The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-10

| in the De Armit Mines-Liberal Contri.
buttons from Citizens-To March on the
Fayette County Mines - Efforts to be
Made to Have Federal Marshals aud
Troops at the De Armit Mines.
PittsbuFg, August 1.-THE strikers are
| continuing orderly and are gaining ac-
| cessions to their ranks constantly The
! $50 men employed at the Horner and
Roberts coal mine at Elizabeth refused
| to go to work this morning; about sew
| enty-five miners at the Equitable
| mines in the same locality also struck
Both mines were paying the district
rate. The Bunola men who were per-
suaded to come out last evening all re-
mained away from the pit today and
no coal was mined. The company leas-
ed the ground where the strikers To-
Gated yesterday and ousted them, but
another field has ben secured by the
strikers which the owners refused to
lease to the company and a permanent
camp will be esta blished. 1t is reported
that an effort will be made to start the
mine Monday morning. The strikers
are preparing for the struggle and by
o'clock Monday morning 1000 men,
proba bly,, will be in camp here. This
closes down all the mines of the first,
second and third pools. Twelve recruits
from the Plum Creek mine Joined the
strikers today and a number consented
to remain at home. When it was found
that but few men We're going to work
sheriffs were dispatched to the houses
of the men and they were drummed out
and escorted to the mine. The COM
pany claims that this mine was work.
ing full today and that the usual
amount of coal was loaded.
Monday those working in the Plum
Creek mine will receive their wages
and on Monday evening another big
meeting will be held at Plum Creek. 1t
is said that the miners there will join
the strikers after Monday. No trouble
is expected at Plum Creek tonight, not
withstanding the proximity of the min
ers' camp to the negro quarters at
Unity. The miners and railroad labor
ers are not expected to affiliate with
each other.
A special dispatch from West Newton
says: The sympathy of this entire
community is with the striking coal
miners. The use of large building
on Third street has been given free for
a commissary, and the towns people
and farmers have contributed prOv1-
sions literally. Several hundred dol
lars have also been contributed. This
warm feeling for the strikers took a
sudden turn last night when the re-
port was circulated that the strikers
had visited the Troup & Riarick pits
in coal hollow and ordered the few men
working there to stop work. These two
pits have been supplying coal for the
borough electric light plant and for
family use, and have only been in ope-
ration a few weeks. The report reach
ed the leaders Of the strikers here and
they at once branded it as the work of
the enemy to injure their cause. This
morning they notified Troup & Riarick
that they might mine all the coal they
could.
simultaneously with the move on the
Westmoreland county mines next week.
a demonstration will be made against
the Washington Run mines in Fayette
county. It was near the Washington
Run tipple that four striking miners
were killed and ten others hurt by dep
utes two years ago.
in Fayette City will meet Dolan tonight
and if he consents the march will be
made Monday. A site has been select
ed one and a half miles from the
Sickle Hollow tipple. Being at that
distance from the mine, the miners
hope to escape injunctions.
The output of the De Armit mines
was still further reducted by no coal
being taken from the Oak Hill mine.
Three men at Sandy Creek mine have
mined one gondola car in three days.
At Plum Creek the 200 men at work
mined seventeen gOndOla cars OF coal.
There are five cars on the track near
the Oak Hill tipple.
Counsel for the New York and Cleve-.
land Gas Coal Company has prepared
bill to be presented to Judge M. w.
Acheson, of the United States circuit
court, on behalf of the nonresident
stock holders of the coal company, ask
ing for an injunction to restrain the
striking miners from cOngregating near
the mines at Turtle Creek, Sandy Creek
and Plum Creek, and from interfering
with the wOrkmen Of the company.
This new. move is being made for the
purpose of getting the aid Of the United
| States marshal, as we'll as the sheriff Of
Allegheny county, to break up the
camps the strikers have established.
There was perpetual injunction is
sued during the last strike of the
| miners by the circuit court against
men prominent IN the present struggle,
restraining them from congregatlng
near the mines of the New York and
Cleveland Company and it is claimed
| that it is still in force. 1t is now de-
| sired to supplement this with an or
| der, which if disobeyed, will result in
| the sending of United States marshals
| into the region now occupied by the
strikers and if necessary, United States
| troops could also be called in. The ap-
| plication for the preliminary injunction
| is likely to be made on Monday.
This was pay day at Sandy Creek,
| and when the<strikers demanded their
| pay they were told that in as much
as they had broken their iron clad con-
tract no money whatever was due
| them The legality of the contract will
| be tested in the courts.
Charleston, w. Va, August "A
| break was made today among the Kan