The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-06
DEBS' YARD Wide MOUTH
Denounees the Federal Bench
and Says He Will Talk
Till He Dies.

PITTSBURG, Pa, Aug. 6, 1S97-Eugene
v. Debs, who addressed the large miners
meeting on the Duwuesne Wharf, last
night, left today for Turtle Creek, where
he speaks this evening. Before leaving
the city, Mr.. Debs denounced Judge
Jackson of West Virginia for issuing the
fering in any way with the Monongah
Company or its employees. Mr. Debs
said:-'This injunction restrains me from
walking on any of the public highways
leading to the mines of the Monongah
Coal and Coke Company. 1t is most
sweeping, and none other can be COM
pared to it, This injunction annihilates
the right of peaceful assemblage and eff
fectually suppresses free speech. If it
is sustained, and have no doubt it will be,
it sweeps away all constitutional safe
guards, and delivers us, bound hand and
foot, to corporate capital.
sI hold the injunction and the judge
who issued it in supreme contempt. If
have occasion to raise my voice in behalf
of the famishing miners in Jacksons jur-
isdiction, I propose to do SO, or at least,
make the attempt totally regardless of
this infamous injunction.
"The farce of the proceeding is that the
injunction is issued by a judge. 1t ought
to come direct from the coal operators,
ard, at least, hypocrisy would not inten-
sify the infamy of the proceeding
In reference to the charge that the
deputies now on guard at De Armit's
mines We're forcing the miners to work at
the point of revolvers, President Dolan
stated that the matter had been placed in
the hands of their attorney and it was
probable that the miners officials would
go into court and ask for an injunction
restraining these deputies. Said he:-
sThey have no right to compel any
man to go to work, and we will not stand
it, I have in, my pocket the names OF
many of the men who were treated in
this manner, but prefer not to give them
now, for fear the men will suffer"
The coal company discovered new sort
of missionary work among its employees
today. wives of many of the campers
are in the field now They have been ar
riving for several days. until now there
are about twenty of them scattered about
through the Plum, Sandy and Turtle
Greek settlements The women are from di
the Mcdonald, Carnegie and Wheeling d.
vision sections, and While the men are at
work. the strikers women do missionary
work among the wives lheg KIN hayf 6 access ps,s
are denied this. Deputies are stationed
all along the property line with instruc-
tions not to allow solitary man TO pass
into the house range.
The campers claim thar the effect of
the female missionary work VIII be appar-
ent in q day or so. Many OF the Plum
Creek men are expected to join the move
ment after pay day Monday Ihe Str1k-
ers say they would be out now but that
they want to get as much money as pos
sible ahead. SO as to have something to
fall back on
Whether or not the strikers will be
able to get the Plum Creek men to stop
the mine, there is becoming more Sc
rious question than the strike leaders
at first thought. Unlike the other dig
Creek men live in company's houses.
right about the pits and right on the
company's land The workmen do not
have to leave the DeArnit property to
get into mines, and the strikers get no
chance to stop them on the road. The
deputies do not allow anyone to get near
are entirely without communication ex-
cept by the women 1t now seems the
Plum Creek siege will be much longer
and a much harder battle than at any
of the other mines.
Prices for coal moved up 10 cents a
ton since yesterday, the assigned reason
being that the prospects are that the
area of the strike will expand and en-
brace the northern and central Pennsyl-
vania districts. Coal is being boarded for
possible future demands when prices
Will be Stlll nlgner
The imported miners expected to reach
De Arrnit's mines from Virginia, this
morning, did not arrive. They are look
ed for, however, some time today or to-
morrow. The strikers were on the
watch for them all night, and were
agreeably disappointed at their non-ap-
peaTance.
The marchers continue to make gains
as shown by the number of men at work
in the De Armit mines.
At Sandy Creek only three men are at
work. The camp is thinning out and the
men are going to the Plum Creek camp,
because their presence is not needed at
Sandy Creek. The output at Sandy
Creek is only two pit cars and the mine
is absolutely dead.
AT Plum Greek eighty men who work
ed yesterday did not so into the mine
this morning. The officials of the COM
pany in explanation say shat it is the
custom of the men to lay off the day be-
fore pay day. which is tomorrow. The
output OF the three mines IS as fol-
Plum Creek. 20 cars, though the strik-
ers say only II; Turtle Creek, one CAT
lump, one car nut. and one car slack;
| Sandy Creek, two pit cars.
Plum Creek was excited last night by
"a riot;sn the railroaders' camp adjoining
+ A nunli)er OK shots were fired and three
negroes were wounded but not serlo9sly-
juege Semmons has not YET. rendered
his decision in the riot and unlawful as