The herald., 1897-08-19
NO MARCH
OF MINERS
Allowed by Pennsylvania
Courts
THE MINERS KEEP MOVING
AND STILL HOPE TO CLOSE THE
MINES
THE MINERS KEEP MOVING
Strikers Growing Hungrier, But the
Shortage of Coal Supply Begins
to Be Felt
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
Stowe and Collier handed down an opin-
ion in the miners injunction case this
morning. The decision makes the pre-
liminary injunction permanent.
DID NOT MARCH
PITTSBURG, August 1S.-The striking
miners encamped at the mines of the
New York and Cleveland Coal Company
did not march this morning, as they had
planned. At Turtle Creek they formed
in line and when ready to start beheld
the deputies standing just outside the
camp. The march was abandoned at
once, and small parties, numbering from
two to six each, were 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 a deputy to get
away rapidly, to escape the service of ths
injunction If possible. The leaders pro-
pose in this way to harass the deputies
and the De Armitts. They say there are
10000 men in the district, and that the
injunction 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.
| This was operators day, and from
present appearances they have made a
most effective move and have nearly
| if not quite, checked their opponents,
the striking coal miners. The courts
decree today in making permanent the
preliminary injunction restraining the
strikers from camping, marching or in
any manner interfering with the New
York and Cleveland Gas Coal company's
mines has had the effect of almost de.
| pleting the camps and apparently a
| general Generalization among the camp
ers exists.
| In order to follow up their advantage.
the operators held a largely attended
| meeting tonight at the Monongahela
house and arranged for the starting Of
their mines, with or without force. If
| force seems to be unavoida BILE, it Is the
Intention to start certain few mines
at once, under the protection of depu-
| ties, and whatever expense may result
will be shared pro rata by the mine
owners.
| Camp Determine ton, at Tuttle creek
was reduced in numbers today from 200
to So The men who were told to go home
| gathered in an angry crowd and de-
nounced the officials bitterly.
| A number of men threatened to re-
turn to their respective homes and go
to work in the mines. They said the
strike was fizzle. Some of the men left
for Irwin and Greensburg districts, where
! they will look for work
Sand creek is practically abandoned,
and it is not known whether it will be
opened again or not. All told, there
are less than $50 men now encamped at
these mines. 1t is said the men who are
| still in the camps will remain and march
as usual in spite of the sheriff's and the
courts orders.
The small showing of men a. the camps
has apparently encouraged the De Ar
mtts, and it is expected they will make
the attempt to start their mines in full
| at once.
A delegation of miners from the Auck-
jlarat mine waited on Superintendent
Dixon of the Auklerat mine of ]. S. Cor
ry, and asked him If he would open the
mine if the men returned at the 54-cent
rate. He said he would not, and that
next lake season.
| 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 Missouri river points since
the great strike began, four weeks ago,
shows no material increase at Pitts
burg. The ruling figures in barge load
lots are to 81 cents per bushel.
11., g..
tenance of the strikers and their families
for prolonged period. The expense of
carrying on the strike is placed at $500
day, and appeals are coming in every
mail for help for the families in the
mining villages
The action at the meeting of operators
in the coal strike yesterday was in ac-
cordance with the plan mapped out af-
ter the uniformity agreement had been
formulated. The agreement provides
that all coal contracted for on the 54-
cent basis shall be mined It that rate un-
| til the contracs are filled. 1t is known
, that the requirements OF the lake trade
! by September 18th are 5000, 900 tons If
the contracts are not filled the operators
will not only lose a large amount of
money, but put themselves in a posi-
| tion to lose contracts for all time to come
SHORT AT WHEELING
| WHEELING, w. Va, August 1S-The
! local coal situation is growing serious.
| The City Gas Works had what it always
deemed a sufficient advance supply of
coal from the Floershem mines of the
Wheeling division of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, but this supply is now
growing short, and new arrangements
will soon have to be made. Coal is sell
ing in local yards at 12 cents a bushel,
just double the usual price. Slack brings
G cents, and both are hard to get at these
rates. There are 500 families in Wheel
ing in need of coal, while all the manu-
facturers who do not use gas are ham,
pered for fuel.
On the Ohio side of the river the manu-
featuring establishments using thou
sands Of bushels of coal daily have had
their supplies cut down or shut off. In