The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-20


the Others Expected to Quit Work To
morrow.
Pittsburg, July 17.-District mining
officials have come to a realization OF
the gravity Of the coal miners strike
situation as far as the shipments Of
coal from the district just east Of Pitts
burg and the Clear Field-Cambria
field are concerned. They have awak-
ened to the fact that coal from these
producing centres is playing havoc
with the cutting off of the supply for
the Pittsburg trade, thus initiating
against the success Of the strike.
An important meeting Of the execu-
tive board and the district officials was
held this afternoon. Cameron Miller,
the national organizer, was present
and the situation was discussed in de-
tail. 1t is now proposed to send organ
izers into the districts and if possible
induce the men to come out in sympa-
thy. 1t is not expected to bring every
miner in these sections out. Mines that
furnish coal for the seaboard will not
be molested. 1t is proposed to hold
number Of mass meetings during the
next week.
An important message from West
Virginia was received at miners head
quarters during the afternoon. 1t came
from a prominent state official and
states that the situation has taken
change with the indications strongly
in favor Of the miners coming out. The
miners officials believe that the West
Virginia miners will be out Monday
morning. There was very little doing
in the local crop market today There
was no change in the price, plenty Of
the output being offered at S1.25, the
same price as the day previous.
The miners are still holding firm with
no sign of a break at any point. A
large number Of meetings will be held
tomorrow to give encouragement to
the men.
Arbitration Commissioner Schmid,
who is the only one of the commission
in the city tonight, received a telegram
from Commissioner of Labor Barton,
of West Virginia, announcing that the
situation in that state was entirely
changed and that he expects the miners
there to strike.
Fair Mont, w. Va, July Ito the
close observer of the mining situation
in this region a peculiar state of affairs
is presented Operators who were
elated few days ago, are now worried
over the increase in freight of As cents
a ton. All the operators are on the
'qui vive'" lest the men will be in
fluenced by the agitators to come out.
Senator Camden, who three days ago
thought it very unlikely that the men
would join the strikers, said today that
he was prepared for anything. The
mass meeting so largely advertised for
this evening was a complete failure,
as none of the speakers were present,
although kilograms Of regret were read.
l. he AHov0
day and will address the miners at the
court house Today seventeen miners
at Monongahela were discharged for at
tending Thursday nights meeting.
These men are using every means in
their power to induce the other miners
to strike as sort of revenge. The
company claim they will bring tress-
pass suits, and w. B. Meredith, the
leading lawyer of the Second congress
sonal district, together with S. N. Ar
nett and J. F. Kirby, have been retain
ed AS counsel if all reports are true.
The Baltimore and Ohio has broken
all records in the matter Of moving
coal. Passenger trains were side
tracked today to allow coal trains to
proceed west.
Everything is quiet on the Parkers-
burg branch of the Baltimore and
Ohio and all mines are running full
blast but one.
Huntington, w. Va. July 17.-This
afternoon upwards Of 5000 men en-
ployed in the lower coal fields on the
Norfolk and Western road threw down
their picks and swore fealty to the
cause Of their Pennsylvania and Ohio
brethren. The strike in that section
today included the following mines:
Elk Horn, Thacker, Maratime. Logan,
Peel Splnt, Shamoken and Southern.
The agitators who have been in that
;a; fo, II oct xu,in ION ~ fO-
night for the great fiat top fields, six
ty miles further up the Norfolk and
Western, where about 1000 men are
employed. They speak encouragingly OF
their work in West Virginia and assert
that before Monday noon every miner
in the fiat top field will be out The
indications are that their claims are
well founded and in addition the Din
CESS, further down the lire, which re-
sumed work only few days ago, will
also have to suspend, as dissatisfaction
has developed among the miners en-
ployed there. Seven hundred more
men went out on the Kanawha today
and the next big break is expected In
the New River fields.
Pittsburg, July 1.-THE organizers
sert to- West Virginia. to get the min
ers of THAT state OF, expect ITO make
good pros ~ress tomorrow. Ex-Vice Pres
ident Cameron Miller said today at
the PfttSl 'urS C1StrlCt headquarters
that it is II kelly THE best work will be
performed H., the West Virginia fields
on Sunday Many of the men whom it
has been diffic ult for the organizers to
reach will be fo und tomorrow. In some
cases it is probs, BILE that attempts will
be made to keep the mines running
Sunday and this, he thinks, VIII caaise
"a break in some places, as the men Wall
consider it coercion on the part OF the
INV
Sunday work will show the anxiety of
the operators to get their coal out and
give the miners assurance of the inn
portance of the strike. District Sec
retary William Warner, of the miners
organization, is in daily receipt of Of
fers of assistance from Tabor organiza-
tions, which he refers to National
President Ratchford.
A number of Pittsburg operators
spokan TO today decline to express