The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-07
DENOUNCED BY DEBS.
Speaks Bitterly OF Judge Jack
sons Injunction.
HOLDS THE DECREE IN CONTEMPT.

Doing Missionary Work to Bring Out
Those Who still Refuse to Join the
strikers
Pttsburg, Aug. - Engene V. Debs.
who addressed the large miners meeting
on the Duquesne wharf Thursday night.
left Friday for Turtle Creek, where he
will speak in the evening. Before leav-
ing the city Mr.. Debs denounced Judge
Jackson Of West Virginia for issuing the
injunction restraining him from interfeT-
ing in any way with the Monongah COM
pany or its employees. MIR. Debs said:
THE injunction restrains me from
walking on any Of the public highways
leading to the mines Of the Monongah
Coal and Coke company. 1t is most
sweeping and none other can be COM
pared to 1t. This injunction annihilates
the right of peaceful assemblage and
effectually suppresses free speech. If II
Is sustained. and / have no doubt ii
will be, II sweeps away all constitu-
tional safeguards and delivers us bound
hand and foot to corporate capital
Holds 1t In Contempt
IT hold the injunction and the judge
who made 1t in supreme contempt If
have occasion TO raise my voice in be-
half of the famishing miners in jack
sons jurisdiction, l propose to do so.
or at least make the attempt, totally re-
gardless of this infamous 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 hypocricy would
not intensity the infamy Of the pro-
ceedng."
In reference to the charge that
the deputies now on guard at De
Armit's mines were forcing miners to
work at the point of revolvers, Presi-
dent Dolan stated that the matter had
been placed in the hands Of their at
torney and it was probable that the
miners officials would go into court and
ask for an injunction restraining these
deputies Said he: "They have no right
to compel any man to go to work and
we will not stand it. ] have in my
pocket the names of many Of the men
who were treated in this manner, but
prefer not to give them now for fear
the men will suffer"
Women Doing Missionary Work.
The coal company discovered new sort
Of missionary work among its employees
are in the field now. They have been
arriving for several days, until now
there are about twenty Of them scat
| tered about through the Plum. Sandy
and Turtle Greek settlements. The
women are from the Mcdonald, Carnegie
and Wheeling division sections and
while the men are at work do mission
ary work among their wives They
20 a L en-.
| but the men are denied this. Deputies
are stationed all along the property line
with instructions not to allow a soli-
tary man to pass into the house range.
The campers claim that the effect Of
the female missionary work will be ap-
parent in a day or so. Many Of the
Plum Creek men are expected TO join
the movement after payday Monday.
The strikers say they would be out now,
but that they want to get as much
money as possible ahead. so as to have
something to fall back on.
IL Bandicaps the strikers.
Whether or not the strikers will be
able to get the Plum Creek men to stop
the mine there is becoming a more Sc
rious question than the strike leaders
at first thought. Unlike the other dig
RlnR SelllelneUlS dDOul all u the iuu'
Creek men live in company houses on
| the company's land. The workmen do
not have to leave the De Armit proper
" to get into the mines. and strikers
| have no chance to stop them on the
road The deputies do not allow any
one to get near the houses and the
workers an strikers are entirely with
out communication except by the wom-
| en-. 1t now seems the Plum Creek siege
will be much longer and a much harder
battle than at any of the other mines
| Prices for coal moved up 10 cents ton
Thursday. the assigned reason being
that the prospects area hat the area OF
the strike will expand and embrace the
northern an central Pennsylvania dis
tricts. Coal is being boarded for pos
sible future demands. when prices will
be still higher. Ruling prices are $l.lC
| for run Of mine in barges and cars
at Pittsburg and and cents bushel
for slack in the river.