The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-03-27
CRISIS IN 9HE GOKBEIBLD.
Tho Posting of Sliding Scale
Notices
And Partial RESUMPTION
or Work at Many of the Plants
Causes Dangerous Excitement
Strikers and Operators Both
Firm...ststements of Both.

p,rrsBuRaH, Pa, March pa specihl
from scottdals, Pa, says: The coke
regions have been in m uproar all day
over the result Of the posting Of the slid
,pg scale last night by the Frick Com.
napv, the Mcclure Company and other
concerns. The Flick Company Is an
enormous concern, controlling over two.
thirds Of the eniise number Of ovens in
the district, while the Mcclure Com.
many owns some 1000 ovens.
General Manager Lynch, Of the Frick
Company, says Of the seventeen works
in which they posted notices yesterday,
tan are working to-day, notwtthstaud.
inc the shortness OF notice TO their EN-.
uISyes. Among the works In partial
operation are The Mcorewood, West
Ieisinring, Redstone and JimtoHn,
ionr Of the largest plants Of the Frick
Companv, The Mutual works Of tie
limited Coal and Coke Company started
;nfnll, as did the Coal Brooke works of
the Mcclure Company. Mr.. Lynch says
they did not post resumption notices
and the sliding scale on eight OF the
works, because they have not sufficient
crders as vet. II win be remembered
that but fifty per cent Of the oveAs we're
in blast when the strike was ordered.
Il is claimed by the operators that
they are paying 20 per cent more ICES
thRn il paid in any other coke region ;
tbat they will run their works, and will
brook no interference from the etrikers
Tbe first shipment made by these com.
nanies since the strike left, to-day.
Labor leaders are in dismay at the res
norts OF the unexpected deseTtion Of so
many men, but roundlY deny their
truth. They soy that up until this
evening they have received notice OF
but one works in operation-atj jimtown
and a mass meeting is in progress
there tonight, to induce the men to
anti work. Later reports indicate that
the labor officials are poorly informed
al 10 the disastrous effects Of
the resumption notices. as o
riot occurred at the Lsisenring
works owing to the resumption there.
The strikers held q mass meeting at
which resolutions were passed to force
the reluctant employees to quit and re-
ioin the strikers. Accordingly between
seventy FIVE and hundred strikers,
armed with clubs aud carrying stones,
Tsided The yard, putting the workmen to
flight. Several Of them were slightly
General Manager Lynch Immediately
wired Sheriff Mccormick for officers to
protect his property, and an ample force
Of armed deputies are now on the
grounds to gnard against further out.
break. Tonight the region is filled
with apprehension as TO the result Of
this most determined and unexpected
attempt at resumption. The operators
are firm, confident, and will com.
mand regiment Of deputies If neces:
sary. The strikers are also determined
aud the great majority are united, while
the men who are going back to work are
either desperate foreigners, who have
no fear Of the strikers, or men who are
actually driven to work by poverty, and
perhaps hunger. These three forces
control the region tonight and the most
dangerous crisis Of the long fight Is fully