The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-19
BLOOD NAY BE SAED
Hunger and privation Drive the Striking Coal Miners
 to Desperation.
TO MARCH ON THE MINES
1000 MEN ON THEIR WAY 10 IN.
 TIMIDATE MEN 1T WORK.

>"AssSS N"ASVAAhBo OMeu SAiA
 Their yEusbanda Cowards and Say They
 Might aS We'll Fight as Starve-Men
 Will March Twelve Miles Across the
 Country to Where tho Mines Are Located
 Whether or Not They Will Go Armed Is
 Not Known-sut They Win Use Every
 Influence to Induce workmen to Join
 Their Ranks-Mines Guarded by Depu-
 ties-Strilkers Are in a Semi-Insans Con-
 dition and the Worst Results May Have
 to be Recorded-Powerful Influence to be
 Brought to Bear to End the Struggle
 WestNirginia Miners Desert the Strikers
 Heavy Movement of West Virginia
 Coal Yesterday.
 Pittsburg, Pa., July 1S.-The events of to-day in the Pittsburg coal mining district indicate that there Is trouble ahead. The strike has been on for two weeks with no cause for alarm in any quarter, but to-day the bangs of hun- ger and mutterlngs of discontent have taken tangible form, and before morn ing 1000 miners will have marched to Cannonsburg, the objective point being the Boone and Allison mines.
 A few days ago the operators of the mines made a requisition on the sheriff of Washington county for additional deputies. It is supposed that there are at least thirty deputies at each mine, we'll armed for any friction that may take place. To-day the miners of the the Millers and Toms run district held mass meetings. The men employed in the Slope and Bridgeville mines, and Steens mines met at Bridgeville. Cecil was the scene of the meeting of Laurel Hill Nos. 2 and 4, Creedmore and Bishop mines, and the diggers employ ed in the Standard and Ellsworth mines in MiIler's Run also held a meeting
 The gatherings were attended by men, women and children. The women did not lag in the interest taken. Many of them openly branded their husbands as towards. They argued that they might as we'll fight as starve. The men said the victory could be won providing every coal miner employed in the sec tions where the lake trade is supplied would join the general movement of idleness.
 Plans for bringing out the miners at work in the Boone and Allison mines were discussed. Special committees were sent from one meeting to the other. It was decided to march on to Cannonsburg mines tonight. The pro- cession will be made up of three divi- sions from the different sections. They will mobilize at Bridgeville and take up the tramp of twelve miles across the country.
 Whether the miners will go armed Is not yet known, but they expect to be at the mines when the offending diggers are ready to go to work and wall use ev- cry influence possible to keep them from going into the mines. Some of the most conservative of the leaders claim that there will be no blood shed. They say that when the colliers see such big demonstration in favor of what they term peaceful battle for bread, they cannot enter the mines and retain their manhood.
 Every effort was made to keep the movement secret for fear the force of deputies at the mines would be further increased. Just what the result will be 1t is difficult at this hour to tell. The men are known to be in 8 condition of senli-insanity on the strike question. They have been goaded on by suffering wives, daughters and sweethearts, and it appears as If it is the beginning Of the end of the strike.
 The negotiations to induce the coal operators of this district to sign uni- fornity agreement are still going on. Secretary F. Frank Schmidt said to- night that the prospects were brighter than they have been since negotiations began. He said that within the next few days powerful and potent infiu- ences would Do brought to bear on the operators, and with the strike In the present condition the indications were for successful corsummation of the agreement. As an evidence that the operators are not counting on arbitra- ton, 1t was announced tonight by a prominent operator that If the strike in West Virginia does not prove success eul the Pittsburg operators will make an effort early next week to start their mines at the sixty-nine cent rate, the rate now asked by the strikers. They claim that as they are willing to pay the price asked, the law must protect them in the operations of their mines
 Wheeling, Va, July 18.-The striking miners at Dillonvale, on the Wheeling and Lake Erie road, have been notified by the management that the mines there will resume Monday morning and that if they do rot intend to work their places will be filled with outside men. Some 7of the Dillonvale men are in fla yor of returning to work, but the ma iority, most of them foreigners, are vi- oleutly opposed to such course.
 There was a heavy movement of West Virginia coal through this city to-day. Sixty or seventy cars of coal were transferred from the Wheeling Terminal tracks to the Wheeling and Lake Erie and started north without noIestation. It is learned tonight that all the coal being sent over the Wheel ing road is for the Lake Shore and other northern Ohio roads, which need +he coa, for firing their engines.
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