The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-08-10

FOR FOOD !
Striking Miners Families Appeal to the
Officials.
MANY MEETINGS TO BE HELD
Extraordinary Efforts viii be Made to
Keep UP the Interest in the Strike
For Living Wages Pour Miners
Under Arrest.

Pittsburg, Aug. 10.-Appeals for food
and provisions were numerous at the
headquarters of the miners officials in
this city yesterday. 1t appeared as if
there was wall from every section
Of the district, and miners in person
We're present to ask that the suffering
ones be looked after. Secretary Warner
was kept busy answering the appeals.
He said last night that he had sent
more than $1,000 worth of groceries and
provisions into various parts of the
district. The appeals are now coming in
from the families, the heads of which
are at the various mining camps, using
their influence to keep other men from
working.
series of meetings are to be held
all over the district 1t Is expected to
keep up the interest in every section
and strengthen every point where there
is the least indication of weakness. The
vigils of the mines of the New York
| and Cleveland Gas Coal company are
to be kept up and the vigor increased
from day to day.
The following was issued by Presi-
dent Patrick Dolan and Secretary War
ner yesterday:
There will be a mass meeting Of all
the miners at Canonsburg Wednesday,
Aug. II, at a. m. All miners of the
above named places will call meetings
and prepare to go. The meeting will
be addressed by the district officials
and others. Every miner is requested
to attend. The campaign in West
moreland county will begin at Irwin
on Wednesday, At p. m a monster
meeting will be held at which Eugene
Debs, Patrick Dolan, M. P. Carrick and
others are expected to make addresses.
A march is to be made from Turtle
Creek"
A number Of brass bands will be in
the procession. The strikers desire
to awaken an interest in that section,
as they claim the mines that are work.
ing are an injury to their cause.
At the instigation Of Thomas E. SUIT
ton, of Willocks, Henry Ulrich, Emil
Naser Henry Hauser and Gustav
Rings, miners were yesterday COM
mitted to jail for a hearing before AL
derman J. d. MeMasters. Ulrich is
charged with aggravated assault and
battery, Naser with assault and bait
terry and Huser and Rings with unlaws
full assemblage. The arrests are the
result Of an alteration at Wiliocks on
July 26 on account of the strike. War
rants are out for a number of others
Early yesterday the miners of West
Elizabeth made a march on the mines
Of the Elizabeth Mining company for
merly operated by Horner & Roberts.
About so men were going to work
After consultation the men asked
that they be allowed to finish loading
fat. They agreed to go out as soon
as 1t Yves loaded, which will take sew
eral days. The officials Of the company
made an effort yesterday afternoon to
get permission from the mining officials
to continue work on a SO cent basis
This was not given, and 1t Is expected
that the mine will be idle as soon as
the fiat Is loaded.
Thomas 3. DeArmltt, superintendent
of the New York and Cleveland Gas
Coal company, worked hard yesterday
to get the miners at Oak Hill to return
to work. By a house to house canvass
he succeeded in getting few more dig
gers than has been at work. Thirty
seven miners went in. The men were
told by Mr.. DeArmitt that they would
lose all they had earned If they would
not work and would be given five days
to Vacate the company houses.
The strikers say only 75 men out of
28b We're at work in the Plum Creek
mine yesterday, The company claims
almost a full force was working, The
strikers are hopeful that the remain
ing dlggers will quit work after get
ting their pay. The Plum Creek men
were not paid yesterday, and it is ex-
pected the company will require the
men to sign a new agreement before
they are given their envelopes. The
Sandy Creek miners are awaiting de-
velopments. They are hopeful that
the courts win set aside the contracts
of the company which the men were
obliged to sign.
Hunger is doing more injury to the
cause Of the miners than any other
thing, and the commissary department
Is doing everything possible TO pros
vide against this contingency,
President DOlap win go to the Can.
onsburg region and defy the injunc-
tiOns by speaking at a meeting sched-
uled for the 11th inst
j, c, Dysart a member of the uni
formity commission, returned to the
city yesterday after a weeks absence
He says the work Of securing sigma
lures will be pushed earnestly, and he
believes the required number win be Sc
cured The miners, he says, cannot
possibly win the strike as the mines
stil in operation can supply the de-
mand Some of the coal operators are
getting restless, and threaten to at
tempt to start their mines this week
W. II. Simmons, a large coal dealer,
says there is no scarcity Of coal, Sun
day night $50 cars Of coal came into
Pittsburg from West Virginia, and
large quantities are being shipped to
Pittsburg from the mines along the
pennsVlvanfa railroad