Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-20
PITTSBURGH.
Head Quarters of the Great Iron
Strike. s. r..
Review Of the Situation Starting with Non
Union en--Manufacturers' Meet
.. ing-Secretay Weeks View
.. The Miners Strike -
Glass Scale Signed.
LATEST NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS,

.ATEST NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS,
Special 10 the Sunday Reotster.
PITTSBURGH, August 19.-Another week
as come and gone and yet the great iron
trlke drags along, and is apparently no
carer an end than it was ten weeks ago.
he Amalgamated Association has held its
the manufacturers have held
heir meeting, and neither event has re-
,ulted in anything foreshadowing close to
this most eyentful lockout. .......
Wednesday, Secretary Weeks, OF the
Western Iron ASSOCIATIONS tsiegrsphsd his
nsper, the Iron Age, thatif settlement OF
the strike was not made before another
week, that several of the largest mills in
this vicinity would startup
with NOn-gnIOn Men.
This prediction has been partially full
sled BY the starting of the spang Iron and
Steel company. This company Is con-
rsctsd with the Etna Tube Works, of
snsng, Chalfant & Co., and furnishes the
material for the latter. While the en-
,,Ioves OF the Tube Works do not belong to
The Amalgamated Association, that concern
wa, compelled to shut down because it was
nrabls to get material. Wednesday
the Tube Works was started and
ono set of rolls in the iron
mill was putin operation with non-anion
men The company claims that it will
soon be in full operation either with union
o- rop.union men. The starting of the
Tpbe Works is good evidence of their con-
6Sence in their ability to do this. They
mmst either keep their iron mill going or
shnt down the tube works, or, il not, they
must bring their material from tie East.
The company employs about six hundred
men.
Weeks Won't Talk.
called on Secretary Weeks, this morn
mo 10 have him state what mills were re-
ferred 10 in his telegram to the Iron Age.
He refused TO do So saying that events
would demonstrate the proof of his asscr-
tiop. Rumors are abroad to the effect that
some OF the Lawreuceyille mills are about
10 start. hut | have hcen unable to trace
any of them TO q reliable source. 1t is said
even. that a Lawrenceville IA district of
thi scityI lodge OF the Amalgamated Asso-
ciat on had held a meeting and resolved to
submit the old scale to the manufacturers,
but President Jarrett assures me that he
has heard nothing of this, and denies it
totally.
Of manufacturers was held yesterday, but
all attempts to find out what action was
taken were unsuccessful beyond ascertain
ing that the object of the meeting was the
consideration of arrangements for the in
production of non-union men. Secretary
Weeks said to your correspondent, this
morning, that he now, for the first time
since the strike begun, had an opinion as
10 where it would end. Being asked to
give that opinion he declined to do so for
reasons best known to himself. Mr.WeekS
is firmly convinced that the manufactur-
ers will win this fight. He says that at no
time within his memory have the manu-
facturers been so firmly united in their
opposition TO "A strike. Continuing, he
Il am in favor of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation. believe it h. be good thing and
that the manufacturers would be IN a
worse condition without it. But at the
same time think the Association has made
a great mistake in this fight, and | am op-
posed to it. Most OF the manufacturers
have all along been kindly disposed to-
ward the Amalgamated Association, but
since they have been treated SD unkindly,
many of them are losing what faith they
had in trades unions.
The Miners Strike
is finally ended. Yesterday a grand break
was made all along the line, and union men
huCkcd to the mines in search of work al
81, cents. | ralled upon Mr.. Samuel Nc
Crickart, secretary ul the rOal Operators
Association, this morning, and interviewed
him regarding the situation. Mr.. McCriCk-
art said:
This is what the operators have long ex,
VeCted. We felt confident that the men
would not hold out much longer. Why,
the strike, H. TAR n we We're concerned, has
been over for some time. except fpr the an.
uOyanCe caused U> by the union men loaf.
ing around our mines. For some time fifty
per cent more coal has been turned out in
the Panhandle region than was mined be
fore the'Strike began. The reason is that
more men are working. When the strike
occurred the mines were running very
light, but now that fall contracts have been
made the force has been increased No
difficulty whatever was experienced in get.
ting non-uniOn labor We could get plenty
more Of it. Some Of our men were picked
up here and some there, some are Iirrman,
some Norwegian, some NwedeS, and some
COlurrd. Most OF the union men were
ready Ia gu TO work long agu. but they have
been kept out by their
Hot Headed Leaders.
will give you an instance IN poiut
Some time since certain men employed al
two certain mines CAME to the generators
and said that II the latter would bring on 3
lew white non'uuIuu men to start their
works, that with thus as pretext many OF
the union men would 90 To- work but fba,
they lid not like 70 break the line then
selves. The men stated that thew wonId
not work with 'niggers" The bosses n,;G
no attention to this, and shortly the nen
came and offered TO 20 10 work il "niggers'
were used to make the break. Tbe TOO
trims then brought hf.y colo-ed men from
Richmond and plared them in their minas
The result was that . number of their oIS
men went TO work" ''0
The coal strike has now lasted since Fob
ruary, and as a result great deStitntion ~
lists among the miners The monav tba,
have received from the union has moi 49,,
sufficient to support iumilies and msr1 ~
them have stripped themselves of fnrnii;rr :.
and household goods 10 maintain life Sav
rral instances OF death by starvation ~.
been reported, but they lack authentica
tiOn. A case of suicide Of a motbar canS.'S
by the destitute cirCu", tances of the To-;
ly. occurred near Mansfield.
Another Meeting of the str,Isr.
has been called by President Jonss fo- .,;,
afternoon at which the strike will ~ sLs Nas
cially declared ended. Jones' ;s cSa,at Oi,t
with manipulating the ate convsnt;|,,i g y
suit his interests, by which ne snccoado'
IN preventing the men from yotin, 70 oeS
the strike. There were only "a deio,e.na. az.
present at that convention. whiIe ona So sou.
from each mine would have made i@S i''A'
Late yesterday the via. bottle n,an,,s
turerS, with one exception ana" "''O
Signed the scale
submitted by the Presentation po.,
blowers Union. The except;on = o.tI ~
firm OF McCully & Co, which will ~ tn
sign within few days. Work VII T
S9med in these works September 1st S
libby Bros. and Flaccus & Co. wb;cb s is'
manufacture the same goods, ara rn,n;l ~ u
with non union men The scsIa .;uaI !
an advance of 81 per cent upon tbs u roai
paid here last year. PITTSBURGH r,aIS mSISe
have heretofore paid about that mrnL IIaHer 1er
I "A.