Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-07-15
SURPRISE in STORE
UNION MINERS WILL SPRING A SEN.
Station.
They Are Determined to Get All the
Diggers Out and Are Preparing
a Move of a Sensational Order
Encouraging Reports Received ut
the Unions Oftcc-A Majority of
the Operators Will Not Listen to
Arbitration.

Arbitration,
Pittsburg, July II. - The lines are
Tightening in all sections of the Pitts
burg mining district with the excep-
ton Of few spots.
The diggers in the New York Il
Cleveland Gas Coal company are still
working, but President Dolan and Sec
rotary Warner are preparing for a
move Of a sensational order on that
point. 1t was looked for yesterday,
but will be made some time to-day or
tomorrow, the time not yet being
agreed upon. President Dolan was out
ut Wtckhaven Strengthening his cause
there and will visit several of the riy-
or mines before he returns.
kilograms and letters of an encour-
aging nature from the different pits in
this district are pouring into the min
ers' office. One of these, written by a
miner on the Wheeling division of the
Baltimore & Ohio, complains that the
operators are taking unfair means to
whip the men. The writer alleges
that they are influencing the boarding
house keepers to issue attachments
against the single men for the small
amounts they owe, and are also threat
ering the men having families with
election If they don't return to work.
Another miner wrote from the Jumbo
mines saying that only seven men
were at work at that pit, as he had
made a special investigation in order
to get at the facts in the case. From
the same source it was learned that
everything was quiet and idle on
Ailler's run. 1t is pretty certain that
nsarly one-third of the Panhandle
miners of Hanna & Co. are at work.
The best information puts the pres
ent state of the strike in this district
US about complete with the exception
Of the pits of the New York & Cleve-
land company, four or five small mines
and several others in the fourth pool.
1t seems that the officials are having
more trouble in getting the miners of
the upper river section out than in any
otner portion of the territory. 1t is,
too, with that of the Dearmitt mine,
the vital point Of the district. Strong
efforts will be made by President Do
Ian to get all the river diggers into the
movement. BY his efforts yesterday
the miners at the Whittset and West
ern Newton were out. Some of the
reports from the Monongahela river
district indicate that many of the
miners OF that section are weakening
and that some have already returned
to work with prospects of more follow
Ing the same example before long.
The Chamonni mines Of the Tide Coal
company, the mines of the Charles
lutte company and the Samuel O'Neill
mines at Payette and the Jones mines
at Monongahela are at work. The con-
dition of affairs is causing much ex-
element in the valley.
The officials Of the United Mine
Workers realize that this is crucial
time in the strike movement with the
greatest interest centered in the Pitts
burg district. Efforts will be made to
get out all the working river miners
uEon their success, and, in fact, it will
ment. Up to the present time not a
man has quit at the mines of the New
York L. Cleveland Gas Coal company
and none are expected to join the
strikers. ~4s.~r --sssse!x..:2, -.4-:ss.uss
division to-day as it is pay day. 1t is
estimated that fully $4,000 will be
paid out in cash. An effort will be
made to have the saloons at Finleyville
closed, claiming that there will be riot
ing if the men who have money pat
ronize these places.
The shortage Of coal is severely felt
by the railroads. Wholesale confisca-
+iorc oro tho ,,,,1o IN oil 1inoS chinninO
West.
The movement among the operators
to get a conference with the miners
leaders has not yet assumed any def
mite form. Col. Rend, the Chicago op-
orator, and several others are work
ing hard to this end. The colonel be-
lieves the controversy can be arbi-
tratcd, but the majority of the ope-
rators will not hear the proposition.
The principal movement made by
the strikers was the securing of a con-
ference of the national leaders of the
several powerful labor organizations
Of the country with the purpose In
view of devising ways and means to
assist those who are making what Is
considered by all of them the supreme
effort for wage advancement. 1t Is
known that concerted action will be
taken at once to make the suspension
Of mining in West Virginia complete,
which move, If successful, will kill OH
the most effective enemy the strikers
have to encounter. 1t was this field
that broke the strike in '94, and no
effort will be spared to bring it into
subsection at this time.
Ratchford Is Sanguinc.
Massillon, Ohio, July 11.-President
NJ. D. Ratchford, of the United Mine
Workers of America, arrived in Mas
sillon from Columbus, and in a few
hours left for Pittsburg, where an i'm
portant conference is to be held with
President Gompers, Of the American
Federation Of Labor, officers of the
Iron and Steel Workers association,
railway employees association and 9th
er unions. Mr.. Ratchford would not
predict the outcome Of the conference,
but said it would have direct bearing
on the strike. Mr.. Ratchford Is san
puine.