The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-08-15
MONDAY WILL DECIDE
Anxiety Will Prevail Until the
Injunction Hearing.
STRIKERS ARE CONFIDENT
Labor Leaders From All over the
Country op the Ground-They Are
Enthusiastic Men as Solid as
Rock Growing Stronger.


Pittsburg. Aug. iL-For the next two
days the eye - the Industrial world
viii be turned toward Pittsburg. The
greatest anxiety VIII prevail until Mon
day when The injunction proceedings
against the marching miners win be
finally heard. That there Is much in
tsrest In the situation ia evident by the
presence here of a number OF the fore
most labor leaders In the country. MI
chael II. RatchfOrd. national president
of the United Mine Workers u Amer
lea. Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor. and
James X. Sovereign. general master
workman " the Knights OF Labor, ar
rived here this afternoon and Will re-
main few days. They came from
West Virginia and were enthusiastic.
Ratchford. in an interview. said that
the fight Is in better condition to-day
than Il was ever In. The men are
solid as a rock. They are growing
stronger every day and there are more
organizers among them than there have
ever been. We have reached the point
where We are very much curtailing the
output and where we have the courts
To hight. In this connection I wish to
say for every man that Is incarcerated
there will be 100 friends for the cause.
We did not come here TO defy courts
and judges In the discharge of their
plain duty as we know and understand
IL. IL II be a crime TO talk TO men for
the benfit OF trades unionism and call
them together In peaceable assembly.
We are willing To met the case. Fully 30
per cen. OF the American people are op-
posed TO Oppressive conditions and " we
shrink our duty we would be unworthy
of the trust and confidence reposed In
us. There was a feeling among some
OF the miners in this state and West
Virginia that their officers would desert
them when injunctions were encoun-
tered. You may say for me that the
officers will stand by their faith and
this great cause until the last. We
have entered into this contest ~ win.
and II We fail to do so II will be oe-
cause the miners themselves have not
taken our advice. I do rot anticipate
this. however. for am sanguine Of vic
tory " the miners conduct themselves
as they have In the past"
Samuel Gompers expressed 4 hopeful
view OF the situation in West Virginia.
He maintains that $4,000 OF the 100
diggers Of that state have Joined the
suspension.
A series OF meeting to be addressed
by the labor leaders will be arranged.
f. NJ. Ratchford. Gompers and 5over-
eign viii address big meeting at
Camp Desolation. which Is expected to
be one Of tho biggest meetings In the
history of the strike. II Is hoped TO
have nearly all of the miners employed
by the New York and Cleveland COM
pany at the meeting. Inactivity pre-
vailed at the camps OF the strikers
about the mines of the New York and
Cleveland Gas Coal company all day.
After the return of the strikers
to camp this morning after their unsuc-
cessful attempts In marching In small
bodies they settled down to await the
result OF the Injunction proceedings ON
Monday. While a number Of strikers.
especially the foreigners. are anxious
for another march at Oakhill and Plum
Creek. IL IL not thought there will be
any further developments until Tues-
day morning. II the injunction Is con-
tinued IL is altogether probable that
some Of the men may march In order
/ to get arrested. The reason for holding
OF to-day. II IL said. Is that the men
are In hopes that the injunction viii
be quashed. In case they win. the
strikers say they will camp right where
they are and march every morning un-
I'll the strike Is won. The camp COM
missaries are well stocked with pro-
visions and the strikers will not suf-
| fer
No move will be made by the sheriff
towards raidlng the camps until after
the hearing on Monday. 70 the injunc-
tion Is continuous. he says the camps
viii be broken up In short order But
under the present circumstances the
men can remain there as long as they
are peaceable and well behaved.
A secret meeting OF the Plum Creek
miners was held on the company prop
/ erty this afternoon. The situation was
discussed and II was agreed by a ma
ority to continue work. There was also
mass meeting OF the strikers at Plum
Greek. which served to act as a stimu-
lus On the men who had been cha ting
under the inactivity Of the day. Ad-
/ dresses We're made by number Of local
leaders. who counseled the men to keep
( the peace and obey the law.
4 IL Is stated that several men who
were discharged from Oak Hin win be
evlcted from the company's houses on
/ Monday. Such action promises to stir
up good deal Of feeling among the
strikers and their friends.
The Bone mine OF the Canonsburg
| Coal company was closed to-day, owing
To report that another march was
contemplated. The strikers in camp at
McGovern are paying no attention 10
the sheriff's order prohibiting march,
ing.
The Buuola mine. near Elizabeth.
was closed down again to-day. Twelve
arrests OF strikers for disordarly con-
duct were made to-day and eight YES
tsrdRy The men were brought 10 pitts
burg and lodged In jail IN default of
bail. The strikers made no resistance
when arrested.
f"r Higher Wa~es.
Hazelton. Pa. Aug 1.-THE drivers and