Stirred Up By Debs

Fairmont, W. Va., July 20. - The ranks of the strikers in this district are IeIng rapidly swelled by miners, who have taken the advice of Eugene V. Debs and quit work to aid their fellow werkers who are battling for a living wage in other states. The operators have dropped their confldent tone and are using every means possible to keepthelr workmen in line. Increases in waeíj are being offered. Many operators had already advanced wages 13 cents a ton besides promising bonuses from the extra profit made by the increase in th..price of coal. Some of these operators have made a further advance of 3 cents a ton. Debs spoke to the miners in a grove at Willow Tree. He appealed to their manhood, saying that the happiness of 1,000,000 people in the coal district depended upon their action. Wages Would Be Dropped. He also declared that the advatice given by the operators was to aid m keeping them at wovk, but warned ther.i that the moment they had succeeded in defeating the strike of miners in othestates their wages would be dropi:el down below the amount paid before the struggle began. Debs made the speech of his life. After its conclusión the palefaced men who had toiled for years ir the darkness underground for less than enough to keep soul and body togetlir. gathered around him and one at a time they shook his hand. They followod Debs around wherever he went, and seemed never to grow tired of heariiü lim speak. Every miner present at the meeting signed his name to a paper, declaring he was willing to join the unión, and then a meeting was held ín a nearby schoolhouse, where on orgaüizatión was formed. Threaten to Shoot. A report from King's mine of the Virginia Coal and Coke company says that sixty of the eighty miners quit, and that the others will be out before nlght. The owners of the mines declare that short work will be made of all laboagitators, and that if the latter per.sist in trespassing on the grounds of che company they will be shot. Debs Will take a flying trip through West Virginia, and will then be sent to the mineb of the New York and Cleveland fias Coal company. Operators acknowle;]ge that West Virginia will be tied up before next Monday. When this is accomplished the entire force of organizers will be sent to join Debs in an effort to stop work at De Armitt's mines Trouble is expected there, but the case is a desperate one, and the strlkers declare that something must be done o bring De Armitt to terms.