The evening world. Newspaper, September 19, 1900, Page 2

| WOMEN WARRIORS OF GREAT COAL STRIKE AS SEEN BY WORLD WOMAN AMONG MINERS. Heroic Wives Who Pinch , and Save to Win the Big Fight. tors—QGrinding the Faces of the Poor. eee E Ee) NO. IV. OF THE SERIES. BY OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR, OOOOH OF DEDEDE EEE EN MHS Rhea gar You have read the story of Scranton, published last Saturday, tell- ing of child labor outrages at the mines; the story of Pitston on Monday, a siory of brutal bosses and men, women and children q crushed under their tyaanny,—and, yesterday, the story af hunger and hardship in the miners’ homes at Wilhesbarre, All have been j told through The Evening World by Miss Olivia Howard Dunbar, ite ‘ special commissioner in the coal strike region of Pennsylvania, where { the is studying at first hand the condition of the men and their fam- i ilies, Tosday is published the fourth of the series of articles written by Miss Dunbar on the scene of the greatest labor revolt of recent } years, if not the greatest America has ever seen, Amazing, incredi- Q ble almost, as some of the conditions described may seem, every state- i ment isa caim, uncolored statement of fact, To-morrow Miss Dun- 4 bar will have @ second articie on conditions in the mines near Hasie- ton. the very heart of the strihe Le i ‘wept in spite of\ her attempt to keep a bvrave front. as she cuntersed thie | i) “D lot my poskiion beonuse the school divectors failed to reappoint me, > v feteleteieiniemisteinbebeini-iolelenbisdelei-tbebele!leietele!s Appalling Power gt the Opera- | —_— THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, _SEPTEMBER 19; 1900 M’KINLEY COMFORTS THF MINER. oo feleisleiadaleleltateat dobatefolet-tebel im ielepeletetfetatet ‘E| ware and Hudson, Jolobolotnitetetsiateioletotetetetulalefeletots ‘olmbatete ith everything shut down In istrict, the Monanaqua breaker elng moved 14 | trata, r weeters end of the remion havin | eon closed ‘The te-up iT ning out in the relent | OMe r There's money tor the. many im | pan of the Lackawanes ant Sunday World Wants, in n v Ae a Isfelnlebetolebatetetatateteisletntefetntetolelabel | | COAL PRICES SOAR. Halse the Prices Retail Dealers Here Are ¥ These are the advance retail prices on anthracite coal prevailing today as a rewuit of the big coal atrike: White ash, | to families, $1. to lores, $5.75; white ash 6%) red ash, $8; red ash, Wb. CL] This represents an advance of $) % Jwitoin the last four days. The Philadelphia and Reading Com pany announced an advance of % cents on all grades of anthracite coal yestor 4 thie will be followed to-day by Fe move on the part of the Read 2} Delaware, Sehuylkill and Bua. Quehanna, Ontario and Western, De Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Weatery and Lehigh Valley All are members of the Coal Trunt Chatrman J. Samuel Smoot, of the . Board of Truate of the Retail Coal Dealers’ Exchange, aaye that (ie petal price has (rh aplte of the fact have not the by w ihiel by the Patote tid advanved the price on nave to fF Handlere of eoal admitted thar fevers oad practtoally eor ie (here Waa tio Coal ioeale Just now and ) make the moat of te due jo ad- trike in not all chat dure 1 from to $k AL went a, Bept 1-One thou {| sand more inners employed at fye cols | Hertes owned he Union and Phila deiphia ant ing Coal and Tron Companies ai Mvidual opera vasod work to-day in the vicinity of | Mount Carmel compelling the stoppage | of the operations, | This makes the tle-up complete in the Khamokliy region excepth {any ant Nor bt Lord & Tayl Thursday Bargains, Blankets — me Fine Wool Blankets fu!! bed faney border; nicoly made; se, per pair. Just received 10 cases of these welle known Blankets 11-4 Fine Wool Blankets; nicely made, with fancy border and soft finish; for Thursday g&e, per | (good va nines air; ue tor $1.60, ii tn4 Wool Blankets, elegantly made, fine finish, faney border; to sell them quick, for Thursday only; $1.25 per pair; (regular price would be 2.00.) 10-4 Hine Wool Blankeis made, extra heavy, fane $1.05 per pair; (ean't be duplicated for less than $2) 4 1-4 Fine Woot Blankets; very heavy ani nicely finshed; $2.08 per pair; (ean't be dip cated for lest than $4) » olegantly border, | mi ian, Mt, Loe READY, “e" 1-4 Fine Wool California Blankets; wk bound) beauuiuby in blue, red and yellow $3.95 per pair; fean't be duplicated for less than $5) Extra Vine Catifornia Blankets; in 1-4 and Lied nites, from $3.98 to $20.00 a pair, Silver Gray Blankets; from sgc, to $6.00 pair, Scarlet All-Wool California Blane kets; from $3.75 to $12.00 pair, Blankets cleaned at very short notice. We call for ani deliver them at your house, ° Comtortables, BENEVOLENT MR. M'KINLEY (to mir ker Hunger mu W well! Childne tary 9 c = | ated by the WOMEN WARRIORS OF THE STRIKE, |,,, BENEYO! f rhen-Hunnry, wre you " iidren starving’? Tmponat= | hy | VW g 1 ¢ 1 ' pre f on ve d, than omy er iugene Zerfing, o orthum- eget all our Comforters mi (special to Me Bvening World | a8) My Gear friend!) Dan know Ware living in the greatest ena of prosperity on record, thanks to my | Sheriff Kujene a tN We got all our Comt aie ti a benefloent Administration’ What yous mnt un yernrs more of it ’ Wnty Te wearlig 1) a number Forder and know exactly wit they a HAZLETON, Pa, Sept. When the thousands of men now on mtrike cami - mude of; we select (he covering an took thelr last month's pay from the collieries on Saturday and handed !t] 1 had no bitter feeling againet (lem. for L knew they were dummies In (he gg ” the tiling and guarantee evory ome # q over to thelr wives the strike was practically left in (he hands of the! hands of the man behind them it is un operator of te mines Who owne the ARBITRATION IMPOSSIBLE, Fall BoaBize Comforter, covered wil f women, Opinions and controls the actions of the sehool directors fine ty ‘ f ured abkoone on both sic a If economy was necessary before, relentions hoarding must be the rule “ZT could not Ket anotier position, and am Mving here ve Cragaily ast M | N E OPERATORS DECLA RE. or figured on one side and plain heneeforth, and it is the women who must plan 10 make every penny and/ean tH! 1 can do something better the other filled with bees white, every erimb of food do ite utmont toward warding off starvation The two-room lodging veh poor woman lived belonged to a Pane ton, tufted or stitehed 4 " long double Hine of tenement he Markle frm of operat rk Inued from: First me) sae, & akc, each: Pay day comes but once a month among the miners This happens to houses have not been repateod, ¢ +f Pr 7 ‘ hi a 79e, & gde, each, , f be A VIOLATION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES and is, in tact, [seme no reaees to doubt the waser ‘araiy (i (worth @1 25 & 81.50, | one of the causes of the wtrike However, It ts ordinarily the occasion of a Their Insecure wally offer but an ay ' co ROD was ald vit ") Pat Bed Size Comlorter; cove; | iwi STRIKE LEADERS’ PLAN A ee ee . few Indispensable purchases mountaln winds ley have ave moulin S. ‘he 8 wil W tl wo A ; » wretehod le io live i slaware th best cored cation, or tanto ; Among the better off of the miners, at loaat thore can usually be apared |'M* Mretehnd families who jive, Mg di ae Delaware ant Hu shints on one aide and plain Turlea @ small fraction from those hardly won dollare to buy a few pieces of cloth lin jelleve even the operaty: ' ali » | tor of The World are not n A red on the other . ing and the rare luxury of meat Felmritios aud spowk fairly to th We hia Fac to ceritral ; United Mine May in any dtreotie re ‘ $1.35 each; (worth $2.06 | | A MAN MAY WH BOTH A PAUPER ANIA LAOWR few pi Wholly responmibie for thie condition. | Extra Large Size Comforte 1 PENNIES ARE PRECIOUS NOW. | HE MAY WORK STEADULY AND INDUSTRIOUSLY (1 THE MINE Worker town of any sine throughout the coal Nelda In order §) the number of raliroaders (ite tn cons | ered wh Ibert French naveonig ie) 4 But on Saturday evening the company stores Kept open in vain. ‘The Viet BE OBLIGED TO At ( i AID | No y HE POOK DISTRICT ha , 1 he the head i the ilstrict of va ls Jrenigence reaches into the hundreda, | stitching: flied with finest 6 pennies seemed more precious than anything that could be bought with ‘ 5 HE HRCOMBE i At PER AND ) ANCHISED , needy action at any thine neces | PP is , - Nh hel of the railroml | you nay eeleet your own designe” j thom, And If there Was no purchasing, stil} lens was there any rioting and |’ iN OHRRAB OR MN ST MERTOR MIS CATT RI MBIE NH me Leal tia 1 ate} wo make it fo order for) 7 carousing The strike was undertaken with the solemnity and apprehension! LONGER AN AMBRICAN CUPIZEN ales he plan wt thie ‘Ten locale in Wikesbarre and vioinity will | bring about tee quick ending $1.75 & S1,98 [Cworth #250.) with which a beleaguered city awalte the storming force of the foe And vet he hag not been wick or idle or incompete ' tone bh form a board of ke management [hey will have headquarters In At distri: headquarter it wan pre- | Comforters made to order, any atyle And when Organizer Henjamin James, speaking for President Mitchell, | best the city, advise the members and receive advices direct trom head aie Sorday By Holas Burke, a com. | and see, at sor’ notice ag told me that 126,000 miners had struck a number greater than the #trlke | CANNOT SUPPORT A WIFE. quarters at Hagleton At Scranton, Pittston, Plymouth, Shamokin, {oi iigemen, het within another vee Jeadere had dared to hope for--{ knew that these mon in making (hiv one TACO wnelaue GREW ZHMAE with Clin wAEBMN, COId “int ci no ch {@ Pottaville, Peeoland, Shenandoab, Tamaqua, Nantleoke and other fe a, the atrtke “wuld Make. any Cor, Grand & Chrystie Sts, fearful sacrifice had done all they could, and that thelr wives must carry onfdron, Palo not Chink she regretted it poor woman! towns these boards Wilbe organized and meet daily eee the work | You may Uhink It strange, hat my husband cannot support With the plan perfected and tn operation our mighty army can { For in a war of conquest men mut do the fighting, fi a war for prin aaa eka Eee Lop fooble toto anything, ani he poor INAH TS be reached within halt an hour and Kopt 1h toueb with headquarters : ciple, THE WARRIORS ARE WOMBN YOURE men in the collieries now.” a bs and men of other distr Daily reports will be received at head : It was inepiring, for this reason, to Visit (he strikers homer loday No freedom of speech, no freedom of aetlon- the operators will not quarters, exchanged and sent out to the various VICHOLS, ' We don't know how it ia to be done the women said, “but it must be} Pecornize” the unions on, ko far # possible peri Me to de T. DLN. LS, y ed and no guaranteed free citizenslip-oan excellent object lesson for $ ‘We can't give (0 Np the > President of Diatriet No, 1, ) ! thousands of Polen, Hungarians, Ttisslans, Tallon and ntver foreigner West Twent third Street, | That their apprehension la not vain oar oo shown ho make up the greater nart of Hagleton's wonderfully po wing ‘y- population! ¥ » a | OPERATORS’ POWERS APPALLING, The women appear to have little hope of arbitration, a propose | Aky by the strikers some tme during PARDEE 1S DEFIANT. few : : ‘ y [that Mr Markle's propos to agree to arbitration was male with some} atght, and sertous trouble 16 feared ‘ewor concessions are ade by the operate WHOSE POW Ih AR purpose, and not A good one , : st re Meee be Sirtkhe Ahead and a PALLING, A fortunate laborer, aud be must be 1 ets from $80 10] Nn no thoy are storing vy ammunition, pationt, faithtad sonia, for tas[, Au mek on ils The tit Seabite Vy We to Pinte bttie , { $40 @ month, and oul Of fin he must pay not on men whom he em! bors bitter war OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR hotng lonely watched to-day Joye to help him, wv the owing items. a he (% VOSMORMOW, In a second aretote from dineteton, Wes Honhar wit emp] armed union men, and an attempt to © calvin | car ‘ ' h ' | wil nel by M' mrOWDEN. Maas nieeeniies treanpaieinaie eel Siiliaidiane | 11000 high-class Novelty Sith and Satin Dress Waists POWDER a § oF wh amount Wo ation fore L M, ore mon \« COMPANY STORE'S overcharen , sbvaidcelcttae errniteone nm ww said [Blacks and colors, handsomely tucked and corded, at the } ) overcharge ooh i ono ooon nl . Td » conak » wil oper ; "I COMPANY DOUTOR at 76 conte or § \, <4, MARCH OF MINERS. gion yoii to ine Cater Mine Workers ,antform price of COMPANY BUTCHER, [6 te ean ait i SSGUBE haba ¢ fe NEOENCE, i he fugit fila and the NOL rook pl, Ayres. Finaneiat Seeretay LP JCateraine Crinpled and Many Mines opemtors wilt win, 1 am preparing tor 5. 00 he WAL) OA OW Lhe OLier land & ‘ ', Hi Near Masleton Clave iperintendent reporte today part of the ime atl RRCIVK FON Bin $10 PO TTEWIRE MONTH \ Tie een i Metkers Galnimge | the premure brought Have sold from $15.00 to $25.00 i FOWK Nec t U \ e i ON, He ve ranks omen at Harwood wan the q Sa 7 , i ed for myself Khe situation there t indore ni Ne few came to Ww and Palka tos th « woman who bis ta chien aud whove uNban i Sy (iig; Mlaki BURA me mnicianne Granehyanen ry +e vial the Norwood atine ie practically | 900 high-class Dress and Shirt Waists, in best quality « works “outside be ‘outside’ men get loa pay cha mine ile ; . aah sett oedema t#9 y colle 1 the region that |at a standetill name is Mre Rose Ryan. and abe lives aot (en om the ting ns arouse the putt nacionce to (ne THU ET roe ‘ voatertay and Monday ( Lattimer the men living ata die Taffeta Silk, and all Silk Satin, handsomely corded, tucked 4 Hazleton woULDaive p r. id te mi NA n hte anu.) vel, A Dap Mi Important mo vasioht ance troy the mine ad not Appest {or and hemstitched, blacks and colors, at a UP HER BABIES no achools rhy the name, an Pry Urred aouth of 1K, work today, The mine Is working, bu Py 6 F serable existence ( . miners of McAdoo made @ viotoriou® | with a reduced force $ "Yea, my husvand jo wtrlking,”’ she said He cannot make as mucl fae ER RTS rAnAG? AEIPNG: PHAN : march through the south aide, tying up | 1 am informed that @ marching body j @ dollar @ day wid we have ton little ones You ean poe nirselt th SY ae Ay If it 7 sever rations and further crippling | went to Coleraine to intercept the mine e j doeen't go very far ae Cu Li fo g ’ ia > he Coleraine colitery workern (here “Dearly ae 1 love my bablen 1 would be Klad to see them jn ott 7 Hy a i Calving Hoe Sabato at] 4 4 wire to make . aot she Were $7.00 to $15.00 other hands ve On ihed y a ihe average earnin of all em If there were only wome way of pr them so they might neve {+f Jeisletelotolelolobetetetlotalatetafede | raltie colliery employe 97 men when | ninyoem at the Harwood and Lattimer i Gees great black plretches of coal aga! rpiUBibe Ittaeat/aitan am The FOUL, WL BAIY.NOIE WH to OTK | CoLeriee Pi ; os of the ve iisabh a Mahi of the seasonhy) ; Seerrartr rt rete te da } that lo waiting for (hem yesterday At Harwood, from which 00 tom! The waists were made by one of the leading manufacturers ’ THERE WERE NOT PROVISIONS WNOLU IN THIS ' TOO ‘MUCH AT STAK When the MeAdoo men arrived At of coal were shipped in August, the 9 fi HOM TO LAAT A WERK ‘ NOU IN THIS WOMAN'S nleraine they. confined thelr meres | not earnitien. of the TW employees for and are worth many times the price at which they are marke ) ‘ d EK } to persuading the men not to start work, ‘hat month amounted to 52, ) or an a = THERE WAS NO FIRE, AND THE MIR TODAY HAD ALL crap! TO ARBITRATE N OW The women, both Engiishiepeating and, ‘\ictee, OF FBG per Carlin PROSTY BLE. O88 OF LATH NOVEMUPR: : © = & (orelquors, were badly frightened and ta Re A My g 6 And she was forced to realize, as clearly ax ier mothers heart would let!’ wived he Coleraine men 19 Fama carninge Wel® $1.0 EL, oF an average > GR LVAg ; ' , wa Li8.8} por capt her, that ber children were simply ten supe \y nthe world ; Arbitration 4 ina able and Impossibie A When the whietle blew at Coleraine ire miners are, better paid them the é 0 { ers Perhaps it was her extremity that led her to apeak wo plainly Vor itja e arent rporation ha j lions of dollars of prop. waa found that only 150 men had rev | average workingman. q @ fact noticeable in all the towns, but parucularly striking io Hazleton. that) 2 erty e¢ dt pla \terests in the hands of out- ported for work at 2 out of 20, aes Y both the women and the men are afraid to speak + siders who know nothing wbout the property. They Book NONE 5 Let HA yas ‘y| COAL ROADS IDLE. 4 ‘This may seem preposterour, but IT IS TRUE ’ night arbitrate to the ruination of the company's in- ae down AAGAATTG { At @ mass-meeting In Yeddo, a little suburb of Hazleton. the other yy anti rests Whe Van Winkle atrippings, employing Erie at @ Stan W and Other the wtriking and the won-striking miners were asked to raise they hands There ts too much y many details of | 2 men, failed to etart, the men there | Mi ade Moving Any They would not commit themuelves publicly. ; bUBINe’s Which A board of arbitrators Would know $/ NR? having been permuaded fo alt by payee tae bote Brie Nall: The dread of the overseer and his power to take from them the litte H nothing about, to mak bitration possible.’-SUPT From Coleraine the MoAdoo men Went | jag te “almost at a standatill, No coal that they have Is so oppressive that the apirit of maniinons ts being crushed & LATHROP, Le Company to Tresckow, where they succeeded In ken 0 the Honesdale branch aad oat of them reese cress Serene mang Une Tyler and MoTurk washer > = AFRAID TO TELL THEIR WRONGS saa! SCENE PESIEEER ELD OIRO OED | employing twenty-five men, and alto Flats and Apartments to Let. i evailes upon the fifty men working at Many of the women, too, hesitate (o tell thelr wrongs to a stranger SCRANTON'S PLIGHT. yomlug Valley 9 thorough, tor not] Crawford & Dugan's atrippings not tof Unturnished. ‘They are in such terror of the mon that give them thelr meagre living \ wae Joimg business toe(go to work, From that place they pros that it te pitiful to consider the overpowering burden of t é . Hie wh fret of et ceeded to Moneybrook and persuaded have forved thom into this strike. ; OF PORES (NAL DUEL somevie May Have te Clone ana 7 1, mhottina | the men working at Carson's washery wi , \ Street Nallwaye Coase Work lectrio. 1lamt) earvien: Rid tne! not to begin worl te i ore. ORO: DaREYE, Gometimes the power of the operators affecta women who are not n © ot Strike of abhoale ‘beset The on ie aan coliterton ¥ riinA on en 2412 tet Ave, a minors’ wives seer ; | ths south, Ride he pad Near 1104 st. Apartments of 3 room: part im- ip Wi $3.00 and $4.00. HCRANTON, Sept 18—The rirtice ‘ mines. Nas. eauned oraine ye At, 1 the provements; $710 98 bee Janitor, or Erveecee th morning. a been a school teacher, and was able | the miners emered upon tte third day Laying ot ary coat train orem | at Heaver guing.fh ‘ahies Me “seart| §, F, joven & co, ht =: SILK HATS, {foough ve made a good one. Bhe begged me not to use her name, Hut» Pay t «4 nd Aver S08 $5.00 and $6.09 ALPINES,