The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-31
DE ARMlTTS MEN AT WORK.
EFFoRTs OF THE sTRIKER TO MAKE
THEN QUIT OF No AVAIL.

The Rrass Hands and Orntory nae Nc Erect
on the Men. who Are and Have Been ne
ceivine Fair Treatment-Anothe OnsinuEht
10 ne Made-Ths Unirormity Agreement
PITrsBuRo, July 30.-MarchinR strikers, brass
bands, and oratory scored n dire failure among
tho coal miners last night. Dc Armitts miners
did not strike. The men who had boon pleaded
with and coaxed the night and day before
Walked by the strikers pickets this morning,
shook their heads when asked II they were not
going to strike, and, buRging their dinner buck
cts to keep them from being stolen again.
marched into the mines.
A fow hours later W lyon loads OF coal began
to pour out Of the mines, md the observers
could sec that the mines were running With
almost a complete complement OF men.
Tonight tho miners local officials are out at
Turtle Creek, trying to hold meetings OF DO
Armitt's men. To-day the officials asserted. de-
spite the contrary testimony OF unprecedented
newspaper men, that the Sandy Creek men had
gone on strike. strangely enough, the miners
officials hurried out again to De Armitts
mines tonight. It has turned out that the
figures which said that 5000 strikers attended
yesterdays meeting at the McCrea school,
house were inflated. Only 800 mon were there,
among thtm.
Heretofore tho strikers have maintained good
order. What they will do when De Armitt's
men again start to work tomorrow morning re-
mains to be seen. Whether they will be peacea-
BILE when they find that their efforts to induce
De Armitt's men to strike have been in vain. or
whether they will be goaded by disappointment
to violence. the morning will tell. With rotor
ence to the employment of deputy sheriffs. Mr..
De Armilt said to-day:
"If l had the choosing Of the deputy sheriGs.
/ would want no drawer or better men than my
miners. They have shown by the manner in
which they have withstood the pleadings, the
Establishments, and the threats OF the strike
p 1saT Srs 1 shSt d iRsy fS oPp foIr tTs, my ny a nt Of my Iis Sem.
buckets. We'll. these buckets were stolen BY
food was taken did not 10 hungry. They Sim:
ply went home, got new buckets and had
have in their, houses. There is food Tor
reflection. To-day the Sandy Creek mines. &C.
e 20 Ling. to reports from the ,,I mines 1ssn re Sas,., at
The Plum Greek mines are running fuller. l
admit that at Turtle Greek a few men did not go
In q speech made to a lot Of miners this morn
ing Pat Dol1n, miners District President; at
necrs., whose. chief, p. NJ. Arthur. refused 10
attend the labor leaders conference at Wheel:
ing. Dolan said that. owing to the inroads q
electric railways and other means Of rapid
transit, the wages Of the engineers, would drop
sooner or later. and then they would be asking
lTOlH OIncT ORGANIZATIONS.
The United Labor League has issued a call for
a special meeting to be held on Sunday evening.
to make arrangements for a m tss meeting to be
held on Aug. 5 in the interest of the striking
miners. This will be one Of the solemn con-
claves" scheduled to be held on the same date
all over the country.
About 200 strikers on the Wheeling division Of
the B tltimore and Ohio Railroad marched to Nc
Govern to join the strikers In camp at the mines
OF j.. V. II. Cook & Sons. Wagon loads of pro.
visions were sent out to the strikers camp near
De Armitt's mines, and more strikers are gath
Hrln,- and n last Nngnnrata effort In inlnrpaa The
working miners by the majority OF members
will be made. It is thought that a few thousand
determined strikers, strict moral suasionists."
can impress De Armitt's mon into quitting work.
The committee on uniformity contract sigma
lures is still revising proofs. 1t is thought that
on Monday the campaign for securing sigma
lures will begin.