The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-08-29

| HARRISBURG Pa.), Aug. 2S.-The
campers at Plum Creek executed a
| flank movement upon the deputies on
guard there shortly before daylight,
and before they were discovered had
marched all around the camp houses
and induced eight men to Stay at home.
When the deputies arrived, they at
tempted to stop the marchers. but the
strikers paid no attention to the orders,
and when they had finished their work
marched back to camp.
There is much suffering at Camp Iso-
| lation on account of the lack of cloth
ing and shoes. Many of the men are
| barefooted, having worn their shoes
| out marching and doing missionary
work.
superintendent De Armitt visited a
| number of the striking miners at their
houses early this morning, but failed
to induce any of them to return to
work.
JOINED THE STRIKERS.
DUBOIS Pa.), Aug. 2S-The Eleanor
miners joined the strikers this morn
ing and with the Reynoldsvflle miners
are marching 600 strong to Walston
and Adrian The Walston and Adrian
miners will probably strike to-day, and
this will preclude the possibility of the
miners here holding a meeting Monday
to reconsider the question of returning
to work. General Manager Robinson is
in New York consulting with the own
| ers of the mines.
LABOR DAY IN WHEELING.
WHEELING CIV. Va), Aug. 2S.-To-
day was Labor Day in Wheeling, and
it was made the occasion of a demon
stration in favor of the striking coal
miners. In the parade the miners We're
given the head of the column, and there
were over a thousand Of them in line,
with representatives from all the min
ing districts of the upper Panhandle
and Eastern Ohio. The banners and
devices were picturesque and unique,
the chief burden of their declaration
being against the PLUCK me- stores
and Government injunction
Throughout the parade, which in
Guided all the trades unions in the mid
die Ohio Valley, the same sentiments
were found on the banners.
At the picnic at the State Fair
grounds are booths where contributions
for the striking miners can be made,
and many dollar ordinarily spent for
good cheer at Labor Day picnics is 60
ing into the miners fund
1t is all needed, too, for restitution is
staring the strikers in the face, and at
Wheeling Creek and Dillonvale are
many hungry.
The output of coal from the Kanawha
Valley has been cut to almost nothing
by tie strike, but in New River there
is an increase, nearly all the strikers
having gone to work to-day. Several
hundred cars of coal were shipped from
that field yesterday. All is quiet, with
no change at Fairmont, the Norfolk
and Western.
MINERS READY TO START.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 2S-The small
coal operators in the Pittsburg District,
who are in the majority, are in revolt
against the Big Thirteen" or Lake
shippers, and threaten to put their
mines in operation at the rate demand
ed by the miners-69 cents-next week.
if the miners officials will allow their
men to return to work. Instead of SELL
ing their product to the big Thirteen"
as heretofore, they will forward it to
the different markets themselves.
Miners President Dolan said that if
the small operators could show how
they were going to sell their coal out
side Of the syndicate, he would readily
give his consent to their plans to re-
sumo work.
The Big Thirteen" are owners of the
different mines where the most bitter
fight against the demands of the min
ers is being made, and they practically
control the coal trade in this part Of the
country
The first mines in the Pittsburg Dis
trict to be started in the attempt to
break the big coal strike will be those
of the Pittsburg and Chicago Gas Coal
Company on the Wheeling division of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. All
arrangements have been completed for
putting the mines in operation, but the
company prefers to have the old men
return, and for that reason have de-
cided to defer action for ten days
sufficient number of men has al
ready been engaged but there are not
accommodations for them at present.
The company has taken steps to secure
possession of it's houses, and during the
day all tenants We're served with a legal
notice to vacate within ten days. The
company has leased all the available
property in the vicinity to prevent the
strikers camping about the mines, and
President Van Eman says the men who
go TO work will be given ample pro-
lection
Hereafter the deputies will not inter-
fere with the strikers If they march
after o'clock in the morning and keep
off the property of the coal company,
but all marchers will be stopped before
that hour.
Abont thirty women made a demon
stration at Newton this morning before
daylight They carried miniature flags,
which they waved enthusiastically as
they marched up and down the road
Every now and then the women cheer
ed. and they walked quickly to keep
warm The deputies kept away from
the women, and the paraders, after
marching up and down for an hour,
got tired and went home. Not dig
ger showed himself near the marching
women The few who went to work
took a roundabout route to the pit.