Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1894-04-26
THE E STRIKE.


THE GREAT STRIKE.
One Hundred and Thirty Thousand
Coal Miners Out.
PITTsBURG, PA. April 21.-
The great coal strike, SO far as
this district at least is concerned,
appears to be a success. Atnoon
to-day the 5000 men in the river
district and the $500 in the rail
road district laid down their
picks. and after receiving their
wages quietly left the mines.
Dispatches from the Clearfield
District report that $4,000 men
there also struck, and that the
mines are generally closed. In
the Phillipsburg region, east of
the mountains. all the mines are
idle. The suspension in the
Clearfield region will enforce
idleness upon 400 train men on
the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts
burg railroad. In the Connells-
vile region the men are still at
work, but the leaders expect to
have almost the entire region of
Is, 900 men out on Monday The
leaders say there is no longer a
doubt as to the mems intention
to strike.
M'BRIDES FIGURES.
COLUMBUS. O., April 21.-Ac-
| cording to President McBrides
figures, 132, 900 miners stopped
work to-day.
IOWANS NOT I'm IT."
DIES MONIES, Iowa. April 81.
The strike ordered by the
United Mine Workers of America
to begin to-day has not extended
to the Iowa miners, and it is not
believed the men in this section
will join the movement. Com
paratively few miners belong to
the order in this State. and the
| command to strike, therefore,
has no effect on the large major
ity here. In any event, they are
not in a position to leave their
employment. Work has been
dull, and many are deeply in
debt, and could not afford to quit
at the present time. A few Or
ganizers are endeavoring to work
up a sympathy strike, but they
meet with little encouragement.
Nearly all of the mine-owners
employ a sprinkling of negroes,
and while many of the whites
have local unions, they realize
that it would be folly to strike,
as it would be easy to get col
ored men to fill their places.
Dispatches from Oskaloosa,
the center of the Iowa coal-belt.
say the miners in that section
show no symptoms of quitting
They are not financially able te
take part in a strike.
KANSANS FIGHTING SHY.
TOPEKA, Kas., April 21.-Ad
vises from various parts of Kan
sas to-day show that the GOA
miners in this State are not pay
ing much attention to the strike
order issued by the United Mine
Workers of America. Only
smalI number of the miners il
this State belong to the associa
tion, and none of them are anx
ious to quit work, A great many
have been idle for months anf
are not in a position to maintain
a strike. The fact, too, tina
they have not recently been en-
gagged in an unsuccessful strike
which made their condition wors,
rather than better, inclines then
to fight shy Of another walk-out
Instead of acceding to their de
mand the mine-owners imported
over one thousand negroes from
alabama to take strikers places
and most of the colored men ar
at work.
The white miners who are a
work in the Southern part of thu
Estate have little faith in a STRIKE
under existing circumstances
and are not at all anxious tt
unite with the men in other parts
of the country, who stand a bet
uO1 oI1OW III W111ll14lSs uUllGl
more, the operation have an i'm
mense amount of coal on hand
and could shut down for a time
without serious detriment tt
their business. They would cease
operation rather than listen to q
demand for a higher scale.
PHILLIPSBURG DISTRICT.
PHILLIPSBURG, Pa, April 81.
The miners strike in the Phil.
lipsburg District is complete. Il
embraces Clearfield and Cambria
country, and 10, 900 men are out.
Several thousand miners in the
Dubois and Punxsutawney dis
tricts were already out. Two
thousand in Tioga county
stopped work to-day, but tae
Huntingdon and Board-Top men
] did not strike