Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-08-27
INJUNCTION MADE PERMANENT
Pittsburg Court Decides In Favor Of the
Coal Mine Operators.


today, in making permanent the prelim-
mary injunction restraining the strikers
from camping, marching. OF in any
manner interfering with the New York
81 Cleveland Gas Coal Company's
miners, had the effect Of almost deplet-
ing the camps, and apparently gen.
eral Decentralization among the campers
exists.
In order to follow up their advantage,
the operators held largely attended
meeting tonight at the Monongahela
house and arranged for the starting OF
their mines with or without force. II
force seems to be unavoidable, it is the
intention to start few mines at once.
under the protection Of deputies, and
whatever expense may result will be
shared pro rata by the mine-owners.
When court convened this morning
Judges Stowe and Collier handed down
the decision in the injunction proceed
ings OF the New York & Cleveland Gas
Coal Company against the United Mine
Workers OF America, Patrick Dolan,
William Warner and others. The pre-
liminary injunction was made perma-
nent and the plaintiff was ordered to
| file bond of S., 900 to answer for such
damages as may be sustained by defend
ants by reason of the injunction.
Immediately after filing the decree,
and upon motion of Thomas Patterson
/ the court ordered a similar decree to be
drawn in the case against the Bunola
/ miners, in which the injunction was
applied for by Rufus G. Crawford.
The price OF coal, which is reported
/ to have advanced at almost every
point in the country east of the Missouri
river and at all Mississippi river points,
since the great srtike began seven weeks
ago, shows no material increase at
/ Pittsburg. The ruling figure in barge
lots is to 54 cents per bushel.
Plans are being formed for the main
/ tenance OF the strikers and their fam
lilies for prolonged period. The ex-
pense of carrying on the strike is placed
at $500 day, and appeals are coming
in every day for help for families in
4 the mining villages.
The action at the meeting of operat-
\ ors yesterday is in accordance with the
plan mapped out after the uniformity
agreement had been fornft iAted. The
agreement provides that all coal con-
tracted for on the 54-cent basis shall be
mined at that rate until the contracts
are filed. 1t is known that the require
ments of the Lake trade by September
Is are 5000, 900 tons. II the contracts
are not filed the operators will not
only lose large amount of money, but
put themselves in position to lose
contracts for all time to come.
\ The striking miners encamped at the
mines of the New York & Cleveland
Gas Coal Company did not march this
morning, as they had planned to do.
At Turtle Creek they formed IN line.
but when ready ito start they beheld
the deputies standing just outside OF
the camp, so the march was abandoned
and small parties numbering from two
to six each We're instructed to patrol
the woods in the vicinity Of the mine
and report the number of men going to
work. They were instructed to keep
, moving, and if approached by deputies
, to get away rapidly to escape the service
of an injunction, if possible. The
} leaders propose in this way to harass
. the deputies and De Armitt. They say
; there are 30, 900 men in the district,
and that injunctions will have to be
read 10000 times before the attacks
upon the mines at Oak Hill, Sandy
, Creek and Plum Creek cease, unless the
mines are sooner closed down. The
men followed the instructions, but wer,
! unable to learn just how many diggeri
went into the pit today. The outpu
3 of the Oak Hill mine yesterday wal
seven cars of lump coal and two o
I slack and nut or about lS0 tons. Thii
: shows gain for the company, though
$ no claim of increased force is made b!
$ DeArmitt, and the strikers claim tha
e only 90 men are at work.