Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-07-15
THE MINERS STRIKE.
Extraordinary Efforts of the Labo
Leaders
TO Induce the Miners to Quit WOrk-Aa
Implied Threat OF Violent Means to
be Used, and an ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of Failure If Not Unanimous.

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Cleveland Gas Coal Company mines ara
still working, but President Dolan and
Secretary Warner are preparing for q
move of sensational point. It was
looked for Friday, but will be made
some time to-day or tomorrow, the
time not yet being agreed upon. Presi-
dent Dolan was out at Wickhaven yes
terday, strengthening his cause there
and will visit several of the river
mines before he returns
kilograms and letters of an encour-
aging nature from the different parts
of the district are pouring into the
miners officials. One of these, written
by miner on the Wheeling division
of the Baltimore s. Ohio, complain q
that the operators are taking unfair
means to whip their men. The writer
alleges that they are infiuenc.
ing the boarding house keepers
to issue attachments against the
single men for the small amounts they
owe and are also threatening the men
having families with landlords war
rants and election if they don't return
| to work.
| Preacher Green and the miner who
was chairman of the meeting at the
Forty-foot cut, Snowden, Friday,
was again in the field last night and
presided at meeting of the CASTOR
vile oiggers at that place.
Several fiery speeches. were made, re-
sulting eventually in an unanimous
vote favoring the strike In letter
to Secretary Warner, Green stated that
| the whistle for the men to go to work
at Gastonville blew Friday morning as
usual, but not miner from his home
entered the pit Only a few were in
| Thursday.
| Another miner wrote Secretary
Warner Friday from June mine, say
| ing that only seven men were at
work yesterday as he had made spe
cial investigation in order to get the
| facts in the case. From the same
source it was learned that everything
was quiet and idle on Miller's Run.
The Jumbo was reported to be work
ing, and it is pretty certain that nearly
one third of the Panhandle miners of
Hanna & Co. are at work to-day. The
miners officials had no definite infor-
nation from them, but claimed
the pit was practically deserted.
From an operator it was learned that
the mines of the Washington Coal and
Coke Co., in Stickles Hollow, are work
ing full, and yesterday loaded 100 cars
of coal, which went to Cleveland, where
there is said to be a scarcity. This
mine is on the line of the Pittsburgh,
McKeesport Sc Youghiogheny railroad,
and has not hitherto been considered
in the Pittsburgh district. The best
information puts the present state of
the strike in this district as about COM
plete, with the exception of the pits of
the New York and Cleveland Co., four
or five small mines and several others
in the fourth pool.
It seems that the officials are having
more trouble in getting the miners of
the upper river section out than in any
other portion of the territory. It is so,
too, with that of the Dearmitt mine.
the vital point of the district. Strong
efforts will be made next week by Pres
ident Dolan to get all the river diggers
into the movement. By his efforts
Thursday the miners at Whittsett and
West Newton went out.
Some of the reports from the Mo-
nongahela River district indicate that
many of the miners of that section are
weakening, and that some have already
returned to work, with prospects of
more following their example before
long.
The Chamouni mines of the Time
Coal Co., the mines of the Charles lutte
company, the Samuel O'Neil mines
at Fayette and the Jones mines at Mo-
nongahela were at work yesterday.
This condition of affairs is causing
much excitement in the valley. A spe-
cial from Fayette City says:
Crowds of idle miners are gathering,
and unless the miners of the places
in operation lay down their tools at
once it is said a march of miners, be-
ginning at Fayette City with a brass
band leading, will be made and every
man persuaded to quit work.
The miners when spoken to were in
deadly earnest, and will not rest until
every digger comes out and joins in
the general strike.
The serious condition in the valley
has been made known to the miners
officials, and President Dolan will prob
ably arrange mass meeting at Lucy
vile or Monongahela.
A miner from the valley who was
at headquarters Friday said it was
necessary to draw out all of the miners
in that section if success was desired. |
Eat some of the places now work. |
ing" he said, 1.-THE mine owners have |
to load coal for rail ship |
ment. If this is permitted to continue |
the men need not expect a victory, |
since it will only be a question of time |
until all of the river men return to the |
pits l understand a committee has |
been appointed to lay the serious state
of affairs before the miners officials"
Situation at Cleveland Becoming Desper-
ate.
CLEVELAND, O.,July lot he situa-
ton in this city over the coal strike is
becoming desperate. The Cleveland |
railroads are growing holder in con-
coal, and those who depend
upon regular supply are becoming
anxious The schooner B. w. Parker
of Detroit, has been delayed in Cleve-
land since Sunday lowing to the action
of the Erie railway. The boat was
loading coal at the Cleveland Ship
backed on the high trestle which leads
to the car-dumping machine and car
ried away 80 cars of coal.
The Men Didn't Go In.
WHEELING, ". Va, July lot had
been announced by the Wheeling 81
Lake Erie management that its Dillon
No. mine at Dillonvafe would resume
with the miners protected by a numer-
ous posse of United States marshals.
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