Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-20

THE WOMEN HARDER To SUB
DUE THAN THE MEN.


Uniformed Police Sent to the scene-Ef.
forts Making 30 Get the LAbOrers In
the Bradford Region 30 Come Out-A
Female Voices the Bitterness of Her
Country women.
PTTTsBURG, Jan. 19.-Wor was not re-,
sumed at the Edgar Thompson Steel
Works to-day, the furnace men having re-
fused to abide by the action of last nights
meeting, claiming it was packed by unin-
terested parties.
A Mount Pleasant, Pa, special says,
The situation in the coke regions is grow
ing serious. Last night three or four
guards at the MOrewood works Ventured
too close to the Hungarian quarters when
an alarm was given. The foreigners
swarmed out OF their quarters and began
fusilade of pistol shots. Almost in
stantly every striker joined in the can
nonade and the guards broke for safer
/ quarters. No pursuit was attempted and
/ the Hungarians returned TO their quar-
ters, after witnessing the hasty depar-
| ture Of the patrol.
No trouble had occurred at the Stand.
| ard Works up to noon.
This morning the MorewOOd strikers
helda a meeting and decided to raid the
] RhCS Npht Ndlubs lueY NlAEGueu over
| ana drove the drawers of, and then left
TO clean out the Bessemer workers. The
! "Ahce" drawers returned to work, but
The strikers again drove them off. Work
was then abandoned and the Hungarians
/ came back TO M0rewOod Tor dinner. The
outlook is decidedly squally.
DESPERATION or THE HUNS.
This evening a carload OF uniformed
police was dispatched from this city to-
the scenes OF the riOtOus disturbances I'M
the coal region. The police were sent lnl
response to a telegram from Col. Frick OF
| the Standard and Mourefield coke works
asking for aid. The officers will be sworn
in by Sheriff Stewart. of WestmOreland
county, as deputies. About One-third OF
the ovens in the region are idle. The
Hungarians, numbering 800 in the Mount
Pleasant district, are hard TO handle, the
women being worse than the men. A
| Hungarian woman this afternoon thus in
dicated the feelings Of her c0untrymens
''Englishmen have no mOney-nO strike;
Hungarian have plenty money, plenty
knife, plenty pistol-shoot, kill ana
dght"
The American element claim that the
Huns are alone responsible for what they
do. This morning, when the strikers
drove the men from the yards at the Alice,
mines, they blew up the tipple with dyna-
mite, and drove Joseph White, the super
intendent, from the grounds. Wherever
the fiery Hungarians 20 they carry a
reign Of terror. Committees are waiting
on the laborers in the Bradford regions To-
induce them to come cut.
ARRIVAL or THE SHERIFF..
A MI. Pleasant Pa, special Says:
! Sheriff stewart arrived there at 9 O'Clock
tonight, with 10 additional deputies who
will be placed on duty at the Alice mine.
The strikers who attacked the mines In a
body and drove off the men therein, des-
| trOYed all the tools, barrOws, coke, wag-
| ons and everything mOveable. The sher-
III has ordered his deputies to protect
those who want to work and IL is expected
that trouble will follow this order. The
| Hungarians are parading the streets OF
the village and threaten violence TO all
who attempt to return 70 work and des-
truction 10 the Company's property.
MULE sPINNERs MEET.
NEW BEDFORD, MASS, Jan. ia
meeting OF mule spinners tonight was
largely attended. and much enthusiasm
was manifested as the speakers annOunc-
! ed that the market warranted an advance
in prices. An increase has been given in
tine Londale mills for the same grade of
work. The recent petition was met by
the manufacturers with an answer that
the market would not justify an advance.
but believing this untrue the mule spin
ners voted tonight TO demand restOra-i
ton OF the 10 per cent. reduction made a.
year ago.
A LOCKOUT AT NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-This afternoon
the emplO les in fifteen OF the sixteen fac
tories Of the Cigar Manufacturers Ass0-
| citation were told there was no more
"stOck." The men gathered up their tools
and belongings and quietly lett the shops
as ordered. The lockout was then begun,
The sixteenth firm OF the association will
confer tomorrow with their men and
probably adjust prices TO suit them. Two
hundred men Will be thus saved lock-,
out. II Is stated tonight that the Knights.
Of Labor have levied - pr head on each
member for the support Of the striking
cigar makers.
END OF A SIX MONTHS STRIKE.
HAMILTON, ONT, Jan. 19.-The cigar
makers sCrike, which has been going ON
here for six months, is practically ended.
The Cigar Manufacturers' Association,
dissolved to-day, aud its members are fill-l