The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-07-13
-ALL May GONE OUT.
Said That oarnegie's Entire 90, 600
Employees to Quit Work,
A DESPERATE BATTLE IMINEuT.

tion...The Most Important Move of
the Big strike Yet to Come--An Ia.
tcrview with Vice President sheo.
han OF tho Association.
PGrrsBuRa, Pa. July 12.-The rumor
that the men employed in all works
controlled by the Carnegies would quit
work il nou-union mon were introduced
at Homestead is assuming tangible
form. President wciho this morning
practically admitted that this would be
done, but would not state SO officially.
The mills affected would be the Edgar
Thompson steel works at Braddock, the
Bessemor works at Duquesne, the
Union Iron Mills and Keystone Bridge
company OF this city, and the steel plant
at Beaver Falls, Pa Upwards OF 10000
men are employed q. the various plants.
The men at Braddock and Dusquosne
have met with crushing defeat, and
these facts were urged by Mr.. Frick in
recent interview as one reason why
the Carnegie Company has no fear that
they will not win at Homestead. AT
Braddock the Knights of Labor were
defeated, and at Dusquesne the Anal
gamated Association. An organization
was maintained, but in a rather imper-
feet shape, and the men had about
given up hope that they would ever be
able to accomplish anything as mn or
ganized body. The existing troubles at
Homestead have been taken up as their
own and tits their intention to desert
the big steel plant to make the burden
OF tho company more disagreeable. 1t
is not unreasonable to say that withina
week the number OF idle steel workers
will be four times as great as today.
THEY WANT TO HELP. A
yice.President sheehau OF the Anal
gamated Association, was asked yester-
day ifit was true as reported in the
past forty-eight hours that the Associa-
ton is making an effort to induce tho
men at all tho Carnegie mills to quit
work and force the issue Of labor organ
izatlon or no labor organization in the
plants controlled by that company.
81 don't think that report is true"
replied Mr.. Sheehan.
lido you know Of any work OF that
kind being done?"
~ do moi"
"You would know, Of course, II that
were the case?"
Certainly, and know that 1t Is not
being DONE"
"rn the case Of the Union mills and
the one at Beaver Falls, where the
scale has been accepted, could the AS
ISOLATION justify itself in calling out the
men employed thereP"
at has not been done, said Mr.. shee.
han quietly.
ia there any way by which the asso-
citation could permit itself to persuade
men to come out mill working under
the scale? In fact, would it not be con.
trury to your law and practice to do so%
"Yes, 1t would" replied the vice pres
idens refectively; "it would be against
law, practice and policy" Then he
added interroeatively after pause:
But suppose the men come out them.
selves? What then2"
as such thing likely to occur?"
"Not only likely. but reasonably GER
tain to take place"
"Can the association afford to incur
the risk OF an impeachment OF its honor
by allowing such thing at Thirty-third
street and Beaver FallsP"
Ordinarily no, we could not" said
Mr.. Sheehan, "but in this instance it is
not case OF what We can do, but what
We cannot do"
DETERMINED TO FIGHT.
~ may tell you that the rumor you
spoke of is incorrect. We have not
tried to persuade the men in the other
mills to quit work and will not attempt
it 1t will not be necessary. In fact,
for several days We have been doing all
we can to keep those men at work. We
have talked long and earnestly with
them and succeeded in holding them in
their places, but it will not last much
longer. They have decided to quit
work and are determined 10 join in the
fight They cannot be blamed, either,
as Mr.. Frick, by his own declaration,
has made labor organizations the point
in dispute. It is no longer question
OF wages, but struggle for the mainte-
nance Of organizations. The challenge
thrown down by the Carnegie company
has attracted the attention OF the world,
and naturally those men at Braddock
and Duquesne who have been defeated
feel like taking part. 1t will be big
thing to handle"
"Do you think you can accom-
plish it?"
1--WE are not trying to accomplish it.
Tho thing is accomplishing itself and is
now beyond our control. 1t is bound
to come, judging from present indtca.
tons. 1t is an assistance which will
care for itself and do good service at the
same time"
"What do tho association and the men
at Homestead think of the calling out
of tho nlilitary%
at is a good thing and the people up
there are more pleased than otherwise.
They feel relief, too, in the fact that
the men who will go up are our own
people, who are familiar with the situa.
ton and In touch. SO to speak, with the
whele matter. They know that they
are safer than ii strange soldiers were to
take control. Ny own opinion is that
the excitement over this strike has not
begun yet"
SDo you think that the people at
Homestead will come into conflict with
the military"
"0h, dear, no; Ididn'tmean anything
Of that sort. There will be other things.
Wa will make n change in tactics and