The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-07-13
ORGANIZERS OUT
Cry of the Miners This Week
Will Be "On to West
Virginia"
Supreme Effort to Be Made to
Stop Coal Production in
That State.
Arbitration Commissioners of
Four States Holding a Meet
ing at Pittsburg.

PITTsBURG, July 13.-"On to West
/, Virginia" will be the cry this week of
the labor leaders interested in the
coal miners strike. During the week,
the c1everest organizers, labor orators
and exhorters will be at work in the
West Virginia diggings, spreading the
doctrine Of strike. Vice President Car.
ney of the Amalgamated association,
and Rev. Wilson Green, who were ap.
pointed organizers by the United Labor
league, left for West Virginia during
the morning, and six others whose
names have not yet been announced,
will follow very soon.
Pittsburg's quota of organizers will
be Joined in West Virginia by those
from other parts of the United States.
There will be enough of them to thor
oughly cover the entire coal regions Of
The state. When they have have finished
their work they will come to Pennsyl.
vania and the Georges Creek district Of
Maryland. They will work among the
miners of the New York and Cleveland
Gas Coal company and the Westmore-
land and Cleartield regions, if the strike
is not settled by that time. Whatever
success they may have in the West Vir-
ginia, Maryland, Clearfield and West
moreland fields, the officials of the
United Mine Workers., according to
present indications, will have hard work
persuading the employees in the New
York and Cleveland Gas Coal company's
mines to strike. The officials are handi.
capped by the courts injunction re-
straining them from going on the COM
pany's property.
The Miners Are Apathetic.
But this difficulty is overshadowed by
the apathy of the miners themselves. A
visit to the mines developed the preva.
lence of willingness to strike, pro.
vided the Mine Workers union guaran-
tees them their wages for the time they
are out. The feeling among the miners
is exemplified in the failure to hold the
much advertised meeting at Beaulah
church. At the Plum creek, Sandy
creek and Turtle creek pits none Of the
diggers knew anything Of the proposed
meeting. Many of the miners said they
would not strike under any circum.
stances. They have grievances, but
some of them think they were thrown
down when they struck three years ago.
Superintendent De Armitt visited the
different pits and kept on the lookout
for meeting. 1t was freely stated
that any miner caught attending a
meeting or found talking with any Of
the labor leaders will be instantly dis
charged. The three mines of the com
pany put out 800 tons Of coal per day
The coal is shipped to Pittsburg and
points west. The company is trying te
take care of all the orders it can get, at
\ temptieg to buy coal from neighborine
mines, which are located on the eastern
edge or outside the Pittsburg district.
Will Pace Emergency Orders
The Clearfield bituminous coal dis
trict is what is known as the mountain
fields, along the line Of the Pennsylva
MIA road, between Johnstown ant
Altoona, began receiving orders from
the dealers Of the Pittsburg district
The action of the United Mine Workers
officials in deciding to make West Vir
ginia the battle-ground Of the strike ha
caused alarm among local shippers
Consequently they will place emergenc,
orders at good round figures with tn
operators in the Clearfield and mountain
regions, in case the striking miners ar
successful in effecting total suspension
of coal production in West Virginia ant
the Georges Creek dist rict of Maryland
The latter has one of the heaviest out
puts of any coal region in the Unite'
States, and supplied the Eastern mar
kets with the bulk Of their coal durinl
the strike Of 1894.