Evening journal., 1897-07-10
STRIKE MOVEMENTS.
The Officers Are Preparing For a
Sensational Move.
1T MAY Be EXPECTED VERY SOON.
Encouraging Reports Are Pouring Into
the Strikers From All PoiDts-Threats
Made to Compel the Men TO
Return to Work.

"a Tightening In all sections Of the Pitts
burg mining district, with the excep-
tion Of a few localities.
The diggers in the New York and
s Cleveland Gas Coal company are stlll
+ working. but President Dolan and Sec
s retary Warner are preparing for a move
OF a sensational order on that point. 1t
was looked for yesterday. but VIII be
made some time Saturday or Sunday.
President Dolan has been at Wickha-
q ven. strengthening his cause there. and
Will visit several of the river mines be-
fore he returns.
kilograms and letters of an encour-
aging nature from the different pits in
this district are pouring into the
miners office One of these. written by
a miner on the Wheeling division of the
d Baltimore and Ohio complains that
operators are influencing the boarding
house keepers to issue attachments
q against the single men for the small
q amounts they owe and are also threat
ening the men having families with
q landlords warrants and election II they
& do not return to work.
& Preacher Green, the miner who was
& chairman of the meeting at the Forty
q foot cut, Snowden, Thursday, was again
% In the field yesterday and presided at
meeting of the Gastonville diggers at
+ that place. Several fiery speeches were
made, resulting eventually in a unani-
nous vote favoring the strike. In a
letter to Secretary Warner, Green
stated that the whistle for the men to
go to work at Gastonvile blew yester-
day morning as usual but not a miner
from his home entered the pit. Only a
a few were in Thursday.
Another miner wrote Secretary War
1,r 1,of
only seven men were at work at that
pit yesterday From the same sources
& it was learned that everything was
quiet and idle on Millers run. The
Jumbo mine was reported to be work.
ing, and It is pretty certain that nearly
one-third of the Panhandle miners Of
Hanna & Co. were at work yester-
day The miners officials had no
definite information from there. but
claimed the pit was practically de-
serted.
From an operator II was learned the
mines of the washington Coal and Coke
company in Stickles hollow are work.
Ing full and on Thursday loaded 100
cars Of COAL which went to Cleveland.
This mine is on the line Of the Pitts
burg. McKeesport and Youghiogheny
railroad and has not heretofore been
considered in the Pittsburg district.
The Strike Nearly Complete.
The best information puts the present
state Of the strike in this district as
about complete, with the exception Of
the pits Of the New York and Cleveland
company. four or five small mines and
several others in the fourth pool. II
seems that the officials are having more
trouble in getting the miners Of the Up
per river section out than in any other
portion of the territory. Strong efforts
will be made this week by President
Dolan to get all the river diggers into
the movement. By his efforts the min
ers at Whittsett and West Newton are
out
Some Of the reports from the Monon-
gahela river district indicate that many
Df the miners Of that section are weak
ening, and that some have already re-
turned to work, with prospects of more
following the same example before long.
The Chamonni mine of the Tidal Coal
company, the mines of the Charles Jutte
company, the Samuel ONeill mines at
Fayette and the Jones mines at Monon-
gahela were at work today This con-
aition Of affairs is causing much excite
ment in the valley. A special from
Fayette City says:
Crowds Of idle miners are gathering,
ana unless lne miners OF THESE pldSta
lay down their tools at once, It is said a
march Of miners, beginning at Fayette
City, with brass band leading. will
be made. and every man persuaded to
quit work. The miners when spoken TO
were in deadly earnest and win not rest
until every digger comes out and joins
In the strike. The serious condition OF
affairs in the valley has been made
known to the miners officials. and
President Dolan will probably arrange
for a mass meeting at Lucyville OF
Monongahela within the next AS hours.
The operators claim these mines were
either running full or partially yester-
day: Plttsburg and Chicago Gas Coal
company's mines at Gastonville and
snowden, Jumbo mine Of the Pittsbure
Consolidated Coal company and Colum-
bia Gas Coal company's mines neal
West Newton New York and Cleveland
Gas Coal company's mines at Turtle
Creek. Oakhill and Plum Creek, ]. 3
Coreys Duquesne mine in the Pennsyl-
vania railroad district, Dickson's Hamp-
ton mine in the same district. Whitney
& Stephenson's Manor shaft. Westmore
land Coal company's mines at Irwin
Berwynd, White company's mines II
the Pennsylvania railroad district and
the Keystone Coal company's mines a
mines are reported in full operation, anC
the operators say the Pennsylvania rail
road company alone handled 1,O00 car
Of coal on Thursday. The most Of It
they say went to the western market.
The following is Secretary Warner
list OF the pits now working and hoy
strong:
At the Boone mine. Cannonsburg Goa
company. rs men; 100 men at Allisoi
mine Of j. w. Cook & Son. 1900 mel
at the mines OF the New York an
Cleveland Gas Coal company. a FEY
men at Painters Buffalo and Cincinnati
mines. and the men of the o. I.
mines of w. J. Steen. working for
cents But he was sure that the Wick
haven miners would be out in the morn
ing. He also asserted that there ar
not 500 Of the 5000 river miners at worl
A Crucial Time In the Strike.
The officials of the United Min
Workers, both local and national, rea
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