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Women Join

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
August
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Pittsburg, August. 17.- The contení plated plan to have the women mak mardhea whloh was to have been in anguratéd today has been definital; decided upan by the leaders, and th wives and daughters of the striker wiH now take up the work whieh th men have been enjoined frozn doing Tlie farmers of the entire countrj surroimding. the several camps ar making extensive preparations for a demonstratiou to show their sym pathy for the strikers. They propos to have a parade, 'headed by a band and march down the Saltsfourg roac and up over the hills. Xo missionar; work is to be attempted, the diiiw.i strarion is pürely for the purpose o: showing sympathy for the strikers The class of men who wlll compos the parades have no fear of interior eace and wlll not diSbaad at the eau mand of a few deputies. About 000 strikers from Thoms Run aeoampaui((l by about 150 women anc cliildren, marehed tO Cam; Vietory tipar Canonsburg, today. They wil remain at the camp imtü Satarday when a meeting wlll be held. In ih ai'tcuiioon a line was formed head.M 'by the band and led by the wouj and a march made to the mino o Oook & 'Sons, where operations ar si 11 belng oarried on, although hut a few men are at work. 'A'bout 30 o: these miners joined the strikers. Suits and sounter suits promise to be one oí the most prominent fea tures of the coal miners' strike. Whilí the New York & Cleveland Gas Coa company has been presecuting its in junctioQ case the miners h'ave been gathering material on whieh to bring suits, not alone for wages, but for tres pe ss. The qnestion of the rig'ht of striker to visit employés of the mines is to be tested in the courts. The uniformity agreement does no meet with much eneouragement, onlj three firms of all the Fittsburg dis trict operators having signed ït. whUe nothing is heard of the arbitration conmiission wlrich was so sanguine o; effecting an inmediato settlement of tlu' strike.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat