Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04
Conflicting Reports Received From
the Scene of the Trouble.
OVER 5000 OVENS REPORTED IDLE
The Plasterers Make q Statement of Their
Impending Strike.
ACCEssIoNs TO THE K. OF L. RANKS

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that the strikers are meeting with littl
encouragement, and the strike is failure
The operators in this city say their report
show that the latter is the case, and the fev
men who are now out will return to worl
in less than one week. The following
special was received last night from Scott
dale:
Notwithstanding the reports from Connells
vile that the strike is failure. the fact re
mains that it is decided success. The follow
ing additional works are reported out this morn
ing:
Alice. 25l ovens; Bessemer. 273 ovens; Dia
mond, 66 ovens; Donnelly. 200; Enterprise, 81
Hazlett. 26l; Mayfeld, IS; Mullin, 50; Overton
ITO; Painter, 22S: Union, 20: Standard, SS7
There are now So out of the 76 works in the re
gion engaged in the strike, with a total of s,SG
| ovens idle.
These statements are based upen reports re
ceived at the Office of the Scottdale I,sdepend
emit. the headquarters of the Knights of Labor
at this region. At the office of the 81. c. Frich
Company they claim that all the Leisenring
| works are running to-day.
| HE WAS GRArIFIED.
Master Workman Kerfoot, of Subdivision
| No. 4, stated this morning that the almost
| unanimous action of the men IN the present
strike was far beyond his expectations. From
| the present outlook it is altogether possible
| that by the middle Of next week there will not
be a single coke plant in operation in this
region. One of the strikers, when asked why
the Frick men took the lead in the present
strike, said: ''The Frick men were in a man.
ner, obliged to come out first, tor the reason
that the employees of the other operators were
uncertain as to whether they would consider
themselves bound by. the agreement of
February last. Had the employees of the
Frick Company acknowledged the legality
of that document there would, in all proba-
bility, have been no strike. There are
that company at the time the agreement was
made who emphatically deny any knowledge of
its provisions until after it was signed by the
supposed representatives of the workingmen,
slder that they have violated any principle of
honor"
Word has just reached here that five men
started to work on the yard at Donnelly this
morning and were attacked and driven of by a
number of women. The leaders of the strike
held meeting here to-day and mapped out the
work for the committees during next week
A DIFFERENT VIEW OF IT.
The following is special received from
Connellsville:
The only change in the strike situation in this
vicinity to-day is the resumption of work at the
Coke Company, and cessation Of work at the
Leisenring plants of the n. c. Frick Coke Com
pany The fact of the men at Youngstown re-
turning to work has greatly disheartened the
strikers. and even the coming out of the Leisen-
ring men at Nos. i. 2 and 8. and Mayfeld. Dom
nelly, Alice, Enterprise and Painter plants will
few days ago As the real conditions of the
strike are becoming known, through the me-
dunn of The DISPATCH, to those men not en-
ployed at the works of the II. G. Frick Coke
dicipn 1v,ofi Ion, f0 i0irn IN
strikers is noticed. The fight the Frick men
are making against that company may prove a
boomerang, returning with telling force against
the leaders. There are about 1,OOO men en-
ployed at Leisenring's and 400 at Trotter, who
came out Friday morning, but the men at these
plants are considered to be the1e stubborn
return to work. They may resume work by
Monday or Tuesday.
Thus the general situation may be said to not
favor the strikers at some works now out. The
feeling Of the men is such that if large plant
would resume operations its effect would be to
influence those where hesitancy exists to fol-
low The most determined effort of the lead
ers TO make the strike general is being made in
the northern end of the region. There the
workers are more thoroughly organized than in
any other part. Outside of the brick plants a
decided aversion is shown to joining the strik-
ers.
At Uniontown the status is unchanged ex-
cept by the return to work of the Youngstown
men. Uuiondale. Wheeler, Morrell and La
mont are still out. At the Redstone plant of
the j. NJ. Schoonmaker Coke COMPANY the men
are wavering, but the action Of Youngstown
will likely keep them in.
THE NEWS IN THE CITY.
Defections from the ranks of the strik-
ers were reported at the offices of operators
in this city yesterday. The men at the
Youngstown works, numbering nearly 400,
have gone back to work. The Moorwooo
and Standard works are also working full, a
detection Of 500 men from the strikers. But
at the Donnelly and May6eld works, of Nc
Clure & Co., the working forces were Grip
pied by desertions.
Before departing for Washingtonville and
Sherrardsville, o., respectively, yesterday,
General Executive Boarder John Costello
and General Secretary Watchorn agreed
with Master Workman Rae that the strike
was to be success.
Operators agree that they expect the
strikers to be back at work by Monday, and
the fact that some of the labor leaders have
left the field to keep general engagements
appears to be a tacit admission that they
do not expect the battle to be long one.
A representative of the j. NJ. Schoon-
maker Coke Company said yesterday: I'VE
have just received word from our Superin-
tendent at the Youngstown works that all of
our men there had returned to work this
have come to him and asked for work. j
Nearly all of our men are now working,
with the exception of a few diggers at the
Alice Mines,
HE IS SURPRISED.
William Mullen, formerly Secretary of
the NJ. & L. A. A., said last night to a
DISPATCH reporter: "I am surprised to see
the Frick emplbyes taking the initiative
while the men of the other firms
were at work. The Frick Company
paid higher wages than any other
coke works for two years previous
to 1889, and then only reduced rates to the
average of rates paid at other works, where
wages were below Frick's standard Fur
thermore the present wages paid by Frick
and the other considerations, such as the
hours of labor, provision that six days'
notice be given by both parties before quit
ting, are component parts of the Frick
scale.
eff the strike had been brought about at |
any other works, there would not have been
a strike at Frick's. If all the other works
can put out coke it will settle down to
question of endurance. If not, both sides |
will finally come together with losses to
BOTH"
ANIMAL MEETING OF Ia.