The record-union., 1897-08-20


President Ratchford as a bluff" He
says:
There is but one interpreta ton Of
this statment, namely, that the oper-
ators prefer to shed blood rather than
negotiate a peaceful settlement. They
cannot build stockades high enough or
strong enough in the Pittsburg district
to hold non-union workmen, and any
effort in that direction will fail In the
first place, there is no unanimity among
the operators, and in the second place
they cannot hope to get non-union
workmen. Further than that, the opin-
ion Of the great public will of itself de-
feat their plans, even though they were
agreed and non-union labor could be
secured"
Captain Bellingham was back at
camp to-day, and denied that the camps
We're to be abandoned. The camps, he
says, viii be continued until the end of
the strike, and the reduction in the
number Of men was necessary in order
to carry out secret orders, which could
not be done with a large force. The
stopping of the marches has put more
men to work. The output at Plum
Creek was nine cars of lump and seven
cars of screened coal, and at Turtle
Creek five cars of coal were mined.
The operators are determined to start
their mines but many of them are will
ing to submit the question to arbitra-
ton before taking any radical steps
toward ending the strike, and with this
in view, an effort is being made to have
a conference of mine owners and the
miners officials on Saturday. If an
agreement cannot be reached at this
conference, then the operators will i'm
mediately prepare for resumption
with new men. The operators admit
upon, but refuse to say what mines will
that a plan of action has bene decided
be started first. The report that Pink
ertons were to be employed was denied
but assurance was given that the men
would have ample protection.
LABOR LEADERS SHOW FIGHT.
COLUMBUS (O). 10. The Nation
al Executive Committee of the Min
ers' Association was called to meet here
to-day. Mr. Dolan of Pittsbuhg being
asked why they were here said he did
not know, having been summoned with
out explanation. The board adjourned
at II a. m. until / p. m. to await the
arrival of absent members.
Being asked to foreshadow the pro-
posed action of the board. President
Ratchford said: 'The conservative IoI-
icy adopted by our board at the begin
ming must necessarily be deperted from
because of the extreme radi' II policy
of the other side. We would m1.-a. 0re-
fer a battle along peaceable lines, we
have been doing, but our boa i wal be
obliged to test the tactics of tie other
side and also to take steps to extend the
fight in other fields. We have to adopt
other methods to meet the injunctions
Our people are being arrested in
wholesale manner for hOldins ublic
meetings and we do not pro e to
have injunctions break this s. e."
ATTEMPTED TRAIN WKEC KING.
COLUMBUS (O.), Aug. ia special
to the Dispatch" from Wheeling, w.
Va, says: Unknown parties concealed
in the brush about the Cleveland, Lor-
raine and Wheeling track at Barton
last night attacked the passengers on
the coal train
As the train passed the spot volley
of stones was sent at the trainmen.
Fireman Little was struck by a missile
and badly hurt
Later another train at the same place
colHded with a pile Of empty oil bar
rels, which had been piled on the track
and fastened with a heavy rail. For
tunately Engineer Leggett was looking
out for trouble at this point and was
running the train very slowly, prevent
ing an accident.
MINERS DEPRESSED.
WHEELING CIV. Va.), Aug. 19.-The
strike situatioss is decidedly mixed in
West Virginia to-day. The news that
the Pittsburg operators have decided to
resume at all hazards, and the report
that Dolan has asked President Ratch-
ford to come to Pittsburg, with a view
to settling the strike, had a depressing
influence upon West Virginia miners.
The hope had been held out that when
a settlement came they would be con-
suited and a scale of wages that would
help them would be enforced. But if
Pittsburg is to make the settlement, all
hope Of this is fost.
The camp at Montana is still a lively
place, the presence of the strikers
wives adding much to the gaiety. In
the New River region five mines were
closed yesterday and in the Kanawha
Valley but one miner went to work.
On the Norfolk and Western there is
no reduction of output and no organ
izers are in sight All but two of the
Peddling mines in the Wheeling district
are closed, including Eastern Ohio, and
but for the use of natural gas every
industry in the middle Ohio Valley
would be closed.
VOTE AGAINEE GOING TO WORK
HAZLETON (Pa.), Aug. ia meet
ing of the striking miners was held to-
day. Chairman McMullin of the Medi-
alton Committee returned from New
York where he had been in consulta-
ton with officials Of the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal Company He read
a letter from c. II. Warren, assistant
to the President, assuring the men that
company would pay the same wages as
other companies, give them the choice
Of their own dockers, and institute an
! investigation of the charges against Su-
perintendent Jones if the men return
to work English-speaking miners gen.
orally favored returning to work but
when the Italians and Hungarians un-
derstood this they voted down the mo-
ton to resume work. OF the 500 men
presently only about ten favored re-
turning to work before the investiga-
ton shall be started and wages re-
stored.
Lady Somerset.
LONDON, Aug. 10. = Lady Henry
Somerset has engaged passage on the