The record-union., 1897-08-09
W0MEN'S INFLUENCE WINS.
FEMALE EMISSARIES OF STRIK.
ERS GET IN THEIR WORK.
A Number of Plum Creek Miners
Will Come Out This
Morning.

day was considered a day of rest among
the strikers, probably the most effect
i've work among the Plum Greek min
ers was performed, and as a result, the
| strikers have been assured that con-
siderably less than 200 men will be at
work tomorrow at the mine A large
mass meeting was held at Camp Isola-
| ton at Plum Creek this afternoon,
which, in addition TO about LOCO 9TH
ers, was attended by about 200 women,
the wives and daughters of the miners
who are still at work in the Plum
Creek mine. Notwithstanding the fact
| that deputies visited the homes of
these people this morning and advised
them not to attend the meeting, nearly
every wife, brother or husband with her,
attended. Because of the many re-
strictionS put on the strikers, they
have hitherto been unable to get a
chance to argue their cause with the
Plum Creek workmen, and the occa-
sion given them to-day was taken ad-
vantage of to the fullest extent.
The unusual opportunity to-day was
the result of the missionary work of
the wives Of the strikers from McDon-
aid, Finleyville and Carnegie. These
| women have been working assiduously
during the past week, and secured the
promise of the wives of the working
miners to attend the meeting and bring
their husbands. The result of the meet
ing was the assurance from nearly a
hundred men that they would join the
strikers tomorrow. Their plan is for
the men to work until they receive their
twenty days pay, which will be given
them tomorrow, and they are to de-
sert the pit, leaving only eight days
wages back, which, judging by the ac-
tion of the company in the case of the
Sandy Creek strikers yesterday, will be
refused them. If this plan does not
miscarry, the strikers think it will be
only a question of very short time
until the De Armitt mines are tied up
completely.
The meeting to-day was inaugurated
by religious services conducted by Rev.
L. Lash, assisted by a choir of twen-
ty colored jubilee singers after which
Mrs Mary Jones, the Chicago agitator,
spoke for about an hour, putting the
case very plainly to the women audi
tors. She placed the responsibility for
the success or failure of the strike on
wives, and made a decidedly favorable
impression.
An epidemic of typhoid fever in a mild
form is raging in the vicinity of Camp
Determination, at Turtle Creek, sixty
cases having developed among the citi-
zens of that borough The campers
have not been attacked as yet, and as
a precautionary measure, the health Of
ficials have ordered extra sanitary
measures. Bad water and lack of sew
erage in the borough is assigned as the
cause of the disease. Five deaths have
resulted up to date.
Only twenty-five strikers were in
Camp Determination to-day, but to-
ward evening it began to assume its
normal condition by the return of the
men who had gone home to freshen
their appetites and otherwise prepare
for the new weeks work Before
| morning the usual complement will be
on hand, and the forces are to be di-
vided in three bands, who will march
to the three pits and guard them at as
close range as deputies viii permit.
TYRCONNELL MINERS OUT.
PARKERSBURG CIV. Va.), Aug. s.
After the meeting at Tyrconnell last
night. strike agitators organized a min
ers' union, and it is claimed that near
ly all the Tyrconneh miners signed the
list. Organizer Rea said shortly after
midnight that every man in the Flem-
ington district would be out tomorrow
The general talk indicates that he is
right
AT ROGGS RUN.
WHEELING CIV. Va.), Aug. S.-The
proposed demonstration against the
working miners at Boggs Run will take
place Tomorrow The Glendale men
have joined the strike and Elm Grove
is also out The leaders have seen the
success following the demonstration of
the Pittsburg district. and realize that
efforts of every description have failed
to bring out the bone of contention
here-the Boggs Run men.
At Bellaire a miners aid store has
been established for the aid of the
strikers who are in destitute circum
stances A daily canvas of the town
replenishes the store. A trade Assem-
| bly, committee is to canvas Wheeling
for aid for the local strikers tomorrow.
The reports in circulation that there
would be evictions at some of the COM
pany houses across the river are with
out foundation IT is not likely that
such a step win be attempted. as 1t
would result in trouble.