St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-24
A FOOLISH HARANGUE.
McENDIARY TALK BY A MINER AT
WEIR CITY
ALL GLASSES GET EXCITED.

Hundreds of Men Said to Have
Been Engaged for Work in
Colorado-Five Hundred Ne
groes Shipped From Birming
ham. Ala, to the Kansas Mines
WEIR CITY, Kan, July 23.-The Sab
bath passed quietly in this mining dis
trIct. The mines were, of course, al
idle, and working miners kept strictly
out of the way of the strikers. The
mine owners have decided to not accept
the protection of deputy sheriffs offered
by Sheriff Arnold. They say that the
deputies are all appointed from the
ranks OF the strikers and their SYM
pathizerS. and that the protection they
afford would not meet the occasion. The
owners are arming all their men, and
the latter are under orders to guard
their lives and the property upon
which they are at work at all hazards.
The sensation of the day is the speech
made last night by President Walters,
of the Union Mine Workers Western
association. He had just returned from
Missouri, where he has been working
for the cause of the strikers. He adj
dressed a big mass meeting of the
strikers, and in the course of his re-
marks he praised the miners for the
work they had done at Clemens strip
pit, where they were fired on by the
COW men at work. He regretted that he
was absent at the time, for he would
have been glad to have led the men to
the conflict. Continuing, he said:
Keep up the good work. March to
the pits and talk to the men. If they
won't come out to aid you in this strike,
persuade them. Remember, [ do not
urge violence. Let the women go first,
but let the men follow to see that their
wives and mothers and sisters are not
lnSulted by the scabS and blacklegs.
Don't be afraid to go to the mines. The
only charge upon which you can be ar
rested is that of treSpaSs, and that docs
not amount to anything. The only way
to win this strike is to win it-and you
know what that means. If we catch
scabs out after dark and give them
good thrashing, what can be done?
They can't call out the troops for that,
can they?"
These remarks by the president of
the miners association have caused a
sensation among all classes. The mine
owners fear that violence will grow
from now on, and the men believe they
have the support of their union officers
i'll whatever steps they may take, how
ever violent, to win.
The construction of the stockades
about the larger mines is almost COM
pleted. Living quarters for miners are
being built within them, and by the
middle OF the coming week, it
is believed, everything will be
ready to accommodate the new
men. 1t is understood that hundreds
of miners have been engaged in Col
orado to go to work. The new men are
those miners who have been thrown out
of work by the closing of mines in
Colorado. Most of them are single men,
and the mine owners believe they can
be relied on to carry on the work of the
coal mines in spite of the strikers OPP
position. Lieut.. Gov. Percy Daniels
has arrived here under orders to make
an official investigation into the strike,
and report upon the necessity and adj
visibility of state Interference.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 23.-About
800 negroes were shipped from here to-
night 10 Leavenworth, Kan. 1t is pro-
posed to replace strikers with them.
Agents of the mine owners Will en-
deavor to secure LOCO more negroes.