New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-19
NO LET-UP IN THE STRlkE.
sorT-coAL MINERS PERSIST IN THEIR
COURSE
VIOLENCE USED TO STOP WORK IN MANI
pLAcEs-MoRE FACTORIES SHUT DOWN


FOR WANT OF COAL.
Cleveland May 1S-The striking sofi-eoal miners
held final consultation to-day, at whch II was
decided n continue the fight until the operators
,eroe 20 restore the old scale. President McBride
made an address to the delegates. urging them 10
Use only peaceablc means 10 gain the desired re-
SUI, and 10 strengthen their lines by eNtohu'ns
their organizatlon Nicc-PresGcnt Penna said there
was nothing left for the miners TO do DIT hshN anu
they would make a hard battle. ii the Operators
had made as strong effort to be fully represented
a, ,b. convention as had the miners. the meeting
,,,d have ended In a settlement OF the differences
at issue. ,.,
miners encampfd al Alvcrton las; night ms morn
ing they prevented the Southwest plant NO from
starting work Compelling the workmen to join
their ranks the strikers marched to a camping
ground adjoining Valley Works. where mass-mee'-
inc wa held this afternoon The Mcclure COM
panv reports Increased force at work to-day Slml-
lar reports come from Meyer
rreve;te CITY Penn Nav Six hundred sirik-
era are armlng themselves ana preparing to force
the miners AT Jones 4 Laughiin's and Nesta NO. !
plant TO stop work Should the men persist IN work
inc = bloody riot Is almost sure TO follow.
Canonsburr Penn Nay lS-Four hundred str'k-
ing coal miners from the Mcdonald district. with
a brass band. arrived at the Cook mine mere at
9.9o O'Clock this morning. Several shots were reu
INT deputies
Word was sent 10 sheriff Cherry AZ Washington.
,yh,, the sheriff and deputies arrived they found
,he raiders lined up on both sides Of the road
Nothlrg d!sorderly was done. The strikers sue
cocded in inducing twenty Of the forty miners al
work 10 come out After threatening another RAD
II the remainder DO not come out the strikers
marched TO the Supe mine. whore they hc'I another
meeting.
ST Louis May iS-Thc striking coal miners have
GAINED an important point. cnusing the abandon
ment OF work in several mines near Bellcvlle, ILL.,
which we. being operated 10y the owners. Com
mittees Of strikers waited on the operators OF 10
Murphy Brrerrcman and KlinEcnfuss mines. ana OBJ
taiued promises from each 10 discontinue WORK
These mines have supplied local manufactures
Several suspensions may follow. The Harrison
Machine Works. among the foremost Industries IN
Reueville IS dependent upon tho Murphy mine FOR
fuel Striking miners also assembled m counter
Vile ILL., to-day. and by threats. nrnH OF pistols
and heating q miner named Heinrich. frightened or
the mlpcrs who went 20 work yesterday. Inc
minors are again idle ~ Gillespie. Ill. all the
coal miners returned TO work ycstcr4Ay, anu oi"l
strikers from Mount olive came over 10 utlN I,
thcu out again. The coal company was ADVISED
in tIrre md warned their men not 20 Work To-Day
The strikers werc thereby partly iolIel. but ~
,or,ufed a house TO house canvass. during which
,hry v.rely heat John Link who refused to assent
- ihe,r ucrsunsio The visitors were nearly all
drunk and every one carried CLUB $500, ,.,
Fort smith. Ark. May isl between 90 ana ~
miners employed IN Mines - and ~ nj Jenny Lind
went on strike YESTERDAY. They have no srlcNl,e.
hut strike ia sympathy with Oh" strikes now exist.
ing throughout the country. tn" men say they WIN
not return to work until the general sirik" - de-
Chattanoora. MAY ls-The coal miners strike at
Snoddy mines is beginning 10 be serious Every t"y
Factories are closing down reducing force on ac
count Of scarcity Of coal but the miners say mat
they viii insist upon he restitution oi par' u hot
All OF the 20 per cent reduction made Ihcy nave
been out 50 long that distress prevails.