Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-09-28 | Page 6 | Strike in Anthracite Region

I STRIKE IN ANTHRACITE REGIOI President Mitchell estimates that I fully UO per cent of the miners In Le high Valley district are Idle The mine at Mocanaqua the only mine In operationIn Wyoming valley val-ley Is working almost fullhanded The mules at most oC theHeading company collieries In the vicinity ot Shenandoah arc being removed from tho mines The town is I peaceful 1 The Locust Spring colliery at Locust Gap Pa4 I In idle an insufilclciit force I of men having reported Tor duty Fifteen Fif-teen hundred mono wcrji employed I There Is no radical ci lngeln the anthracite an-thracite coal strike situalion in the Lackawanna region The only places at which work is being done are the I washerics The tieup In the coal regions resulted In the smallest shipment from Reading yesterday that has been made for ycarswhcn than 100 cars were sent to tidewater The attitude of the operators promises prom-ises no early meeting of the two sides totha strJlceAll signs point to a stubborn fight with occasional disturbances disturb-ances when the harangues of foreign organizers fan a spark of zeal Inlo a furious fire of riot Tho commissioning of several hundred hun-dred coal and Iron police by Gov Stone at the request of the several companies In Scranton Is taken to mean that each I of these companies will undertake to break the strike the coming week by operating at least one each of their I I collieries The strike leaders say the attempt will be a failure I