The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-15
LABOR LEADERS ARRIVE
FIGHT In BETTER CONDITION
THAN 1T EVER WAS.
PLENTY TO EAT AND PLENTY OF HOPE
II Injunction is Continued Strikers May March
in Order to Get Arrested But Sheriff
Says Camps viii be Broken
Up in Short Order.

Pittsburg, Pa, Aug. 14.-For the next
few days the eyes of the industrial world
will be turned towards Pittsburg. The
greatest anxiety will prevail until Mon
day when the injunction proceedings a.
gainst the marching miners will be final
ly heard. That there is much interest
in the situation, is evidenced by the
presence here of a number of the fore
most labor leaders in the country. Mich
ael ID. RatchfOrd, National President OF
the United Mine Workers of America;
Samuel Gompers, President of the Am
ericon Federation of Labor and James
r. Sovereign, General Master Workman
of the knights of Labor arrived here
this afternoon and will remain a few
days. While they are here, they will
be kept busy.
They came from West Virginia and
were brown and enthusiastic. Ratch-
ford seemed to be we'll pleased with the
outlook and in an interview said:
'"The fight is in a better condition to-
day than it ever was. The men are as
solid as a rock, while they are increasing
in number and determination. They are
growing stronger every day and there
are more organizers among them than
there have been. We have reached the
point where we are closely curtailing the
output and where we have the courts
to fight. In this connection l wish to
say for every man that is incarcerated,
there win be 100 friends gained for the
cause. We have not come here to defy
the courts or judges, but to discharge a
plain duty as we understand it. If it
would be a crime to talk to men for the
benefits of trades unionism and call them
together in peaceful assemblage, we are
surely ready to meet the issue"
President Samuel Gompers expressed
hopeful view of the situation in West
Virginia. He said there was some coal
being produced in certain sections, but
the supply was being gradually cut off.
He claimed there was general symapthy
for the cause in the mountain State and
maintains that fully 1900 of the 10000
diggers of that State have Joined the
suspension.
A series of meetings to be addressed by
the labor leaders will be arranged.
Ratehford, Gompers and Sovereign will
address a big meeting at Camp Isola-
tiOn" at Plum Greek tomorrow after
noon. 1t Is expected to be one of the big
1t is hoped to get nearly all of the min
ers employed by the New York and
Cleveland Company at the meetings and
make one grand effort to rally them to
the standard of the strikers.
The majority of the campers are await
ing anxiously for the courts decision on
Monday.
In case the injunction is continued, it
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men may march in order to get arrest
ed. The reason for holding off is said
to be due to the fact that the men have
hopes the injunctions will be quashed.
In case they win, the strikers say they
will camp right where they are and
march every morning until the strike is
won.
| The camp commissioners are wellstock-
de with provisions and so far as the ma
terial man is concern, the strikers will not
suffer.
No move will be made by the sheriff
towards raiding the camps until after the
hearing on Monday. If the injunction is
continued he says the camps will be
broken up in short order.
A MEETING OF 1900 MINERS.
There was big meeting of striking
miners at McKeesport tonight. Over s.
600 strikers were present and addresses
were made by Ratchford, Gompers, So
vereign and Mrs. Jones. Previous to the
meeting there was parade of 1900 min
ers and striking steel workers. The
speakers predicted success, denounced
the injunctions and advised the strikers
to obey the laws.