Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-20
Marching Miners Claim Lowry Has
Violated the Law.
CHARGED WITH OBSTRUCTING ROAD
West Virginia Strikers Excited Over
Fairmont District Output.
GATLING GUN STORY DENIED

for obstructing the roads in Plum and Pat
ton townships. The strikers contend that
he exceeded his authority in closing the
reads to them, and that the matter will be
tested in the courts When told of the
reports of his impending prosecution, the
sherlr said no change would be made In
his methods for few days. The camps
OF the strikers were slowly disintegrating
and he thought in a day or two all the
strikers would have gene to their homes
At present he has ninety deputies on duty
at the three mines. These will be kept
there until he is notified that they are no
longer necessary. The cost of maintaining
the deputies up to this time amounts te
something like $4,000
attorney Kaufman, representing the New
YORK ana cleveland company, says the ex-
pense of employing the deputies is great,
ana that the order of court will be enforced
rlgldly and at once. If the campers 90 not
leave, Mr.. De Armtt will petition court 70
issue attachments for contempt. The sher-
III, however, has said that he will not in
terfere with the camps but will not permit
the strikers on the highways.
FOrty-Seven Sicners.
Forty-seven coal companies of the Pitts
burg district have signed the uniformity
agreement. Eleven other big concerns have
promised to sign, and their names will he
appended to the list as soon as the dir.c
tors of the various companies meet and go
through the formality of instructing their
ohcial heads, the presidents, as is pre-
ment. ' y 'siee-
This morning the striking miners on
camped at Turtle Creek stole a march o,
,ne , sheriH S deputies guarding the Oak
mn mn mlne. While the deputies were wait
ing dor the detachments CT campers to
laafl
ana wondering why they did not coroe
the strikers were making long detour so
as to approach the mouth of the pit from
W. ,he music ana they succeeded in getting
,here without being observed. Their ar
pearance was startling to the few men
VINO Were ready to go to work and the
oeputles were hurriedly sent for. While
they We're coming the strikers told the
men that there would be a concert in their
camp tonight and invited them to attend
w nen the posse of deputies, comma nded
oy Deputy Sheriff David Hanna, appeared
a copy of the injunction was read 10 John
Large. the leader of the strikers. and they
left the place
Another party of strikers went to Mon
roeville, but SO far as they could learn no
new men were taken into the entrances
there.
Plum Creek to Start Up.
The strikers express the belief that one
of the mines to be operated by the mine
owners in their effort to break the strike
will be the Plum Creek mine and that the
miners now at work at Oak Hill and Sandy
Creek will be taken to Plum Creek and the
two mines closed down. By centralizing
their forces the company would have 2s1
men, which would be enough to operate
the Plum Creek mine in full.
TO offset this move the strikers will
abandon their camps at Turtle and Sandy
creeks and all the men will go into camD
at Plum Creek.
Edward Mckay, who is in charge of the
campers at Turtle Creek, said today that
the miners had no fear of labor being i'm
ported. 1t would be too expensive, and
would benefit the strikers more than the
operators, as many mines now working
would surely close down.
Everything was quiet about Plum Creek
this morning. The strikers followed out the
program outlined by Capt. Bellingham and
sent out men singly and in pairs to patrol
the roads. The deputies did not interfere
with them. In spite of the injunction the
strikers claim to have made thirty converts
by going to the houses of the miners and
talking the strike over in a friendly way
Secretary Warner was at camp last night
and notified the miners that any men evict-
ed from the company houses for striking
would be provided with comfortable houses,
food and clothing.
Strike Gains in West Virginia.
WHEELING, w. Va, August 2O.-The
strength on the Norfolk and Western rail
road, but it will take rapid work there to
make up for the losses suffered at Fair
mont and in the Kanawha and New River
valleys.
The Montana campers are able to do
nothing toward inducing the men who went
back to the mines yesterday to rejoin the
strike. They are guarded by deputy
marshals and cannot move in the direction
of the Montana mines, all of them being
really under arrest for contempt and liable
to be taken to Clarksburg before Judge
Gof the moment they make a move not
sanctioned by the marshals. The announce
ment of the national executive board at
Columbus that all the railroaders and fed
eral workers are to be called upon to Join
the strike is looked upon by local labor
leaders as the last gasp and practical ad-
1t is announced today that the national
labor leaders at their meeting here in July
laid the groundwork for national political
movement against injunctions in labor
troubles, and that it will be put into opera
ton in next falls congressional elections.
All recognize that the courts have been the
chief weapons of the operators in the pres
ent contest.
Hard to Control the Men.
Feeling runs high over the river in the
coal mining, communities, which is aggra-
waited by the large quantities of coal now
passing to,=the lakes from Fairmont, and
the strikers leaders are having all thcy
can do to keep some of the hotheads with
in bounds. The miners deny completely
in the two attacks on the coal trains, and
decline to be responsible for the actions
of rash sympathizers. who have not learn
ed the lessen of the strike of '9i.
The big steel manufacturing plant of the
Riverside works. in the lower part Of the
city, was shut down last night on account
of inability to secure coal. Notices were
posted that the men would be informed
Saturday If coal can be had from West
Virginia. Other manufacturing establish
ments are in straits for coal, and unless
there Is change in the situation ii is
likely several thousand men In the Wheel
ing mill district will be thrown out of en-.
ployment within few days.
GatlinE Gun Story Denied.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, August 2O.-Loftus
Cuddy of the Cuddy Mullen Coal Company.
who was quoted as saying that Gatiing
guns would be used to subdue the striking
miners in the Pittsburg district. says that
he never made any ssuch statement rs was
attribsted to him. Mr.. Cuddy said that the
operators were determined to reopen the