Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-06-21
MINERS WILL WORK.
Backbone of the Strike IN Impor-
tant Districts Broken.
Mcbride Tells Why the Committee Acted
as IL Did-Feeiing i'm Various STATS
as to the Result - Some
VIII Hold Out.
ACCEPT THE TERMS.

AuAhSTs u Tie IOChiug valley VIII Idli
into line for the agreement next Mon
day and accept its terms. kilograms
have been received from every part of
the valley confirming that view. The
more important meetings were held at
Jacksonville, Bongstreth, Orbiston and
New Pittsburgh, where the largest min
ing interest on the line of the Hooking
valley lay. At these points the miners
decided to resume work Monday on
the new scale. Many of the dispatches
criticise President Adams quite severe
ly for the radical stand he has taken.
Reports from Sand Run and Minerton
say the men have decided to go to work
Monday, and advices from Buchtel
and Straitsville are to the same effect.
Mcbride Defends Himself.
President Mcbride said on Friday
night:
The men have only been held in line by the
suspense occasioned through the holding Of
conventions at different points and the agita-
ton kept up by our board members. district
presidents, organizers and other field workers
whose expenses were paid by us Our funds
were exhausted and we are hundreds of dollars
! in debt and our field workers. unable TO pay
/ their own expenses, were com PEELED to stay OF
For Gods sake, send us men money to
keep our men in line or the fight is lost We
could not aid them because we had no money
to send and most OF our workers had
exhausted their personal means and were
helpless to go on, apd although myself and
others have advanced money to keep the
movement alive, if financial aid cannot be Sc
cured from some source the next issue of our
official journal will be its Last until money
comes in, and TO suspend publication cuts OF
the last reliable means of communication be-
tween the national Office and the men
I'VE have a dozen men in Jail for conspiracy
among them w. B. Wilson, of our national
board at Cumberland, Md. With, no money to
defend these men, many of them, though inno-
cent, will suffer. -Four thousand men deserted
us at Coal Creek, Tenn. Nearly 1000 are at
work in Kansas; 000O out Of l4O00 in Virginia
and West Virginia are also at work. Others are
setting aside our policy of peace. We had
reached the danger line and made the best we
could Of the situation"
VIII Not Resume.
STREAToR, ILL.,, June 1s.-At a mass
meeting of the miners of this city and
vicinity held here Friday it was.decided
to continue the present strike and
ignore the agreement made by the
miners and operators at Columbus.
Troops Are Sent.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, June 1S.-Gov.
Altgeld has ordered the Seventh regi-
ment of Illinois national guards of
Chicago to Mount Olive. The order
was sent to Brig. Gen. Wheeler at
9:45 o'clock Sunday night, and was
based on letter from the sheriff of
Macoupin county asking for assist
ance for himself and United States
Marshal Brinton in arresting men who
have been interfering with trains on
the Chicago, Peoria e. St. Louis rail
way and successfully defying the.state
and federal authorities for the past
six days.
VIII Not Go to Work.
TERBE HkUTE, Ind, June 1s.-The
delegates to the convention of Indiana
miners Saturday afternoon, by 6s votes
to %, decided in favor of contin-
uing the strike until they re-
ceived last years price of 20 cents.
Cost of the Strike.
CHICAGO, June 1S.-Col. w. p. Rend
said in an interview; "The strike is
now effectually broken In Ohio and
Pennsylvania and it is quite certain
that most Of the miners will return to
work this week. The sum and SUBJ
stance of the whole matter is that the
miners have lost in wages about $780,
coo day, or over $40, 900. 900 for the en-
tire period they have been idle, and
have now after all this rioting and
bloodshed accepted rate which they
could have obtained easily and with
out any dispute seven weeks ago"
Strike Ended at Pittsburgh.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 19.-The set
Element of the great coal strike and
the return to work of Is, 900 of the 90
600 miners in this district has given an
impetus to all kinds of business and
the situation is more hopeful than at
any time for many months.
Ohio Miners Resume.
CINCINNATI. O., June 19-Al the |
Hooking valley miners, except those
at Straitsville and Lost Run, |
have returned 90 work. BY Tues |
day all of the mines in the valley will |
he in operation. From the Sunday creek |
valley it is reported that the miners are |
still holding out for 20 cents ton,
but will fall in line before the |
end of the week. At Coalition, o., not |
a miner went to work, nor one in
Jackson county. In the Sixth district |
nearly 1900 people went TO work. At
Trimble none of the miners have gone !
to work
In the Massillon district not a man |
went to work, the miners having de-
cided not to abide by. the Columbus |
agreement. They will hold out for a |
fifteeD-cent differential over the rate |
maid in the Hooking VALLEY district