Miners Wouldn't Do It

Were Asked to Sign Contracts Not to Trouble Non-Union Men.

Shenandoah, Pa., Oct. 23.- The men who reported for work at the Mill Creek Coal company Wednesday morning were told that they would have to report at the company's store and sign contract before being reinstated. A few of them signed the paper as requested, but many refused to sign and returned home. Superintendent Jones as called up on the telephone at his home at Hazelton last night by an Associated Press correspondent and asked the nature of the contract which the men are requested to sign. He said:

"We simply ask the man to sign an agreement to the effect that they will not interfere in any way with non-union men or with the men now at work."

A number of men declared last night that they will not sign a contract of any kind.

Scranton, Pa., Oct. 23.- Three Italians, who have been working at the Dodge washery of the D., L. & W. Co. during the strike, were set upon by a mob as they were returning from work last evening and given a bad beating. Two of them were rescued by the city police and taken to the Lackawanna hospital. The third, Joseph Braun, got away from the crowd before the police arrived and ran to Bellevue. Four men set upon him and after beating him into insensibility threw him over a fence into the yard of a dwelling, where he was found in a pool of blood. His injuries, while serious, will not prove fatal. No arrests have been made.

Hazelton, Pa., Oct.. 23. - Mistaken for a non-unionist, Camelia Isabeck, a union mineworker, was badly beaten upon returning to his home at Cranberry yesterday from Pittsburg, where he had been employed since the strike began. His alleged assailants, two men from the city, were arrested by a detail of soldiers and brought to town, where they were placed under bail for court. A woman who witnessed the assault tried to prevent the soldiers from arresting the men by pointing a revolver at them.