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Col. Lockett announced that the War department
had determined to permit the rehabitation
of the strikers' tent colony at Ludlow, provided
the federal military officers are given a roll of the
inhabitants, together with the addresses of their
former places of employment, and provided further
that a union man of strong influence is placed
in charge of the camp, with whom the military
officers might confer.
By the program, promulgated by tbe War department,
no mine in the state which was shut
down as the result of the walkout of niiners Sept.
23, 1913, will be permitted to operate for tlie
present. Those mines which were closed as a
result of the violence in the state between Sept.
23, 1913, and April 22, 1914, will be permitted lo
resume operations with all men who we r e bona
fide employes of the companies prior to April 22.
No more non-uninists will be allowed to enter the
district.
On the other hand it was staled by Col. Lockett,
a roll of the inhabitants of every strikers' colonywould
be made. With each striker's name will
be placed the name of the mine at which he was
working when the strike was called. These entries,
he said, will be checked with the payrolls
of the companies and if any resident of a strikers'
colony is found not to have been actually employed
by the company he claims to have left he
be expelled from the colony as a person who is
not living at his proper abode contrary to the proclamation
of President Wilson published under date
of April 22.
The same procedure will be followed out according
to Col. Lockett in respect to ail persons living
on the PROPERTY OF MINE COMPANIES,
and these objects of expulsion will be deported
by the military authorities.
May 12 a verdict was brought in by a coroner's
jury that the eleven men killed in the battle at
Forbes "came to their death from gunshot wounds
inflicted by weapons in the hands of striking coal
niiners."
The same date Col. Lockett announced that a
forcible disarmament of everybody would start
May 13, and entering and searching would be carried
out if necessary.
The legislature further considered the bill authorizing
a $1,000,000 bond issue to provide for the
expenses of the strike.
The court martial of Maj. Hamrock, charged
with the Ludlow deaths, was begun on tbe same
day.
Mr. Joseph Northover, well known in Cambria
and Indiana counties, Pa„ has been made a foreman
of Berwind-White Coal Co.'s Eureka mine,
No. 39, at Seanor, Pa.
TH£ COAL TRADE BULLETIN. 59
MR. WILLIAM G. BRESLER PRESIDENT
OF CENTRAL RAILWAY OF NEW JERSEY.
The board of directors of the Central Railroad
of New Jersey met May 1. and elected Vice President
and General Manager William G. Bresler
president of the corporation,
succeeding
the late Mr. George F.
Baer, and at tho same
time continued him in
the position of general
manager of the
company's properties.
Mr. Bresler's first
railroad experience
was with the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy
railroad, in 1880, in
the position of trainmaster's
clerk. He
left the service of the
company in 1SS1, ancl
took a course in the
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology,
graduating in 1888,
when he returned to
Mr. William G. Bresler
the Burlington road and served with it until 1899
as yard master, chief train dispatcher, train master
and division superintendent.
In 1899 he entered the service of tbe Philadelphia
& Reading railroad as division superintendent
on its main line, and in 1900 was made general
superintendent of the road. Two years later
he was transferred to the Central Railroad of New-
Jersey as general manager, and in 1903 was chosen
vice president and general manager, which position
he held until the opening of the present month,
when he was elevated to the executive control of
the company.
Mr. Abraham Vedder Hartwell, a prominent
figure in coal and railroad circles of Chicago, is
dead. A breakdown followed a fall five weeks
ago and death came at the family residence, 4953
Lake Park avenue, May 5. Mr. Hartwell was
aged 86. He was connected with the Chicago &
Alton railroad for 37 years, resigning in 1900 to
become president of the F. G. Hartwell Co. He
was born in Denmark, N. Y., in 1828. He received
his education at the Gouverneur Technical
school, Gouverneur, N. Y., and shortly afterwards
married Margaret A. Bates of Utica. N. Y. He
supervised the construction of a section of the
Erie canal, and moved west in 1858. Fred G.
Hartwell and Morris Hartwell are sons living in
Chicago, and Mrs. Alfred B. Emery of Cleveland,
Ohio, is a daughter.