Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-08-12
STRIKE NEWS.
The Situation Extremely Critical
Around the DeArrnit Mines.
NEGROES NAY CAUSE A FUSS.
DeArmit Claims to Have Outwitted the
Strikers-Uniformity Agreement-Agi-
tators Coming West-niinois
Miners Get q Raise.


developments late in the day the
| miners in the three camps besieging
the DeArmit mines are resting. At no
time during the strike has the situa-
| ton been so critical. but no one who
| has been in the district every day since
| the commencement of the marches be-
| lieves that the miners will be drawn
| into fight If trouble does come it
| will not be between strikers and dep
| utieS, but between strikers and the
negroes in the camp at Unity who are
employed on the new Pittsburgh
| & Bessemere railroad. The depu-
ties will be drawn in to quelI the
| trouble and a three-cornered fight is
not improbable. In the camp of the
negroes depraved men and women are
| together in tents and huts, every one
of which is a speak-easy. They have
terrorized the community for miles
| around. The strikers camp is sepa-
rated from the negroes by a township
road, leading from Unity to Wilkins
burg. Already there have been sew
eral brawls between the two parties.
The negroes are walking arsenals,
while the strikers have no weapons.
Thomas B. DeArmit says he has out
witted the strikers and made a gain at
are now 31S men at work there. Mr..
DeArmit denies the story that the pay
dav has been deferred at Sandy and
Plum creeks
The expected importation of negroes
from Virginia for Oak hill has not
taken place as yet, but the strikers are
keeping strict lookout for them and
think they can be persuaded not to
work when they do arrive. An effort
made yesterday to cause coal miners in
the coke region to strike failed. About
40 strikers went from the Mock mines
to Oliver, Fayette county, and made
demonstration. They asked the Oliver
miners to strike, but the latter re-
fused Some of the workmen wished
to drive the visitors away, but they
made no move and the strikers went
away promising to come back in added
numbers. The managers of the mines
called on the sheriff for protection
from this threatened invasion. 1t is
said the next pay of the Oliver men
will be the largest ever made there.
The miners of the Grinders, of Capt.
Hicks, at Leechburg, have struck.
They say their coal is screened before
it is weighed and that it is sold to fill
contracts for operators whose men are
on strike a convention Is called Tor
Monday at Leechburg.
Copies of the uniformity agreement
have been mailed by the commissioners
and are in the hands of every operator
in the district. 1t is thought a large
number of signatures have already
been attached to the document, After
sufficient time has been allowed the
operators to think over the matter
carefully, personal visits will be paid
by the committee to those who still re-
fuse to sign.
Asitators Coming West.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Aug. s. The state
miners convention adjourned to-day
after passing resolutions condemning
truck stores, thanking labor unions
for their sympat thy and boycotting all
non-union cigars. The convention
sent out Representative as follows:
President Carson to the southern Hi
nois field, Secretary Ryan to the Kan
sas fields and Vice President J. NJ.
Hunter and ]. j. keenan, to Iowa
Illinois Miners Get a Raise.
NASHVILLE, Ill. Aug. s.-The strike
in this vicinity will probably be short
lived, as the men in the Boyd mines
| and those in the employ of the Ran
dolph Coke 6 Coal Co. received a raise
of 30 cents per ton on coal and have all
returned to work.