The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-13

ence among men who are initiating
against their interests by continuing at
work.
The New York and Cleveland Gas
Coal Company, on the other hand as
sert that the marches and assemblages
are unlawful and Il menace TO their
employees, many Of whom, they say, are
willing to work provided the strikers
remain away. Looking at the matter
from this standpoint, the company
made Its radical move to-day in the
courts to bring about condition under
which the company can operate its
mines,
If the strikers continue their marches
In the morning, as they now say they
will In defiance Of the injunction,
caplases will be issued for the Offend
ers on the charge OF contempt OF court
Should the injunction be enforced,
the strikers camps around the De Ar
mitt mines Will soon be extinct, The
strikers, though excited over the turn
OF events, are in no wise dIsheartened,
Developments at Canonsburg are be-
ing watched closely. The ayowed in
tention OF the strikers to march to-
morrow morning despite Judge Nell
vaine's injunction Is expected TO result
In bloodshed or the filling Of the county
prisons with arrested miners.
The long talked OF demonstration
against the Westmoreland county
mines has been abandoned by the strik-
ers after one days trial because OF a
lack OF food. The attempt, 1t is said,
will be repeated soon, when ample pro-
visions will be carried along and a
Siege proclaimed and carried to success
ful issue.
Strikers VIII Disregard Injunction.
The injunction secured by the New
York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company
was read to President Dolan by dep
uty this afternoon at miners heaaGuar-
ters. Mr., Dolan, who was writing at
the time, scarcely stopped his work for
more than second, and when the read
ing was finished acknowledged It by
merely saying THANK you"
He says the Injunction will not
change the miners campaign In the
least.
Ex-Vlce President Cameron Miller
came into the headquarters shortly af-
ter the reading of the document to Do
Ian.
He said the miners will continue as
heretofore. using all lawful means pos
slble to keep miners from working
during the struggle for better wages.
1t is the intention Of the officials OF
the court to try to forestall the GUS
tomary march in the morning by go
ing to the camps tonight and read the
injunction to the campers. II this Is
done the crisis Will be certainly reached
about o'clock in the morning, as the
strikers appear determined to test their
right to carry out their usual pro-
gramme. 1t is said that when the dep
] utles do start to enforce the Injunction
they will be compelled to arrest every
man for contempt, and that as fast as
the men are placed in jail others VIII
be brought into camp TO take their
places, and thus the deputies will be
kept busy making arrests until the
jails are overcrowded.
1t Is claimed by the strikers that this
movement OF the company Is only an
other plan for getting the militia on
the ground. When they find that the
miners will not obey the injunction,
and that the Jails are becoming crowd
ed in this manner, 1t is expected that
the sheriff will adjudge that his depu-
ties are not sufficient to cope with the
situation and he will be constrained to
call out the militia. This Is the view Of
the situation taken by the leaders Of
| the strikers now In the camps.
This evening the strikers at Plum
| Creek held n meeting and voted unanl-
mously to hold the fort but not to re-
slst arrest. The resolutions say that II
one man is arrested they Will have to
arrest all.