Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-20
FAVOR THE STRIKE.
Knights of Labor Begin Their Con-
ventiOn at ScOttdale.
THE COKE COMPANIES ARE FIRM.
Mad HmgarianS Attack Deputy SheriffS at
SeOttdale.
LIVE NEWS FROM THE THREE STATES
rsrECIAL TELEGRAMs TO THE pIsPATcH.l

ESPECIAL TELEGRAMs TO THE p1sPATcH.l
SCoTTDALE, May l9-The Knights of Labor
special convention convened to-day, with 72
delegates. The sessions are secret, and none
but delegates of labor are admitted. The
day was entirely consumed in the approving
of credentials, appointing committees and
hearing reports from delegrates. The re-
ports so far given in are largely in favor of
continuing the strike if an honorable COM
promise cannot be secured. A Cancellation
Committee was appointed, consisting of
Hay, Desman and Corrigan, who called on
General Managers Lynch and Bremen, of
the Frick and Mcclure Coke companies.
Both gentlemen, in reply to their request
for compromise. told them the sliding scale
posted ON the oath of March, and under
which they are now running their works,
was the only scale of wages they would con-
slider under any circumstances, and that it
needed DO conference. ANY of their en-
ployes had the liberty 10 return to work
under Ii until the works were running full.
Failing to accomplish anything moro, the
committee reported TO the convention rs in
structcd. TO-morrow's work will determine
the future course in the strike, but that it
Will be continued is foregone conclusion.
a Scene of Wild Excitement.
Scottdale has been the scene of the widest
excitement all afternoon. Hundreds of
miners are gathered here to get the news of
the convention. shortly after noon colored
Valley works, came to town and announced
his intention of killing Master Workman
Wise for calling him a blackleg. A crowd
of about 800 Poles and Hungarians hearing of
the mans threats got excited and vowed
they would lynch him. A house on Grant
avenue, in which he took refuge, was sur
rounded, and if it had not been for the
timely interference of the police murder
would have been committed.
The colored man had Just been spirited
away, when Isaac CoSsell, a man charged
with being blacllleg at the Summit mines,
appeared in the crowd, and the foreigners,
ALREADY cTaZed with excitement and drink,
made for CosseI with rush. Cossell threw
himself into the arms of the police and
begged for protection. The police doubtless
would not nave been able to protect him
LEADERS, sprung to the front, and waved the
excited men back sufficiently 20 get Cossell
out of the crowd and into the Scottdale
House, from where he was also spirited
away.
Attacked the Deputies.
They had hardly been dispersed when
they discovered William Dixon, chief of the
deputy sheriffs at Jimtown, and Daniel Nc
Donald, deputy from Sterling works, in the
crowd. This infuriated them again, and
they all turned on the two deputies with
stones, ru2OrS and clubs. Mcdonald went
down after the first few licks and Dixon,
seeing the danger they were in, drew his re-
volvcr and fired. The shot hit one of the
rioters in the shoulder, ana Tor lew mo-
mcntS stopped the rush. The deputies then
made their escape and made for Everson,
but were followed and overtaken and beaten
by the mob numerically, and would have
been killed had not the police followed up
and rescued them. They were brought to
the lookup and held until this evening,
and no one appearing to make information
against them, and the authorities believing
the shooting was done in self-defense, gave
them their liberty. During the rioting Mas
ter Workman Wise was called down out of
the convention to help quiet his Infatuated
people, but he refused, and said LET the
ours who excited them do the quieting," and |
went back to the hall.
The Prick and Mcclure people claim large
gains in men to-day, and fired a number of |
cold ovens. Over 900 more new men were |
brought into the region to-day. The open
brand, or old N =. L. men, made application |
10 the h. of L. officers yesterday through |
their President, Joseph Welsh, to have rep
resentation in the convention to-day. He was |
refused, and to-day, with all his union at the |
Valley Works, returned to work.