The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-08-03
BROKE ALL RECORDS.

The Great Mass Meeting of Miners In the
Pittsburgh District n Pronounced Sue
eeas-5, 900 strikers listen 20 FerTid
oratory and Disappointed Those who
Expected DIsorler-A Peaceful Warfare.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. Aug. 2-The
striking miners have broken all records,
both as to numbers attending their
mass meetings and the excellent order
and law.abdlng behavior they have ex-
hlbited. Too much praise cannot be
given the strikers for this latter condi-
ton. They have been subject to the
control OF leaders. who, proiitlng by for
mer experience, have so fOrcibly In
stIlled Into the minds OF their followers
the stupidity Of law breaking, that the
peaceful attitude and actions Of the
strikers have been n source OF wonder
TO all the prophets who have from day
to day predicted dire happenings. 1t is
conceded by all that in former times
under similar circumstances riot and
bloodshed would have resulted long ago
from the conditions under which the
miners have been placed during this
strike.
1t is the hope Of all wen wishers OF the
strikers that this peaceful warfare will
continue throughout and until the con-
test is settled definitely.
The mass meeting OF miners at the
MCCrea school house to-day was the
greatest during the strike. and probably
the largest gathering OF the Kind ever
seen In Allegheny county. More than
5000 striking miners were gathered for
an all day session, and labor leaders
harangued them In various tones, while
bands OF music served TO stir up the en-
thuslasm to the highest pitch. From
early morning miners OF every national
It's were gathering at the school house.
They came In big bands and small ones,
but the one that set the camp wild with
enthusiasm arrived at 1925 this MORN
Ing from Turtle Creek. 1t consisted OF
1000 miners from the camp, and when
they came In sight there was such
cheering as has not been heard since
the strike started.
Bands Playing aud banners Flying.
They came down to the camp at the
school house with bands playing STIR
ring airs and banners waving In the
breeze. Cheer after cheer went up
from the camp and the marchers re-
turned them with a Will. When the min
crs Of the two parties met there were
some Wild scenes. Men rushed around
shaking hands. shouting and even en-
braclng each other. The crowd that
had gathered was 80 mucn lnrger than
the men had anticipated that they were
wild with Joy, md drunken on success.
A few minutes after the arrival Of
The Turtle Creek division, the speakers
sH..N .N..a
T. CarrlCk, president Of the painters
and decorators union; w. a, Carney
vice president OF the AmnigumntCd AS
socatlon, Mrs Mary q, Jones, the fG-
male labor agltntOr Of Chicago, and NJ.
j, COunahan, OF the painters and decor
atOrs union. In addition to these the
leaders Of the miners were lined up 10
speak as the occasion demanded.
Therc was n rnmor In the camp that
Harvey a. Lowry would appear with
deputies and force the meeting 10 dis
pcfsc. but II was evidently unfoundcd
The speeches were not Of an inhimmn.
tory character, and the big crowd was
orderly during tho whole day.
II waB announced that but twenty.
nine men were at work to-day In the
Plum Creek mines while only two or
three were In the Sandy creek mine.
The policy pf She minors ~ 10 form
camps at those mines ~ we'll ns ut oak
nm and mnintnln largo plckots on
on guard President Dolun announced
that hc could got land from private par.
ties ON which TO pitch his camps
a Feeling ~ 1rinmpli.
The feeling In The camp was one ef
tflumbh Tho tnlnrrB cInlm That thcv