The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-06-18
THE COAL MINERS STRIKE
President McBride's Opinion
of the Situation.
Some Will Resume Work and
Some Will Not,
Miners Arrested for Firing on Troops
From Ambush.
Troops Ordered to Mount olive, MIA
Vigilance Committee Formed at
Cripple Creek = Other
Strike Notes.

Py the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, O., June 17.-President
Mcbride OF the United States Nine
Workers said this evening, in his opin
ion, the whole Hooking valley mining
region would resume work tomorrow.
Sunday creek miners will not and jack
son miners may not. The Massilon
miners will not resume. They struck
last February for 151a cents differential
over the Hooking valley wages and will
continue the fight. Many Ohio districts
will not resume tomorrow that would
have done so had President Adams
called the state convention.
AS TO western Pennsylvania he said
the mines would resume, except five
or six whose operators would not pay
the price fixed by the settlement.
In Indiana the block coal miners COM
posing a third of the miners in the state
had accepted the settlement, but wheth-
er they would go to work tomorrow in
the face of the fact that the other miners
had rejected it. he could not say.
Illinois will go back TO work he said.
said to the operators the time the set
tlement was made did not believe the
eastern and northern miners who were
to be bound by it would 60 to work be-
fore two or three weeks past.
President Mcbride thinks they will
all 60 to work under the settlement and
hopes the resumption will not be post
poned longer than two weeks.
Outside of this competitive DISTRICT"
| said Mcbride, matters are going on
smoothly toward settlement"
Adiutant-General Howe, who has been
in command OF the militia in Eastern
| Ohio, had a consultation this evening
with Governor Mckinley relative to the
| withdrawal CT the troops. Tbs result OF
the conference was that the militia now
in the field in Stark, Carroll and Tusca-
rawas counties will remain.
The governor and attorney general be-
lieve that from tho present outlook there
will be no occasion for keeping the
troops in the field later than Tuesday.
ARRESTED FOR FIRING ON TROOPS.
MAssILLoN, o., June 17.-Captain
Freed and Corporal Van Dusen of the
Logan Rifles of Youngstown, personally
captured J. E. and @. D. Blair at Beach
| City late last night and held them under
arrest for shooting from am bush. Nine
shots were fred. The prisoners turned
states evidence, and a search party
located four others and they were
escorted through the town under heavy
guard and locked up. On their arrival
here this afternoon they were charged
with riotous conduct and will be tried
tomorrow.
Captain Sherman of Company III was
shot at six times, one ball shattering his
bayonet scabbard.
Work will be resumed Monday in the
Pittsburg district, Wheeling and Lake
Erie road at Laurelton, Long Run and
Dollinvale.
At Sherrodsville, the miners will con-
tinue idle, and this is also true of all
the Cleveland. Lorraine and Wheeling
mines.
The strike in the Massillon district
will continue indefinitely.
SCALE ADOPTED.
sPRINeFIELD, ILL.,, June 1.-THE
miners conference adjourned last night
after two days session. A scale of
wages for mining coal and for day labor.
ers in and around the coal mines was
adopted, which is about the same as
that OF 1892. In some districts the
demanded prices is fraction higher and
others lower, avaraging about the same
paid last year.
Resolutions were adopted calling for
pay every two weeks. check weghmen,
and an arbitration committee of three
parsons to be chosen, one by the miners.
who take Lleutenant-G Gill, one
by the operators and the third 10 be
chosen by those two. Any operator
granting the demanded scale can resume
work by June Goth.
TROUBLE FEARED
CHICAGO, June 17.--At late hour to.
night General Wheeler, commanding the
First brigade, Illinois National Guard,
received orders from the adiutant.
general to send the Seventh regiment,
Colonel Colby commanding, to Mount
Olive at once to aid the local authorities
in preserving peace. The strikers there
have been acting in riotous manner for
week past, preventing the movement
OF trains oI coal cars, and committing
other lawless acts. Last night party
OF United States deputy marshals wens
to Mount Olivet from Springfield and
arrested several of the leaders OF the
men who had been instrumental in
stopping traffic on the road in the hands
OF the federal court. Nearly Thousand
strikers and sylnpathizers gathered,
however, and made such threatening
demonstrations that the deputies ar
rested the men and returned to Spring
field. The sheriff reported 10 the
governor that he was unable to cope
with the mob without additional aid,
and, although there has been no 6eri-
GUS fioting as yet, it was deemed bslt
to take precautionary measures.
The Seventh regiment left this city
shortly after midnight on q special
train.
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE FORMED.
COLORADO SPRINGS. COL. ] une Ia
private dispatch received ia this city
from Cripple Greek states that the Bull
hill miners are already forming vici
lance committee to lid the camp Of the
men who are not to their liking. If this
thing is kept up there is liable to be Q