The age-herald., 1897-08-21
SECOND EDITION. ONE LAST GRAND EFFORT
Will Be Made By United Labor
 To Win Ont.
STRIKE DEPENDS UPON IT
Gompers and Sovereign Unite With the Miners In a Call For Meeting at St. Louis
 On August 30.

Columbus, Ohio, Aug 2O.-The national executive board of the United Mine Workers adjourned today after having issued call for conference of organ ized labor to be held in St. Louis August 30. The board rejected the proposition of the Pittsburg operators for a confer ence to arbitrate the wage dispute in that district, claiming that such action would be prejudicial to the interest of the miners at large.
 The board is ready to consider over- lures for the arbitration of thesissues Of the great strike only when the over lures come from all operators in the com petitive disrtict, which includes Ohio, H. linois, West Virginia, Indiana and Penn sylvania. The board has resolved not to deviate from their established purpose until the result of the St. Louis confer ence is known. An aggressive warfare will be continued and an effort to get out the West Virginia district renewed. The success or failure or the strike hangs upon the St. Louis conference, the call for which has been endorsed by Samuel Gompers, president of the Amer jean Federation of Labor, and J. R. Soy- ereign, general master workman of the Knights of Labor. They maintain that the fight now being waged by the miners is one of common interest to organized labor throughout the country.
 At the St. Louis conference all labor organizations will be asked to join is- sues with the miners.
 The failure to secure general suspen- Sion in West Virginia has greatly inter fered with the success of the strike, as the supply of coal from that and the few isolated districts is meeting the linn ited demand. The only hope of cut ting off this supply apeaIs to lie in the refusal of organized labor in the ordinary chan nels of trade or business to handle or use this coal. If the objeo, of the St. Louis conference is accomplished the strike will be extended to nearly every branch of labor in the country.
 The command, among other things, says:
 'sThe tyrannfca1 and un-American in functions of the federal and state courts are revolutionary against the first prin- ciples of free government and derogatory to the inherent rights of the masses, dan gerous to the public peace and destroying the personal security and indivldualtles of the common people.
 'eThs courts have desscrated the temple of justice and now stand the defiant bull warlx confederate of capital. Their ar- bitrary rulings have set up the stand ard of rights for the rich and another for the poor. They decree that capital is always right and labor always wrong They have made it unlawful for starving working people to appeal against tyrani- cal treatment, present grievances -o1 propose just and peaceable terms fol the rsdress of insufferabie wrongs.
 But it is no longer mere struggle between employe and employer The judiciary has assumed the indefensibl: claims of tha operators and the struggle is between tyranical courts and the whole people. The courts, although under oath to serve the rich and poor alike have volunteered to def@nd the sordid interests of the rich as against the God given rights of the poor. And now threaten to turn the gatling gun. and Winchesters of criminals agains those who opposs their despicable re straining orders. The judiciary is pros tituted to the bidding of expressing capi
 
 FROM LOWELL, MASS.
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