The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-02
ONE THOUSAND STRIKERS
Encamped for the Purpose Of
Preventing the Opera
ton of ShoveIS.
THEY ARE IN AN UGLY MOOD.
Great Excitement and Forebodings
at Ishpeming and Negaunee as
to What viii Happen.

= ISHPEMING, MICH, Sept. 1.-Excite-
ment and forebodings for the morrow ex-
press the feelings of the citizens of this
iron-mining town and the neighboring one
of Negaunee. A hundred and half of
soldiers are encamped in the vicinity of
the Lake Angeline mine, where the steam
shovels are to be operated by men who
have been brought from Chicago to take
the place. of the strikers.
The mining companies are determined
to begin the movement of their ore after
months idleness, and Governor Rich has
dispatched six companies of the Fifth
Regiment of Infantry to the scene, for the
purpose of affording all the protection
which the sheriff and the owners of the
great mines may need to keep the peace
and resume business. The thousand odd
strikers, skilled miners laborers, trimmers
and shovel men, who have been reduced to
desperate straits by their idleness and the
prospect of seeing other men fill the places,
threaten to prevent the operation of the
shovels and the situation is alarming.
Colonel Lyon Of the Fifth Regiment ar
rived here this afternoon with two compa-
nies of his regiment from Houston, and at
once put his men in camp under strict
military discipline, expecting serious
work for them tomorrow. AT a later hour
special train arrived from Ironwood,
bearing another company of the Fifth
Regiment. From Marquette, Big Rapids
and Ludington will come early tomorrow
one com pany each of the Fifth, making
800 we'll armed and officered militiamen
with orders to protect life and property at
all hazards.
The strikers have been ip an ugly mood
all day, and the arrival of the troops has
added to their excitement. They gathered
around the ore piles and on the streets
when they heard of the arrival of 800 men
| from Chicago to do the work which they
refused to do until their demands were
satisfied.
| They talked threateningly of what they
would do if they got at the new men, who
| had been taken in charge by agents of the
Lake Angeline Company on their arrival
to-day, and housed and fed under protec-
ton of private guards.
The company is determined to put these
men to work early tomorrow to move the
big stock of ore to the lake. The mines of
the Lake Angeline, Lake Superior and
Cleveland Cliffs mpanies here have been
flooded by the Withdrawals of the pumps
on account of the strike, and the Buffalo
and Jackson mines at Negaupee have been
treated in a similar manner, so that no at
tempt will be made to put new miners to
work. The stocks of ore on hand will last
long time. Three thousand men were
originally locked out when the raise in
wages was refused, but the number of
strikers has dwindled to 1000, the re-
mainder having gone to other mines and
obtained work. The strike would have
ended here but for the the refusal Of
skilled miners, mostly from Cornwall, to
give in, the laborers being anxious to re-
turn to work.
If work can be successfully resumed at
the Lake Angeline mine the other COM
panies will start the steam shovels. Plenty
of operators for all the shovels have been
secured.