The record-union., 1897-08-08

pIdceu lhelf names to the agreement
met at the Monongahela House during
the day and went over the list. When
the work was completed it was shown
that los had pledged themselves to
sign. The list includes the largest
operators in the district. There were
number of others reported who are
certain to sign when they see that by
Withholding their signatures they will
be responsible for the failure of the
movement
Nhen the required number of sigma
lures is secured the strike. if it is still
IN existence, will be easily settled and
mining disputes of a serious nature will
be at an end until January /, 1899. at
least. 49,
The strikers continue orderly. and are
gaming accesslons to their ranks con-
stantIy The 100 men employed at
the Horner and Roberts coal mine at
Elizabeth refused to go to work this
morning. About rs miners at the
Equitable mines, in the same locality.
also struck. The Bunola men who
were persuaded to come out last even
ing all remained away from the pit to-
day, and no coal was mined. 1t is re-
ported that an effort to start the mine
Monday morning will be made. The
strikers are preparing for the strug-
gle, and will be there on Monday morn
ing I,OO0 men strong. This closes
down all the mines of the first. second
and third pools
This was pay day at Sandy Creek
and when the strikers demanded their
pay they were told that inasmuch as
they had broken the ironcIad contract
no money whatever was due them The
legality of the contract will be tested
in the courts.
When it was found that but few men
were gong TO work at Plum Creek this
morning, Deputy Sheriffs were sent to
the houses of the men, and they were
drummed out and escorted to the mine
The company claims that this mine
was working full to-day, and that the
usual amount of coal was loaded.
The output of the De Armitt mines
was still further reduced to-day. no
coal being taken from the Oak Hill
mlne. The three men at Sandy Creek
fnlne nave mined one gondola car in
three days. AT Plum Creek the 300
men at work mined seventeen gondola
cars of coal.
Counsel for the New York and Cleye-
Iand Gas Coal Company has prepared a
Oil to be presented to Judge NJ. w.
Acheson of the United States Circuit
Court on behalf of the nonresident
customers asking for an injunction to
restrain the striking miners from con-
gregating at the mines at Turtle
(trpPk SANDY l.
and from interfering with the work
men OF the company This new move
IS being made for the purpose of get
ting the aid of the United States Mar
shal, as Well as the Sheriff of Allegheny
County, to break up the camps the
strikers have established.
Pending later developments the min
ers in three camps besieging the De
Armitt mines are 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
commencement 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 Pittsburg and Bessemer rail-
road. The deputies will be drawn in
to quell the troubles, and a three-cor-
nered fight is not improbable.
In the camp of the negroes depraved
men ana women are together in tents
ana nuts, every one of which is a
speak-easy. They have terrorized the
community for miles around and shoot
ing ARRAYS are of almost daily oc-
currence.
The strikers camp is separated from
that OF the negroes by the township
road, leading from Unity to Wilkins
burg. Already there have been several
brawlS between the two parties. The
negroes are walking arsenals, while the
strikers have no weapons.
The expected importation of negroes
from Virginia for Oak Hill has not
taken place as yet, but the strikers are
keeping strict lookout for them and
think they can be persuaded not to
work when they do arrive.
An effort made yesterday to cause
coal miners in the coke regions to strike
failed. About forty strikers went from
the Smook mines to Oliver, Fayette
County, and made a demonstration.
They asked the 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 pro-
lection from the threatened invasion. It
is said the next pay of the Oliver men
will be the largest ever made there
The miners of the Grinder mines of
Captain Hicks, at Leechburg, Pa, have
struck. They say the coal is screened
before it 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 mobolize 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
der of any kind has been issued, and,
moreover, none is contemplated"
TENNESSE STRIKERS WEAK.
NASHVILLE Gn.), Aug. THE
strike in this vicinity will probably be
short lived, as the men in the Boyd
mines and those of the Randolph Coke
and Coal Company received a raise of