The San Francisco call., 1897-07-10
Reports From the Tied Up
Districts Encouraging
to the Men.
q FUEL FAMINE ALREADY AT
CLEVELAND.
Several Coai-Dealers Have Been
Forced to Suspend-Big Works
to Close Down.

PITTSBURG, Pa, July 9-Labor lead
ers of several National organizations met
tonight at the Monongahela House TO
discuss the miners strike. The following
took part: President Ratchford of the
Miners. Samuel Gompers OF the American
Federation OF Labor J. N. Hughes, secre-
tary of the Confederated Trades; Presi-
dent Mahon of the Streetcar Mems Union,
President Counahan of the Plumbers
Union, President Carrick of the Painters
and Decorators, President Thomas of the
Pattern akers, President M. H. Evans
of the American Flint-glass Workers, and
District President Dolan and District Sec
retary Warner of the Miners. After the
conference Counahan gave out the follow
ing re port:
at was demonstrated that the .pen-
sion is practically general in the bitumin-
Gus district. extending also to Kentucky
and Tennessee. excepting few points in
West Virginia. 1t was determined that
every effort should be made on the part of
those present to secure the cooperation
and practical aid of organized labor for
the struggling miner. All circum stances
warranted the firm conviction that the
miners will ultimately achieve victory and
10 mat end the aid of labor and the SYM
pathetic public is invoked. II was also
urged that conference be held by repre-
sentatives of the miners and operators,
with view to arriving a. settlement"
Senator Mark Hanna's Panhandle mine
was closed down Today. Thomas E.
Young, the manager, told the men that
euen if they were willing 10 work he did
not desire them 10 enter the mine, as the
com pany had always been willing to pay
the miners fair..wages. and believed that if
the mine were kept open the chances of
successful ending 10 the strike would be
made less likely. He wished, therefore,
10 have it closed down. Seventy-five men
were working in the mine yesterday.
Striking miners are beginning to find
their way into town, and dozens of them
visited the headquarters of the United
Mine Workers this morning.
A number of diggers from Castle Shan
non mines came 10 see if the company
could not get enough men to work to dig |
coal so as to run two engines. The COM |!
pany claims to have a contract to carry t
the United States mails, and. these must |
be hauled. The Castle Shannon Coal |
it is believed the firm will be allowed to |
work enough men at the advanced price !
to keep their own machinery in motion,
The operators point to the fact that all
the mines on the Pennsylvania road
within the forty mile limit have resumed |
operations aud are shipping coal west. !
One operator bought from the keystone
Coal Company fifteen cars which had
been standing on a sidetrack at cents
forN a Hho Hrr ole
for twenty-five carloads a day as long as
the strike lasts.
The Central Traffic Association carries |
all coal mined within radius of forty |
miles Of Pittsburg 10 the lakes at 80 cents |
per ton. This is called the forty-miIe |
limit. The mines on the Pennsylvania |
Railroad coming within reach of that rate
are the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal |
Company's mines, capacity $50 cars per
day; Keystone Coal Company, capacity |
200 cars; Manor Coal Company, % cars;
Pennsylvania Gas. Jos cars; Atlantic, so |
cars; Berwind White Ocean mine, 100 |
cars; Corey's Duquesne mine. 25 cars; the |
Hamilton and Elkins Gas Coal, 25 cars |
capacity, and the Westmoreland Coal |
Company, 200 cars.
The Pennsylvania road claims to have |
started 1890 cars OF coal westward, and has |
promised to supply cars enough each day |
TO ship equal amounts. The mines on the |
Pennsylvania road usually ship eastward |
or coke their coal, but in times like these. |
when orders are numerous for coal, these |
firms dispose of the coal at an advanced !
price.
Private detectives in the employ of op-
orators left for different points in Ale
gheny County this morning for the pur-
pose OF watching the strikers.
The sending of private detectives was
determined upon alter the operators
tailed to have deputy marshals appointed. /
They made an effort TO have private de- |
tcctives sworn in as such, but failed, SO |
far as Allegheny County is concerned. |
The operators succeeded, however, in hay
ing deputy marshals appointed for the |
mines in Fayette, Washington and West
moreland counties.