The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-10
Most of the Crusaders Well Fed, buA
Those mt Home and Women and
Children in Need of Food.
PAY OF STRIKERS WITHHELD
NO MONEY FOR COAL DIGGERs WHO
VIOLATED THEIR CONTRACTS.
Many of De Armitt's Men Alleged to
Have Quit WOrk--Indiana March,
ers Gaining at Evansville.


and provisions were numerous at the head
quarters of the miners officials in this city
to-day 1t appeared as if there was a wall
from every section of the district and
miners in person We're present to ask that
the sufferers be looked after. Secretary
Warner was kept busy answering the ap-
peas. He said tonight that he had sent
more than $1,000 worth of groceries and
provisions into various parts of the district
The appeals are now coming in from the
families, the heads of which are at the vari-
Gus mining camps using their influence to
keep other men from working. A series of
M stings are to be held all over the dis
trict. 1t is expected to keep up the interest
in every section and strengthen every point
where there is the least indication of weak
ness. Tae Vigils at the mines of the New
York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company are
to be kept up and the vigor increased from
day to day.
President Patrick Doan and Secretary
Warner to-day called mass meeting of all
the miners at Canonsburg Wednesday, Aug.
IL, at 4. m. The meeting will be addressed
by the districts officials and others Every
miner is requested to attend The campaign
in Westmoreland county will begin at Irwin
on Wednesday, AT 2 p. m. monster meet
ing will be held. It is expected that Eugene
V. Debs, Mrs. Mary Jones, N L. Carrick.
Patrick Dolan and others will make adj
dresses. A march is to be made from Turtle
creek There will be q number of brass
bands in the procession. The strikers de-
sire to awaken an interest in that section,
as they claim the mines that are working
are an injufy to their cause
AT the instigation of Thomas e. Sutton, of
Willocks, Henry Ulrich, Emil Nazer and
Gustav Rings, miners, were committed to
jail for hearing before Alderman j. v.
McMasters on various charges to-day. Ul-
rich is charged with aggravated assault and
battery; Nagel with assault and battery.
and Huser and Rings with unlawful assem-
bage. The arrests are the result Of an al
tercation at Wllocks, July 26, on account
of the strike. Warrants are out for a num-
ber of others.
Early this morning the miners of West
Elizabeth made march the mines of the
Elisabeth Mining Company, rvrueL1y Uper-
ated by Horner & Roberts. About fifty
men were going to work. After a consulta-
ton the men asked that they be allowed to
finish loading fiat. They agreed to go
out as soon as it was loaded, which will
take several days. The officials of the COM
pauy made an effort this afternoon to get
permission from the mining officials to con-
Jinue work on a 69-cent basis. This was
not given and it is expected that the mine
will be idle as soon as the fiat is loaded
All the miners of the New York and
Cleveland Gas Coal Company, who are still
work, were paid to-day, but those who
struck did not receive any money. the COM
pany insisting upon the terms of the con-
tract by which the men agreed to forfeit
all money due them in case they refused
to work All the miners who can give a
reasonable excuse for attending any of the
meetings will be paid The company has
the names OF all the men who have been at
these meetings and took any part in the
demonstrations. Unless they can give a
satisfactory explanation, they will get no
money The strikers say the men have
promised to quit work as soon as they get
their pay but Superintendent Samuel De
Armitt says the strikers will not take man
out of Plum Creek mine, except twenty
nine who will be discharged. owing 10
the carelessness of the guard about the
Sandy Creek mine forty men went into the
mine at o'clock this morning morn and Lar are now now
men at work, and only three cars Oh coaA
were mined.
the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal
Company worked hard to-day to get the
miners at Oak Hill to return to work. BY
a house-to-house canvass he succeeded in
getting a few more diggers than have been
at work. Thirty-seven miners went in Ihe
men were told by Mr.. De .Armitt that they
would lose ali they had earned II they
would not work, and would be given hve
days to vacate the company houses. Inc ne
strikers say only seventy-tive men out or
2S5 were at work in the Plum Creek mine
to-day The company claims almost full
force was worked. The strikers are nope
full that the remaining diggers VIII quiz
work after getting their pay. TIE Plum
Creek men We're not paid to-day, ana II M IL
expected the company will require the men
to sign q new agreement before they are
given tnir envelopes. The Sandy creek
miners are awaiting Developments Insy
are hopeful the courts Will set aside the
contracts of the company which the men
were obliged to sign. -.
Hunger is doing more injury to the cause
of the miners than any other one tllng'
and tho officers of the commissary depart
ment are doing everything possible 10 pro-
vide against this contingency; ,,.
J. c. Dysart, a member of the uniformity
commission returned to the city to-day
after weeks absence. he says the WoIk k
earnestly and he believes the required
number will be secured. The miners, ne
saws cannot possibly win the strike, as
tbg mines still in operation can supply thS
demand Some of the coal operators are
getting restless, and threaten 70 at1Sihpl ,. "
start their mines this week. w; II. SIM
mons, a large coal dealer says tnere Is no
scarcity of coal. Last night 23O cars or
coal came into Pittsburg from west VIZ
gfnia and large quantities are Demg
shipped TO Pittsburg from the mines along
tho pennsylvania Railroad.
The strikers at Turtle Creek have divided
into three divisions and viii march in the
morning on the several mines now IN operas
tion The marches will begin about s CLOCK
in the morning One party will go to the
Spring Ifill mines. operated by Alexander
Deu1pster located near WIDENING. Ihese
mines have been supplying the De Armltt
C'ompany with coal. Another party WIN
lIb SoilaI,'0 - OAK HfIl. as usual and the third
company will go TO Sandy Creek
The BoOne mine, at Canons0urg, started
11nexpectedlV to-day with thirty-nVe men,
and tomorrow morning marching force or
abont eight hundred men will march on
ana encamp about this mine until it is shut
down.