The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-29
STRIKING MINERS RESUME WORK.
0RAT0RY RESTRAINED.
A Judges Injunction Prevents Labor Leaders
From Approaching the Miners.

The strike in the Fairmont. w. Va,
district seems to have come to an end.
All the leaders but w. d. Mahon. of the
street car mems association, are away.
In this condition Of affairs the miners
say there is no reason why they should
not go to work. One hundred and
eighty men were at work at Monongah
Monday. An injunction issued by Spe-
cial Judge Mason has much to do with
this condition. The injunction Is ad-
dressed TO Eugene V. Debs. w. ID. Ma
hon, NJ. ID. Ratchford, w. III. Rea, sew
eral other organizers and Al local men.
1t forbids them delivering incendiary
speeches or in any way threatening
the men who want employment 1t has
not been served on any of those named,
and 1t may not be, for the operators
are satisfied 1t has accomplished its
purpose and most of the men will go
to work during the week.
Judge Cowley, the eminent authority
on constitutional law, of Detroit, has
been placed in sanitarium. Over
study Is said to have ruined his mind.
Eugene V. Debs addressed 400 miners
at Watson, w. Va, Wednesday night,
among them being the 800 who march
ed from Monongah. The 100 men from
the New England mines who attended
say they expect to lose their jobs, as
they were warned by superintendent
that the company would employ NO
men who attended the meeting.
Debs' speech was full of socialism.
He described his Utopia scheme. He
said of the refusal of the mayor of
Pocahontas to let ]. X. Sovereign. gen.
eral master workman of the Knights
of Labor, to hold meeting there:
IF ii Is true, we are no better in the
United States than in Russia. Free
speech is denied in West Virginia; so
II is in Russia. 1t shows the despera-
tion on the part Of the operators. It's
like other schemes of the money power.
The end Is near. 1t is cupidity, and
cupidity commits suicide. They can
force us down now, but IT is like dam
ming a stream. You can build the dam
higher and higher, but finally the dam
must break. Pent-up power will some
day astroy."
Since the national strike of coal
miners was inaugurated on July last
the ranks of the strikers have in
creased from $4,000 to 40, ,000 according
to the estimate of National President
NJ. d. Ratchford sent to the mining Of
ficials.
The Pittsburg district has neither in
creased nor gained any since the strike
began Is days ago. About 10000 min
ers are idle. Nearly 5000, including
the New York and Cleveland men and
all the miners in Westmoreland coun-
ty exclusive of those employed at the
coke works, are still working, and have
been all summer In the other bitumin-
Gus fields in Pennsylvania there are in
the neighborhood of $1,000 miners pro-
ducng coal.
In Ohio the tie-up Is practically COM
plete. That State is the stronghold of
the United Mine Workers. The morn
ing the strike order became effective
$4,000 of the $4,000 miners in Ohio quit
work. 1t was but a few days until the
other 5000 came out and none Of them
have returned to the pits since.
Illinois furnished 14.000 strikers out
of $4,000 on the first day of the sus-
pension, and President Ratchford
claims that $4,000 men have followed
the leaders example in the fight. This
leaves 5000 miners in the southern part
of the State who refuse to join the
strike.
No accurate figures can be obtained
for West Virginia. One day the min
ers are out there and the next day they
are back at work. Not more than c.
900 of the $4,000 diggers are actually
striking. however. President Ratch-
ford claims between 10000 and 5000
strikers in the Mountain State. but
conservative estimates place his fig
ures high. The small districts in the
South and Western States go to make
up the other forty odd thousand strik
ers.
Indiana has only about 5000 bitum-
inous miners and all of them are strik-
ing.