The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-08-25
OPERATORS DAY.
Striking Miners I'm Pennsylvania
Receive a Body Blow.
Injunction Against Assembling OF
Marching L. Made Permanent
Leaders Advise Them to Go
Home and Seek Work.


was operators day, and from present
appearances they have made most eff
fective move and have nearly If not
quite checkmated their opponents. the
striking coal miners. The courts de-
cree in making permanent the prelimi
nary injunction restraining the strikers
from camping, marching or in any man
ner interfering with the New York d
Cleveland Gas Coal company's miners
has had the effect of almost depicting
the camps about those mines, and APP
parently general Generalization
among the campers exists. Judges
Stowe and Collier handed down
decision in the injunction proceedings
of the New York 81 Cleveland Gas
coal company against the United Mine
Workers of America, Patrick Dolan,
William Warner and others. The pre-
liminary injunction was made perma-
nent and the plaintiff was ordered to
file a bond of $4,000 to answer for such
damages as may be sustained by the de-
PENDANTS by reason of the injunction.
Advised to Go Home.
Uriah Dillingham;, in charge of the
camp at Plum Creek, put damper on
the campers at that place Wednesday.
He had just returned from the city,
where he heard the courts decision in
the injunction case. He told the men
there would be no more marching and
DO need of such large number of men
at the camp. He advised the men to
dispense to their respective homes and
get work wherever they could. At this
camp where, Tuesday, there were 500
men. there are now less than 100.
Camp Determination, at Turtle
Creek, was reduced in numbers from
200 to so. The men who were told to
go home gathered in an angry crowd
and denounced the officials bitterly.
Sunny Creek camp is practically aban-
doned, and it is not known whether il
will be opened again or not. All told
there are less than $50 men now en-
camped about the three mines.
VIII Start the Mines.
In order 10 follow up the advantage,
the operators held a largely-attended
meeting Wednesday night at the
Monongahela house and arranged for
the starting of their mines with or
without force. If force seems to be un-
avoidable, it is the intention to start
q few mines at once under the protec-
ton of deputies, and whatever expense
may result will be shared pro rata by
the mine owners. This scheme to start
the mines was adopted to break the ma
tional strike in 1894. President Dolan,
of the miners organization, does not
L ha
this time, as the strikers are more in
earnest than in any former struggle.
Operators Organize.
Columbus, o., Aug. 20.-The coal
operators yesterday perfected perma-
nent organization for the special pur-
pose of breaking the strike. Peter NJ.
Hitchcock, president of the Moon Run
Coal company, was made presidents
c. NJ. Baine, of Morgan, Moore d Baine,
was chosen secretary, and j. &. Dysart,
of the CHARTERS Block Coal company,
treasurer. The aggregate output rep
resented at the meeting was 100000
tons year. Col. w. p. Rend after
the meeting said: I'VE propose to
operate our mines, and if our own men
will not work then others will take
their places. l would much rather
that a conference be held and the trou-
bles adjusted before we take the step
we intend to, which, just as sure as
the sun rises, will be the means of
operating the mines at our pleasure"
VIII Not Yield.
Columbus, o., Aug. 21.-The national
executive board of the United Mine
Workers adjourned Friday, after hav-
ing issued the call for the conference of
organized labor TO be held in st. Louis
August 30. The board rejected the
proposition of the Pittsburgh operators
for conference to arbitrate the wage
dispute in that district, claiming that
such action would be preiudcial to the
interests of the miners at large. The |
board is ready to consider overtures for
the arbitra ton of the issues of the great
strike only when these overtures come
from all the operators in the competi-
tive district, which includes Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, Yves, Virginia and Penn
sylvania The board has decided not |
70 deviate from the established policy |
until the result OF the ST. Louis con-
ference is known. The aggressive work |
in the field will be continued and the |
efforts to spread the strike in West Vir- |
ginia will he renewed.