Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-07-17
STRIKE LEADERS ENCOURAGED
But Very Few Miners Now ut Work
at Any OF the pittshurg
District Mines,

pittsburg, Pa, July lO.-rhc close of
the third day OF tine miners strike
finds the digger gaining strength rap,
idly in the littSburg district. clating
the officials and men correspondence.
The net result of the struggle up to
date, as CLEANED from unbiased as well
as from partisan sources. is about rs
follows: Nineteen thousand men idle;
an almost total suspension of work in
the mines along the Mouongahela riv-
er; suspension practically total on
the Wheeling division of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, only about
fifty men working there: all railroad
mines closed down with the exception
of the NJ. \. Hanna u Go. mines along
the Panhandle, the New York and
Cleveland Gas Coal company and Il few
individual mines that can have but lit
tie effect on the situation. The Hanna
mines have about onc-third OF their
usual number Of men at work and this
slight increase over Wednesday APP.
pears to he about the only advantage
the operators have gained.
The coming out of the men along the
Baltimore and Ohio lisa decided victory
for the miHers, because these men
0lS WI Nlllf NV AlN iA'laA lt'i u
ment and by their loyalty TO their
brethren forfeit 5000 in wages which
The company holds out.
The situation as 10 the supply of
coal cannot be called serious as yet,
because there are from 1000 900 to
$4,000, 600 of bushels OF coal in stock at
the various pools along thch river,
which can be placed i'm this city at
short notice. aud il need be a portion
of it could be shipped TO the lakes.
Up to the present time no sign of
lawlcssncsS has developed among the
strikers and no evidence whatever that
there will he. Tomorrow promises 10
be a day of decided action on the part
of the miners. 1t is reported that Il
meeting has been scheduled between
President l~tatchford of the Mine
Workers association. and President
GompcrS Of the Federation of Labor,
in this city, and the miners officials
that a systematic movement
will he started to bring out the Dig
gers now AT wark for the New York
and Cleveland Gas Coal company.
The meeting between R~atchford and
Gompers will be an important one as
plans for carrying on the strike to ul-
innate success are to be discussed.
1t is claimed hat one of the princi-
pal topics will be n scheme to raise
funds from which it is proposed to
pay all the miners that are not work
ing full time, in order to induce them
to make the ticup complete. 1t is said
that President Gompers will offer to
raise a fund of 500, 900 per week to as
sist the strikers in their struggle.
The miners officials are likely to
meet with Il serious stumbling block
in their efforts to induce the miners
of the New York and Cleveland Gas
Coal company TO join in the movement
Notwithstanding their confident asser'
ton that these men will be out before
Sunday night next. A visit to the
mines today disclosed the fact that q
large number of the men are opposed
to striking at this time, because of
their contract agreement.
Pittsburg, July 9.-The joint scale
conference of the iron and steel manu-
tacturers and the Amalgamated Assoc
citation of Iron and' Steel Workers,
which have been in session two days,
adjourned indefinitely without reach
ing an agreement. twenty-five thou
sand men are affected.
Ottawa, ILL.,, July "a hundred and
eighty miners at l.. Hake's shaft, Rut.
land, struck this morning. This was
accompanied by $50 miners from 40
luca, who marched across the country
and met the Rutland miners as they
appeared Mt the shaft.
supply Short at Cleveland.
Cleveland, July 9.-The situation
here over the coal strike is becoming
desperate. The railroads are growing
holder, c~onfiscating coal, and those
who depend on the regular supply are
becoming anxious. Several boats arc
delayed owing to a scarcity of fuel
Several leading fueling companies fol
lake traffic have supplies only for +;
days, or have suspended business alto
gether. 1t is generally admitted tina
coal dealers and operators were very
poorly prepared for u strike. Nesse
men say the strike will cause all eXcep
the largest vessels to tie up. The grea
plant of the Cleveland Steel compan.
closed this morning for lack of fuel
Concluded Not TO Work.
Wheeling, w. Va, July 9.-It hat
been announced by the Wheeling an
Lake Erie management that its Dillon
vale mine would be started today witt
the miners protected by United State
marshals. At the blowing of tn,
whistles not a man entered the mine
The men met last night and decided, j
necessary to be protected by marshal
they would not work.
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