River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-08-12
HUNGRY STRIKERS.


Tor food and provisions were numerous
at the headquarters of the miners Of
ficials in this city Monday. 1t appears
as if there was wall from every sec
ton Of the district, and miners in per-
son were present to ask that the suf-
fering ones be looked after. Secretary
Warner was kept busy answering the
appeals. He said Monday night that
he he'd sent more than 81 900 worth of
groceries and provisions into various
parts of the district. The appeals are
now coming in from the families, the
heads of which are at the various min
ing camps using their influence to keep
other men from working. At the mines
where company stores have been in
operation the restitution is more
marked. In most instances the stores
were closed up shortly after the strike
began, and the miners have no place
now where their credit is good. The
male members of the miners families
are living better in the camps than the
women and smaller children are at
home.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Aug. 10. - All the
miners of the New York and Cleveland
Gas Coal company who are still at work
were paid Monday, but those who
struck did not receive any money, the
company insisting upon the terms of
the contract by which the men agreed
to forfeit all money due them in case
they refuse to work.
a series of meetings is to be held
all over the district. 1t is expected to
keep up the interest in every section
and strengthen every point where
there is the least indication of weak
ness. The vigils on the mines of the
New York and Cleveland Gas Coal com
pany are to be kept up and the vigor
increased from day to day.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Aug. 10. - On the
success or failure of the bituminous
coal miners strike depends the incep-
tom of a movement by the anthracite
miners for higher wages and better
conditions. District President Pat
rick Dolam and the other officials of the
United Mine Workers organization
have received several letters within the
past few days from different parts of
the pennsylvania anthracite coal re-
gion asking for information on the out
look for the big strike and wanting to
know what assurances Of victory they
have. II the bituminous miners win,
the anti racite diggers think they
would have an equal chance of secur-
ing an advance i'm wages. If the pres
ent strike is lost the attempt for am adj
vance will not be made in the anthra-
cite region.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Aug. 2. - Friday
evening Squire Stemmens rendered his
decision in the riot and unlawful assem-
hlage cases against President Dolan
and others. He holds Dolan, Jacob Auf-
better, Paul Trimmer and Edward Nc
Kay in $500 bail each for the September
term of court. Bail was entered for all.
The cases against Cameron Miller, Will
liam Warner and Edward Shaw were
dismissed.
Eugene V. Debs, v no addressed the
large miners meeting on the Duquesne
wharf at night, left Friday for Turtle
Creek, where he spoke in the evening.
Before leaving the city Mr.. Debs de-
nounced Judge Jackson, of West Vir-
ginia, for issuing the injunction re-
straining him from interfering in any
way with the Monongah company or its
employees. Mr.. Debs said:
This injunction restraints me from walk
ing on any Of the public highways leading
20 the mines of the Monongah Coal q Coke
company. 1t is most sweeping and none
other can be compared to it,. Tt injunc-
ton annihilates the right of peaceable as
semblage and effectually suppresses free
speech. If it is sustained. and / have no
doubt 1t viii be, IL sweeps away all consu-
tutional safeguards and delivers us, bound
hand and foot. TO the corporate capital
II hold thu injunction, and the judge who
issued it, in supreme contempt If l have
occasion to raise my voice in behalf of the
furnishing miners in Jackson's jurisdiction,
/ propose to do so, or at least make the
attempt. totally regardless of this in
famous injunction.
THE farce of the proceeding is that the
Injunction is issued by a judge. 1t ought
to come direct from the coal operators,
and, at least, hypocrisy would not intensity
the infamy of the proceeding
The coal company discovered new
sort of missionary work among its en-
rloyes Friday. Wives of many of the
campers are now IN the field. They
have been arriving for several days, I'M
til there are about 90 OF them scattered
about through the Plum, Sandy and
Turtle Creeks settlements. The women
are from the Mcdonald, Carnegie and
Wheeling division sections and while
the men are at work do missionary
work among their wives. They have oc-
cess to the workmen's houses, but the
men are denied this. Deputies are sta
toned all along the property line with
instructions not TO allow man TO pass
irto the house range.
Definite orders have been issued from
Harrisburg to local officers of the Ia
tional guard of Pennsylvania to hold
themselves in readiness for immediate
service. This order. which arrived sew
eral days ago, is being complied with TO
the letter and the day and night address
of each officer, together with the num-
Der of the nearest telephone, has been
forwarded to headquarters. However,
these officers have expressed il as their
opinion that the miners have behaved
themselves most orderly and that the
guard is not at all necessary as yet.
Pension List Grows.