The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-05
MORE PICKS ARE IDLE.
Demonstration at De Armit Mines
Steadily Succeeding.
TWENTY MORE MEN COME OUT.

The strikers Visit the Shafts Early i'm the
Morning and March Back tn CAMP with
Their Converts i'm Triumph Sandy
Creek Mine Is silent - WomeH Em-
ployes of an Atlanta bag and Cotton
Mill strike Against Negro Help.
Pittsburg, Aug. 5.-The striking min
ers gained another victory at Plum
Creek Wednesday morning by inducing
twenty more men to join the ranks.
All Of them were diggers. This leaves
the mine working with about half the
force of Tuesday. Committees are
working industriously in the houses of
the miners. They first enlist the sym
pathy OF the women and then the men
are more easily induced to follow. The
strikers are turning their attention en-
tlrely to the diggers, knowing that II
they come out the other employees will
be forced to follow. On the other hand
the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal
company Is making every effort TO
keep the mines going. They claim that
all the Plum Creek miners are working,
While the strikers say that not more
than forty men are in the pit The full
force of that mine is $40 men, Before
the campers came the output was from
10 to l40 cars a day. This output,
however, was about forty cars above
the average when the other mines are
working. The output Tuesday was
thirty-nine cars. With twenty more
men out Wednesday the output is not
expected to exceed twenty cars The
complete closing of the mine may be
aXDpctpd I'm a very few 6oNs
Move on Plum Creek.
The march to Plum Creek mine was
commenced at o'clock wednesday
morning by the campers at Center
schoolhouse. They were reinforced by
large bodies from Sandy and Turtle
Creek. The combined forces arrived at
the mine at a. m, remaining until
6 o'clock. when they marched back to
camp, taking with them in triumph the
twenty diggers who came out. The
campers at Sandy Greek had little TO
do. The mine is TO all intents and pur-
poses shut down. The output is not
more than two cars a day. The ca
pacity Of the mine has been 100 cars
day. The normal output with the
three mines in operation is seventy
cars. There has been no change so
far at Oak Hill A statement made by
the miners that only two men We're
working may be true. In that case the
output of eight cars claimed for Mon
day and Tuesday will be decreased TO
one car. The extraordinary capacity
of the mine is 40 cars and the normal
capacity ninety cars The demonstra-
tion against De Armit has had the
effect of decreasing the capacity Of $40
cars to forty-two cars with the proba-
bility of it being further reduced.
Camp Life Discipline.
The campers at Turtle Creek were
on the march at 3 a. m. and went to the
Oak Hill mine. They marched back at
6:20 a. m. and had breakfast. Camp
life has been reduced to a system. One
hundred men were sent to Plum Creek
and 300 sent home, leaving 600 men in
camp. They have divided into compa-
nies Of 100 each. under a lieutenant.
Provisions seem to be plentiful The
camp will be policed by strikers sworn
in by Burgess Teats, as borough po-
lice.
Quit Work at Schmock's Mines.
The miners at Schmock's mines on
the Redstone branch of the Pennsyl-
vania railway came out Wednesday and
the mines are once more closed down.
When the news was received in this
city the price of coal jumped to 81
ton and brokers said prices were likely
to advance to $l.50 before next week.
President w. =. De Armit of the New
York and Cleveland Gas Coal company
says that his men are not on a strike,
and are not in sympathy with the
movement They have been intimi-
dated" said he, "and / have no doubt
that all would return to work If the
forces of strikers encamped at the diff