The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-18
INJUNCTION PERMANENT
Mine Owners Score a Victory
Against the Strikers Sub
stitute for Marching.

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PITTSBURG,. PA. Aug. is, 1Ss7.-When
Court opened this morning Judges Stowe
and Collier handed down d decision in the
injunction proceedings Of the New York
and Cleveland Gas Coal Company
against the United Mine Workers Of
America, Patrick Dolan, VIM. Warner and
others. The preliminary injunction was
made permanent, and the plaintiff was
ordered to file a bond of $1,000 to answer
for such damages as may be sustained by
the by reason of the injunc-
ton.
Immediately after the fling of the de-
cree, and upon motion Of Mr.. Thomas
Patterson, the Court ordered a similar de-
cree to be drawn in the case against the
Buncla miners, in which the injunction
was applied for by Rufus G. Crawford.
The action at the meeting Of coal oper-
ators at Cleveland yesterday Is in ac-
cordance with the plan mapped out after
uniformity agreement has been for
mulated. The agreement provides that
ell coal contracted for on the fifty-four
cents basis shall be mined at that rate
until the contracts are filled.
1t is known that the requirements of
the lake trade by September Is are six
million tonsss.If the contracts are not
filed the operators will not only lose a
large amount of money but put themselves
in a position to lose contracts for all time
to come.
The striking miners encamped about
the mines of8the New York n Cieve-
land Gas Coal Company did not, marcn
this morning as they had planned TO 90.
1t was their purpose to start Tor the
mines header by a brass band and maren
until the sheriff stopped them. They dig
not anticipate, however, that the sheriT
had his men SO close to their camps. Al
Turtle Creek the men formed in line and
when they were ready to start they be-
held the stalwart forms Of the deputies
standing just outside their camp.
The march was at once abandoned ana
SIX each were instructed to patrol the
woods In the vicinity Of the mine ana re-
port the number Of men going to work;
II approached by a deputy sheriff to get
away as rapidly as possible to escape the
service of the Injunction if possible. The
the deputies and the De Armits.
| say there are 10000 men in the district
| and that the injunction will have to be
the mines ST Oak Hin, Sandy Creek inc
Plum Creek cease, unless the mines are
| sooner closed down.
The men followed the Instructions, but
were unable to learn Just how many dig
gers went into the pit today. The output
of the Oak Hill mine yesterday was seven
cars of lump coal and two Of slack and
| put or about 1870 tons. This shows a gain
| feY the company, though no claim Of an
Increased force is made by the De Armits,
| and the strikers claim that only twenty
two men are at WeFkr
A mass meeting of miners and citizens
Lhave been called to be held at Mononga-
7 hela City tonight Saturday afternoon a
mass meeting will be held at Canonsburg.
Feday the miners of Lawrence, Butler and
Mercer will hold a mass meeting at the
| Court House at Mercer: National organ-
iver Cameron MilieF VIII make an address.
The heads of the various. labor organ
i~zations of the city will hold 9 conference
with the miners officials tomorrow eyeH=
ing. Preparations for holding a meeting
of the United Labor League at Plum
| Creek, next Sunday afternoon are being
| made. 1t is expected to make this meet
ias the largest ever held and one of the
big eyeats OF the strike.
Growing Serious
WHEELING, W. Va, Aug. Il, 1857
The local coal situation IS Beginning to
grow serious. The city gas works has
what was always deemed a SUFFICIENT al
vance supply of coal from the Fleefsheim
mines on the Wheeling Division Of the
Baltimore and Railroad. but this supply
is now growing decidedly short and new
arrangements will soon have to be made.
Coal is selling IL LEGAL yards at twelve
cents a bushel, just dsNble the usual
price. Slack brings six cents and both gre
hard TO get at those rates. There afs
five hundred families in Wheeling in need
Of coal, whfle all manufacturers that 90
not use gas are haAqgpereq for fuel On
the Ohio side Of the flyer manufacturing
establishments using theusanas ST bush
els of coal daily a had their SUPPLIES
cut down or shut off.
In the Fairmont field, o'connell and
his campers are still at the Montana
mines of the Watson Company. not hay
ing Succeeded in closing them entirely.
The march k9 West Fairmont and New
England is Scheduled to begin tonight,
when the United States Court Injunction
will probably be seryea Hnder Judge
Jackson's new ruling that marching col
umns are an inteRded intiniidafion and
contrary to law, The movements in the
Kanawha Valley show no change. A few
more men went to work this morning,
and Dicher's column succeeded III wifi
niHg a few more recruits in the upper
valley. The new campaign of the agi-
tators ON tha Norfolk and Western Rail-
. has apparently borne no fruit