New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-21
DEBS FEELS DISCOURAGED.
HE TALKS BITTERLY OF THOSE WHO
HAVE NOT STRUCK.
sorE OF THE MoNoNGAH MEN RETURNED TO
WORK YESTERDAY-TALK OF HIRING
coIoRED MINERs-soME GAINS
EOR THE STRIKEES
fBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBrNE.l

COlORED NlNEhS-SOME OAl>S
FOR THE STRIKERS
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Wheeling W. Va. July 2o-West virgna's min
Ing regions still the scene OF exciting occur
rcnces particularly in the immense coal fields Of
which Fairmont Is the centre This is the centre
of interest This morning about forty Monongah
men went back to work. which gave the operators
n good deal OF encouragement. and they mme
diately announced that the efforts of Debs had
resulted in failure and that IN n few days the men
would again be in the mines. About twenty-five
men at Palatine who have heretofore remained
at work. went
The operators are not only straining every nerve
TO get the old men back. but arranging for
the importation OF negro miners from Pennsylvania
and say they will be here In the morning II they
come and attempt TO take the places OF the strikers
there will be trouble. 4 few strange coored men
arrived at Monogah to-day.
Debs himself appears 10 be discouraged. yet he
Gays he will do his utmost. This movement"
said he this evening. 'Is the greatest industrial
struggle OF the century. There was never any
thing like It. and yet handful Of men in West
Virginia eager to benefit themselves at the ex-
pense Of the general cause. can block it, some
times think the laborng men deserve the condi-
lions under which they exist, for they have the
power 70 free themselves and will not do ii. II
this strike is lost. shall believe the workngmen
generally are better than the beasts OF the
field, TO be bought and sold like cattle"
Debs further said that the situation imperativey
demanded the presence Of President Ra:chford AMI
other high officials Of the Mine Workers. and
quick and thorough organization of the men. To-
night he spoke Rivesville 10 the miners Of the
Montana, Opeliska and Luther mines He hal
only fifty miners present. and none from the Wa
son mines The applause was limited. The men
divided 10 the pro?riety OF striking and VIII
not be likely to come out tomorrow Tomorrow
Debs speaks at Worthington and Minersville. AMI
thence goes to the Kanawha Valley on Thursday.
Abo1,t Eat he IA SOp mi Ines ar
key to the situation. II the men there will join the
Monongah strikers the of the operators will
be difficult. II they remain at work. it looks If
this section of the State would continue TO mine
coal for an indefinite time The Watsons control
The shipments Of coal continue on the same large
scale as heretofore. and every available car Is in
service .,,,o,,o IN tho southeastern coal fields Is
practically unchanged, and Will remain SO until
Debs gets there on Thursday. The railroads are
preference everything else. on the Norfolk
and Western the agtators are as busy as bees, but
the still at work. Sixteen hundred cars
CT coal shipped to-day.
Governor Atkinson was seen to-day before start
ing for Chicago with his staff to attend the unveI-
ing of the Logan statue. He said: 80 .,,..
Il think the strike in this state VIII eventually
be a general one. The men of West Virginia have
q perfect right strike in aid of their brothers In
other States The cause is common one, and Is
worthy of being supported The state has made
not a soldier Will be placed under orders except in
the greatest emergency. DO not expect that
emergency TO arise.
Tonight the one hundred miners employed in the
below Wheeling. informed the management that
they would not return to work tomorrow morning.