The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-04-16
STRIKERS QUIET.
Strenuous Efforts Being Made to
Bring About Settlement.

CRoToN LANDING, n. Y, April Is.
While everything IS quiet and peace
full in the neIghborhood of the Cornell
Dam tonight nearly three hundred
armed deputies are guarding the works
and each one of them is guessing as to
what tomorrow may bring forth. The
striking italian labOrers, whose homes
are in the vicinity OF the works, are
behaving themselves excellently. But
underneath their assumed quiet there Is
stubborn resolve not to go back to
work, nor let any outsiders take thel.
places until the contractors agree to
pay the increase of wages demanded.
Strenuous efforts are being made by
Italian consul Branchi and Arbitrator
Delehanty to bring about n settlement
OF the difficulty. Much depends on the
outcome OF conference which is to be
held in New York between the two
contractors and General Roe and Sher-
IN Malloy this evening. A great deal OF
weight will be brought to bear on the
contractors to give in, in part, II not
entirely. to the demand OF the striking
laborers and II the contractors don't
make concessions there is no telling
what trouble may crop up within the
next forty-eight hours.
The strikers are very determined IN
their demands and swear that outside
labor II brought here will be fought
tooth and nail. Angelo Rotella, who is
the recognized leader OF the strikers.
said to-day:
A Fight to a Finish.
This is n fight to finish. We earn
more money than we are receiving and
the contractors must pay US for our
work. The state should protect US and
instead Of sending deputies and soldiers
to help the bosses they should compel
them to treat us rlghtfully. Ours is n
just cause. We only ask for fair play.
II the bosses attempt to bring the
other lnborers here we shall prevent
any work being done and II the mill
tary company troubles them then we
viii fight the soldiers. The bosses will
have to give us our rights and until
they do, not another stone will be put
in it's place on the big dam"
Rotelia spoke earnestly and his re-
marks were listened to by u crowd Of
his countrymen, who voiced the samo
sentiments in n manner which showed
undoubted determination.
The strikers arc all well armed with
guns and pistols and in this regard they
have u decided advantage over the
sherifrs deputies, who have only long
night sticks and thirty-two calibre re-
volvers, The deputies are in a valley,
while the strikers command the ndjoln-
ing hill. with the guns the Italians
could riddle the sherlffs men, who in
turn could not send n bullet from their
revolvers half way up the hillside in
case a fight should take place. There
were several additions to the ranks Of
the deputies to-day and there are now
nearly three hundred OF them at the
works. Most OF them are being fed at
n nearby boarding house and many OF
them complained to-day Of being Insult
ficlently supplied with food.
Threats of Strike Are Rife,
In addition to this they claim that
they are made to work overtime and
threats of strike among them were
rife to-day.
The feature OF the day was the ming
ling Of the strikers and the deputies at
the Easter service in the little Roman
Catholic chapel In the valley, which
WIS built by the contractors. The ma
jorlty OF the congregation is made up
OF the strikers and their families, and
II was feared that when they would
come In contact with the minlons Of
the law. there would be trouble. The
very opposite occurred. as the mon
greeted each other amIcably.
Rev, Father ], j, owens, the parish