The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-13
DAILY MARCHES FORBIDDEN
AND CRUSADERS IN CAMPS ORDERED
TO DIsPERSE BY THE COURT.
Sheriff and Assistants Ready to En-
force the Decree TO-Day-OReg from
an Indiana Coal Company.

| situation a strained one, and it. appears that
a crisis is near at hand. The strikers have
! demonstrated that their assemblages,
! marches and missionary work have ma
| terially affected the output of the New
| York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company,
while at the same time public sympathy
! has been enlisted in their cause. The sher-
ifs proclamation, issued two weeks ago, re-
straining the men from assembling and
marching, has been a dead letter, and the
marches have been continued daily. No
disturbance of any kind has occurred. the
officials of the miners contriving through
the whole time to keep their men within
peaceful bounds. A preliminary injunction
issued to-day by Judges Collier and Stowe
row brings the matter to the county courts
for settlement. The case will be heard on
| Monday morning, and the decision is looked
forward to with much interest.
The miners and their officials claim that
they are keeping within the law. and have
the right to assemble in peace and demon
strate to the world that they are being
wronged by rate of wages that keeps them
constantly at the point of starvation; also
that they have right to use their presence
and influence among men who are mill
tating against their interest and by con-
t:nuing at work.
Officers of the New York and Cleveland
| Gas Coal Company on the other hand, as
sert that the marches and assemblages are
unlawful and menace to their employees,
many of whom, they say, are willing to
| work provided the strikers remain away.
| Looking at the matter from this standpoint,
| the company made it's radical move to-day
| in the county courts to bring about con-
diton under which the company can oper-
| t., tI,,
| injunction suit are the United Mine Work
ers of America, Patrick Dolan. president;
Edward Mckay, vice president; Villain
! Warner, secretary and treasurer, and
others. The plaintiff company sets forth
that it is a corporation under the laws of
Pennsylvania, with a capital of s1,OO00OO
invested in coal lands of Pennsylvania.
Three of its mines, employing 200 men, are
at Plum Creek, Turtle Creek and Sandy
Creek The bill then recites the conditions
prevailing at their mines since the strike
begun, and alleges that the strikers have
paid no attention to the sherffs proclama-
ton, and that the lives of the miners and
the property of the company are in danger.
| Judge Collier granted a preliminary in
| junction restraining and enjofning the de-
| PENDANTS from assembling, marching or en-
| camping in proximity to the mines and
houses of the miners for the purpose by
| intimidation menaces, threats and opprO-
brous words of preventing the miners of
the plaintiff from working. it further re-
| strains defendants from inducing or COM
pelling any employe or miner to quit work.
A hearing was fixed for Aug. 16.
DOLAN WILL DISREGARD IT.
The injunction is regarded the most
sweeping yet issued President DOlan eX-
w informed n that il had
been granted and added: 1T will make no
difference to u.s. We will not break camp
and will go right along as usual until the
matter is tested in the courts. We will
stay there regardless of every judge in
Allegheny county, and if they try to en-
force the injunction they will have to build
more jails to accommodate the men,
If the strikers continue their marches to-
morrow, they say they Will; in defiance
of the injunction, capiases will be issued
for the offenders on the charge OF contempt
of court. Should the injunction be en-
forced the strikers camps around the De
Armitt mines will soon be extinct. The
strikers, though excited over the turn of
events are in no wise diShearteneG.
The striking miners at Canonsburg have
determined to force the injunction issue by
continuing the daily MARCHES f t 3 a1d meetings S
Judge Icilwaine, Of washington, forbid
| ding marches on public roads leading TO
| the mines. The purpose is to have men ar
rested in order. to test the legality of the
| Injunction. Patrick Dolan stated that it
| had been determined to keep up the
| marches, and as fast as one group is ar
rested another will take its place. until
| there will be so many of them in Jail that
| the public opinion of the community and
| country will be aroused on the question of
| the alleged new form of injunction In this
! movement the support of all the leading
| trades unions of the country is said to have
| been pledged as a result of q secret meet
| ing a Columbus during the last three days,
/ and which presided over bV Samuel
| Gompers, president of the American Fed
| Grafton of Labor.
| Pittsburg operators that the miners of the
Bell Lewis and Yates county mines have
struck in the ReynoldSville field and that
all the mines of the company are idle. The
company is one of the heaviest tonnage
extensively to the Buffalo and New York
State markets. as we'll as to the Eastern
seaboard coaling docks About 5000 men
are employed. No information has been re-
ceived from the PunXsutawney and Clear
field districts. but at East Brady it was
ported that the miners IN several pits in
of a local nature and independent of the
national strike.
at 4 o'clock this morning. Deputy Sheriff
Richards was in charge of some men going
to work, and the strikers ran ahead of the
men hooting and Jeering them. Sheriff
Richards ordered the strikers to move but
| they refused. He then called on his other
deputies to assist him. and the strikers.
seeing that he meant what he said. moved
off. Still hooting the men going to work.
When the report of the trouble was made
at camp there was great excitement and
| many threats, but the excitement quieted
! down on the arrival of the leaders. There
| are now 122 deputies at Plum creek. an in
| crease of tifty-two men. When r. B. De
! Armitt heard of the threatened trouble he
/ drove over to Turtle creek and spent all
morning going from house to house to in
/ duce the men to go to work. At noon there
! were 203 men in the mine, q decrease of
/ thirteen This decrease is due to the new
1 tactics Of the strikers in guarding the
miners houses.
A new move is to be made by the COM
/ panv A number of the miners who are
/ working will file bill in equity asking
! that strikers be restrained from marching
/ pest their houses It is said that the con-
! tinued noise and excitement is endangering
/ their own health we'll as ieopardiZing
/ the lives of the members OF their families
who are sick
AT HEADQUARTERS
The injunction secured by the New York
! and Cleveland Gas Coal Company was read
to President Dolan by deputy this after
noon at miners headquarters MIR. Dolan,
who was writing at the time, scarcely