The farmers' union., 1891-04-09
RIOTING BY STRIKERS.
PLANTS IN THE SCOTTDALE
COKE REGION RAIDED.


Works, Tearing Out tho Front of a Work.
mans HOuse-Arm.d Deputies Make No
Resistance to the Maddened Mob and
Are Driven from Their Posts.
A Pittsburg dispatch says: The most
eventful day in the coke strike was IA
vorab,e to the men. The labor leaders
say no preconcerted attack was made,
but in view of the fact that three of the
principal works in the region were raid
ed, and that in the morning the opera
tors had decided to resume all plants.
the talk Of accidental raids does not go
very far At two o'clock in the morn
ing the strains of band woke all strik-
ers on the road from Scottdale to Brad
ford, and in short time 1.5aO men
followed the musicians path, which was
directed to the Jimtown plant of the II.
c. Frick Company.
This place was reached at 5 a m,
when the works were captuted without
struggle, except tho incidental disarm-
ing of Superintendent RoSser. whose re-
vofver was flourished in vain. A few
workers were struck with stones, but the
body Of strikers dispersed without Sc
rious damage.
Some time later a terrific report in the
direction of the Lcisenring works gave
q warning of trouble there and thousands
grathered to witness the work Of the first
bomb exploded by the strikers. The
shock was felt for several miles. but it's
only visible effect was the tearing of q
great hole in the front of a nom union
workers house and the throwing up of
considerable dirt in the vicinity. 1t is
feared that such work is not over with,
however, as the effect upon the unruly
but thoroughly organized IIungarians
was ominous. After this the work men
at Leisenring Nos , and 3 were chased
out of the yards and few only returned
when the excited crowd had departed.
The few men at the Lcith works were
also driven out, though nobody is re-
ported badly injured Trouble is also
talked of at the Trottnr plant, but this
is denied by the operators The big
Morcwood plant of the Frick Company
afso contribute d more than its quota to
the exciting events of the day. This
plant has bc2n in partial operation, and
has been carefully gu1rde by deputies.
Some 1000 strikers gathered about the
place, however, and swept the armed
deputies aside as If they hal been cha #.
Not Il blow was struck, not a shot fired,
as such move would have been fatal to
the 1900 determined strikers.
After the abandonment of the works
by the guard an hour Of wrecking fol-
lowed. Tracks, doors, and in fact cv-
erything movable were torn and wrench
ed aside by the maadencd crowd. who
only left after the plant had been mutt
lated beyond Immediate repair.
The central board of the federation
meets in Pittsburgh. when the strike
will be brought up up for in !orsemcnt.
At Uniontown Judge Ewing granted 4
preliminary in JUNCTION against all men
assembling at the Frick works not en-
p!oycd by that COM any.
: Ii riff Mccormick, with 4 number OF
| armed depnties, left Uniontown on a
special train to arrest the leaders in the
| several raids. Probably the uglicst
feature Of the several raids was the
| number Of women participating, the
most seriously injured man being Pit
Boss Cooper, who was struck again and
again with an iron bar in the hands OF
an infuriat2d woman. Secret nc tiEgs
We're he'd by the strikers. who W II rer-
| tain'y D event the intended resumption.
There has been much tclegraphic cor
roSpOn .encc between Gov. EattisOn and
| Sheriff CIawson Of Wcstmoreiand County
regarding the strike o. tic cokewoF kerS
| and the attack upon the works of ErIck
| x Go. OF Morehcad. The Sheriff asked
permission to use the arms of two COM
| panies of the national guard to prseect
property, but Coy. Pattson responded
| that 1.-The civil power TO maintain the
| peace must be exhausted and power.ess
before the military power can be in
| yokcd" To this Sheriff ClawSoa re-
| piled that he did not want the troops,
f., but only their arms. Gov. PattiSon,
| however, in another dispatch declined
| to issue the desired order.