The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-17
TO SHUT Off E.V. DEBS
May Not Be Permitted to Go to
West Virginia.
MINE OWNERS APPEAL TO COURTS.

Arrange To Secure Injunction Restraining
the Leader of the Social Democracy
from Trespassing Upon the Grounds of
the Various Companies-Gigantic Plan
To Close Every Mine i'm the State of West
Virginia-Late News of the Strike.
Chicago, July 17.-Eugene V. Debs
may not be permitted to go into west
Virginia TO urge the miners at work
there to join the great strike. Private
advices received in Chicago Friday by
a big operator state that arrangements
are being made to secure an Injunction
against the .eader of the Social Democ-
racy restraining him from trepassing
upon the grounds of the various COM
panies in that state. The laws Of West
Virginia are very strict, and leading op-
orators there say they will see that they
are enforced to the letter against every
labor agitator that lifts up his voice in
the cause of the strikers. A sensation
was created among the operators or
West Virginia Friday. At the present
time they claim that only 200 miners
have struck, while 1000 more than the
usual nuTlDeT are dl WOIhs iot-
ter are from Pennsylvania and Ohio,
and are the men who went on strike
when ordered in those districts.
To Create Dissension.
Because of this fact the operators be-
leved that they had the advantage of
the strikers. Friday, however, 1t leaked
out that these miners had been sent into
West Virginia to create dissension and
urge the miners there to strike. Already
their work is noticeable and is creating
great CONSERVATION among the opera
tors Instead OF holding meetings the
men from Pennsylvania and Ohio while
working side by side with the miners OF
West Virginia keep up continual con-
versation upon the merits of the strike.
The new men were all picked for the
purpose, and it Is HOW claimed that there
will be great changes in the next week.
A telegram from an operator received in
! Chicago Friday says:
There is apparently no danger Of a
general strike in West Virginia. 1t Is
unsafe, however, to make predictions.
| The miners are easily dissatisfied. and a
| few labor agitators may have more
weight with them than the reason which
| now governors them"
Have No Authority.
Not much stock is taken in De Ar
mitts alleged Willingness to aid arbtra-
| ton The various state arbitrators who
| are now on the ground have no authori-
| ty under which they can bring about a
| settlement, 1t is claimed. They are sim
ply acting as private citizens. Editor
Lucas Of The Black Diamond received
word Friday that the West Virginia
railroads had refused to haul coal. They
are nearly all in the hands of receivers.
| and would get into trouble, it is said,
( II they did.
I Ohio operators say that the strike has
| been so successful that they fear it
will be impossible to obtain compro-
mise from the strikers on the rate de-
manded for Pennsylvania-69 cents. OPP
orators vary in opinion as to the length
| of time the strike will last. Those who
! have no coal say it will soon end. while
! the men who have plenty Of the prod
| uct declare 1t will continue for months.
| No Scarcity of Coal.
From reliable sources Ii is learned that
| there are s.OOOO bushels of coal in the
] Monogahela river. Owing to the fact
| that there are a number of mills closed
down on account of wage disputes the
| demand has not as yet caused scarcity
| OF coal. The coal in the river will be
| available in any event. Pittsburg prices
for coal are: Run of mine railroad. s1.25
| per ton; screened, $3.50: river coal run of
| mine, 51a cents per bushel: screened,
| cents Pittsburg coal at the lakes costs
$40, while West Virginia coal can be
| landed at the same ports at 1925 per
| tom