The Irish standard., 1897-08-21
Striking Miners in Pennsylvania
- Receive Body Blow.
THE CAMPS ARE TO Be ABANDONED.
Injunction Against Assembling or
Marching IL Made Permanent
Leaders Advise Them to Go
I, Home and Seek Work.

etlklnE coal miners. Inc courts QS-
cree in making permanent the prelimi-
nary injunction restraining the strikers
from camping, marching or in any mall
ner interfering with the New York Il
Cleveland Gas Coal companys miners
has had the effect of almost depicting
the camps about those mines, and APP
parently general decentralization
among the campers exists Judges
Stowe and Collier handed down
decision i'll the injunction proceedings
of the New York & Cleveland Gas
coal company against the United Mine
Workers of America, Patrick Dolan,
William Warner and others. The pre-
liminary injunction was made perma-
nent and the plaintiff was ordered to
file bond of $4,000 to answer for such
damages as may be sustained by the de-
PENDANTS by reason of the injunction.
Immediately after the filing of the
decree and upon motion of MIR. Thomas
Patterson, the court ordered a similar
decree to be drawn in the case against
the Bunola miners, in which the injunc-
ton was applied for by Kufus c. Crnw-
ford.
Advised TO Go Home.
Uriah Dillingham;, in charge of the
camp at Plum Creek, put damper on
the campers at that place Wednesday.
lie had just returned from the city,
where he heard the courts decision in
the injunction case. He told the men
there would be no more marching and
no need of such Il large number OF men
n 10 rl1 hn tn
dispense to their respective homes and
get work wherever they could. AT this
camp where, Tuesday, there were 800
men, there are now less than 100.
Camp Determination, at Turtle
Creek, was reduced in numbers from
200 to SO. The men who were told to
go home gathered in an angry crowd
and denounced the officials bitterly.
Secretary William Warner came in for
large share of vitupcration from the
crowd. They demanded of him work
or assistance. He replied rnthcr curt
ly that he would get them Jobs in the
workhouse. After Warner left II num-
Der of the men threatened to return to
their respective homes and go to work
in their mines. They said the strike
was a fizzle. Some of them left for IT.
win and Greensburg districts, where
they will look for work.
Sunny Creek camp is practically nban-
doned, and it Is not known whether it
will be opened again or not. All told
there are less than $50 men now en-.
camped about the three mines.
The small showing of men at the
camps has apparently encouraged the
DE Armits. and it is expected they will
make the attempt to start their mines
In full at once. meeting of miners
from the Mucltle Rat mines waited on
superintendent r. q. Dickson, of the
Muclsle Rat mine of j. b. Corey, and
asked him If he would open the mine il
the men returned Mt the 81 cent rnte.
lie said he would not. and the mines
would not be opened until the next lake
season.
Are Defiant
1t is said thnt the men who are still
in the camps will remain there and will!
march as usual in spite of the sheriff
and the courts order President Dolan
said that his men would continue to
march, and if the sheriff arrested them
other men would take their places at
once. Said he:
The sheriff will have to do his duty II we
violate the law. and arrest U.S. II he 10 OF
the opinion that we are v!olators he viii
have to take us to Jail and punish us like
any other criminal. I sent an order to nil
OF the camps this afternoon to continue
the marching on the same peaceable lines
tha ,;,. we have been following, and I am
willing to abide by the result We do nor
intend to give upan inoh Of what we have
gained. II we are arrested we will 10 quiet
ly and submit to whatever punishment IL
dealt out to us. provided 1t ia proven that
we have broken the law. We do not wish
to swerve the sheriff from the line OF his
duty" ''
All the men remaining Mt Camp De-
termination will conform more closely
to military law from this time. Three
tents. each large enough to accomnlo-
date 10 or 20 men have been received.
and these. together with the smaller
tents that are now scattered about,
will be pitched together. They will be
placed military fashion, in regular or
der with streets between and the COM
Missary tent in the middle. In :he
morning the men are to march. They
will form in squads of twos and threes.
instead of solid body. Women will be-
more~than ever factor in the proceed
ings. They will circulate among the
men going to work and do what mis-
sionary work they can. The men dis
charged from camp. who are still lin
gering about, asserted that they were
ready to come back and join when they
are wanted.
Progress is reported by the commit
tee having in charge the uniformity
agreement. 1t was announced Wcdnes-
day that the solicitor had received tho
signatures of about 80 per cent. of the
operators, and that it was expected be-
fore the close of the week to secure al
most the required 95 per cent.
Will start the Mines.
In order to follow up the advantage,
The operators held largely-attended
meeting Wednesday night ut the
Monongaheln house and arranged Tor
The starting of their mines with or
without force. If force seems to be un-
avoidable. 1t is the intention to start
All About Alaska.
Alaska is two and one-half times as