The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-06
Says He Holds Judge Jackson
and His Injunction
In Contempt and Will Talk
When and Where He PIeases.
BOUND HAND AND FOOT
Are the Miners to Corporate
Capital He Says,
If Jackson Injunction Shall Be
Sustained.

Pfttsburg, Pa, Aug. 6.-Eugene "
Debs, who addressed the large miners
meeting last evening, left today for
Turtle Greek, where he speaks this
evening Before leaving the city, Mr.
Debs denounced Judge Jackson of West
Virginia for issuing the injunction re-
straining him from interfering in any
way with the Monongah company or
Ats employees. Mr.. Debs said: This
injunction restrainS me from walking
on any public highway leading to the
mines of the MOnOngah Coal & Coke
company. 1t is most sweeping, and
none other can be compared to it. This
injunction annihilates the right OF
peacea BILE assem- blage and effectually
suppresSes the right of free speech. If
it is sustained, and 1 have no doubt it
will be, it sweeps away all consitu-
tiOna1 safeguards and delivers us, bound
hand and foot, to corporate capital.
7 hold the injunction and the judge
who issued it in supreme contempt. If
I have occasion to raise my voice in
behalf of the famishing miners in jack
sons jurisdiction, 1 propose to do so, or
a least make the attempt, totally re-
gardleSs of this infamous injunction.
The farce of the proceeding is that the
injunction is issued by a judge. 1t
ought to come direct from the coal op-
orators, and at least hypocrisy would
not Intensity the infamy of the pro-
ceeding.''
In reference to the charge that the
deputies now on guard at De Armitt'S S
mines were forcing miners 10 work at
the point of revOlverS, President DOlan
stated that the matter had been placed
in the hands of their attorney and it
was probable that the miners officials
would go into court and ask for an in
junction restraining these deputies.
Said he: They have no right to COM
pei any man to go to work, and we will
not stand it. I have in my pocket the
names of many of the men who we're
treated in this manner, but prefer not
20 give them now for fear the men will
suffer-
The coal company discovered a new
sort of missionary work among its en-
plOyeS today. Wives of many of the
campers are in the field now. They
have been arriving for several days un-
til now there are about twenty of them
scattered about through the Plum,
Sandy and Turtle Creek settlements.
The women are from the Mcdonald,
Carnegie and Wheeling division sec
tions, and while the men are at work.
do missionary work among their wives.
They have access to the workmen's
houses, but the men are denied this
Deputies are stationed all along the
property line with instructions not to
allow a solitary man to pass into the
house range.
The campers claim that the effect of
Uhe female missionary work will be ap-
parent in day or So Many of the
Plum Creek men are expected to iOin
the movement after pay day Monday
The strikers say they would be out
now, but they want to get as much
1IiOIGS as possible aheaQ, so as 10 nave
something to fall back on.
Whether or not the strikers will be
able to get the Plum Greek men to stop
the mine, there is becoming a more
serious question than the strike leaders
at first thought. Unlike the other dig
ging settlements, about all of the Plum
Creek men live in company houses ON
the cOmpany's land. The workmen do
not have TO leave the De Armitt prop
erty to get into the mines, and strikers
get no chance to stop them on the road.
The deputies do not allow anyone to get
near the houses and the workers and
strikers are entirely without commune
cation except through the women 1t
now seems the Plum Creek siege will be
much longer and a much harder bat
tie than a any of the other mines
Prices for coal moved up 10 cents a
ton since yesterday, the assigned reason
being that the prospects are that the
area of the strike will expand and en-
brace the northern and central Penn
sylVania districts. Coal is being hoard
ed for possible future deman nds when
prices will be still higher Ruling prices
are S1.1O for run of mine in barges and
carts at Pittsburg and and cents a
bushel for slack on the river.