Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-15
STILL HOLDING OUT.
Many Of the Coke Companies Refuse
to Sign the Scale of Wages.
TIE MEN REFUSE TO GO TO WORK.
The Sheriff Forced to Swear in Another
Batch of Deputies.
A NUMBER OF HUNS WILL BE ARRESTED

It seems the coke strike is not settled, as
the following telegram from Greensburg
viii show: Fearing an outbreak at the
Standard and Morewood works, Sheriff Byers
was called there this forenoon. Fifty-six
special officers wer6 sworn in at Mt. Pleasant
upon his arrival, and they were sent to those
works to guard the men at work. The Huns
there have shown disposition TO fight, and
some of them were in communication with the
foreigners at Mammoth, and the situation
Superintendent Ramsay thought-was alarm
ing. The works at United will be started up in
the morning, and to guard against any break
that might occur, 80 special officers were sworn
in there. The special men are all armed with
Winchester repeating rifles, and each one car
ries II rounds of cartridges.
Information was made against 30 of the Man,
moth rioters. They will be arrested by threes
and fours. as it is feared the deputies could not
handle the entire number. One of them was
arrested tonight and Jailed here. One cause
of the trouble at the Morewood works is that
they object to the custom of heaping the
wagons with coal, and they have demanded that
that be done away with. The Superintendent
refuses to do SO. -...
APPEALED TO THE SHERIFF.
Stark Bros. the contractors at Traughers,
whose men struck for higher wages yesterday,
and have refused to allow other men to go to
work. were here to-day in consultation with
the Sheriff about sending 80 deputies to that
place tomorrow, propose to replace these men
who refuse to work. The majority of the men
are Italians. There are 100 in all, and q few of
them are willing to work. Sheriff Byers prom
ised assistance.
The men are working at Hecla and no fears
are being entertained that the men will be at
tackled. The deputies will stay there until the
trouble is over.
The DISPATCH correspondent at Con-
nellsville writes:
From this place, southwark along the line of
the railroads: but three coke works are running.
They are the Youngstown and Red Stone W orks
of Schoonmaker and Frick's Leith Works At
Oliphant few men had gone to work at the
advance, but without the scale being signed,
and the works was visited by a committee of
the strikers and the men were forced to join
the strikers ranks again.
Robert Hagsett is waging a fight with his
men against either signing the scale or paying
the wages demanded until the price OF coke
iustities it and will try to start with other men,
His position regarding wages is the same as
that taken by all the operators except the three
large firms who have signed the scale, and they
are not making any effort to start their works,
preferring to let the strikers make some move,
so long as coke sells no higher than 81 Should
coke advance September L they will then try to
adjust the price Of labor SO that they can make
u
be a farce when the men have Just repudiated a
former scale. Meanwhile, the men appear de-
termiued neither to 60 to work themselves, or
to allow others to 60 where the scale has not
been signed.
SAME SIGNED THE SCALE.
From Scottdale correspondent what fol-
lows was received: The following sigma
lures to the Coke makers scale were reported
to-day: Brown and Cochran, of the Nellie
Coke Works; James Cochran. Sons & Co., of
the jackson works; Pennsville Coke Company,
operating the Pennsville works; A. c. Over
halt & Co.. of West Overton; Hecla Coke Com
pany, operating the Hecla works; Calumet
Coke Company. operating the Calumet works.
The complete reports to date give IL, AZ owners
now working under the scale.
The Calumet works will start tomorrow
morning 1t was feared that the men at the
Mammoth works would not allow the Calumet
plant to start, but Secretary Watchorn is au-
thority for the statement that the men at
Mammoth will not interfere with the starting
of Calumet or any other works except their
own.
No reports of violence have been received
to-day from any part of the region. 1t is the
genera OPINION OF, OF tnose anteresiea IN s .ne
that inside of week the men will be at work
throughout the region.
The shipments of coke have increased
wonderfully within the past few days. On
Tuesday 1893 cars had been shippedto points
west of Pittsburg. 1t is expected that by
the last of the week the usual number of
cars will be moving out of the region.
A representative of the Schoonmaker
Coke Company said yesterday that all their
ovens, with the exception Of those on the
Sewickley branch, were working, and the
firm expected the latter ovens would be in
operation by to-day or tomorrow. At the
offices of J. w. Moore it was stated that
none of the men had gone to work. The
men formerly working for this operator
we're paid off yesterday.