The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-12

adopted a plan Of using the edkeEs 10
assist the strikers In a more profitable
way.
Committees have been in the coke re-
gion all week, collecting money and pro-
visions,
PltsouG Appeals,
The headquarters Of the district off,
clals of the United Mine Workers In this
city are still besleged with plteous ap-
peals for aid from the starving women
and children OF the striking miners, More
than $1,000 worth of provisions have
been distributed during the last two days
and the requests for help are always In
excess OF the means 20 respond.
Around the Bunoia mine, and along the
Wheeling division of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad, the suffering seems to be
worse, In many homes there seems to
be nothing but dry bread TO eat, and in
some cases not even this.
Arrangements are being made for u
big labor meeting In McKeesport, Satur-
day evening, which all the striking
miners In the Turtle Creek and MOnon-
gahela valleys are expected to attend,
The meeting will be In charge OF the
striking puddlers committee,
The speakers engaged are:
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation OF Labor: NJ. T..
RatchfoFd, president OF the United Mine
Workers and NJ. NJ. Garland, president
of the Amalgamated Association. A
parade will precede the meeting.
A large meeting was held at Canons-
burg to-day, where both the Boone and
Allison mines have resumed operations
in full.
President Dolan took the operators to
task for rcsuming because they had
promised to keep their mines closed II the
DeArmttt miners came out.
Dolan claims the CanOnsburg opera
tors have broken the agreement. on the
other hand the operators say DeArmltt's
men are working and they intend to
work also.
In order to get the men out again, the
strikers win make daily marches from
camp Victory until they regain lost
ground.
The striking miners who were former
employees Of the New York and Cleveland
Gas Coal Company, met this afternoon
and formed a permanent organization
and appointed n committee from each
mine to take charge OF the strike at those
mines.
Miners Joan ofArc.
Following the organization, they at
tended a meeting at Turtle Creek, adj
dressed by Mrs. Jones, OF Chicago, at
which 1900 miners and their wives were
present from the different sections OF the
district.
The feature of the meeting was the
crownlng Of Emma Haas with wreath
OF daisies, by Mrs. Jones, who presented
her to the miners as the Joan of Arc of
America" This is the sixteen -year-old
cripple who came into prominence
through firing a pistol as the miners
marched past her home on their daily
visits to the mines. Her father was
working In Plum Creek mine and she
said she fired the pistol to enthuse her
father with the Just cause Of the strike,
She was brought before the deputies and
the pistol taken from her. She was told
II she repeated the performance she
would be sent to the reform school. Mrs.
Jones said the girl viii be sent to school
and educated for her future work in lie.
1t Is intended to make OF her n speaker
on economic and industrial topics.
In spite Of the announcement by the
company that 2S5 men were at work in
the Plum Creek mine, only slxty-five pit
wagons OF coal were brought out for half
days work, whereas, the usual output
should be CS5 wagons per day.
The first meeting held by the strikers
at Irwin to-day was poorly attended by
the miners Of that district as all were at
work,
Cameron Miller addressed the meeting
euloglzing the Irwin men for their re-
cords In the past and expressing the hone
that they would stand by their fellow
workmen In the present struggle.
MarcheFs 10 the number Of about 1000
came to the meeting from Shaners and
other parts OF this district.
Superintendent Humphrles, OF the
Westmoreland Company. says It Is not
true that his company ls shipping coal
to western points. lie does not think his
men Will strike.
The strikers propose TO camp at Irwin
and use their best endeavurs to get the
men out.