A Coal Company's Strikebreaker Gambit in Roslyn

Tacoma, Aug. 4.—[Special.]—Manager Kangley, of the Northern Pacific coal mines at Roslyn, says regarding the editorial on the importation of miners from other states: "The Post-Intelligencer editorial was to the point, but as a last resort we had to hire men elsewhere, and having hired them we are bound to bring them in." Subsequently he intimated pointedly that if the company were to announce that it would not bring in Eastern Black miners, the Roslyn miners would stop signing the contract to return to work. But when pressed to express himself fully on this point, Mr. Kangley showed how, in his judgment, Roslyn miners had done wrong in refusing the reduction, with the assurance of more steady work. Nevertheless, the company did not hold the importation of Black miners from the East as a club over their heads. It was, he said, too late for all the Roslyn miners to return, even if they were acceptable, as some Eastern Black miners who were already contracted for would have to be taken on. Still, he would try to head off bringing in any more than was absolutely necessary, according to the agreements already entered into.