Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-06-17
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The Great Labor Parade at Pitts
burph.
Thirty thousand Workers Expected to Be 10
line-Non-Union Workers Not a Sue
cess-The Situation Unchanged
Strike lllegal-The Miners.
LATEST NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.
Special Correspondence Of the Register

are bending their energies toward making
to-morrow's demonstration a success.
Secretary Layton, of the Knights Of Labor,
who has charge OF the affair, predicts that
there will be over thirty thousand men in
line. Some less enthusiastic. Knights
think there will not be more than twenty
thousand. The latter number will make a
very respectable parade, and by far the
largest demonstration of this kind ever
held in, Pittsburg. Delegations are expect
ed from all the villages, towns and cities
within a hundred miles. Wheeling is
counted on for
About q Thousand.
One of the most striking features will be
the music. Every band in Western Penn
sylvania has been engaged, and number
from Ohio and West Virginia. A more
favorable time for securing q large turn
out could not be found. On account of the
strike among the rolling mills and the
lockout among the miners there is large
number Of idle men who will be IN line to-
morrow who would not stop work to take
part in such a demonstration. The pro.
cession will move about two o'clock in the
afternoon and will 60 over route about
five miles long. If the number OF partici-
pants is as large as Mr.. Layton anticipates,
the head of the procession will be over the
route before the last division begins to
move, unless the columns march thirty
two deep. Their present intention is TO
march sixteen deep. Each brach Of
Trade and Labor
will form division, and these again have
been divided into subdivisions. The
knights of Labor and the Amalgamated As
seciation lodges will form by far the
large part of the crowd, but the glass men,
brick makers iron moulders, and many
others will take part.
No disturbances are apprehended, but as
a precautionary measure an extra police
force will be put on duty in the lower part
of the city. As yet very few decorations
have been put up, but tomorrow morning
Will doubtless find many buildings elabo-
rately adorned.
The printers Assembly, Knights of
Labor, will act as the
Escort Of Honor
to Grand Chief Marshal Jones.
Railroads, anticipating great rush to the
city tomorrow, have brought their availa-
BILE cars to this end of their respective
lines and it is expected that there will be
from fifty to seventy-five thousand strang-
ers in the city. Mayor Lyon thought Of
issuing a proclamation closing all liquor
saloons, but finally decided not to do so.
Not Very Successful.
Mr.. Kloman has not been remarkably
successful in the attempt to man his mill
with non union men. A number Of those
who were employed had to be discharged on
account of incompetency, and thus far he
has only been able to keep one furnace
going, although another one will be started
to-day. He still persists in the struggle,
however, and has also ordered his mill at
to Ss pS in Stsf G6 u
this city soon intend to start up with non
union men, having made arrangements TO
that effect, but he would not give the
names. The sheet mill of p. II. Laufman
& Co., at Apollo, Pa, started up yesterday
with non-union men. Mr.. Laufman says
the men are not first class workmen, but
he contends that he has been very badly
used by the Amalgamated Associetion, and
saws that he will not employ union men in
future, The Apollo mills are the nearest
mills TO the center of iron production in
the United States, the center being figured
to fall at a point in Indiana county, Pa,
about fifteen miles northeast OF Apollo.
A Mild Outbreak.
Last evening as some of the non union
men employed at kloman's mill were re,
turning from their work, they were greeted
with cries of "scab," and other such en-
dearing epithets Persons living in the
vicinity OF the mills fear that some such
scenes as have been lately enacted at Cleve-
land may be witnessed. The Amalgama-
ted men deny that any of their number
have been engaged in this business, ana
say they will help the authorities Keep or
ha L mil
located in Allegheny City, near where the
street railway riot occurred Wednesday
night.
With the exception OF the mills above
noted, not one Of those concerned In the
strike have started up yet, and the situa.
ton virtually remains unchanged. l sun
believe that the Amalgamated Association
will finally triumph in the fight. The pro-
gramme they have arranged and are now
carrying out is very shrewd piece of work.
President Jarrett has been making tour
of the Western cities fixing up the strike.
The arrangement he has made with the
Cincinnati and other western mills is this:
The men are to go to work, for the present,
at the old scale prices, at which they are TO
work until a new scale is arranged at Fits,
burph. Then when a new scale is arranged
here. one is to be arranged in those cities,
taking the Pittsburgh scale for basis. By
this means the Amalgamated Association
will accomplish two important things: The
starting of the mills elsewhere
Narrows the Fight Down
to Pittsburgh, and the men being at work
in other cities the number OF con-
tributors to the support OF the strikers
becomes greater, and the number
of strikers correspondingly less. This Will
enable the Pittsburgh men to hold out
much longer and with better prospects Oh
success. The mills of the Iron City can
not afford to lie idle while the mills every
where else are running. There Ii o ialge
class of trade now held in Pittsburgh tnaI
once transferred to Western mills Will stay
there. Onr manufacturers are fully awe
TO this, and some are beginning 70 say a.
ready. that the Western men, while observ'
ing the letter of the understanding OF the
late conference, have violated its spirit.
A gentleman largely concerned In the IRON
business, said to me, yesterday, that the
outlook seemed very diseouraging TO him.
He admitted that the Amalgamated Asso'
ciation was gradually getting the upper
hand in the fight. The prcdicton
| that msde some time since that the as
| sociatiou would capture the mills one by
one seems in o fair way 70 De verified.
This fs the Third week
| of the strike and il has not yet had any
| serious effect upon the general business o.
| the city. Merchants in all lines OF trade
| report that sales have not fallen of to any
| noticeable extent All expect TO meet wiz
| serious losses, however, IL the strike con
| tinues longer. The best barometer of th'
xorking mans financial condition is th'
| Dollar Savings Bank. This institution u
the depository OF those OF our industrie
classes who are of saving turn OF MIND
| thousands of workmen Of the two cities
where times are prosperous, make theil
weekly deposits here. IL u sight, MOE
day morning. to see great crowd oil To-
wives. sisters and daughters OF the toiler
waiting their turn to hand in their saving
of the week. During q strike or q snu
down the money begins to how the othe
way. and the paying teiien are 70
hard worked men. An ofncer ~
forms me that they have feit IN "a
effects of the strike very percePtibly; IN
Withdrawal of deposits has increase frot
ten to twelve per cent during the la
( week.
Declared Illegal.
!, Word has been received at the hes1
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