The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-20
TO RETURN TO WORK.
No Other Course Open for the
Striking Coal Miners.
Foreigners objess 10 the beginning Of
Work By Son-Uniea Men-Jambs
CansusII ~ Milwaukee.

CoLumBus, June is.-Ths afternoon ses.
sion Of the miners convention Was de-
voted wholly 10 talk After District Pres
idsnt Adams had explained the objects Of
the convention President Mcbride said
Adams was an unsafe leader. and the
miners of Ohio would realize It fully 10
three months. Adams might be safe
on some things. but, McBrids stated. he
Was insane on mining questions Adams
followed with heated personal reply. III
was openly charged in the convention that
the national officers had been in colIusion
with the operators and sold out 10 them.
The convention adjourned until tomor-
row without action. but the delegates are
IN favor Of returning 70 work, as they say
IL Is the onIy course open 70 them.
MoUsT PLEASANT, Pa, June 19.-Ihe
gswiekley district was the scene OF consid-
eyabls excitement today, caused by the
Prick Company making preparations TO
start its mammoth plant. No sooner were
men put 20 work TO lay water line In the
yards than the strs king Siays svooped
dosn and drove the few deputies and
workmsn like chat before the wind. The
tables. however, were turned this after
noon when Sheriff MeCsnn appeared on
the scene at the head of forty more guards.
When the officers charged the foreigners
broke and fed in every direction. Work
will be resumed in the morning.
sTKuBEsvfLLE, o., June 1s.-very few
miners along the Wheeling & Lake Erie in
this county have accepted the Columbus
compromise. and the situation along the
line ls critical. SMious trouble may de-
velop before settlements Is reached. The
Long Run miners accepted the
compromise and went to work The
company tried 20 start the Laurel and Dill
lonyiIle mines, but the miners refused 70
allow them, and threatened violence.
Trouble grew out Of the starting mp OF the
Long Run mines and the congregating
there OF hundreds of miners from Dillon
Vile and Laurel.
srRfseFTEID, ILL.,. June fo.-Committees
OF miners throughout the Springfield sub
dstrict presented q scale Of prices to each
operator and requested acquiescence in
their demands. The operators refused,
and will aold convention. They say the
miners demands are extravagant. being
10 cents more than when the strike was
begun. and they viii not pay them.
scoTTspaLE, Pa, June i9.-Whiie the
old men are still holding out In the coke
region. the importation Of negroes Is grad
ualiy breaking the strike. Many Slavs
and Hnngarians, Disguised at the long
idieness. are leaving. never to return. Sec
rotary Darby. of the miners union, has
resigned. This has had depressing effect
on the strikers.
PIrrssuRa, June ie.--Ten more coal
works In this district resumed today under
the Columbus agreement, among them one
in the thick vein district. where the oper-
ators refuse TO pay more than Sc cents a
ton. At Manowan the miners decided to 20
to work when the non-union men were
dismissed. The operators refused to dis
charge them.
COLUMBUS, O., June fe.-Charles Helt.
George Balyok, Mike Waist, William
Harmenson and August Helt. the
Belmont county miners charged with
interfering with trains OF the Cleveland,
Lorraine e. Wheeling road in defiance OF
an order of court, pleaded guilty today
aud were sentenced to SIX months each by
Judge Taft.
ST. LOUIS. June fa-The receiver of the
LOOMS Coal Company, controlling the
coal mines at Bevier. No, and other
points, has been directed by the United
States court TO resume work at once, I'm
porting non-union miners If necessary. In
consequences United States deputy mar
shals are being concentrated Mt Bevier.
DAsvrLLK. ILL.,, June la-Twenty-five
local operators signed an agreement today
TO pay 90 cents ton for mined coal and
g. cents for mine run. The consolidated
company offered so cents, but the miners
demand 90 cents There Is no immediate
prospect OF settlement In the large mines.
Ia SALE. ILL.,. June i9.-At a mass meet
Ing of miners of this vicinity resolution
was adopted favoring going 10 work at the
prices agreed upon at Columbus, provided
there Is general resumption Of work in
Ohio and Pennsylvania. The resolution
was passed by very small majority.
ALrooSA. Pa, June 10. Tho coal ope-
rasors of the Broadsop region were notified
today by District President Bradley. OF
the coal worker. that the agreemnt "a
resume at the compr omise wages had
been rescinded. Another convention vii!
De held June Is.
MAssiLLoS. O.. June 10 The MassIllon
district miners have agreed TO allow sew.
erai mines to be started on the basis OF IS
cents per ton. This will enable the great
factories which have been closed down 70,
some time TO resume.