Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-08-15
ALL EYES NOW ON PITTsBURG.
Strike Injunction Proceedings
Awaited.

PITTSBURG, PA, August lf--r VI INC
next few days the eyes Of the Industrial
world will be turned towards Pittsburg'
The greatest anxiety will prevail until
Monday when the injunction proceed
iugs against the marching miners wiz
Ia finally heard. That there Is much
interest in the situation Is eVinced ny
the presence here OF number or the
foremost labor leaders In the country
Michael d. Ratchford, national presi-
dent Of the United Mne-Workefs U.
America: Samuel Gompers, president w
The American Federation Of Labor ana
lanes r.. Sovereign, grand master
workman of the Knights Of Labor ar
rived here this evening, and Will remain
a few DAYS. While they are hero they
will be kept busy. They came from
west Virginia. and were brown ana en-
thusiastic. Ratchford seemed TO De wen
pleased with the outlook, ana IN an
Interview said: ~,
"The tght is I'm a better condition To-
day than it ever was. Inc men e-o
AS solid as q rock, while they are IN
freasing I'm numbers and determination
They are growing stronger every uaS,
and tbera are more organizers among
49,, tbon there have been. We have
reached a point where we are closely
curtalling the output, and Where we
have the courts TO fight. In TINS con-
noctlon. I wish to say that Tor every
man that is incarcerated there VIII De
la friends gained for the cause. We
have come here not TO defy the cOui1S
-, tndges but to discharge plain duty
~, - understand Il. If It be crime 10
tax 10 men OF the Dement'S OF traues-
unionism, and call them together IN
ueaceful assembly, we are surely reduy
TO meet the ISSUE
~ u-osi6ent samuel Gompers expressed
q hopeful view Of tho situation III NesS
Vircinla. He said there was some coal
-, rroduced I'm certain sections, but
that the supply was being gradually cut
- lie claimed that there was general
s,,r,roth nv for the cause in the Mountain
state and that fully 1900 Of the DOW
diggers OF that State have joined the sus-
pension. .as.o-,,,
series OF meetings 10 be addressed
bv the labor leaders will be arranged;
Ratchford, Gompers, and Sovereign WIZ
address a mass-meetlng at Camp lsola-
lion M Plum Greek tomorrow afternoon.
II is expected 10 be one OF the biggest
meetings I'm the history of the strike. 1t
40 aid that very nearly all the miners
oyonloved by the New York and Cleveland
Gas-Coal Company will be at the meet
ms.
The majority Of the campers are wait
ing anxiously for the Courts decision on
Monday. In case the injunction Is con-
tinued Il is altogether probable that
some Of the men may march, In order 10
get arrested. The reason for holding on
is said TO be the fact that the men have
hopes that the injunctions Will be
duashed. and in case they are, the
strikers say they will camp right where
they are and march every morning until
the strike IS over.
The camp commissaries are well
stocked with provisions, and so far as
the material man Is concerned the
strikers will not suffer.
No move will be made by the Sheriff
IN raiding the camps until after the
hearing on Monday. IL the injunction
Is continued, he says the camps VIII be
broken up In short order.
SMALL-SIZED RIOT.
GALETON, PA, August 1.-THE drivers
and miners employed at the Honey btooh,
No. Z. colliery struck this morning Tor
an advance in wages. Some OF the drivers
are Hungarians and Italians. They have
been getting from 81 10 $50 per day. ms
morning two drivers left the strikers
ranks. and were going TO the stripping,
when about thirty strikers met them ana
tried 10 persuade them TO come back.
Superintendent Conner Jones put In an ap-
pearance about this time. a fight follow
ed. which developed into small-slzeo
riot. in which Jones was knocked down
and kicked Levi Watts. who came 10 his
aid was struck on the head with brick,
and was severely injured. The coal and
iron police were called from this city
hut before their arrival the men dis
persed quietly, and no further trouble
has developed.
MINE BOSS POISONED.
DUNBAR. PA, August H-Thomas
Jefrries night boss at the Ferguson mine,
was poisoned this morning by drinking
coffee I'm which had been placed Paris |
green. He Is believed TO be out OF |
danger. An examination OF his dinner |
bucket showed traces. Of the poison. |
Paris green was evidently put in the |
bucket oy some one in the mine. Jeffries |
incurred the enmity OF a number OF the |
strikers in 1894 by acting as deputy for |
the Dunbar Company. The Ferguson |
mine IS IN the coke region. and there IS /
no trouble there at present.
THE HiTFfCIDs DYNiMITED.