The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-08-03
MINERS ARE CONFIDENT,
Are More Hopeful Apparently Than 81
Any Time During the Strike.

| Are More Hopeful Apparently Than 81
Any Time During the Strike.
| Pittsburg, Aug 1.-THE stocking min-
ers have broken all records, both as to
| numbers attending their mass meetings
| and the excellent order and law abid-
ing behavior they have exhibited. Too
much praise cannot be given the stfdk-
ers for this latter condition. They have
been subject to the control Of leaders.
who, prof1ting by former experience
have SO forcibly instilled into the minds
Of their followers the stupidity of law
breaking that the peaceful attitude and
actions Of the strikers have been g.
source of wonder to all the prophets.
who have from day to day predicted
dire happenings.
1t Is conceded by all that III former
times under similar circumstances riot
and bloodshed would have resulted long
ago from the conditions under which
the miners have been placed during
the strike. 1t is the hope Of all well
wishers of the strikers that this peace
full warfare will continue throughout
and until the contest Is settled definite
ly. The mass meeting of miners at the
McCrea schoolhouse to-day was the
greatest during the strike and probably
the largest gathering of the kind ever
seen in Allegheny county.
More than Ave thousand striking
miners were gathered for an all day
session, and labor leaders harangued
them in various tones, while bands Of
music served to stir up the enthusiasm
to the highest pitch. From early morn
ing miners of every nationality were
gathering at the school house. They
came in big bands and small ones, but
the one that set the camp wild with en-
thusiasm arrived at 1925 this morning
from Turtle Creek.
1t consisted Of sixteen hundred minis
ers from that camp, and when they
came in sight there was such cheering
as has not been heard since the strike
started. They came down to the camp
at the school house with bands playing
stirring airs and banners waving in the
breeze. Cheer after cheer went up
from the camp, and the marchers re-
turned them with a will
When the two miners parties met
there were wild scenes. Men rushed
around shaking hands, shouting and
embracing each other. The crowd that
had gathered was SO much larger than
the men had anticipated that they were
wild with joy and drunk on success. a.
few minutes after the arrival Of the
Turtle Creek division, the speakers ar
rived in carriage. They were M. p.
Carrick, president of the Painters and
Decorators union; w. A. Carney vice
president of the Amalgamated associa-
ton; Mrs. Mary G. Jones, the female
labor agitator of Chicago, and M P.
Counahan, Of the Painters and Decora-
tors union. In addition to these the
leaders of the miners were lined up to
speak as the occasion demanded.
There was rumor in the camp chat
Sheriff Harvey A. Lowrey would APP
pear with deputies and force the meet
ing to disperse, but it was evidently
unfounded. The speeches were not OF
an inflammatory character and the big
crowd was orderly during the whole
day.
Charleston, w. Va, Aug. "A dele
gate meeting of miners was held at
Montgomery, twenty-five miles east Of
here, to-day. There were tI1irty-two
delegates present, and twenty mines
were represented. The meeting was
addressed by W. D. Mahon of Detroit,
who is in charge of the work of organ
izing miners in West Virginia; Chris
Evans, one of his assistants, and
number of local leaders.
Resolutions were passed demanding a
fifty-cent rate and a check weighman
on each tipple. An agreement to quit
work and remain idle till a scale Of
prices was agreed upon for coal dig
gers of all states was also adopted.
Intense Heat in indianapolis.