Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1897 — DOLAN ARRESTED. [ARTICLE]

DOLAN ARRESTED.

Miners’ Leader Is Charged with Violating Anti-Marching Injunction. Patrick Dolan, district president of the United Mine Workers of America, was arrested in Washington County, Pa., while leading a body of marchers on a public highway past the Allison mine of Cook & Sons, near McGovern station. Ever since the strike started the miners have been making daily marches from their camp to the mine. From the nrr.e to the railroad there is a tramway, under which runs the public road known as the Washington pike. Wednesday morning, with a band at their head, about 400 marchers tramped along the pike and passed under the tramway. On their return they were stopped by deputy sheriffs and told they could not pass under the tramway, but must return to their camp by crossing a field and coming down the railroad. The marchers decided to remain where they were and communicated with President Dolan by telegraph. He arrived shortly after 4 o’clock and made a speech to the strikers. He said the deputy sheriffs had no right to stop them from marching on the public thoroughfare as long as their mission was a peaceful one and told them he would lead the procession. The band, with Dolan at its head, and the marchers following, then started down the road to go under the tramway and on to the camp. W’hen Dolan reached the tramway he was told by the deputy sheriffs that he could go no farther. When he wanted to know the reason why he was told that such a move was a violation of the law and the injunction. This Dolan denied and the arrest followed. He was taken to Washington on the first train, while the marchers returned to their camp.