The record-union., 1897-08-19
OUTLOOK GLOOMY
FOR STRIKERS,
The Injunction Against the Miners
Made Permanent.
indications That the Marches Will Soon
Come TO an End.
The Coal Situation at Wheeling,
West Virginia, Growing Serious
The Supply Getting Low and
Prices Have Doubled-Campers
at the Montana Mine Placed
Under Arrest.

Under Arrest.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 1S.-This was op-
orators day, and from present appear
ances they have made a most effective
move, and have nearly, if not quite
checked their opponents, the striking
coal miners. The courts decree to-day
in making permanent the preliminary
injunction restraining the strikers
from camping, marching or in any
manner interfering with the New York
and Cleveland Gas Company's mines
has had the effect of almost depicting
the camps, and apparently a general de-
moralization among the campers ex-
lists
In order to follow up their advantage
the operators held a largely attended
meeting tonight at the Monongahela
House, and arranged for the starting OF
| their mines with or without force II
| force seems to be unavoidabl Bile, it is the
intention to start a certain few mines
at once under the protection of deputies
and whatever expense may result will
be shared pro rata by the mine owners
Camp Determination, at Turtle Creek
was reduced in numbers to-day from
200 to fifty. The men who were told to
go home gathered in an angry crowd
and denounced the officials bitterly. A
number of men threatened to return to
their respective homes and go to work
in the mines. They said the strike was
a fiZzle Some of the men left for the
Irwin and Greensburg district, where
they will look for work
Sandy Creek camp is practically
abandoned, and it is not known whether
it will be opened again or not.
1t is said the men who are still in the
camps will remain, and will march as
usual, in spite of the Sheriff and the
courts order. The small showing OF
men at the camps has apparently en-
couraged the De Armitts, and it is ex-
pected that they will make the attempt
to start their mines in full at once.
A meeting of miners from the Auck-
lerat mines waited on Superintendent
Dickson of the Aucklerat mine of ]. S.
Corey and asked him if he would open
the mine if the men returned at the
54-cent rate. He said he would not
and that the mines would not be opened
until the next lake season.
BACKBONE OF THE STRIKE
BROKEN
| PITTSBURG (Pa.), Aug. 1S.-When
court opened this morning Judge Stowe
and Judge Collier handed down a deci-
sion in the injunction proceedings OF
! the New York and 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 q bond of $1,000 to answer foI
such damages as may be sustained by
| the defendants by reason of the injunc-
ton.
Immediately after the filing of the de-
cree and on motion of Thomas Patter-
son the court ordered a similar decree
| to be drawn in the case against the
/ Buenola miners, in which the injunc-
tion was applied for by Rufus c.
| Crawford.
! The striking miners employed at the
mines o. the New York and Cleveland
| Gas Coal Company did not march this
morning, as they had planned to do
| At Turtle Creek they formed in line
and when ready to start they beheld
| the deputies standing just outside OF
| their camp. The march was aban-
doned at once and small parties, num-
| berinS from two to six each, Were
| instructed to patrol the woods in the
vicinity of the mine and report the
number of men going to work. They
were instructed to keep moving and il
approached by a deputy to get away
rapidly to escape the service of the
injunction if possible. The leaders
propose III this way to harass the depu-
| ties and the De Arnitts. They say
there are 10000 men in the district
and that the injunction will have tc
be read 10000 times before the at
| tackS upon the mines at Oak Hill
Sandy Creek and Plum Creek cease
unless the mines are sooner closed
down.
The men followed the instructions
but We're unable to learn just how
many diggers went into the pit to-
day. The output for Oak Hill yester-
day was seven cars of lump coal and
two of slack and nut. or about 1SC
tons. This shows a gain for the COM
pany, though no claim of an increased
force is made by the De Ar1nitts, and
the strikers claim that only twenty-five
men are at work.
A mass meeting of miners and citi-
zens has been called to be held at Mo-
nongahela City tonight. Saturday af-
terncon a meeting will be held at Can
onsburg. To-day the miners of Law
renceville, Butler and Mercer will hold
a mass meeting at the courthouse al
Mercer. National Organizer Cameron
Miller will make an address. The heads
of the various labor organizations OF
the city viii hold a conference with
the miners officials tomorrow even
! ing. Preparations for holding a meet
ing of the United Labor League y,
Plum Creek next Sunday afternoon are
being made. It is expected to make
this meeting the largest ever held and
one of the big events of the strike
The indications are that the camp
about De Arnitt's mines will be aban-
doned and there will be no more march
ing Uriah Bellingham reached Plum
Creek about noon. and calling the men
together told them of the adverse de-
cision of the court. He told them there
would be no further use in remaining
in camp as no more food would be fur
nished.
You had better go home to your
| families he said, "and find work
where you can"
| There was considerable murmuring