Willmar tribune., 1897-08-24
OPERATORS DAY,
Striking Miners in Pennsylvania
Receive a Body Blow.
Injunction Against Assembling or
Marching IL Made Permanent-
Leaders Advise Them to Go
Home and Seek Work.


Home and Seek Work.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Aug. 19.-Wednesday
was operators day, aud from present
appearances they have made a most ef-
fective move and have nearly If not
quite checkmated their opponents, the
striking coal miners. The courts de-
cree in making permanent the prelimi-
aryinjunction restraining the strikers
from camping, marching or in any man
ner interfering with the New York Il
Cleveland Gas Coal company's miners
has had the effect of almost depicting
the camps about those mines, and ap-
parently general Generalization
among the campers exists. Judges
Stowe and Collier handed down q
decision in the injunction proceedings
of the New York & Cleveland Gas
coal company against the United Mine
Workers Of America, Patrick Dolan,
William Warner and others. The pre-
liminary injunction was made perma-
nent and the plaintiff was ordered to
file bond of $4,000 to answer for such
damages as may be sustained by the de-
PENDANTS by reason of the injunction.
Immediately after the fling of the
decree and upon motion of Mr.. Thomas
decree to be drawn in the case against
the Bunola miners, in which the injunc-
ton was applied for by Rufus e. Craw-
ford.
Advised to Go Home.
Uriah Dillingham;, in charge Of the
camp at Plum Creek, put a damper on
the campers at that place Wednesday.
He had just returned from the city,
where he heard the courts decision in
the injunction case. He told the men
there would be no more marching and
no need of such large number of men
Mt the camp. He advised the men to
disperse to their respective homes and
get work wherever they could. At this
camp where, Tuesday, there were 800
men. there are now less than 100.
Camp Determination, at Turtle
Greek, was reduced in numbers from
200 to so. The men who were told to
go home gathered in an angry crowd
and denounced the officials bitterly.
Sunny Creek camp is practically aban-
doned, and it is not known whether it
will be opened again or not. All told
there are less than $50 men now en-
camped about the three mines.
VIII Start the Mines.
In order to follow up the advantage.
the operators held a largely-attended
meeting Wednesday night at the
Monongahela house and arranged for
the starting of their mines with or
without force. If force seems to be un-
avoidable, it is the intention to start
few mines at once under the protec-
ton of deputies, and whatever expense
may result will be shared pro rata by
the mine owners. This scheme to start
the mines was adopted to break the ma
tional strike in 1894. President Dolan,
of the miners organization, does not
believe the movement will be success
this time, as the strikers are more in
earnest than in any former struggle.
VIII Call for Aid.
Columbus, O., Aug. 20.-Radical meas
ures are being planned by the leaders
of the striking miners. According to
information obtained at midnight from
official sources, they will ask united
strike by all the members of the fed
Grated unions. Propositions are also
being discussed to arm the miners, to
centralize the whole body of strikers
at Pittsburgh or wherever the opera
tors first try to reopen mines, and to
adopt a system of intimidation toward
nouunion men whom the operators may
persuade to go to work. The officials
of the United Mine Workers have awak-
ened to a full realization of the fact that
crisis is at hand in the great strike,
and are preparing for a final effort.
Operators Organize.
Columbus, o., Aug. 20.-The coal
operators yesterday perfected perma-
nent organization for the special pur-
pose of breaking the strike. Peter NJ.
Hitchcock, president of the Moon Run
Coal company, was made president;
c. NJ. Baine, of Morgan, Moore & Baine,
was chosen secretary, and J. C. Dysart,
of the CHARTERS Block Coal company,
treasurer. The aggregate output rep
resented at the meeting was 100000
tons year. Col. w. P. Rend after
the meeting said: I'VE propose to
operate our mines, and if our own men
will not work then others will take
their places. I would much rather
that conference be held and the trou-
bles adjusted before we take the step
we intend to, which, just as sure as
the sun rises, will be the means of
operating the mines at our pleasure" )"
A Financial SucceRa.