The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-08

ginia field, which we would have gladly
done and thereby removed their complaints
10 considerable extent We have me,
many operators personally We have called
them together in conference. We have VS.
tied the national capital and in a measure
have gone down upon our knees to bring
influence to bear that might avert this
calamity but it was all of no use. Little at
tentton was given to our appeals and hence
a resort TO the only means at our COM
mand-suspension.
II am in possession OF reliable information
this morning that the monaghan Coke
Company at Pennington, w. Va. is tied
up and has advertised for two hundred min
ers, assuring them steady work and good
wages. This action will be followed by min
ers in other sections of that State until the
suspension is made general in West Vir-
ginia- l am also assured on information
equally as reliable that there is not coal
supply enough in Chicago to bridge over six
days. Notices from other great coal CEN
tiers all indicate that coal famine is near
at handi THAT railroad circles are being
disturbed, all of which lis most favorable
toward the securing of living wages far the
miners. All that is necessary is for miners
everywhere to avail themselves of this
grand opportunity.
President Ratchford said tonight the in
formation he hao received to-day was all of
an encouraging nature He had reason to
believe that the suspension in the Pittsburg
district would become general The only
miners of the Monongahela Coal Company,
at Pennington, are idle. Several hundred
miners are employed there. President
cation to reach the West Virginia miners,
as everything in the mining district is con-
trolled by the operators. He claims that
the official organ of the United Mine Work
ers is denied a circulation in some of the
mining districts by the operators and that
the miners cannot be reached by telegraph:
1t is proposed to send emissaries among
the men and induce them TO join the strike.
Just how this is to be accomplished is not
divulged. Similar efforts in the great strike
of 1894 failed. President Ratchford asserts,
however, that if the West Virginia miners
can be reached by the officials of
the organization they can be induced
to stop work. The chief trouble
in Ohio is expected along the lines OF the
Cleveland, Lorain Il Wheeling and Wheel
ing & Lake Erie railroads. where some
tonight is to the effect that between 1500
and 1,600 miners on the Wheeling & Lake
Erie at Laurelton, Dillonvile and Long
Run will return to work tomorrow. This
has had a discoura ging effect the miners
in the Wheeling district, the last of whom
were induced to quit work tonight.
AdViceS to the State Journal from cOrre-
spondents along the line of the Wheeling
& Lake Erie and Cleveland. Lorain 6z
Wheeling are to sthe effect that the ship
ment of West Virginia coal through Ohio
over those roads viii cause a repetition of
the troubles of the strike of 1894, when
efforts were made to stop this traffic. The
sentiment among the miners at some places
along the Ohio river is very strong, and
some are advocating the organization of
band of miners to go into West Virginia
cease work. 1t is not likely. however, such
thing viii be done, as the miners officials
are using their best endeavors to keep the
men within peaceful bounds.