The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-14
The STRIKE NEARLY ENDED .
The Governor, in a Speech, De.
fines His Position.
Fhe Southwest and Browning mines VIII
be in Full Blast This Week-No D,m.
Guilty In Securing Now Men-A report
That the Eikhorn Operators Would
Soon Eject u Compromise.
Special 10 TEN TInrs

SpeCiAi 20 L HH T1HEs.
PocAHoNTAs, Va, May 13.--The stu
etlon here Is practically unchanged With
the exception that the Southwest mines
put 100 new men to work this morning.
Fifty OF them were strikers and Aftv
entirely new men, some of them being
from North Carolina. It Is not believed
there will be any difficulty in securing
new men to I'LL the mines, as there ia
not the slightest danger Of molessstion
as long as the military remains. MANY
OF the old men are regretting their
action in going out and large numbers
are applying TO the operators for work,
They see the mines being filled by new
men and their positions slowly slipping
from them. The consequences is thai
they are becoming anxious, and it Ia
now believed that before the end OF tn a
week the Southwest and the Browning
mines will be working @ full force Of
hands.
Inc strikers held meeting yesterday
across the State line and after several
speeches of the usual nature thew
ADOPTED resolutions to remain out for at
least two weeks longer. The governor
Is still here and will perhaps remain
several days. The statement was made
mere to-day that the Elkhorn operators
would soon effect compromise by
adopting scale OF wages somewhat re-
duced and that 1t was probably that
within short time the whole Elkhorn
region would be as work. There is moth
Ing definite In regard TO this report, but
there is strong probability of it's
truthfulness. The regimental detail
for Tomorrow Is as follows:
officer OF the day, Capt. W. G. Wyatt,
fourth battalion infantry; officer of the
guard. Lieutenant G. II. Bentley, Com.
pany G, first battalion infsntry, l ser.
geant, two oorporals and IS privates.
The outpost detail Is composed largely
OF the Richmond Blues.
Governor O'Ferrall spoke TO the
people OF Pooahontas tonight, In front
Oh Pocahontss Inn, upon she situation,
In which he told them that he and he
alone was responsible for bringing the
troops here, and that his shoulders were
broad enough to bear the burden Of the
responsibility and that these fellows
who arc running around and saving
hard things and criticising his action,
he wanted Thorn to understand that he
did not care flea bite for them. He
eulogized Sheriff Crockett, Of Tszeweu.
and said he was brave man, but said
the sheriff was not responsible for the
troops being here. He said that he had
received telegraphic dispatches that the
West Virginia miners were going to
hold lcrge meeting here on Sunday
and that he thought they had enough
SOIL OF their own on which to hold their
meetings and in order to prevent yio-
lenoe he had sent the troops here.
He told the people that it was, from
what he could learn, an operators'
strike and not o miners strike, and that
the operators were using the miners
as cats paws to pull hot chestnuts out
OF the fire. The governor said: az ANA
Virginian and you are Virginians. If
not TO the manor born you are by adop-
ton, and Virginia's intsrests should be
your interests, and you should, as Vir.
Rinians, protect the interests of YOUR
mother State. an not q man to make
threats and this Is not o threat, but 1
am man to execute, and, If /. takes
the whole Virginia brigade OF $500
volunteers to protect every man in his
sovereign rights to work and protect
those whom God, in His infinite wis.,
dom, has given him, I'll do it."
The output OF the mines to-day was
ten cars at Browning's and forty-one
cars at the Southwest, an increase OF
ton cars over Saturday. Loaded Satur-
day 326 mino cars. Monday 463, increase
to day 1877. 400 men will reach here
Tomorrow at o'clock p. M; 400 will
come day after tomorrow. Twenty
negroes went into the mines to-day, old
miners.