The San Francisco call., 1897-08-01
SPREAD OF THE
COAL STRIKE
Moral Suasion Having
Effect in West Vir-
ginia.
Unions Being Formed and
More Delivers Promise to
Quit Work,
At Last Two OF De Arnrtt's Mjnas
Have Practically Been Compelled
to Shut Down.

WHEELING, W. VA, July 3L-The
programme of moral suasion mapped out
for West Virginia by leaders of the coal
strike seems to be having effect. At q
mum Der of points unions were organized
to-day, and the men decided to cease work
and await Judge Masons injunction now
in effect in Marion County. The miners
are crossing the line and holding confer
ences in Harrison County. At Clarksburg
a meeting was held this afternoon result
ing In sixty men deciding to strike at the
Despard mines. The Pinnickinnic miners
in the same field organized, and 200 of
them will not return to work.
At the Wilson burg m nes near the
Marion County line, meeting will be
held Sunday. Two hundred diggers are
expected to join the union. In the Nor
folk and Western field, where matters
have been quiet several weeks, organizers
are doing effective work. meeting will
be held tomorrow near Maiden, where
300 men have signifed their intention OF
coming out of the small mines. At Elm
Grove, in the Wheeling district. a union
was organized to-day. One hundred will
strike there.
The State is being assailed on all sides
by organizers. In spite of appearances OF
steady work at most of the mines the sup
ply OF coal for home purposes is becoming
very short. the big mines are too busy to
fill domestic orders.
Meetings were h ald in many towns to-
night TO arrange for miners day August
5. Many local unions of various organiza-
tions are contributing to the strikers
fund.
PITTSBURG, Pa, July 81. Better luck
than they had yesterday fell to the lot of
the striking miners to-day. None of De
Armitt's mines closed down Friday. To-
day two of them practically shut down.
PatricE Dolan got in tonight from the
seat of trouble. He said: mot a miner
went to work at the Oak Hill or Turtle
Creek mines. The company got out one
car of coal, but this was lesvings gathered
up by day men. The Sandy Creek mine
is closed down entirely"
The strikers were outwitted by De Ar
mitts men at Plum Creek this morning,
the miners having gone to work at a. NJ,
two hours earlier than usual When the
strikers arrived they had no chance to in
tercept the men going to work. Sam de
Armitt, brother of W. P. de Armitt,
talked to the strikers this morning. They
had been intercepted by deputies, who
forbade them TO go the tipple. De Armitt
told them they might go if they wanted
TO- and then they decided they were too
tired to go any further. Sam brought out
tobacco and clay pipes and distributed
them to the strikers, who sank exhausted
to the ground and smoked in peace. La
ter a Deputy Sheriff tainted, and the
nd oil
could to restore him.
ALTOONA, Pa, July 31.-The situation
among the striking mill-workers at the
Scottdale Iron and Steel Company at
Scottdale has become very serious and
riots are apprehended. Two hundred nom
union men imported to work in the mill
Thursday were attacked by strikers last
evening and penned in the mill over
night. Deputies were summoned hastily
and guarded by them the non-union men
slept in the pattern-shop overnight.
The company last night applied to
Burgess Porter for protection. Burgess
swore in special officers, but mob OF 1900
men surrounded the works and rendered
his efforts futile.
George HIT, one of the men i'm mprisoned,
managed to escape, but was discovered at
the railway station. Fearing violence
from the mob which surrounded him, he
emptied revolver into the mass of rot
ers, and in the confusion which ersued
managed to escape.
Burgess Porter made a speech to the
mob, promising to have Hit arrested and
dealt with according to law. The crowd
left the hotel, but paraded the streets
bowling and cheering. Hit and fellow
workman named Wolf we're arrested to-
day and escorted to the borough jail by
mob of howiing strikers. Manager Wemp
of the steel works paid their fines, and
they were released cd condition that they
leave town. Although the testimony
showed the shots were fired at the crowd,