Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-30
TIE MINERS DISAPPOINTED
The Expected Exodus from Several
Mines Did Not Occur.
Farther Demonstrations VIII he n-.:e
--Crsdit Given the Strikers
for Good Order.

PITTsDuRa, Pa, July 80.-After q
weary night OF waiting to learn the re-
| suits of the meetings of the miners OF
the New York and Cleveland Gas
Coal company, the camping strikers
were disappointed lot OF men this
morning, for the expected exodus
rom the Plum Creek. Sandy Creek
and Oakhill mines did not occur. ALI
the mines are In operstion to-day.
Until daylight the indications were
that the strikers had won and that no
| more coal would be mined until the
| strike was over. AT the two mesti ng 8
last night the leaders announced that
| the Plum creek miners would come
| out and that no more coal would be
| dug until the strike was won. These
reports must have been amounted, for
ut hal past three O'Clock this mornin 9
| 200 strikers, after making o demonstfa.
ton at the Plum creek mines, went
into camp at Negiey postofllce, one
half mile from the upple, where they
| remained till five o'clock and lot! only
| when they learned that all the miner s
had gone In and that yesterdays woIk
had been fIuitIess,
| At Sandy Creek a small body oil
strikers watched q majority OF the
| miners who attended the meeting last
night go back to work. The main in
terest in the strike 60 far as De
| Armitt's men ARE concerned 10 at the
| Oak Hill mine, about TWO miles from
Turtle Creek. The strikers thought this
mine would close, tut this morning th e
Oak Hill miners boarded the COM
pany's train at Turtle Creek as usual
and etarted 10 work. A body OF the
strikers was oamped along the railroad
track, and as the train hauling the
miners passed the camp, four OF the
strikers jumped on the cars. Two Of
the m mere, believing the strlkers were
about to make an attack, jumped from
the cars and Joined the strikers. THESE
two were the only Oak Hill mineri
who did not go to work.
Tho mine Off ulals say that including
these two men, not over ak per cent oil
the Oak Hill miners are Idle, and theiI
absence 10 caused by something othei
than the strike.
What the msrchers now will do II
not known but from Indications given
by the speakers yesterday u Is be.
Iisved that large bodies OF strikers will
1
DeArmiit mines and the uemonstra.
tons will be kept up.
Much credit Is given the leaders and
the strikers Tor the good order which
mas been msiDtained,
| Secretary Warner claimed thi,
afternoon that oil OF DeAsmitt's
mines would be idle tomorrow. Not
| O pound OF coal was mined al Sandy
creek today, he said, and not more
than fiity men are working at Turtle
creek. Hs orderei tents for the
strikers encsmped near DRA rmitpi
mines. The sIrikers, he saiu, would
not leave until the men quit work u
they camp there Tor q montn.
| A call Tor meeting oil the United
Labor league on Sunday evening to
arrange for mass meeting on
August 9Th was isued today. Debs
has promised to speak on that Jay.
President DeArmitt enied Warner,
statesment that the men Were out NJ
Turtle and Sandy creeks todsy. de
claimed that all OF the miners were al
work.
MINERS STATE CONVENTION.
SPRINGFIELp, Ills, July S0.-James
n. Gallon OF FalIon, state president
| Of the miners' association, has Issued 4
call Tor a stale convention OF miners Il
be held In this city Thurs1ay, Aug. O.
to ADOPT union scale for mining Goa
In hand and machine mines anu cor
respol ding rate for day work. The
representation will be one delegate FOL
every 100 miners or fraction thereof
Local unions Will be allowed an extrt
vote.
ORGANIZERS MAPPING OUT A CAM
| PAlGS.
WHEELING, w. Va, July 3O.-The
orgsnizeIs In the nelds are mapping
out their campaign, though no actual
work will be doae until Saturday Of
Sunday. The Mason injunction II
creating Widespread comment and
nearly every one agrees with Cover
nor Atbinion shat IL covers more
| grouLu than comes under the COURT
Jurisdiction. Boggs Run miners IN
the Wheeling district who went baei
this morning will be followed by TIT
other 500 strikers. The break Is only
blow 10 SENTIMENT however, a
none of the Wheeling district mine
ship coal or help to relieve famine.
| fIITsBURa, Pa, July sO.-rne Goa