Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-07-22
THE COAL STRIKE.
About Five Thousand Miners in the
EIkhorn Field to Stop Work.
INDIANA MEN IN BAD SHAPE.
Many of the Miners subsistIng on One Meal
Dsy-Hanna Orders Cooperation
-Moweaqua Miners Quit
Work.

WHEELING, w. Va. July 1s.-To-day
was regarded as critical one in the
Kanawha valley. Friday 500 men at
eight mines struck and the reports to-
day indicate that every miner in the
Elkhorn field will join the strike. The
number win reach 5000. In Kanawha
the operators have practically given
up the fight. and are waiting for the
men to settle their trouble and return.
There is no change on the Norfolk &
Western and the movement Of coal
west through Ohio has caused no out
break.
A secret meeting has been arranged
at the Willow Tree mines Sunday. A
motion will be made not to go to work
on Monday and it is expected to carry.
Thirteen organizers are said to have
got into the Monogh mines under the
guise of applying for work.
Indiana Miners in Bad Shape.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 1S..The In
diana miners are in .deplorable con-
dition. At Brazil many of the strikers,
2, 500 in number, are subsisting on char
ity. At Fontanet the miners had had
little work for long time and are
now subsisting on one meal day.
In the other mining districts the
cOnOkClOnS dTO dGOuG tA0 SdllO
thousand Indiana miners are on a
strike, about 80 per cent. of the total
number. The mines in the vicinity of
Evansville are the only ones that are
being worked and the operators there
are jubilant. Information comes from
Parke county that the men are begin
ming to grow restless in that vicinity.
At Fontanet the miners, while at work,
were forced to accept Al cents, four
cents below the recognized scale of
the state.
Hanna Orders Co-Operation.
CLEVELAND, o., July 1s.-The follow
ing telegram was sent by Owen, Tutt1e
and Bishop, comprising the Ohio board
of arbitration, to United States Sena-
tor Hanna at Washington yesterday:
with earnest cooperation of Cleve-
land operators in the Pittsburgh dis
trict. strong pro liability of securing uni
formity agreement which miners and
DeArmitt say-and we believe -would
result in settlement of strike. Can such
assistance be had?" In response to this
message Senator Hanna wired MessrS.
Owen, Tuttle and Bishop as follows:
Telegram received. Our coal interests
are represented by Mr.. Thomas Young,
who is there and will cooperate along
the lines suggested. / will wire C1eve-
land, urging other operators to join in
movement. Will gladly cooperate and
will urge other operators to do the
same"
Ioweaqua Miners Quit Work.
PANA, ILL.,, July 1s.-The miners here
were notified Thursday night that the
miners at Moweaqua, IA miles north,
had been offered a large increase in
wages. A committee was sent there
to confer with the men in an endeavor
to get them ont, but the committee
met with no success whatever. AS a
result, Friday night some 800 men
here boarded an Illinois Central
freight train and went to Moweaqua,
where they camped Friday night To-
day not man was at work at Mowea-
que. Word was received here that the
men at Hillsboro would endeavor to
go to work against the request and de-
mands of $50 miners from Litchfield
and Gillespie, and that the sheriff was
swearing in deputies to protect the
men who wished to work.