The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-08

Pittsburg, Aug. Pending develop
ments late in the day the miners in
the three camps besieging the De Ar
mitt mines dre resting. At no time
during the strike has the situation been
SO critical, but no one who has been in
the district every day since the COM
mencement of the marches believes
that the miners will be drawn into a
fight. If trouble does come, it will not
be between strikers and deputies, but
between strikers and the negroes in
the camp at Unity who are employed
on the new Pittsburg & Bessemer
railroad. The deputies will be drawn
in TO quell the troubles and a three
! cornered fight is not improbable.
In the camp of the negroes depraved
men and women are together in tents
and huts, every one of which IS a
speak easy They have terrorized the
community for miles around and shoot
ing ARRAYS are of almost daily occur
renee.
The strikers camp is separated from
that of the negroes by a township road,
leading from Unity to Williamsburg.
Already there have been several brawlS
between the two parties. The negroes
are walking arsenals while the strikers
have no weapons.
Thomas b. De Armitt says he mas out
witted the strikers and made a gain
at his Plum Creek mine. He says there
are now 317 men at work there. Mr..
De Armitt denies that payday has been
deferred at Sandy and Plum Creeks.
The men will be paid today and Mon
day.
The expected importation of negroes
from Virginia for Oak Hill has not
taken place as yet, but the strikers are
| keeping a strict lookout for them ind
think they can be persuaded not to
work when they do arrive.
An effort was made yesterday TO
cause the coal miners in the coke re-
gion TO stirek but it failed.
About 40 strikers went from the
SmOck mines to Oliver, Fayette cOun-
~, and made a demonstration. They
asked the Oliver miners to strike, but
the latter refused Some of the work
men wished TO drive the visitors away,
but they made no move and the strik-
ers went away, promising TO come
back in added numbers. The managers
of the mines called on the sheriff for
protection from the threatened inva-
sion. 1t is said the next pay of the
Oliver men viii be the largest ever
made there.
The miners of the Grinder mines. OF
Captain Hicks, at LeeSchburg, Pa,
have struck. They say their coal is
screened before il is weighed and that
it is sold to fill contracts for operators
whose men are on strike. a meeting
is called for Monday at Leechburg.
Concerning the many stories circu-
lated stating that the national guard
has orders to mobilize at Turtle Creek,
General John A. Wiley said: Seven
eighths of the rumOr is false and the
rest is very doubtful. The stories are
absolutely without foundation. No or
=, ,r =; Las nd
moreover none is contemplated.
Copies of the uniformity agreement
have been mailed by the commissioners
and are now in the hands of every
operator in the district. 1t is thought d
large number of the signatures have
already been attached to the document.
SECURING SIGNATURES.
Active work in securing signatures
to the uniformity agreement was COM
menced today. A number of operators
who have already placed their names
TO the agreement met at the MonOn-
gahela House during the day, and
went over the list, each announcing the
names of operators who had promised
to sign. When the work was completed
il was shown that los had pledged
themselves to sign. This list includes
the largest operators in the district
There were a number Of others re-
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they see that by Withholding their
signatures they will be responsible for
the failure of the movement When
the required number of signatures is
secured, the strike if it is still in exist
ence, will be easily settled, and min
ing disputes of serious nature will be
at an end until Jan. l, 1899, at least.
The strikers are continuing orderly
and are gaining accssSionS to their
ranks constantly. The $50 men en-
ployed at the Horner & Roberts coal
mine at Elizabeth refused to go TO
work this morning, about IS miners at
the Equitable mines in the same To-
cality also struck. Both mines were
paving the district rate. The BunOla
men who were persuaded to come out
last evening all remained away from
the pit today and no coal was mined.
The company leased the ground where
the strikers located yesterday and
ousted them, but another field has
been captured by the strikers and a
permanent camp will be established.
1t is said an effort will be made to
start the mine Monday. The strikers
are preparing for the struggle and by
3 o'clock Monday morning 1000 men
will likely be in camp there This
closes down all the mines of the first,
second and third pools Twelve re-
cruits from the Plum Creek mine joined
the strikers today and a number con-
scented to remain at home. When II
was found but few men were going 20
work at Plum Creek this morning
deputy sheriffs were dispatched 10 the
houses of the men and they were
drummed out and escorted to the mine
The company claims that this mine
was working full today and that the
usual amount of coal was loaded.
This was payday at the Sandy
Greek mine. and the diggers were all
paid off, Another big meeting will be
held at Plum Creek and it is said that
the miners will join the strikers Mon
day.
COMMUNITY SYMPATHETIC.
A special from West Newton says:
The svn1Dathv of this entire cOmmU-