The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-04-26
THEY STRIKE.
\ Hundred Thousand Miners Drop
Their Picks.
The Strike is (onGa"d to tho I,,tumln Gus
Goal Mining i;exi-D ~ the United
state. In Insii.,i.a Thy VIII Work
Two Days FnoH Until Isy l.

StIte! in Intii-i.s Thy E!il Work
Two Days atnox Un.n 1,sy l.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. April aSs Opinions
differ as to the ruiarcr o! men who are
engaged i'll the gr~ot coil strike. Prcsi-
den. John Mcbride q: the | !.itei Mine
Workers union c.t!iiat>- tI.at 200, OCu
men are engaged. $ccretHry-Treasurer
Patrick Mcbride is 4uo,cd us placing
the nunlJer at 100. o0c ! he telegra phic
reports Indicate tii;li the mum Der is be-
tween these two extremes. The strike
i, confined 20 TIE bjtumiaous coal re.
/ g.cn o. the Cnit..d states. in this there
are twenty-five" d:s;r:cts organized,
four beng 4 PENNSYLVANIA lie other
districts are Washington, wyoming.
Colorado. Indian territory Missouri. Al
ALBANIA, Kansas, Tennessee, kentucky,
Virginia, Vest VirF;.ia, Mr. nd, Ohio
Indiana and illinois = M5.,sillon op-
orator says Chat 2,G02 coal mines in the
United States wi; be abandoned. or
these go are located il, ohio. In the
Pittsburgh d.st:.r: H,0ac tne,e are
about 10 mines un1 fully thirty more
in the Clcarfei,i CT ruount2ia district.
These two districts have about 22CG0
miners. IN Ohio ;h~rr :,"e about 30
COO miners; in Indiana, i3.0o2: in llli-
nois. II, 0Co; in Al@Do'':" TO- $50, who
have already Cult " OK; IA !, ;ssouri s.
COO: il Tennessee. bout 1000 II Vest
Virginia about 10, Cnn GjH-ers a:c en-
gagged but it is net .cl.cvcd that many
have quit work IN Washington all
are ready TO stop
PHILADELPHIA, anril :3S--lf I'll the
miners in What is kno."n as the Clear
field distric. OF the oitutninor, coal re-
gion struck ut noon Saturday, there
Viii be 30, 600 lnrn OFT 81 worn in that
territory. AIDED 10 tl@sc he ) Goo in
the phll:|sDurs district; 1000 III The
Indiana district; 5,cl1 in TIE Jefferson
district and about S. Geo in the Mountain
district. y prominent opera tor, mem
Der Of irin ti:nt employs several
thousand timers. ,;,i>i Saturday: The
strike is not against 1; reduction in
wages but si."n!- Hr,i solely Tor the
purpose Of ::ecuin:; the officers
! OF the lnirf:H national orgnni-
zation in Office. lining, had been quiet
fer so long 4 t:n1c t!.e; tx, working
miners We're Sticking ,,;liust paying
big salaries to j:clcral c..,ccrs for doing
nothing. Ks iar rs w.. .,re concerned
! we have bc"n practically rr;tint;lining a
charity organization FOR eO,rv time. 1t
would iiavc pad us to close our mines
six months ago " heE we found it
necessary to rc;iuc, waa-l in order TO
keep the n~n d wor.;. tac: accepted
the situation qni.ti;' and I'D not offer
objection.
CoLvMnrs, O.. Apsi! ..$.--Ecports sat
urday at nationai headquarters OF the
miners union ~ the effect That in the
block coal fields OF ;I.J:aEu where The
men have a contract they Will work
two days a week until May ], when
they will join in t.ie suspension.
Maryland, where nothing WAS eX-
| pcctcd, has joined The suspension. On
the New aud Nanawha rivers there
is every iEdicatio OF a general siispen-
sion. 1t IS IN open secret in Co
lumbus that thc operators Of
this region are in sympathy with
the suspension ami hope the miners
| will win Tao operators here desire to
pay the scale proposed by tire miners,
but are prevented by certain operators
| in the Pittsburgh district who have
been paying lower wages. Seven hun
dred men are ont at New Straitsville.
These miners ere among the most con-
scrvatiyc and intelligent in the coun-
try. a special from Trimble to the
Dispatch says al OF the miners in the
Sunday Creek valley are out There
are about fifteen hundred of them.
CoNNELLsvI.LE Pa, April s3 There
was great uncertainty throughout the
entire region Saturday as to the proba-
biities of the cookers joining the gener-
al strike Among the operators the
opinion is general that the men will
not go out They say that cookers are
discouraged at the failure Of the recent
strike and will not quit work soon
again. The strike leaders, however,
| arc confident the men will come out
again and that they Will be h;.ccessful
| this time, because they have the back
| ing OF the national board. Meetings
were being held Saturday to elect dele
gates to the @cottdale convention,
which meets Monday to decide the
| question.
PnILLIrsBuEG, Pa, April 2S.-The
number of Inen in this, the Eighth BIZ
| luminous district on 4 strike is at least
! 1000 The Houtzdalc and Oscala mines
quit completely at l" o'clock Saturday.
| There vas no excitement. Tho men
are determined and the operators say
that they haze Sufficient coal to keep
their customers supplied for two or
three weeks. No trouble is anticipated
unless some OF tho operators should I'M
dertsl1e TO start their mines, in which
event the scenes in the coke regions
viii be repeated here.
FRASKroE1, Ky, April 20. The oper-
! atives in nearly all Of the coal mines IN
eastern kentucky are expected to
strike 1T noon Saturday The opera
tives in all mines in Carter. Lawrence,
Royd, Pike. PULASKI ami Johnson are
organized and have been ha"in5 tror-
be for some tine past Assistant -dlne
Inspector Order is waiting Tor the
news from tic district OF the trouble,
but at II ocloc,, had not received any
| information as to whether it would
materialize or not
poMERoY, O., April 90. The miners
of the twenty-five mines in this district
laid down their tools Saturday and