St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-20
The Situation in the Pennsy1-
vania Coke Region Again
Critical.
Troops Centered at Union
town to Be Used in an
Emergency.
They Will Not, However, As
sist in Evictions or Do
Police Duty.
Labor Leaders Hope That
Gov. Pattison Will Go to
the Region.

SCOTTDALE, Pa, April 19.-This was
another lively day in the coke region.
Numerous mass meetings were held,
and, preceding the wholesale evictions
which will occur tomorrow, they are
taken with significance. With brass
band to stir up their spirits, mass
meeting of several hundred strikers
was held this afternoon at the Summit
plant, where the imported foreigners
have been at work. Every effort was
put forth to get the Italians to attend,
but without avail. They are Quartered
in what is known as the soup house."
which Is situated near the Summit
plant, and are heavily guarded by
deputy sheriffs to prevent inter-
ference from the strikers. Twentyfour
of these Italians were at work at this
mine yesterday. The strikers held their
meeting on the public road and eXer
cised great precaution to keep off the
company's premises. After addresses
by Parker and others, they passed reso-
lutions to remain firm. Another en-
thusiastic mass meeting was held at
Whitney and addressed by Master
Workman Wise, William Hay and
Albert Burreen, an interpreter. Italians
are also at work there, and the meeting
was called for the purpose of getting
them out on a strike. Tonight the
labor leaders say they hope Gov. Patti
son will come to the region as intended,
and make rigid and searching investi-
CATION OF affairs. They claim that the
strikers are
of many occurrences, and that nothing
barring an Investigation will bring out
these facts. This evening there is great
activity all along the line. The coke
companies will make persistent efforts
to resume more of their plants to-mOr-
row morning, and the labor leaders are
out to a man in the hope of defeating
the movements. The Cambria Iron
company will make an attempt to re-
kindle the fires in some Of their plants,
which have been idle ten weeks. The
eviction movement will be fully inau-
gurated, and it is expected that some of
the distressing scenes of 1881 and 1856
will be re-enacted. That many families
will resist seems to be the general i'm
preston. Several hundred eviction notes
were served by the coke companies on
the strikers between this place and
Broadford last night. At Summit and
MOrgan'S, a couple of hundred papers
were served. They will all expire this
week, and the labor officials think that
their tents will arrive in time to afford
shelter to all the families. The More
wood notices expired to-day. and evic-
tiOns will take place tomorrow. From
a source, believed to be trustworthy, it
was learned to-day that colored work
men would be shipped into the region
4 ic fnt t0d
that the strikers at Summit and Broad
ford Obstinately refused to return to
work, and their places will be filled
with negroes. One hundred and ten of
them will be given employment at Rist
slope, BrOadford, and about 100 at Sum-
NIT and adjoining plants. Imported
Italians and Negroes
will likely be the weapons of the differ
ent companies to break the strike, and
carloads Of them are expected. Agents
are known to have been in search OF
such material for some time. The I'M
poTtation Of new men may tend to
arouse the passions of the strikers.
The different companies have fully de-
cided to post the notices at the different
works, stating their withdrawal from
the position that there would be no dis
elimination against the strikers. A
special from Uniontown, Pa, says:
"Adjt. Gen. McClelland arrived here at s
O'Clock this morning, having left Har-
risburg at midnight, and coming here
from GreenSburg on an engine
He has established his headquarters
at the McClelland house. He found the
situation so unwarlike that he began the
day by attending church. He met Sher-
If Mccormick at the hotel and notified
HIM that Company G, of this place.
and Company E, Capt. Loars company,
of Mt. Pleasant, were assembled and
ready to move whenever he (the sheriff.
decided their services were needed. In
conversation with a reporter the adiu-
tant general laid great stress upon the
fact that the troops are not to be used to
assist i'll evictionS or to do police duty at
any of the works, but to quell
disturbances and maintain order.
when Sheriff McCormick's means
have failed 10 do so. THAT Official"
said the djutant-general, "is to be the
sole judge Of the necessity for the as
sistance of the troops" This point is
also emphasized in the instructions
given to Capt. Frasher and Loar. A
telegram was also sent to Col. Smith, of
the Eighteenth regiment, to keep his
regiment well in hand, ready to move
at any time. Reports to Sheriff Nc
Cormlck Indicate that everything is
quiet. except at Leisenring No. 2,where
the strikers were holding meetings to-
day and marching about the works, but
no outbreak is reported.