Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-06
DEBS ON INJUNCTION
Labor Agitator Denounces the Action
ofaudge jackson.
AHNIHlAfEa Free AssEMBIAGE
Strikers Wives Jake a Hand in the
Agitation at De Armitt's.
PRICE OF COAL RISING

PITTSBURG, Pa. August 6.-Eugene v.
Debs. who addressed the large miners
meeting on The Duquesne wharf last night,
left today for Turtle Greek, where ne
speaks this evening. Before leaving the
city Mr.. Debs denounced Judge Jackson of
West Virginia for issuing the injunction
restraining him from interfering In any
way with the Monongah Company or its
employees. Mr.. Debs said:
Ifls injunction restraints me from walk
ing on any of the public highways leading
10 the mines of the Monongah Coal and
COKE Company. 1t is most sweeping, and
none DINER can be compared to it. This in
Junction annihilates the right of peaceable
asse1nDiage, and effectualiy suppresses free
speech. IT 1t is sustained, and 1 have 10
doubt 1t will be, it sweeps away all censti-
tutional safeguards, and delivers us, bound
mana and foot, to corporate capital
Contempt for the Judge.
hold the injunction and the judge who
issued 1t in supreme contempt. If 1 have
occasion to raise my voice in behalf Of the
vanishing miners in Jacksons Jurisdiction,
propose to do SO. OF at least make the at
tempt, totally regardless of this infamous
injunction
injunction is issued by a judge. 1t ought
10 come direct from the coal operators, and
at least hypocrisy would not intensity the
infamy OF the proceeding
In reference to the charge that the depu-
ties now on guard at De Armitts mines
were FORCING the miners to work at the
point OF revolyers, President Dolan stated
that the matter had been placed in the
hands of their attorney, and 1t was prob
able that the miners officials would go
INTO court and ask for an injunction re-
straining these deputies. Said he:
They have no right to compel any man
to go to work, and we will not stand 1t.
have in my pocket the names of many
OF the men who were treated in this man.
ner, but prefer not to give them now. for
rear the men will suffer-
Women as Agitators.
The coal company discovered q new sort
Of missionary work among it's employees
today. Wives of many of the campers are
in the field now. They have been arriving
for several days, until now there are about
twenty of them scattered about through
the Plum, Sandy and Turtle Creek settle
mentS. The women are from the McDon-
aid. Carnegie and Wheeling division Sec
ticns, and, while the miners are at work,
DO missionary. work among their wives.
They have access to the workmen's houses,
but the men are denied this. Deputies are
stationed all along the property line with
instructions not to allow a solitary man
to pass into the house range.
The campers claim that the effect of the
female missionary work will be apparent
In a day or SO. Many of the Plum Creek
men are expected to join the movement
after pay day Mo: day. The strikers say
they would be out now, but that they want
as to have something to fall back on.
Condition Mt Plum Creek.
Whether or not the strikers will be able
70 ha 1l,p ho
there is becoming more serious question
than the strike leaders at first thought.
Unlike the other digging settlements. about
all of the Plum Creek men live in COM
pany houses, right about the pits and right
on the eompany's land. The workmen do
not have to leave the DeArmitt property to
get into the mines, and the strikers get
no chance to stop them on the road. The
deputies do not allow any one to get near
the houses and the workers and strikers
are entirely without communication except
by the women. 1t now seems the Plum
Creek siege will be much longer and a
much harder battle than at any of the
other mines.
Prices for coal moved up 10 cents a ton
since yesterday. the assigned reason being
the strike will expand and embrace the
northern and central Pennsylvania dis
tricts. Coal is being boarded for possible
future demands, when prices will be still
mine in barges and cars, Pittsburg, and 8
and 6 cents a bushel for slack In the river.
Watching for Imported Miners.
The imported miners expected to reach
De Armitt's mines from Virginia this
morning did not arrive. They are looked
for, however some time today or tomor-
row.
The strikers were on the watch for them
all night and were agreeably disappointed
at their non-appearance.
The marchers continue to make gains, as
shown by the number of men at work in
the De Armitt mines. At Sandy Creek
only three men are at work. The camp is
thinning out, and the men are going to the
Plum Creek camp because their presence
is not needed al Sandy Creek. The outpu:
at Sandy Creek is only two pit cars, and
the mine is absolutely dead. At Plum
Creek eighty men who worked yesterday
did not go into the mine this morning.
The officials OF the company, IN explana-
ton, say that it is the custom of the men
to lay off the day before pay day, which is
tomorrow. The output of the three mines
is as follows:
Plum Creek. twenty-nine cars, though the
strikers say only twenty-one; Turtle Creek.
one car lump, one car nut and one car
slack; Sandy Creek, two pit cars.
Riot In Rnilronders' Camp.
Plum Creek camp was excited last night
by a riot In the railroaders' camp adjoin-
Ing A number of shots were fired, and
three negroes we're wounded, but not
seriously.
Judge Sermons has not yet rendered his
decision in the riot and unlawful assem-
biage cases against the miners officials. A
decision is expected some time today.
Bunola Miners Out.
MONONGAHELA, Pa, August g. Be-
tween 300 and 400 striking miners marched
on the Bunola mine this morning, headed
by the G. AR Band of this place. The
body was composed Of miners from Cats
brrg, Black Diamond. Webster and other
points in this vicinity. The Bunola miners
v ere brought out and the strikers estab-
lished a camp to gee that work Is not re-
sumed The strikers are quiet and orderly.
Another Andree Pigeon Story.
PARIS, August e:2The Gaulois says that
q pigeon bearing instructions regarding
Prof Andree'a balloon expedition across
the north pole,l has been captured at Gradi-
sea, near Gorftz, twenty-five miles from
Trieste in Aus.ria-Hungary:
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