The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-15


two days the eye Of the industrial world
will be turned towards Pittsburg. The
greatest anxiety will prevail until Mon
day, when the injunction proceedings
against the marching miners will be
finally heard. There is much interest
in the situation, as evidenced by the
/ presence here of a number of the fore
most labor leaders in the country.
Michael d. Ratchford. national presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers of
| America Samuel GomperS, president
of the American Federation of Labor
and James r. Sovereign, general master
workman of the Knights of Labor, ar
rived here this afternoon and will re-
main a few days. They came from
West Virginia and were enthusiastic
Mr.. Ratchford, in an interview, said;
IN GOOD CONDITION.
1.-THE fight is in better condition to-
| day than it ever was. The men are
| solid as a rock They are growing
! stronger every day, and there are more
organizers among them than there
/ have been. We have reached the point
where we are very much curtailing
the output, and where we have the
courts to fight. In this connection,
wish to say for every man that is in
carcerated there will be 100 friends for
the cause. We did not come here to
defy the courts and judges in the dis
charge of their plain duty, as we know
and understand it. If it be crime TO
talk to men for the benefit of trades
unionism and call them together IN
peaceable assembly, we are willing 10
meet the case. Fully 80 per cent OF
the American people are opposed to OPP
preston, and if we shirk our duty we
would be unworthy of the trust and
confidence reposed in US. There was
feeling among some of the miners IN
this state and in West Virginia, that
their officers would desert them when
iniunctions were encountered. You
may say for me that the officers will
stand by their faith and this great
cause until the last. We have entered
into this contest to win, and II we fall
to do so it will be because the miners
themselves have not taken our advice.
| do not anticipate this. however, for l
am sanguine of a victory, if the min
ers conduct themselves as they have
done in the past"
GOMPERS' VIEWS.
Samuel Gompers expressed a hope
full view of the situation in West Vir-
ginia He maintains that $4,000 of the
20 900 diggers of that state have joined
the SUSPENSION.
A series of meetings to be addressed
by the labor leaders will be arranged
z. NJ. Ratchford, Compers and Sovereign
will address big meeting at Camp
Isolation. Itiis expected TO be one OF
the biggest meetings III the history of
the strike. 1t is hoped TO have nearly
all of the miners employed by the New |
York & Cleveland company at the
meeting. Inactivity prevailed at the
camps of the strikers about the mines 1
of the New York & Cleveland Gas Coal /
company alk day. After the return OF
the strikers to camp this morning, arter !
their unsuccessful attempts in march
ing in small bodies, they settled down
to await the result of the Injunction
proceedings on Monday. While num-
Der of the strikers, especially the
foreigners are anxious for another
march at Oak Hill and Plum Creek, II
is not thought there will oe any turther
until Tuesday morning
If the Injunction is continued, 1t is
altogether probable that some of the
men may march in order TO get arrested
The reason for holding off today, 1t is
said, is that the men are in hopes that
the injunction will be quaShed. In case
they win the strikers say they VIII
camp right where they are, and march
every morning until the strike is Won
The camp commissaries are well
SlOCkeu WIFI INV l7AS4io civ. 49,
will not suffer.
No move will be made by the sheriff
towards raiding the camps until a1ter
the hearing on Monday. II the 1n1unc-
ton is continuous, he says. the camps
will be broken up in short order, put
under the present circumstances, the
men can remain there so long as uney
are peaceable and well behaved
MEETING AT PLUM CREEK.
A secret meeting of the Plum Creek
miners was held on the company
property this afternoon. The SITUATION
was discussed, and it was agreed by
to continue work. There was
also a mass meeting of the strikers al
Plum Creek, which served TO act as
stimulus on the men who had been
ehs fling under the inactivity of the day.
A Addresses were made by number of
ocaI leaders. who counselled the men
10 keep the peace and obey the law.
IT is stated that several men who
ere discharged from Oak Hill will be
syio..ed from the company's houses on
Monday. Such action promises TO stir
I'D a good deal of feeling among the !
strikers and their friends.
The Boone mine of the Canonsburg !
-oal company was closed <day, owing
% a report that another march was
contemplated The strikers in camp at
NcGovern are paying no attention TO
he sheriff's order prohibiting marcn-
ng.
The Bunola mine near Elizabeth, was
.lcsed d5wn again today Twelve ar s
.ests of strikers for disorderly conduct ,
we're made today and eight yesterday
T7he men were brought to Pittsburg
md lodged in Jail in default of bail.
The strikers made no resistance when
arrested. !