Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-08-19
AMONG THE STRIKERS.

Has Been Issued by the Courts to Re-
strain Strikers from Assembling In Camps
and Marching TO IntImIdate Miners.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 12.-Sweep-
ing and far-reaching injunctions now
figure in the coal miners strike in the
Pittsburgh district. The develop
ments of to-day tend tomake the situa-
ton strained one and it appears that
crisis is near at hand.
The strikers have demonstrated that
these assemblages, marches and mis-
| sionary work have materially affected
the output of the New York & Cleve-
land Gas Coal Co., while at the same
time public sympathy has been en-
listed in their cause.
The sherifFs proclamation, issued
two weeks ago, restraining the men
from assembling and marching. has
been dead-letter and the marches
have been continued daily. No dis
turbance of any kind has occurred, the
officials of the miners contriving
through the whole time to keep their
men within peaceful bounds.
The preliminary injunction issued
by Judges Collier and Stowe, now
brings the matter to the county courts
for settlement. The case will be
heard on Monday morning and the de-
cision is looked forward to with much
/ interest.
The miners and their officials claim
that they are keeping within the
law and have the right to assemble in
peace and demonstrate to the world
that they are being wronged by a rate
of wages that keeps them constantly
at the point of starvation: also that
| they have right to use their presence
and influence among men who are
initiating against their interests by
continuing at work.
| The New York & Cleveland GasiCoaI
Co., on the other hand. assert that the
marches and assemblages are unlawful
and menace to their employees, many
| of whom, they say. are willing to work,
provided the strikers remain away.
Looking at the matter from this stand
point, the company made its radical
move to-day in the courts to bring
about a condition under which the
company can operate its mines.
If the strikers continue their marches
in the morning, as they say they will,
in defiance of the injunction, capiases
| will be issued for the offenders on the
charge of contempt of court. Should
| the injunction be enforced the strikers
camps around the DeArmitt mines will
soon be extinct.
The strikers, though excited over
the turn of events, are in no wise dis
| heartened.
/ Developments at Canonsburg are be-
ing watched closely. The avowed in
tention of the strikers to march to-
morrow morning, despite Judge Nc
| 1lvaine's injunction, is expected to re-
suit in b1oodshed, or the filling of the
county prison with the arrested min
| ers.
/ The long talked-of demonstration
| against the Westmoreland county
mines has been abandoned by the
strikers after one days trial because OF
lack of food. The attempt, it is said,
| will be repeated soon when ample pro-
visions will be carried along and a
siege proclaimed and carried to q sue
cessful issue.
An Injunction Served Which the Miners
| VIII Ignore.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. lathe in
| junction served by the New York &
Cleveland Gas Coal Co., was read to
| OO4dn ny d GAAS SSAUC1@
noon at miners headquarters. Mr..
Dolan who was writing at the time
scarcely stopped his work for more
than second, and when the reading
was finished acknowledged by merely
saying:
THANK you"
He says the injunction will not
change the miners campaign in the
| least.
Ex-Vice-President Cameron Miller
came into headquarters shortly AFTER
the reading of the document to Dolan.
He said the miners will continue, as
heretofore, using all lawful means pos
sible to keep men from working during
the struggle for better wages.
It is the intention of the court to try
to fUrestall the customary march in
the morning by going to the camp to-
night and reading the injunction to
the campers. If this is done the crisis
will be certainly reached at about four
o'clock in the morning as the strikers
appear determined to test their right
| to carry out their usual programme.
It is said that when the deputies do
start to enforce the injunction they
| will be compelled to arrest every man
| for contempt, and that as fast as the
men are placed in Jail others will be
brought into camp to take their places
and thus the deputies will be kept
| busy making arrests until the jails are
! overcrowded.
| It is claimed by the strikers that this
movement of the company is only an
other plan for getting the militia on
the ground. When they find that the
miners will not obey the injunction.and
that the jails are becoming crowded in
this manner, it is expected that the
sheriff will adjudge that his deputies
are not sufficient to cope with the sit
uation and he will be constrained to
| call out the militia.
This is the view of the situation
taken by the leaders OF the strikers
now in the camps.
This evening the strikers at Plum
Creek held meeting and voted unani-
mously to hold the fort, but not to re-
sist arrest. The resolutions say that
if one man is arrested they will have
| to arrest all.