The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-09
ALL THE MINERS ARE OUT
FOREIGN WORKMEN ENTH USI4STI-
 CALLYJOIN STRIK ERS' RANKS.

By 50 Doing they Shcfiuco Apou' S'o'O""
 on Wages Held Back Under Ironciad Asreement--ff Mine Operators Engage Non-Union Help Serious Trouble is Like ly-Industry at a Complete standstiil. Pittsburg July 8.--It Is safe to say that the amount of coal dug to-day on
 the Wheeling division of the Baltimore
 and Ohio road would not All one flat
 car. Such q complete shutdown as
 exists in this district so soon after the
 inauguration of the strike is admitted ly surprise to the people living Tn that section. A number of miners were at work yesterday, the majority of them in the pits of the Plttsburg
 and Chicago Gas Coal company at Snowden and Gastonville, but to-day 1t is doubtful that the men at work along
 the line would number fifty, all Of them
 being at the Baskerville pit of the
 Pittsburg and Chicago company. A careful review of the situation
 proves the assertion of the miners oti1-
 cials that the Wheeling division is sol idly advocating the strike All the
 mines about Finlayville are completely tied up. Five cars were loaded at the
 Germania yesterday, but 1t was with
 coal which had been lying on the dump
 since work was suspended last Friday.
 The coal bluff mine of the J. M. Risker
 company, employing one hundred and
 fifty men, was entirely idle to-day The big first pool mines of the Corbin mines
 are closed. The foreigners seem as en-
 thusiastic as any other on the strike question.
 Until to-day 1t was a matter of doubt
 whether or not they would come out. l The men have been working under the | ironclad agreement and as this means a forfeiture of ten per cent of their
 wages held back since the first of the year by the firm if they voluntarily quit work the strikers were in doubt.
 At meeting held last night, however. | 1t was decided to come out for the dis trict rate and to-day the miners were | practically idle.
 I By their action it is said the men 1 will lose nearly sS,000 in percentages. ] IL is reported that the officials on this division have advertised for men
 to fill the places of the strikers. If this ] Is true and an attempt Is made to re- sume with non-union men, 1t is feared there will be serious trouble. It is not l likely, however, that a sufficient num- Der of men can be gotten together to start the mines.
 l A large number of the miners on the Wheeling division were asked how long
 the strikers could stand it without suf- fering from want. All were firm in the ! belief that they could scratch along" | for several weeks all right.
 | The local mining officials are prepar- l ing to make a move against the miners of the New York and Cleveland Gas
 Coal company They express confi-
 dence in their ability to bring these men out before the end of the week Land then the suspension in this dis
 trict will be complete. Then the strike
 extension work will proceed eastward The mines shipping to the seaboard will ! be attacked. First will come move
 ment against the mines of the Vest | moreland Gas Coal company and the Henry Coal Gas company and then the
 officials will direct their attention to the Central Pennsylvania fields It is not improbable that successful cul-
 imitation of the strike again in the soft
 coal fields will be tried.
 Cleveland, July S.---A canvass of the Cleveland operators reveals no change
 in the mining situation. The Morris Coal company, the Albright Coal com pany and M. A. Hanna k Go. report that their miners are still out and no
 negotiations have been made as vet Cleveland manufacturers are much concerned over the situation. and are beginning to dread coal famine. The
 railways are continuing to-day to con- fiscate coal consigned to factories, and
 number of the concerns are seriously cramped for fuel.
 An effort was made to find Colonel
 Myron T. Herrick receiver for the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway, to-
 day to ascertain what he had to say regarding President Ratchford's charge that he Is promise-breaker, but the colonel could not be found Ratchford says that Herrick has twelve hundred
 aliens working in the Dillon Vale mines and he may overawe them into holding
 out against the present movement. Colonel Herrick Is determined to oper- ate the mines, and Ratchford fears he
 may break the strike
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