The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-07-09
Miners Along B. & 0. For
felt $4,000 and Strike.
HANNA'S MINES RUNNING
NO LAWLESSNESS AMONG THE
MINERS.
THE DUPTY MARSHALLS ON GUARD
The Greatest Fear For Trouble is in Hauling
Coal Through West Virginia
Into Ohio.

Into Ohio.
| Pittsburg, Pa, July S.-The close of
| the third day of the miners striks finds
| the diggers gaining strength rapidly in
the Pittsburg district, elating the Off
cials and men correspondingly.
| The nest result of the struggle up to
date, as CLEANED 1rom unbiased as well
as from partisan sources, is about as
| follows:
Nineteen thousand men idle, an almost
| total suspension Of work in the mines
along the Monongahela river; suspension
practically total on the Wheeling divi
sion of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
only about fifty men working there; I'LL
of the railroad mines closed down with
| the exception of the M. A. Hanna & Co.
mines along the Pan Handle, the New
York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company,
and a few individual mines which can
have but little effect on the situation.
The Hanna mines have about One-third
of their usual number Of men at work,
and this slight increase over yesterday
lappears to be the only advantage the ope-
rators have gained.
| Baltimore and Ohio is a decided victory
| for the miners because these men were
| working under an iron-clad agreement,
and by their loyalty to their brethren fer
felt $4,000 in wages which the company
holds out.
| The situation as to the supply of coal
cannot be called serious as YET, because
| there are from 12,000,U00 to 15O00,0O0
bushels of the black diamonds in stock
at the various pools along the river which
can be placed in this city at short notice,
and if need be, portion of it colld be
shipped to the lakes.
| Up to the present time no sign of un-
lawfulness has developed among the
strikers and no evidence whatever that
there will be. Tomorrow promises to be
day of decided action on the part of
| the miners. 1t is reported that II meeting
has been scheduled between President
Ratchford of the Mine Workers Associ-
alton, and President Gompers, of the
Federation of Labor, in this city, an
the miners officials announce that syste-
matte movements will be started to bring
out the diggers now at work for the New
York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company.
The meeting between Ratchford and
Gompers will be an important one, rs
plans for carrying on the strike to ulti-
mate success are to be discussed. 1t IS
claimed that one of the principal topics
will be a scheme to raise funds from
which it is proposed to pay all the miners
that are now working full time, in order
to induce them to make the tie-up COM
plete. 1t is said that President Gompers
will offer to raise a fund of 100000 per
week to assist the strikers in their strug-
gle.
The miners officials are likely to meet
with serious stumbling block in their
efforts to induce the miners of the New
York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company
to join in the movement, Notwithstanding
their confident assertion that these men
will be out before Saturday night next.
A visit to the mines today disclosed the
fact that large number Of the men are
opposed to striking at this time, because
i of their contract agreement. The officials
of the company say the men have given
positive assurance that they will remain
loyal and are in no wise alarmed over
the claim of the miners leaders that
they will have the men out before the
end of the week.
Wheeling, w. v, July S.-United
States Marshal Devanney, of Cincinna-
ii, accompanied by large force of depu-
ties, passed through Wheeling early this
morning on a special train for Dillon
vale, up the river, on the line OF the
Wheeling and Lake Erie road, where the
railroad company is to make an effort to
start the mines tomorrow morning.
Twenty-Five additional deputies were
sworn in today at Dillonvale. Some of
the miners at Dillonvale, who were forced
out by Long Run men on Wednesday
morning, say they will not work If it lis
necessary for them to be protected, but
General Manager Blickensderfer, OF the
Wheeling and Lake Erie, is confident
that he will have all the men he wants
tomorrow morning, when Dillon NO. z
mine will be started up. The notice that
the mines will resume work tomorrow
was given tonight b. the blowing OF the
whistles at the works. Notices were post
ed today by the local company announc-
ing that the working miners would re-
ceive protection from the deputy mar
shals. Tonight Antonio Domonicko was
arrested at Dillonvale at the instigation
Of the United States authorities on the
charge Of bringing in car load OF beer
for the purpose, they claim, Of inciting
the strikers to violence through drink.
Receiver Blickensderfer says the re-
port that the Wheeling and Lake Erie
road would receive the coal from West
Virginia mines in transit to the lakes is
untrue. 'Ma viii ha4l anything offered
to u.s." is the iauguage attributed to
him. The situation on the Wheeling md