The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-16
LAST HOPE OF THE MINERS.
The Compromise the Only Way to
Avoid Utter Defeat.

E1SAh bAC AAdAA6 VI VIC
Strikers Before the Agreement Was
Reached.
Columbus, o., June 15.-Telegrams
from mining towns in Ohio to-day indi-
cate that the miners are coming to think
better of the settlement agreement. At
! Nelsonville, Sand Run, Yorkville and
Bellaire they have resolved to accept the
settlement and go to work on Monday
President John Mcbride in an inter
view published here this evening gave the
public facts that will be more potent in
inducing the miners to accept the settle
ment than the formal address
sent out from the national
headquarters last Tuesday. 1t shows
that the miners organization undertook
the strike when it wos in a weak con-
ditiou; that the strike was in constant
danger Of going to pieces through all its
course, and that when it was ended it
was known by the national officers that it
was question of compromise or utter
defeat
II stated explicitly" said he, Gin the
! Cleveland convention when the conduct
| of the strike was placed in the hands of
a committee, OF which | was one, that
whenever the danger line was reached l
should favor saving all that could be
saved rather than meet defeat with its
consequent Generalization and disaster.
HOW HELD IN LINE.
For the last three weeks the men have
only been held in line by the suspense
occasioned through the holding of con-
ventions at different points, and the agita-
tion kept up by our board members dis
trict presidents, organizers and other
field workers, whose expense was 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 compelled 10 stay at
home, while from all districts came the
cry, For God's sake, send US men or
money 10 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, and although
myself and others have advanced money
to keep the movement alive, if financial
aid cannot be secured from some source
the next issue of our official journal will
be it's last until money comes in, and to
suspend publication cuts off the last re-
liable means of communication between
the national office and the men.
HUNDREDS IN JAIL.
we uuNG QOIGuS VI men III Jul anu
hundreds under arrest for conspiracy,
among the latter, w. b. Wilson, mem
ber of our national board, who, on Tues
daY last, was arrested for the third time,
and taken to Cum berland, Md. With no
money to defend these men, many of
them, though innocent, will suffer.
AT many mines rev men were taking
the strikers places and this with deser-
tions from our ranks, which in one in
stance numbers4, 900 men at Coal Creek,
Tenn. and with nearly 900 men at work
in Kansas, 10000 out of $4,000 in
Virginia and West Virginia and
a mum ber in mines through other states,
with the radical element within our
ranks openly setting aside our policy of
clearly indicated that we had not only
reached the danger line but were on the
verge of defeat"
MEN STILL HOLDING OUT.
Salineville, o., June 14.-The miners of
this place held large mass meeting yes
terday and refused to go to work Monday
at 80 cents. Resolutions were drawn up
calling for the resignation of Mcbride,
and a vote of thanks was extended to
President Adams in refusing TO sign the
Columbus agreement
HALF TO RESUME AT CAMBRIDGE.
Cambridge O., June 15.-About half of
the miners are now getting ready to re-
sumo work on Monday next at 60 cents,
in the belief that 20 cents will be paid by
next September. The operators are clean
ing out the mines and getting ready to
start.
The miners, Maynard, Dillonvale and
Bridgeport to-day decided not to accept
the 60-cent compromise scale and will not
return to work until after the Columbus
convention Tuesday.
DEsTITUTIoE IN KENTUCKY.
Louisville, KY, June 15.-A special to
the Post from Lexington says ''Advices
from up the Chesapeake and Ohio road
state that great destitut;on now exists
among the striking miners, and their
families in some cases are actually
starving to death. Dissatisfaction exists
among the others in the PEACH Orchard
mines, which may result in their going
out TO morrow. If this is done there will
be no mines in operation this side OF
Ashland There is no prospect of settle
ment of the Strike"
PITTsBURG MINERS TO RESUME.
Pittsburg, Pa, June l5-At 4:3C
o'clock this afternoon the miners dis
trict convention voted unanimously to re-
sumo work on June Is. There were pres
ent 1874 delegates, representing 10000
miners.
COAL TRAINS MOVING.
Massillon, O., June 15-Slnce early this
evening, the Cleveland, Lorraine and
Wheeling read has been rushing long
coal trains northward, and the blockade
which has existed for several days
on the line, has been raised with
out an outbreak at any point The
more turbulent spirits among the miners
have insisted that coal could not pass.
Owing to threatened trouble north OF
here, the military guard has been ex
tended to Warwick, and along the line
from that point to Uhrichsville every
bridge and trestle is heavily guarded.
ACCEPTED IN WEST VIRGINIA.
Wheeling, w. Va, june 15.-At a meet
ing of the miners of the Panhandle oi
. West Virginia this evening, the Columbus
compromise scale was accepted. To-mor-
row the miners and operators will confer
as to the wages Of day laborers and other