Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-12
WILL FILL THE JAILS
President Dolan's Comment on Judge
Golfers Injunction.
MINERS STRIKE GROWS SERIOUS
Trouble Almost Certain to Follow
This Late Action.
THE STRIKE ELSEW HERE

PITTSBURG, Pa, August 12.-The much
talked-of bill for an Injunction against the
United Mine Workers that was to have
been filed in the United States courts was
filed in the county courts about noon by
counsel for the New York and Cleveland
Gas Coal Company. The defendants named
are the United Mine Workers of America.
Patrick Dolan, president: Edward Mckay,
vice president; VIM. Warner, secretary and
treasurer, and others.
The plaintiff company sets forth that it is
a corporation under the laws of Pennsyl-
vania, with a capital Of million dollars,
invested in coal lands of Pennsylvania.
Three of their mines. employing 1900 men.
are at Plum Creek. Turtle Creek Ind Sandy
Creek.
The bill then recites the conditions pre-
yailing at their mines since the strike be-
gan, and alleges that the strikers have paid
no attention to the sheriff's proclamation
and that the lives of miners and the prop
erty Of the company are in danger.
Injunction Granted.
Judge Collier granted a preliminary in
junction restraining ordering and enjoining
the defendants from assembling, marching
or encamping in proximity to the mines and
houses of the miners for the purpose, by in
tlmidation, menaces, threats and oppro-
bious words, of preventing the miners of
the plaintiff from working
1t further restraints the defendants from
inducing or compelling any employe or
miner to quit work.
hearing was fixed for August 16
Inc injunction is regarded as the most
sweeping yet issued.
President Dolan expressed surprise when
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1T will make no difference to US. 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 enforce the Injunction they
Will have to build more jails to accommo-
date the men,"
Dolnn's Plan Outlined.
The striking miners at Canonsburg have
determined to force the injunction issue by
continuing the daily marches and meetings
in the neighborhood of the McGovern and
Canonsburg mines in spite of the order OF
Judge McIlwaine of Washington, forbtdding
marches on the public roads leading to the
mines. The purpose is to have the men
arrested in order to test the legality OF
the injunction.
Patrick Dolan stated that it had been de-
termined to keep up the marches and as
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 a
secret meeting at Columbus during the last
three days and which was presided over by
Samuel Gompers president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
Reason for the Injunction.
Serious trouble was threatened at Unity
at 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 jsering them. Sheriff
Richards ordered the strikers to move, but
they refused. He then called on his other.
deputies to assist MIN. and the strikers
seeing that he meant what he said moved
of, 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 one hundred and twenty-five dep
ties at Plum Creek, an increase of fifty
two
When T. b. De Armitt heard of the
threatened trouble he drove over from
Turtle Creek, and spent all morning going
from house to house to induce the men to
go to work. At noon there were two hun
dred and three men in the mine, decrease
of thirteen. This decrease is due to the
new tactics of the strikers in guarding the
miners houses.
Situation In West Virginia.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, August IA spe-
cial to the Plain Dealer from Wheeling
says:
At 2:3O o'clock this morning 80 strikers
from over in Ohio marched through Wheel
ing to the Riverside and Elm Grove mines,
where they joined the 500 Moundsville,
Glendale and Boggs Run miners, who had
been on guard all night.
1t took only few minutes persuasion to
close these two pits. and the whole panhan-
die district is now idle except few small
reddling mires that supply purely local
household demand. This mornings reports
show less strength in the kanawha valley
strike. More men have gone to work on
both sides of the river. At Fairmont there
is more listlessness than has been seen for
several weeks
The local lieutenants are waiting for
Gompers and the conference of national
leaders at Monongah tomorrow. The lead
ers will brave the United States courts
injunction. and. If any are arrested, all the
labor unions in the country will take Up
the fight for them.
COAL IN REFRIGERATOR CARS.
Discovery Made by Colorado Railroad
Men at La Junta.
DENVER, Col, August 12.-Railroad men
are greatly interested in the discovery
which is alleged to have been made at La
Junta, Col, that the Santa Fee Railroad
Company is shipping coal to eastern points
In refrigerator cars.
According to the report, four refrigerator
cars were sidetracked at La Junta for re-
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and the contents were billed as perishable
fruit, which has right Of way over all