The herald., 1897-08-11
Damps the Ardor of Strik=
ing Miners
ONLY ONE MARCH WAS MADE
AND THAT FAILED TO PRODUCE
RESULTS
Dolan Accuses the Opera tors of Hav-
ing Broken Faith-A Rather
Discouraging Day
Associated Press Special Wire.

PTTTSBURG, Pa, Aug. 1O-A crisis
is fast approaching in the miners move
ment against the New York and Cleve-
land Gas Coal company. Today's work
was not altogether encouraging to the
strikers. To begin with, they had to
contend with their first spell of bad
weather. A heavy rain drenched the
camps and prevented the marchers from
carrying out their regular program.
AT Plum Creek the rain and continued
absence of band kept the men in their
quarters with the result that little if any
missionary work was undertaken. The
storm also had the effect of preventing
the march to the Spring Hill mines, be-
tween Wilmerding and Wall stsIon,
which are owned by Alexander Demp-
ster. The only march of the day was
made by the $50 men al Camp Deter
mination, who left camp shortly after
o'clock and marched close tothe Oak Hill
tipples and spent two hours in the vicin-
ity of the miners homes. There was not
even ordinary excitement attached to-
the invasion along Thompson's run.
A summary of developments of the
day leaves the conditions much the same
as they were. The failure to hold
meeting at Camp Isolation was another
disappointing feature, and the men are
loudly clamoring for the presence of the
officials.
This afternoon District President Pat
rick Dolan accused the operators of the
Pttsburg district with having broken
faith with the striking miners in this
district. The operators, he said, had
promised to pay the price when the sup
ply at the De Armtt mines had been
cut off. This has been done, but the
operators had failed to keep their part
of the contract The miners who have
been working regularly at Oak Hill
mines We're paid this afternoon. Those
who Joined the strike did not get their
cash, the company Withholding it, as
under the contract the men, forfeited
their wages by striking. There was no
excitement. Between 200 and 300 men
were on hand, but few of them received
any money Mr.. De Armitt made
speech to the men, telling them that he
sympathizedI with them, and the money
was withheld, not because the company
wanted it, but because it had to carry
out the terms of the contract
A PEACEFUL INVASION
WHEELING, W. Va, August TO-
West Virginia was peacefully invaded
by the Ohio miners this morning One
hundred and twenty-five miners from
Millcreek region marched through the
city and reached Boggs' Run mine Just
below Wheeling at o'clock.
The Ohio miners came for the purpose
OF closing down the Boggs' Run mine,
the only railroad mine in the Wheeling
district now being operated They ap-
nounce they will stay until the Boggs'
Run miners join the strike, and today
~ more from Barton, Maynard and
Pascoe, other mining communities in
Eastern Ohio, are to come. Miners along
the Wheeling and Lake Erie have also
announced their willingness to partici-
pate in this demonstration, which may
last several days.
WESTERN MINERS
SEATTLE, Wash Aug. 1O.-The strike
of the coal miners at Isaquah is now be-
lieved to be partly sympathetic, as the
protest at the docking is one of the
causes for the strike among the coal
miners of the east. The men, it is stated,
also think that the scarcity of labor in
the northwest makes the time propi-
tious for demanG9 upon the company.
Gen. Bryant, the receiver of the Sc
attle Coal and Iron company, returned
from the mines this morning. He Offer
cd to let the men put one of their owr
checkers at the company's scales, they
to Gefray the expense of salary. They
refused to accept, but it is thought they
Will return to work tomorrow.