The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-22
MINERS BEGIN THEIR WAR.
Most Of the Men In the Doubtful Dis
triCtS Obey the Order.

and Only $4,000 In the Treasury of
the President Mcbride
Expects the Men to Fight to the Last
Ditch and Live by Their Own Re-
souroes-The Men In Few Districts
Refuse to Go Quilt Is Estimated
That 100, 900 Miners Are Out Now.
Columbus, o., April 2l.-With the sue
cessful inauguration of the miners strike
comes probably the chief difficulty that
will beset the managers in carrying it to
a successful close. President Mcbride
received to-day many requests from local
assemblies to be released from the order
to strike, because the employing oper-
orators had agreed to pay them their de-
mands, and others asking what to do in
case of their operators acceding to the
terms of the strikers.
The following answer has been prepared
by President Mcbride, and is sent in an
swer to all questions:
Dear Sir. The fight for living wages is a
general fight and no local settlements will be
authorized or recognized. Until a general
settlement has been declared the following
mine rule m lst be obeyed by all miners in all
localities; as ordered by the national conVen-
tion;
Coal must not be loaded at any price. or
for any purpose but where companies want
engines run, water hauled, timber or any
other kind OF repair work done. ii will be per
m1tted provided the wages are according to
the scale demanded by the convention"
MUST WORK AS UNIT.
These resolutions touch the point in
the tactics Of this strike on the miners
side, upon which the leaders base their
hope of success-that is the working of
the whole union as a unit. In former
strikes they have found that permitting
the mines of one district to resume
operations as soon as the local
operators agree to pay the scale
helped to supply the coal demand
and injured the chances of their brother
miners in other districts to win their
fight. The result of this strike probably
depends on the ability of the managers to
enforce this order, and prevent the miners
from going to work where there is no dis
pute as to wages. In Pennsylvania. a
number of operators are already Offering
to pay the scale.
TIE DOUBTFUL MEN OBEY.
President Mcbride did not receive
special advices from many parts of the
coal fields to-day as to how the strike
order was obeyed. He had only arranged
to get telegraphic reports from the doubt
full points. AS to those districts in which
the miners in a mass-meeting had
decided to strike, he had no doubt
about what was done to-day. The
reports from them will come in to
him by mail. Telegrams from Pennsyl-
vania, West Virginia, Indiana and Tennes-
see showed that all that were expected
to go out, and more, had laid down their
picks at noon. Summarizing the special
reports he had received and the
dispatches in the evening newspa-
pers, President Mcbride said this even
ing that 132,00 men had gone out, about
whose action he was somewhat III doubt
last night. He was perfectly satisfied
with the situation. 81 am entirely conf
dent" he said, "of the ultimate success
of the undertaking"
A BAD OUTLOOK.
1t is claimed that there is now mined
full months supply of coal ahead, and
the funds of the miners organizatio do
not exceed s., 900 which will be exhausted
very soon. Not much if any financial aid
is looked for from other labor organiza
tions, according to President Mcbride,
and disinterested persons, pointing out
the fact that the demand for coal is not
large now, express some fear as to the
success Of the strike.
To this President Mcbride says some
of the biggest battles ever won by miners
in this country were fought without
money, and the struggle will be of that
class. Every miner is well acquainted
with the condition of the treasury of the
union, and knows that no strike benefit
will be paid. Every miner will be thrown
upon his own resources to earn liveli-
hood pending the settlement of
the strike and is fully informed onu that
point. 4 full and complete understand
ing Of the situation, together with de-
termination of the men to go into the
strike at whatever cost to themselves
may accrue, is evidence to Mr.. Mcbride
that the miners are prepared to hold out
for months if need be.
A SUCCESS IN THE PITTsBURG DISTRICT.
Pittsburg Pa, April 21.-The great
coal strike, so far as this district is con-
cerned at least, appears to be a success.
At noon to-day the 5000 men in the river
district and the $500 in the railroad dis
trict laid down their picks, and after re-
ceiving their wages, quietly left the
mines.
Dispatches from the Clearfeld district
report that 1900 men there also struck
and that the mines are generally closed.
The suspension in the Cleartield region
will enforce idleness upon 400 trainmen on
the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg rail
road.
In the ConnellsVille region the men are
still at work, but the leaders expect to
have almost the entire region of $1,000
men out on Monday. The leaders say
there is no longer a doubt as TO the atti-
tude of the men regarding the national
strike. They are largely in favor of it,
and nearly three-fourths of them are ex-
pected to lay down their tools.
5000 STOPPED PICKING.
Pittsburg, April 81, II 80 p. m.-Of the
1900 miners employed in the river and
railway coal pits of the Pittsburg
district at least $1,000 quit work a noon
to-day and by Monday il is confden tlY
expected that work throughout the en-
tire district will be at a standstill.
Reports received from all sections Of
the district indicate that the strike is the
largest in the history of this, the largest
bituminous coal district in the country.
With one or two exceptions, the seventy
eight mines along the Monongahela Valley
are idle tonight, and the G.O00 men who
have been employed in them are now
numbered among the strikers.
ALL OUT 1T PHILLIPsBURG.
Phillipsburg, Pa, April 81. - The
miners strike in the Phillisburg district
is complete It embraces Cleartield and
Cambria county, and 10000 men are out.
Several thousand miners in the Dubois
and Punxsutawney districts were already
out. Two thousand in Tioga county
stopped work to-day, but the Huntingdon