The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-10
D'ARMIT FIGHTS HARD
HE SUCCEEDS IN GETTING A
FEW MINERS TO WORK.
HAD TO SIGN A NEW AGREEMENT
Miners Hopeful That This Compulsory Agree
ment Will be Set Aside--Dysart Says
Miners Fight is Hopeless as the Coal
Demand is Supplied.

Pittsburg Pa, Aug. 9.-Appeals for
food and provisions were numerous al
the headquarters of the miners officials
in this city today. 1t appeared as if there
was a wall from every section of the dis
trict and miners in person were present
to beg that he suffering ones be looked
after. Secretary Warner was kept busy
answering the appeals. He said tonight
that he had sent more than 81 ,0OD worth
of groceries and provisions into vIrlouS
parts of the district The appeals arc now
coming III from the families, the heads of
which are at the various mining camps
using their influence to keep other men
from working.
A series Of meetings are to be held all
over the district. 1t is expected to keep up
the interest in every section and strength
en- every point where there is the least
indication of weakness.
President Dolan issued a call today for
a mass meeting of all the miners at Can
lnOnsburg Wednesday morning. 1t is ex-
pected that Eugene Debs, Mrs. Jones,
Patrick DOlan, Nj. 7. Carrick and others
will make addresses.
At the instigation of Thomas Sutton,
Henry Huser and Gustav Rings, miners,
were committed to Jail for a hearing be-
fore alderman ]. b. McMasters on vari-
Gus charges today. Ulrich is charged with
aggravated assault and battery; Nagel is
charged with assault and battery, and
Huser and Rings with unlawful assem-
blage. The arrests are the result of an al
tercation at Willock's July 6, on account
Of the strike. Warrants are out for a
number Of others.
Early this morning the miners of West
| Elizabeth made a march on the mines
| of the Elizabeth Mining Company, for
merely operated by Horner q Roberts.
About fifty men were going to work. At
ter IL consultation the men asked that
they be allowed to finish loading a fat.
They agreed to go out as soon as it was
loaded, which will take several days. The
officials of the company made an effort
this afternoon to get permission from the
mining officials to continue work on
SO cents basis. This was not given and it
is expected tOat the mine will be idle as
soon as the fiat is loaded
Thomas Il. De Armit, superintendent
of the New York and Cleveland Gas
get the miners at Oak Hill to return to
work. BY n house to house canvass he
succeeded in getting a few more diggers
than have been at work. Thirty-seven
miners went in. The men were told by
Mr. De Armit that they would lose all
they had earned if they would not work
and would be given five days in advance
to vacate the company houses. The
strikers say only seventy-fve men out of
2S5 were at work in the Plum Greek
mine to-day. The company claims almost
a full force was working. The strikers
are hopeful that the remaining diggers
will quit work after getting their pay.
The Plum Greek men were not paid to-
day and it is expected that the company
will require the men to sign a new agree
ment before they are given their envel-
opes.
The Sandy Greek miners are awaiting
developments. They are hopeful the
courts will set aside the contracts of the
company which the men were obliged to
sign.
President Dolan will go to the Canons-
burg region and defy the injunctions by
speaking at n meeting scheduled for Au-
gust 18th. 1t is said only thirteen gOn-
dolas were loaded at Plum Greek to-
day. There is to be a big demonstration
in the morning at Plum Greek when the
strikers believe they will be able to close
down the mine.
j. G. Dysart, "a member of the Uni
formity commission, returned to the city
today after a weeks absence. He says
the work of securing signatures will be
pushed earnestly and he believes the re-
quired number will be secured. The
miners, he says cannot possibly win the
strike, as the mines still in open opera
ton can supply the demand. Some Of
the coal operators are getting restless
and threaten to attempt to start their
mines this week. w. III. Simmons, a
large coal dealer, says there is no search
ty OF coal. Last night $50 cars of coal
came into Pittsburg from West Virginia,
and large quantities are being shipped
to Pittsburg from the mines along the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
MINERS GAINING RECRUITS.
Wheeling, w. Va, Aug. 9.-This morn
ing a small army Of miners from Mounds
vile and Benwood gathered at the works
of the Glendale Company, eight miles
below the city, and soon induced the
working miners at that plant to come out
to a man. Flushed with their success
at this point, the strikers reinforced by
the Glendale men and by a body of
strikers that had come across the hills
from Elm Grove, went to the Boggs Run
mines and camped on the hill side. This
afternoon as the miners came out from
their work, the strikers took them in and