of union be- tween the eepstrate parte of the em- pire: ' Denounces Nations Which Refuse Arbitration, RECEIVES FREEDOM OF PERTH. THE DOUKHOBORS. Edinburgh, Oct. 13.—Aldrnw- t'nr- negb, itis presented with the free- dom of Perth this afternoon, In rr- cognitlun of hie bcu1fuctlone to Scot- land. The city w -as ge'crnlly dtcor- nted, and the entheslusllc Seat' 0u0- w 11) to progrrsse e. vTlfet Hurgethe ral ceremony 11t presente. Carnegie leas en - cloned Lala edverto rcasket. Ileplyhig to the l'rovot's pre'orntafln,) speech, Mr. Carnegie dllnted upon the Iorrore of s0 -miles ' ell'rrd alar," and the benefit's to br derived from nrbltra- lloa. ".t great good 1110 recently cum'' to the world,' said 1Ir. Car- negie, "a king iu dleguise, and out yet rceogilzed, bat through the of - forte of tier ('r. r, ally ni,e,t led by aur w10e,' memo; 1 retrl'e, your la 1) nmbasoadur, Lord Pnuncefote, t hire 110ts ,stets for the first time uutung men n permanent tribunal of arbitration, which le now sltllng to determine a dispute between the re - politico e,1 ilia Cotten States nut )leelco. Nota drop of blood w111 le' shed thnnulh this dispute. It lo to bring a victor; which will ca110e nu 1'11ra. In nr ol+lnlon the grandest nrhl^v meat ,f the twentieth Century was the create -se of 1111s L[11,11101 1. Stasis to the nallua wldch recuses to submit Its difference to this nr- bltrnment of thio high court of humanity." DeaIltg't11(11 the bolonlee, )Ir. Car- negie decalred that there was no legal hoed between them and the mother county ihn' could held the cuuueett,n for a year, adding: "Be - Very Favorable Report From Mount - rd Pollee Inspector. Sergt. Bard, of the Duck Lake de- tachment, Mounted Pollee, who In- spected the els Doukhobor villages in hie meirtct on Inept. 21, speaks very invoraoly of them. He elates In Ids official report to fommtuoloner Perry: "I found these people 11 very 10110- trloue and hard-working class, both women mad men. They were busy Mucking their wheat. They core- meueed work al daylight and cun- tlnueel t111 dark, and all worked In harmony. They cru a people Who burs prospered wo'derluly within the Inet three years. They lave com- fortable houocs, good stables nuJ aeundnece of good water and hay close nt Iwnd. The Ik+ukllobors at the village of Harulku hare alone stn acreo under cultivation. They WW1 -ne- ed me Out they Intend building n mull shortly. Three people take the great- est core of flair irorere, and are very kind to them. They lire good here - men, and can break a llnrxr to had, or harness In a very short tlwr. They aro a rears of people 'who ueus h11ot or kill any kind of nulmlti or wild fowl, nod In c1nM'quene,• the geese and crane's, which are vary numerous In their grain Il(1,0, moat du 0011841- erahls damage to the grain, and mase it gaud 001 of loss In the yield. I heard of no infectious dismiss amongst them. and they appear to be , o very cleanly and healthy temple."