| Show I PEACE REIGNS I AT THE COAL MINES Yesterday Was a Day of Anxiety I and Suspense If f I > II II I I COURT INJUNCTION CREATED TROUBLE COLLISION WITH DEPUTIES WAS I NARROWLY AVERTED Strikers Will Remain Quietly In Camp Desperation Today Mass Meeting Calledto Protest Against the De Annitt Injunction NonUnion Non-Union Man Shot at Scottdale Pittsburg July 31 Anxiety expectation expecta-tion and suspense which were conditions condi-tions in the coal mining situation about De Armitts mines today have given place to peace and quiet tonight After running counter to deputy sheriffs several sev-eral times during the day the strikers peaceably withdrew this evening and are now asleep in their camp As the miners will not work tomorrow the strikers will take a rest and no trouble is expected before Monday morning The week closed with the miners officials of-ficials satisfied they had made a marked impression upon the diggers of the New York Cleveland Gas Coal company who it seems are wavering as to their purpose All the men are out at Sandy Creek and but few were at work at TiirHn Creek Plum Creek was in full operation opera-tion and the entire force of the strikers strik-ers was centered at this point but without success Late this afternoon President Dolan took 25 strikers from the camp and marched to Plum Creek where a meeting was organized DISPERSED BY INJUNCTION Speeches were made by President Dolan Do-lan and Vice President Mackey and the men cautioned to keep within the law While the meeting was in pro jrre = 3 Sheriff Lowrer and Chief Deputy i Richards with an armed force of deputies depu-ties appeared upon the scene Sheriff Lowrey read the injunction procured by De Armitt and ordered the strikers to disperse President Dolan replied that they were on public ground and produced pro-duced a certificate frcm the road supervisor su-pervisor of the township declaring the place a public highway Sheriff Lowery LOW-ery again ordered them to disperse and after a shcit parley the meeting was closed and the strikers marched back to camp Upon their return it was learned that 400 men from the PanHandle Pan-Handle district had started for Turtle Creek and would reach here tomorrow morning When the reinforcements arrive arrangements ar-rangements will be made to go I to Plum > Creek Sunday evening and guard the mines until The men start to work when another I an-other effort will be made to induce them to come out President Dolan Secretary Secre-tary Warner and Cameron Miller are all at Turtle Creek camp tonight The camp has been organized on military lines Guards and pickets are on duty and all strangsrs will be kept on the outside Several wagonloads of provisions provi-sions were received and enough rations ra-tions are now on hand to feed 3000 men Sheriff Lowrey said this evening that he would visit the camps in person per-son tomorrow and after making a careful investigation would probably decide to take some decisive action on Monday CAMP DESPERATION Camp Desperation at the McCrea schoolhouse will be headquarters for many strikers for tire next few days Committees and subcommittees will visit the offending miners in their I homes tomorrow with the hope of inducing f in-ducing them to join in the movement At midnight President Dolan received re-ceived word that 700 men were on their way from Thomas Run 100 from Carnegie Car-negie and 100 from Muckelrat By noon tomorrow he said 2000 men will be in camp camOUTRAGE OUTRAGE BY THE SHERIFF A call has been issued for a mass meeting of all the miners in the Pitts burg district at McCreas schoolhouse near De Armitts mines on Monday morning atll oclock The call urges all miners throughout the district to meet at their mines and arrange to proceed to the meeting place and continues con-tinues The miners of this district confront a crisis In their peaceable lawabiding contest for bread they have been outraged out-raged in the name of the law by the sheriff of Allegheny county It is absolutely ab-solutely necessary that the miners at this time administer a protest against misinterpretation of the statutes It is expected that at least 1000 miners will attend the meeting Speeches will be made by President Garland of the Amalgamated association associa-tion President Thomas of the National Patternmakers League and the local I officials 1 |
