Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-07-29
THE BIG STRIKE. The Great Break Fails to Ma
 teriaIiZe. DEBS ON THE GROUND. A Crisis is Pending and Lively Times are Promised
 This Week.
DEBS ON THE GROUND.

PITrsBURG, July 26 Lively times
 are promised in the coal mining situs
 tion shis week. That a crisis is pend ing is conceded on ali sides. The srbi-
 trstion commissioners OF one side feel
 hopeful that they will bring about an | initiative for 6 settlement at the meet- | ing Tuesday morning, and the miners officials on the other hand claim to have | adopted measures that will make com- plese tie-up. IT has developed that
 many West Virginia miners are await
 ing word from the Pltbsburg district,
 especially from the New York and
 Cleveland mines. Tney want to hear of the miners in these mines having joined the general suspension. This,
 it IS claimed by the officials, will bring all the falteFipg ones in West Virginia in line, thus making tbe strike so effsct i've that is will shut of the supply of coal. Arrangements have been made for
 Eugene V. Dsbs and other prominent
 officials to come to this oity and hold 8
 meeting for the benefit of the New
 York and Cleveland miners Thursday
 morning. Among others expected to
 be present. are Samuel Uompers, NJ. D.
 RatchfoFd, NJ M. Garland and W. D
 Mahon. At this meeting it is intended
 to strike final decisive blow and per
 haps make the tie-up complete. The
 reputation of Debs, 1t is expected, will
 draw 10000 miners to the meeting.
 PARAMOUNT, W. Va, July 26.-Today
 the great break among the miners fail
 ed to take place. Dsbs and Malone
 have gone to Wheeling and are not ey-
 peosed to return. All depends on the
 action of the executive board of labor organlzasions st Wheeling tomorrow.
 This morning ME. A T Hutchinson and
 Lnthes joined the strikers but as the tour Watson mines still stand solid, the movement has been failure. Senator Camden said Saturday night he wanted
 to see is rain all day Sunday to keep the enthusiasm down but the boiling sun yesterday had the same effect as the men who work under ground cannot stand heat So far as the Fairmouns district is concerned the strike is failure.
 CLEVELAND, July 27F-Thomas Young representative Of NJ A Hanna has 4ons to Pittsburg with instructions, to use every effort to bring about.s speedy settlement of the strike. All the Cleveland operators are hopeful that 5he conference will result in some setis- | factory adjustment.
 MowEAQUA, Ills, July 27.-Lsst night | 8 large body Of Psns and Moweaqua | miners headed by drum and fife corps | marched ca the Assumption shafb ard | forced the men loading coal for the | local trade aud 5hTssheFs to cease work. | This mornins when the whistles blew | not miner went to work.
 PITrsBURG, July 27.-The long looked l tor conference of the Pittsburg coal i operators who, with the joint arbisrs- tion commission, fully expects to formu- l late a plan which will settle the big | miners strike, was called for at II | o'clock this morning in tbs court house. l but owing to the siowness of the opera tors to gather it was almost noon before | it was called to order. It was the lsrg- est meeting of the kind ever held in this dissries.
 The convention being opsn one of the | miners otfioiates and many interested | citizens are on hand ss spectators. AS yet the True Uniformity" U plan, which is being urged by the arbitration oom- se ha cd ROr action by conference. While the opera tors are generally apstbetio and have little ssish in the successful consu mme tion of the com mmiss;on's ideas they are i anxious to discuss and adopt some plan which will pus the miners to work. True Uniformity" calls for cash pay ments for every 2OOO pounds of coal mined every two weeks, the abolish ment of the comperys' stores and uniform screen. The difference between B thick and thin vein of coal and be- sween Ohio and Pennsylvania coal mey also come up for consideration.
 There eFs 106 railroad mines in the 1 PittsbuFg distric5 and these are epeT- sted by eighty-nine mining firms 1 Thirteen of these are said to mine sud oontEol almost ninety per cene of the 3oal mines in ths district. The smbi- bion Of the srbitrstors aud ". P Desr- mits, she father of the uniformity agree msnt, IS to have 95 per cent of the sighty-nIne operators agree 10 adopt a stsnd 4fd system Of doing business. Hae number of operators present in- oressed to sevanty-five betore the meet ing began. W. P. Murray called the meeting tc order st 11:3O by nomin ating Alex Dempeter for chairman. Dsmp- ster wss chosen to preside. John Little was chosen vice president. He made a ,hnrt odArnnr ka !