The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-19
DE- ARMIT IS ON TOP.
Injunction Against the Marchers
Made Permanent.
MUST NOW ADOPT NEW METHODS.

strikers Declare They Have Not Used
Force, but DE Armit Says His Men VIII
BE Glad To Work if Not Intimidated-
Marchers Invade the Town of CofIeen,
ills.-Arrest of General" Bradley OPP
orators Decide to Resume.
Pittsburg. Aug. ia crushing blow
was dealt the coal miners trlke when
Judges Stowe and Collier handed down
their opinion i'm the miners injunction
case shortly after 10 o'clock Wednesday
morning. The decision makes the pre-
liminary injunction permanent.
This gives the sanction Of law to the
autocratic acts of Sheriff Lowry, who
at the instigation of the De Armits has
lately employed the forces at his COM
mand to utterly bar the strikers from
Intercourse Of any sort with the miners
employed by the De Armits. This rul-
ing of the courts will put an end to all
marching and is regarded by the De
Armits as sure sign of victory.
Intimidated by Marchers.
They say their men want to work, but
have been intimidated by the marchers.
The latter say they have not used force
or intimidation in any case, but have
tried To enlist De Armit's men in the
name of humanity, to the end that all
the coal mine strikers of the country
might better their state.
The striking miners encamped at the
New York and Cleveland Gas Coal com
pany did not march Wednesday morn
ing as they had planned To do. 1t was
their purpose TO start for the mines
headed by a brass band and march until
the sheriff stopped them. They did not
anticipate however, that the sheriff and
his men were so ciCse to their camps
AT Turt& Cresk the men formed in lire
and when they were ready to start they
beheld the stalwart forms Of the dCpu-
ties standing just outside their camp.
The march was al Cnce abandoned, and
small parties numbering frcm TWO to
six each were instructed to Patrol the
woods in the vicinity Of the mine ard 70
port the number Of men going 10 woik.
Told to Keep Nov ng
They were instructed 10 keep moving,
and If approached - a deputy sheriff
TO get away as rapCly as possible to
esccpe service Of tte irjunctior The
| leadc-s propose in this way to harae7 the
there are 2OOO0 men IN the district end
that the injunction will have to be read
/ 20 600 times before the attacks upon the
mines at Oak HUl. Sandy Greek ard
| Plum Creek cease. unless the mines ere
sooner closed down.
J The men y, flowed the instructions but
were unal~e to learn just how many
J diggers went into the pit The output
| Sc y
J cars Of lump coal and two Of slack and
| nut, or.-about $50 tcns. This shows a
! gain for the company. though no claim
! Of an increased force is made by the De
! Armits. and the strikers claim that only
! twenty-five men are at work.
} Abandoned the Camp
The indications are that the camp
| about De Armit's mines will be aban-
! doned and that there will be no more
| marching. Uriah Ballingham reached
Plum Creek about noon Wednesday and
calling the men together, told them OF
the decision of the court. He told them
there would be no further use in re-
naming in camp. as no more food would
be furnished You had better go home
TO your families" he said land find
work where you can
There was considerable murmurng
among the men, but shortly after about
$50 started for their homes and Others
I soon followed Ballingham, Kelly and
Tomlinson. who were in charge at Plum
Creek. then took the train for Pitts
burg, abandoning the camp and demon
strations against De Armits mines. The
mine managers expect that all the men
will be at work soon.