The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-07-24
CONDITIONS IN
GREAT INDUSTRIAL WAR
Miners Have Strengthened Their
Lines and are Still Conf
dent Of Success.
STRONG HOPES OF ARBITRATION
Both Sides Appear to BE willing to
Confer and Hopes OF a Settie-
ment Are Entertained
---Coal Famine.

HlohS tue E1NcIS tIlSIc wis llUtlt CldlSS
in the strike situation yesterday. The
iron clad contracts which were in force
at several mines in the Monongahela
valley We're swept out of existence and
Il strike was made general in the
fourth pool. The only mine reported
in operation in the region is the Equit.
able, at Webster. 1t is n stock com
pany comprising about seventy-tive
shareholders and they are mining
their W coal. The men in the Stickel
Hollow mines of the Washington Coal
company also came out yesterday,
making the suspension complete in
this district except at the mines of the
New York and Cleveland Gas Coal
company, where about 1900 men are
at work.
No effort has yet been made to get
these diggers out, and the miners mt
other pits who have laid down their
tools arr grumbling mt the slowness of
DeArmitt's men in joining the move
ment. The hotheads are advising dras-
tic measures. They have been kept in
check SC far, but there is no telling
when the fever will break out and a
concerted movement on Sandy and
Plum creekS made.
Labor commissioners and official ar
bitrators of the several states affected
are modifying in this city. The state
of Ohio is the only one which has Il
regularly appointed board of arbitra-
ton. Most of the others interested
are labor commissioners and indus
trial statisticians. The Ohio board
and the Indiana labor commission
ers are already here. James NJ. Clark,
industrial statistician of Pennsylvania,
arrived yesterday. The labor officials
of West Virginia are expected to reach
here today, and those of Illinois on
Wednesday. Thus all the states, with
the exception of Kentucky and Ten
nessee, where the strike is on, will be
represented in the conferences which
are to be held here during the next
few days. Invitations have been sem
to the Goa operators of the Pittsburg
district to meet the arbitrator infor-
mally and talk over the matter of set
ting the strike. James Young, repra-
senting the NJ. A. Hanna Mining COM
pany, came on from Cleveland yester-
day and was in consultation with the
peacemakers. 1t is expected by the ar
bitrators that a representative num-
her of the a operators will be gotten
together within the next t~wenty-four
hours. Those in touch with the stu
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