The age-herald., 1897-08-12
SITUATION COMPLICATED
By Miners Refusing to Go Out
 at Spring Hill
MINE OWNERS BREAK FAITH
And Resume Operations After Promising to Close 0own-New York & Cleveland
 company's Men Organize.


 Plt.sburg, Aug. 11.-The fact has just been made public that the men al work in the Spring Hill mine of Dempster, Boyd & Go. were getting 69 cents and further complicated the situation This rate has been paid since January. 1896. There are ndnety-two men att work in this mins. and 200 mine wagons are mined every day. An effort will be made by the striS- CTS to ge. the miners out but the latbsr say they will continue work until forced ort. The latest movement of the strikers indicates that the minars' leaders have abandoned all hope of drawing the coke region into the sudlxe and have devised a plan of using the cokers to assist the strikers in a mons profitable way. Com mfttees have been in The coke region all the week collecting money and provis- ions.
 The headquarters of the district officers of -he United Mine Workers in this city are still besieged with applicants for aid More than $1, 900 have been distributed to applicants during the last two days and the rsquests for aid are away in excess of the means Ito respond. In many homes there is nothfng bun dry bread to eat and in some cases not even this.
 Arrangement 8 are bring made for big labor meeting i'm lMcKeesport Saturday evening, which all the striking miners in the Turtle Crsek and NIonongahela valleys are expected to attend. The speakers engaged are Samuel P. Gompers, pm stdenjt of the American Federation of Labor; M P. Ratchford, president of the United Niine Workers, and M. M Garland, president of the Amalga mated Associa- tfon.
 A large meeting was held at Canons- burg today where both the Boone and Allison mines have resumed operations in full President Dolan took the operat- ors to task for resuming because they had promised to keep their mines closed if the Dearmitt miners came out. Dolan claims that the Canonsburg mine own- CTS have broken the agreement. On the other hand, the operators say Dearmitt's men are working and they intend to work also. Tn order to get the men out again the strikers will make daily march, es from Camp Victory until they regain the lost ground.
 The striking miners who were former employees of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal company met this evening and formed a permanent organization and appointed a committee from each mine to conduct the strike at those mines. Fol- lowing this they attended meeting at Turtle Creek addressed by Mrs. Jones, of Chicago at which 5000 miners and their wives were present from the differ ent sections of the district.
 A feature of the meeting was the crowning of Emma Haas with wreath of daisies by Mrs. Jones. who present. ed her to the miners as ''the Joan of Arc of America" This is the 16-year-oId cripple who came into prominence through HTlnS plslol as lHe HincrS marched past her home on their daily visits to the mines. Her father was working in Plum Creek mine an1 she said she fired the pistol to enthuse him with the just cause of the strike. She was brought before the deputies and the pistol was taken from her. She was told if she repated the performance she would be sent to the reform school
 Tn spite of the announcement by the company that 2S5 men were at work in the Plum Creek mine only sixty-five pit wagons of coal were brought out for a put should be 6S5 wagons per day.
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