The evening world. Newspaper, September 21, 1900, Page 2

= Se = EEE Picts THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING; SEPTEMBER 21, 1900, (ec peenindaitcemnenee near a A WORLD WOMAN DESCRIBES SAD IN THE HOME LIFE OF THE STRIKI ae eee Terrible Tyranny of Pet- ty Despots of the Mine Region. Roofs Which Do Not Keep Out the Rain--Hovels for Homes. POD babes W4ORDIAN GAGA DDD NO. VI. OF THE SERIES. t BY OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR, POCROEEOAHEE14 ODED OE LEED EK HIDE DE DRO DE | THE BIRTH OF A MINER'S* CHILD, (Spectal to The Mvening World) @HAMOKIN, Pa, Sept. 21.—-The Aghting spirit Is strong in Shamokin, and thie in the face of conditions 80 advorse as to make self-ansertion al- most a mockery, “1 will eat grass before [ will consent to my husband ylolding!” was the-etand taken by the first Shamokin woman I met, @amokin ts almost completely tied up, ‘There are ten thousand strikers here and in the vicinity, and | believe they are:more resolute and ‘united than in any other centre of the anthracite region, And 00 strong 1s the sympathy between the miners and thetr wives that [ am disposed to think this magnificent deflance WAS BORN IN THE BARTS OF THE WOMEN, "That men and women robbed of ordinary human rights and privileges should dare to take this sublime stand againat injustiee, and face the con- sequences, is almost Incredible, TYRANNY OF COAL DESPOTS. Yot I learned by talking with such women as Mra, John Quinn that it fenot only the published list of grievances, and the scanty pay, that have rought wae8 micury hore, but that the Perry WRONGS INFLICTED BY THOS UNRESTRAINED DPSPOTS, THE INDIVIDUAL OPBRATORS Rt SMALL COMPANIES, HAVE BEEN ALMOST BEYOND EN- 2. Mrs. Quinn is an Intelligent woman, with even more Judgment, perhaps, ‘and acumen and poise then you will find In the ordinary woman of com- fortable means, In her case, as in the majority that I have noticed, misfortune and poverty Gave not dulled hor housewifely sense, Her surroundings are no Yeas painful to her because familiar, The wife of the Mnglish-npeaking miner MAY BECOME A PAUPER, | BOT SHE NEVER BECOMMS A SLOVION | Mra, Quinn was preparing some cabbage for dinner in the room that ‘was kitehon and living room, ‘The room was dark, damp and |Ieameling Phough it was plain that great palin had been taken to aweep it and brighten the few tins that stood about Im the room beyond was a’ bed. On it Jay Mra. Quinn's bedridden mother and a tiny hiimon being wrapped in a shawl, “Peat's my baby,” sald Mra, Quinn. “Tle's four day old. There are not many comforts walling for ® miner's baby when It comes into the world HOW A MINER’S BABY WAS BORN, “This little fellow was born Iast Saturday night. There was a fright ful tempest, whon the lightning seomed about to rip open the mountatna, and @ great Wind swept throuh the valley, and after it there was a long, cold rain. “Do you eee that celling? Can you imagine how the rain would pour through on my new-born baby lying on that very bed? “In the worst of the rain my husband climbed to the roof and tried to mend it, for it nearly broke his heart to #ee the rain coming in so, But It cant be monded. He's often tried |t before, “Oh, we do our best. The Union Coal Company owns this houre FOR OUR ROOMS WH PAY 4.60 RENT A MONTH. IT 18 THIRTY YHARG BINCK THE ROOF HAS HEPN REPATRIMD, “Last March | went to the Superintendent and begged that he repair ft He darely listened, “When hot weather comes,’ he finally sald “A month ago my husband went to him and asked bim if he would mend the roof. “'No, | won't!’ he ald “It was what he meant the first time,” NO CRADLE; RAINING THROUGH ROOF, John Quinn is a striker, and a determined one, The little money that he fins he is hoarding carefully THORE ARK NO LITTLE DREASRS FOR THE POUR-DAYS-OLD BABY, NO CHADLB FOR IT TO Lib IN; NOT BVPN A DRY ROOF TO COVER LT, nov, indeed, are there etout wally ‘to close it In, for newspapers are put up where plaster ahould be. And in this fashion a miner's baby was born! Pho gift of life that had heen throwt Upon the poor little mite that lay ‘Wrapped in a shawl, seemed the least enviable that could be Imagined, Donhitlees he will think so when he gets “blg enough to carry a pall,” which fs the criterion by which a boy's Atneas for work ts determined And 4 ininer’s child learns to cary a pall very young Teaw one this morning who did not look big enongh to be admitted to the most juvenile ball team. ile was about the right size to be com. fortably towed along by a nurse, 1 was told that he had been a breaker boy @ year and a hall, | On “Fiddler's Green,” on which stands the wretched group of hovels of which Mra, Quinn's is by no means in the most Urgent need of repair, | ‘vinlted several Hungarian and Polish homes, WHERE ROOFS DO NOT PROTECT. Not one of these houses had a roof that afforded any real protection, M4 the window panes were either mineing altogether or patched up with Yams, Yet there have been frosts for several nights past, and there te a ‘Warning of Winter in the air. The women here could speak but a fow fragments of Pnglieh, but their geatures were eloquont when the strike was mentioned, “WE STARVE,” SAID ONY OF THM, POINTING TO A ITAL LOAF OF BREAD THAT STOOD ON THE TALE, “BUT WE STRIKE!" ta in easy to predict » victory for labor In the face of euch scenes as ‘well an the other, in the growt war 1s to be presented fairly, 18 touching @o not expect or claim from the publio even such “recognition” as is Implied in & fair otatemoent. “Wil you really tell the truth about our homes and our condition ly saked @ group of women whom | found in “Stable Row"'~an [na te designation, inasmuch a# no mino operator would keep his hors had been led to think the truth on this subject both unsafe and ‘That the great outside work of every inv people, with enough @ thought for thelr undeserved wretchednows, 18 @ suggestion “Mhe gratitude of the miners’ families when they learn that their side,| _ An auch quarters, however greedily ho may iux the miners for thelr tenancy. | % and to wear, and with books to read and pleasant things to look alg | “OVERHEARD IN HAZL VOTE For 1S THE MORTAL FOE OF ALL TRUSTS ‘ i. "Say, Annie, aint he the feller pa voted for the Inst time?” that we're Americana, and citizens, and that we work hard and live and the mon, they say: “Higa! Anarehy!" ING MEN AND WOMBN, THAT'S ALL. Of 4 groat many of the women here in Shamokin I asked “What shall you do when supplies give out?” where did yielding figure in their list of resources Ono, a thin, wiry Trishwoman, who told me that her name was Mrs. Flynn, sald with an emphasis that left no doubt that she meant it: “What hall I do to live? knowa! EARN 90 CENTS A DAY! NINETY forced to patronize them But here, too, a citizen apparently well Informed te that the company stores do not exist, ing town spares himaelf, All tha miners’ wives have a good word to oay for "Mother J x Sho has helped them to hold their courage fast and they belleve tn (gg be professional wonderful work Indeed, any well-meaning woman, and there must philanthropists to whom this term applica, could do a Among this outeast people The only necessary qualifications would be loleure and a kind heart, OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR, TO-MORROW Mine Dantar wilt write from Mf, Carmel, “WOMBN AS THE LEADENS OF TIE sTRIKH” MINERS ASK ONLY JUSTICE, (By John Sullivan, Seoretary of the United Brewers’ Association.) The stories told by Miss Dunbar are enough to ruse every workingman to anger. Those who are ootive in organized labor have more or less know)l- edge of the conditions to which the coal barons have reduced the men in the mines, but these truthful nvticles tell the story to the rest of the pubhe, and Heir effect should be beneficial, The miners have suffered many years, while the operators have grown rich, Miss Dunbar's articles in The Evening World show how the miner has been trodden down, Now they are organized, and with publie opinion on ‘heir side they ought to get Justice, Justice is all they usk for, WOULD (By D. W. C, Cammeyer, Treasurer of Photo Engravers’ + Union No, 1, Miss Dunbar’s work is a revelation to the general public, ahd its good effect upon publie opinion—that public opinion which compels action—should be to the benefit of the half-starved miners, Her tone is temperate, yet the scenes she describes are enough to warm the temper of a saint, We in this country ought to have got beyond the stage where every 4 member of a family must -vork to provide for the family, If a few more women like her would take § hold of this work in the same spirit and with the § same pluck and determination the disgrace would 4 come to a speedy end, honeatly “And when we ask for decent homes to live in and enough to feed and clothe our children, and for a fair and aquare relation between operators | ‘WE ARE NOT USED TO BEING REGARDED AS SELF-RSPHCT- And I found that no- Well, borrow, perhaps; and after that—lod : CENTS A DAY | FIND TO DE, IN SHAMOKIN A180, THE AVERAQW LIVING WAGE. Testimony on this point did not vary. The company stores flourish and are bitterly abhorred by the women who are! it. likely to tell you ) Tt requires @ little effort to dts- cover the minora’ home conditions, and this the ordinary citizen in the min- Pa, on iii ia ula ls daa Ap RR RA Bh ey, T began work at the age of nip mines until | was twenty-one, w company, and | think it was the me, That je three years ago, | the committee for the drivers, A.M. ull 7 P.M, for eight or ni Dunbar'a work very much and I written {8 the truth and there is ships and danger at work COLLIERIES (Continued trot Lithuanians and Poles armed with clube and stones, They smashed windows and other mine property, Tt was with difficulty that Supt, Baird and a posse of men prevented numbers of the strikers from enters ing the slope at the Kebley fun ‘The streets of Shenandoah were crowded by strikers and others who were drewn to the scene, A trolley car waa held up and eleven men were roughly handled, Some of them were thrown out of the door. Among the passengers were Will ‘ fam Bvans, Sanwel Davis aud Will jam Wagner, all of Shenandoah. They were on their way to work, Chief %| Burgess Brown, of Shenandoah, in Xi resoulng his won from the hands of | the strikers was htmaeif beaten The etrikers policed every path and | road to the collieries and they, by %| threats, intimidated workmen and H| thue induced them to return to their | homes, Much excitement exists, Dantel Ohrietian, chief of the coal and fron police, stated this morning thet his fore is unequal to the task of guarding the colitertes, 10,000 MORE IDLE, Ten Colliertes of the Reding Closed Down To-Day in Shen- andoah District. PHILADELPHIA, Bept. 21-—Gen- eral Supt. Lather, of Pottsville, to- ETO 693 Bast One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street, New York HEKNOWS! WAS BLACKLISTED. Tam a young man and worked in the coal mines for twelve years at the Maltby mines, operated by the Lohigh Valley Company ne and worked in and about the hen I waa blackti#ted under that best thing that ever happened to was disoharge) for being one of who objected to working from 7 ne hours’ pay, | apprectate Miss can sland by her, What she has & great deal more to be added to 1 know what it js to be a miner, to say nothing of his hard- E.R. 10,000 MORE IDLE; TEN CLOSE DOWN. im Wiret Ps the company were affected by the erike to-day, From 9,000 to 10,000 men have Joined the strikers. This action on the part of the mine workers was the result of a meeting held last night at Shenandoah, Twenty-four collieries of the Read ing Company are still working, The collieries closed to-day are bunched in the Mahanoy valley and are as follows: Maple Hill, Knickerbocker, Bilangowsn, Shenandoah, St, Nich olas, Suffolk, Indian Kidge, Kohin oor, West Shenandoah and Turkey Ran. These mines are located in and about Shenandoah, Mahanoy City, Mahanoy Plains, St. Nicholas and Ashland, all mining towns In Hobuyl kill County, MURDERED A MINER. First Bloodshed of Mrike He- ported from Pittston—Nons Union Man Killed, (pect! 9 The Brening Worlt.) PITTSTON, Pa, Sept. 21.—The cite coal mrike is recorded here to: day. Peter Lacano, a Polish miner and ® non-union man, was murdered mining hamlet near here, where the Pennsylvania Company's mines are situated. Lacano's body was found lying in & pool of blood. His head had been battered to a pulp. Five atrikers have been arrested In connection with the crimo, They wore under the influence of liquor, SHOOTING AT MINE. day telegraplved President Harria, of/ Watohman Davia Vatally Wound- Bho Phthadetphia ant Reeding © from Company, that of While on Daty at Wiekory , SCENES NG MINERS. : frat bloodahed of the great anthra-|{ early this morning at Port (jriffith, a "a ASPERFEL. JLEVELAN 144 BOWERY, “Bowery Savings Bank Block,” rogue ani Grand Ste street, Mery, was shot carly this morning by An unknown person as he was patrol. | | ling the co | ‘The bullet entered hie loft ald Moting a serious if not fatal wound | Davis saw a man run toward ¢ rine house and before he fell ground from exhaustion he fire shots at the fleoing assaeetn, bu the pullete apparentiy took ‘The colliery Me an inointed Davie was compelled to crawl \ his hands and knees before he could rooute ald at a mine house. (a Ea MITCHELL NOT HERE, | | Report that Minera! President In| to Confer with Opera Dented by Companions, Uptown jewellers charge exorbitan prices for wedding rings, simply be- cause of the sentiment connected with it, Wesel our 14 and 16 karat seam: less Wedding Rings by weight~-mo fancy prolits, No extra charge for engraving, Watch Bargains, Ladies’ Watehe—Solid s4-kt. gold throughout: hunting case, American movernents +i j 0.00 eee Gentiornen's Wateh Solid Gold ouabout, bunting case, Wale titair EGin torementee, BO Opentivenings tit iturdays tif 10, trated clrewiar Of Dai Mail on prompt attenth PAAR AP Apap Dre aes The report from Hagleton, President Mitehell, of the Workers, Hudson Company, ai 2 Cortlandt street, ) ae = KM ¢ phant, who has moot Archbishop Ryan, of ja, as 4 reprAsentative of tho sald he ad heard nothing of *residemt Mitene! ming to New York He had retuned to meet Mr Muchet in} SPECIAL SALE, Welt ee tae se ate ee ete | eMON and ORANGR FRUIT ot the operators to Arch: | VEMON) ant ORANGE 5, $0c ell, of the De! CH@POLATE WALNUT PUDGE. 10¢ FRIDAY & SATURDAY. ‘ompany Mit ention to OPERATORS DEFIANT. OnsBaturday 6 1b, AUTTAR PEANUT BRITTLE 10c FRENCH PEPPERMONT fi canada CREAMA ' $0 Wi Never Recowmize the Union | auao BRUIT and NUT 4g 1 ® Pound of Cont te Not CHOCOLATES » bac Mined All Winter, REAMID WALNUTS, oll-fashy ge | biitdisiecersile Py ed we sid WOW-GRADB HONTONS od Hoco STR MOTW Maal TRS GIOR ERT Oe) DATES Ali, CHOCO LATES Ib, 24 rent out from Hagleton | POA TED MARSH MALIAWS.1b, 25¢ fe wil! surrender rather | ; Any 0 Above goods ment by mall, ea bie Winter's t We amiss) ipseaoh ponte Yue , Add % 0 each d for portage, eading. ‘The operators have made up thelr minda that chey will not recognize 54 BARCLAY ST. the miners’ union if @ pound of coal bs not mined all Winter A COR WEST AWAY “The laaue 4# not #o much @ question ‘aT "ZICORTLANDT ST. | of wages as &¢ ts the recognition of the con CHURCH union, Thd.aneraters-of the anthracke gee region ean NWVer consent to have a lot Mf Dituminous men min their bualness: Lost, Found and Rewards, In the first place ehe bituminous men | Fe know nothing about the conditions gov. | “ian . + 7 ing the anthractte trade And in the nd place it would mean ruin for the anthractte Inceremts i the soft-coal men were In & porition to Nominate the an: i white B Toh Ry 6 haw oth ot Hh MRWARD for the recovery of body™od Mules, 15 years old, drowned tn Prineos Gremed in overalls ant two shina Addroge Mie. M.A. Marer, Biitord, No hraotie trade.” -_——- WEST END TIED UP, — pia Bis 7 Laat Mine in Wyomtoe and Lack- DIVORCE ROBISON, Sant awanna Valleys Is Clow by Strikers, BORANTON, Pa, Sept, 31 —Preaident f District No. 1, Informed irike headquarters here thie afternoon he Went Bnd Coa) Company's mine Mocanaqua, which hao resisted the efforts of the ateikers to clome it, was that ‘8 "A WK ed up at noon, “onlays ‘a Neat ‘This makes complete the suspension ing World. the Wyoming and Lackawanna val- | ove ee oo a WORLD WANTS PAY NOT INCREASED. Buttonhola the ican Public and hold Heading People Declare that their attention for Wages of Miners Have Not 1@ ttle while-just Jong enough to sult Reon Rained, the purpose of the PHILADELPHIA, Sept. M—An abso- advertiser, They lute dental was made today by Gen wet Help for the oral Manager Henderson that the Phila. Help Gavkers and deiphta and Reading Coal pany had inereaved tt mine employees 10 per cents they get Joba for tho Situation Beek. 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