The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-08-10
MINERS APPEAL FOR FOOD
THE HEAD0UAETERS BESLEGED BIZ
MANY NEEDY STRIKERS.
The Idle Workmen Being Daily Recruited
by Men Who Have Remained at Work
Strikers Marching Over All the District
The Men Appear to be Gaining, but the
End of the Strike is Not Yet in Sight.

Strikers Marching Over All the District
End of the Strike is Not Yet in Sight.
Pittsburg, Aug. 9.-Appeals for food
headquarters of the miners officials in
this city to-day. 1t appeared as II
there was wall from every section
of the district, and miners in person
were present to ask that the suffering
was kept busy answering the appeals.
He said tonight that he had sent more
than one thousand dollars worth of
groceries and provisions to various
parts of the district. The appeals are
now coming in from the families, the
heads of which are at the various min
ing camps using their influence to keep
other men from working.
A series of meetings are to be held all
over the district. 1t is expected to keep
up the interest in every section and to
strengthen every point where there is
the least indication of weakness. Henry
Ulrich. Emil Naser, Henry Huser and
Gustav Rings, miners, were committed
to Jail for hearing before Alderman
McMasterS on various charges to-day.
The arrests are the result of an alter
cation at Willock's on July 26 on ac-
count of the strike. Warrants are out
for number of others.
This morning the miners of West
Elizabeth made march on the mines
of the Elizabeth Mining company. Fif-
ty men who were going to work agreed
to go out as soon as they had loaded a
fiat, which will take several days. The
officials of the company made an effort
to-day to get permission from the min
ing officials to continue work on a six
ty-nine-cent basis. This was not given.
Superintendent DeArmitt of the New
York and Cleveland Gas Coal company
worked hard to-day to get the miners
at Oak Hill to return to work. He got
a few more diggers than has been at
work. Thirty-seven miners went in.
Mr.. DeArmitt told the men that they
would lose all they had earned if they
five days to vacate the company houses.
The strikers say that only seventy-five
men out of 2S5 We're at work in the
Plum Creek mine to-day The compa-
ny claims that almost full force was
working.
Hunger is doing more injury to the
cause of the miners than any other one
thing, and the commissary department
is doing everything possible to provide
against this contingency.
President Dolan will go to the Can
onsburg region and defy the injunc-
tions by speaking at a meeting sched-
uled for the 18th instant. There is to
be big demonstration in the morning
at Plum Creek, when the strikers be-
leve they will be able to close down
the mine.
]. C. Dysart, a member of the uni
formity commission, says the work Of
securing signatures will be pushed
earnestly and he believes the required
number will be secured. The miners,
he says, cannot possibly win the strike
as the mines still in operation can sup
ply the demand Some Of the coal
operators are getting restless and
threaten to attempt to start their mines
this week A large coal dealer says
that there is no scarcity of coal. Last
night $50 cars of coal came into Pitts
burg from West Virginia and large
quantities are being shipped to Pitts
burg from the mines along the Penn
sylvania railroad.
Ottumwa, Ia, Aug. 9--At meeting
of the Iowa miners here to-day 1t was
decided not to strike in sympathy with
the fasteners, but to assess all the men
twenty-five cents per week for the aid
of the strikers. The meeting was poor
ly attended, only one-fourth of the min
ers in the state being represented. The
agitators from Illinois worked hard tc
get the men to declare a strike but the
men decided that they could do no good
in ordering a strike with such a small
number, and passed resolution order
ing notices to be sent out to all camps
in the state for another meeting at Os-
kaloosa, August 10. If two-thirds OF
the miners in the state signify theil
intention of sending delegates the meet
ing will be held; if not, it will be called
off. It is very probable that the meet
ing will not occur and that each camr
will settle it's scale and grievances with
the operators.
| Akron, O.. Aug "a special to the
| Beacon Journal from Wadsworth, o.
says that during Sunday afternoon and
night over fifteen hundred miners on
| foot, in wagons carriages and vehicles
of all descriptions, carrying banners
and flags, had arrived in that place. A
monster meeting was held in the Hins-
dale Orchard, attended by two thou
sand people, this morning. This meet
ing was called to order by Chairman
John Wheelan of Wadsworth. The fol
lowing towns were represented by the
strikers: Massillon Crystal Springs
North Lawrence, Dalton, West Brook
| field, East Greenville, Canal Fulton
| Clinton, Doylestown and Pigeon Run
| Speeches were made by district officers
of the miners organizations. AS a re.
suit OF the meeting eighty miners from
Card & Brett's mine and Loomis No. :
| have Joined the strikers.