OCR Text |
Show WOMEN THROW PEPPER INTO j MINERS' EYES ( Female Strike Supporters Hysterical as Guards Threaten Reprisals JUDGE UNFAIR, CLAIM Union Takes Sharp Issue With Wage Figures of U. S. Secretary PITTSBT'RG. Pa., April 24. Dem-I Dem-I on-1r.1i loi'S against, iion-unlou miners on their way to work marked, the I progress of the coal Strike in the Fay-) Fay-) ette county region today. Several I men were hurt, none seriously, and I two women were arrested and taken ; io the county jail In Unlontown. I The first demonstration took place j neat the mine ot the Anund Coa, ; company, tour miles from irniontOWll I where S crowd of strike sympathizers j In which there were a number of wo-1 wo-1 men armed with pokers arid pepper shakers, met the men on their way I to work There was something of a scrimmage before the j-tatc police arrived ar-rived and dispersed the crowd, arrested ar-rested Mrs. Louis Cedman and Mr-. Caroline C. Rebo. Superintendent Harry Clengensmith a struck with B poker and had pepper pep-per thrown In his eves. The company's miners, numbering 35, were deelaicd by the management to have succeeded in entering the mine. The other row was at the Collier mine of the H. c. Frlck company where a large body of women gallu i d and urged the men not to return to work The uniformed guards at the plant rounded up the women and, riin-ninc; riin-ninc; out a line of fire hose, prepared to drench them Water, however, was unavailable but the sight of tht hose, reports to the county authorities s i id. threw women into panic, some 01" them 1 -- 1 1 1 i iik hysterical Tin were allow d to go home after promising to engage en-gage In no more demonstration-Eighty demonstration-Eighty men were said to be working In the Collier mine CRESSONE, Pa April 24. Protesting Pro-testing against the -two per cent statistics sta-tistics of miners' wages" issued b th. department of labor, a letter addressed to James J Davis, secretary of labc by John Brophy, president of district No. 6 of the United Mine Workers, today took sharp issue with the figures fig-ures gien out by the department and asked the eepretary If he regarded ?760 a year as a saving wage? Brophy s letter declared that a sur ve of district No. 2 covering 31.97'.i miners, made by the miners' union, showed that the average wage was $14,60 a week or $760 a "car, as against the department statistics ,,f 1 1.373 for the year. The letter also Insisted thut the use of the production peak in Obtober for the purpose .f figuring statistics is a "favorite stratagem of the operators," as the last two weeks n Oe.ober av- raged 55 per cent capacity while tin-miners' tin-miners' actual average for capacity! for the oar was 3ft per cent. There were 2 1-3 average working! days a week, according tn Brophvsl figures, and he urged Secretary of' Labor Dave to w.rifv his figuies and see that the bureau's statistics were! accurate hereafter. PAP1 RS DENIED, l.m Washington, April 24 Charges! that Federal Judge On at Pittsburg. 1 had refused alien miners applying fori nationalisation their papers because I they had Joined union forces In the' coal strike were made before the1 house labor committee bj John Lutor-j enlck, interpreter employed by the1 I'nlted Mine Workers in the PULburgl district |