Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-19
HELP FOR STRIKERS.
Master Workman Wise Secures a Neat
Sum in a Few Hours, and
TAKES IT TO THE COKE REGIOl
Important Meeting Of Tin Plate Manufact-
urers TO-MOrr0w.
PLUMBERS APPRENTICES CALLED OUT

Peter Wise, Master Workman of District
T. K, of L., comprising the greater portion of
| til e coke region where the strike is now in
progress. was in the city yesterday after
noon. He came here for the purpose of Sc
| curing money for the strikers. He was very
successful, for in three hours time he had
collected 81, 100 Of this amount Mr.. Wise
received $500 from committee represent
ing L. A. Gil, Green Glass Blowers. The
committee is composed OF j. M. Miller, j..
A. Kambach, Jerrold Bunton and George
W. Metzgar.
Mr. Wise left last night for Scottdale,
where mass meeting OF strikers will be
held to-day and the money distributed. At
this meeting q vote will also be taken on a
question that affects the honor of the strike
leaders. The company's officials have been
claiming that the men would have returned
to work long ago had it not been for the
leaders holding them out. Mr.. Wise pro-
poses to have them vote on the question of
returning to work, and let the people say
for themselves whether they want to return
to work or not under the company's rules.
Claims Made by the Strike Leaders.
Mr.. Wise was seen by DISPATCH reporter
yesterday evening. He puts different
light on some of the reports sent out from
the coke regions. He said: "There are not
more than 5000 men at work in the region,
1000 of whom are union men, working under
union rules, and the remainder are nom
union men, and composed mostly of Italians,
There are 1900 idle men yet in the district,
very few of the strikers having gone away.
Not over 1000 families have been evicted,
and the majority of those have been given
shelter in tents and ShantieS. The knights
of Labor have assisted us nobly, and none of
our men are in bad circumstances.
"The companies have endeavored to make
the public believe that our men are starving
and that we are losing them from our organ
ization, because they cannot pay their dues.
That is not true. On the contrary, our Or
ganization is growing stronger: On last Sat
one assembly. have never thought, nor do
I think yet, that we are conducting losing
fight. The companies are not sending up as
many men as they are claiming to be sending
and many of those who are sent do not re-
main. We are active, and it does not take
much work to induce the men to leave nearly
as fast as they get there"
Mr.. Wise also talked about the work done
at the mines, and said that the companies
were running more cars than tonnage. "Box
cars are sent out half loaded" said he, "and
trains are taken out in the day taken back aek
for effect" He told story about certain
rumors that have been ahoat in Scottdale
for the last ten days about an explosion that
is said to have occurred there last Friday a
week, in which number of men were re-
ported to have been killed.
Other Sensational Rumors Af1oat.
Mr.. Wise, of course, put little credence in
the story, but insisted that it was the talk of
the place that the accident had occurred,
and the only man in the Adelaide mine
where the accident occurred, who escaped
death, is an Italian who had been kept in
the mine to prevent the news of the ex-
plosion from getting out. To further sup
press it, it was reported that the following
night cofins were seen being carried from
box cars and reloaded the same night.
Two cars loaded with new men were taken
to the valley last evening. Work has begun
at Hawkeye, ten men working in the yards
and three cars were shipped Yesterday:
started. A start was also claimed at Union,
but there are no men working in the yard.
Men are at work in the pit. Policeman Gay
was ordered to serve subpgnas on 40 Wit
nesses last evening, in behalf of James Nc
Bride and others in the Captain Loar case.
The operators claim to have added six
more works to the running list. The Fr1ck
Redstone works of 446 ovens with 70 men at
work; their Youngstown plant, with 24O
ovens with 80 men at work; the Oliphant
With Il men at W WORKS The Mcclure
Company started their Enterprise plant
with IA men and claim a good increase of
men at Union, Shipments nave greatly in
creased. The FIlck Company claimed to
have shipped 81 more cars of coke than any
day since their resumption. The labor
people claim to have aided l25 of the new
men brought here in getting away to-day
forty from Painter 60 from the Leisenrings
and 25 from Davidson.
Looked Upon as Too Slick.
Five strangers went to Scottdale yester-
day morning and Immediately began to ply
the labor leaders for sympathy. They
stated they were from Redstone and had
been hired in Pittsburg to act as guards and
protect property but instead they claimed
they were asked to escort blacklegs to work
and assist in making evictions, which they
to do. They were viewed by the Ia
Dor leaders as being too slick for deluded
workingmen as they tried to appear, and
were turned down as spies of the coke COM
panies. The bringing of new men into the
4 call was made at the FL. C. Frick Com
pany's office yesterday but Mr.. Frick is abb
sent from the city and no one in the office
could verify any portion of the reports