The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-08-13
STRIKERS
ENJOINED.
And They Unanimously Resolve TO Defy
the Injunction.
WHOLESALE ARRESTS EXPECTED
The Strikers Declare They Will Continue
Their Marching and Camping Until
the Jails are overcrowded. viii
Not Resist Arrest.

yesterday tend to make the situation
strange one, and it appears that the
crisis is now at hand.
The strikers have demonstrated that
/ their assemblages, marches and mis-
sionary work have materially affected
the output of the New York and Cleve-
! land Gas Coal company, while at the
| same time public sympathy has been
| enlisted 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 disturbances 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
yesterday 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 keep them constantly at
| the point of starvation; also that they
have right to use their presence and
influence among men who are militat-
! Ing against their interests by contin-
! uing at work,
The New York and Cleveland Gas
/ Coal company, on the other hand, as
sert that the marches and assemblages
are unlawful and menance to their
] .
are willing to work provided the strik-
ers remain away Looking at the mat
ter from this standpoint, the company
made its radical move yesterday in the
courts to bring about condition under
which the company can operate its
mines.
The defendants named in the In
junction are the United Mine Workers
of America, Patrick Dolan, PRESIDENT
Edward Mckay, vice president; Will
lam Warner, secretary and treasurer,
and others. The plaintiff company sets
forth that it is a corporation under the
laws OF Pennsylvania with q capital Of
81, ,00O, 900 invested In coal lands of Penn
sylvanla. Three of their Mines en-
ploying 1900 men, are at Plum Creek,
Turtle Creek and Sandy Creek. The
bill then recites the conditions pre-
vailing at their mines since the strike
began, and alleges that the strikers
have paid no attention to the sheriff's
proclamation, and that the lives Of
miners and the property of the COM
pany are in danger.
The injunction granted by Judge
! Collier restrains disorder and enions
the defendants from assembling, march
ing or encamping in proximity to the
mines and houses Of the miners for the
purpose, by intimidation, menaces,
threats and opproblous words, of pre-
venting the miners of the plaintiff from
working. 1t further restrains the de-
PENDANTS from inducing or compelling
any employe or miner to quit work.
The injunction is regarded as the most
, sweeping issued.
President Dolan expressed surprise
when Informed that it had been grant
ed, and addedi
1T win make no difference to us. we
{ will not break camp, and will go right
along as usual until the matter is
tested in the courts. We will stay there
regardless of every judge in Allegheny
county, and if they try to enforce the
J Injunction they win have to build mors
r jails to accommodate the men,"
When the news of the injunction
granted by the county courts, practl-
cally breaking up the camp, reached
Turtle Creek the widest excitement
, ensued The strikers were emphatic
in their protests against the action, A
conference of the camp leaders was al
once called for and plans were dis
cussed for some means Of holding the
ground gained against the New YorH
and Cleveland Gas Coal companY'S
men,
Last evening the strikers at Plum
Creek held a meeting and voted unani
mously to hold the fort, but not to re.
+ sist arrest The resolutions say that Il
one man IS arrested they will have tC
arrest all.
+ If the strikers continue their marches
! as they now say they win, in defanc,
/ of the Injunction, capias viii be issuet
for the offenders on the charge o.
contempt of court, Should the injunc
ton be enforced the strikers camp
t around the DeArmltt mines win sool
a be extinct The strikers, though ex
q cited over the turn Of events, are n
8, no wise disheartened.
Developments at Canonsburg are be
ing watched closely, The aVowed In
tention Of the strikers to march de
y spite Judge McIlvaine's injunction 4
h expected to result in bloodshed or tn
}. filling Of the county prisons with tn
IS arrested miners.
IS 1t is said that when the deputies star
to enforce the injunction they viii b
compelled to arrest every man for con
tempt and that as fast as the men ar
~ placed in Jail others win be brough
: into camp to take their places, an
i thus the deputies will be kept bus
% making arrests until the jails are over
crowded.
The strikers claim that this move
ment of. the company is only anothe
plan for getting the militia on tn
ground. When they find that the mir
d ers will not obey the injunction, an
X the jalls become crowded, 1t is e2
ID peoted that the sheriff win adjudge ths
his deputies are not sufficient to cor
with the situation. ana he win be cor
" strained to call out the militia Th
I'd is the view of the situation taken
III me leaders Of the strikers now in Il
a lamps.