Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-06

Mr. Williams said that he was c0nndent
that there could be but one result-vic-
tory for his association.
Al the Amalga mated Association
headquarters are being retained and
will probably be used as lieu.enants IN
the coming struggle, trustee John
Pierce. vice presidents F. J. Williams,
ID. A. Reese, John W. Quinn, Charles
l.. James and VIM. Gibson. These with
secretaries Williams and Tigne will as
sist President Shaffer until the inereas-
ing hostilities will demand a larger
number of division. commanders.
Until the general strike order is pro-
mulgated Vice Presidents Reese and
Quinn will strengthen the tin plate
workers. Vice Presidents Gibson and
Williams will work among the bar mill
men. Secretary Tighe will be used to
represent President Shaffer In the field
where circumstances may demand a
general officer.
Trustee John Pierce
has Just returned from a trip through
the western mills, where. it is stated,
he had been preparing the men of the
National and Federal steel companies
for the struggle 1t is declared by the
workers officials that it is with the
utmost difficulty that the men employed
by these companies are to be kept at
work until the official strike order
reaches them.
George Powell. president of the Tin
Workers Protective Association. called
on President Shaffer to-day to discuss
the probable embodiment of the tin
house men in the larger strike of all
the union employees OF the steel com
bine 1t is stated that the members OF
the tin workers association have been
approached by the officials of the
American Tin Plate Company and re-
quested to work union-made black
plate imported from Wales. The tin
workers have signed their yearly wage
agreement and as the imported black
plate is made by union labor affiliated
with their organization. it is difficult to
see how the tin workers can refuse to
work it.
President Powell will put the matter
press on them, while the tin plate Is
! union made, it's importation is solely
to defeat the Amalgamated Associa-
ton in the present strike. The tin
workers association is in close sym
who are members of the Amalgamated
Association, and will aid them to win
the strike, perhaps going SO far as to
refuse to work the Welsh tin plate.
The strike history of the day in Pitts
burg itself is not prolific of results;
considerable, however, was doing in
| towns surrounding.
In this city all of the idle mills are
| failure of the conference to settle the
strike. and no apparent move Is being
made by the manufacturers to start the
mills. consequently there has been no
| break in the strikers ranks.
The Important Strike Points
tonight seem to be Leechburg and
Wellsville, with McKeesport possible
trouble centre. From Leechburg this
telegram was received:
At 4 o'clock this afternoon the Hyde
Park mill, which has been idle since
the first of this year, was started. e.
S. Pargny, manager of the American
Steel Association; Harry Davis, district
Superintendent, and Robert Lock. local
manager. were all on the ground. At
3:45 this afternoon a train arrived at
HYDE Park, coming from Salisbury,
stopped at the works and fifty-five men
who were clad in working garb and
carrying dinner buckets. left the train
and hurried into the works. There was
no excitement, and the mill owners and
managers tonight claim they now have
enough men in the mill to operate all
of the fiye-plant mill. Sentinels are out,
and no one is allowed to get into the
mill without password. Late this after
noon six mill men from Leechburg
sauntered down toward the mill, passed
the guards and walked into the mills,
where tonight they are at work.
This Makes 81 Men
now EMPLOYED at the works. By out
siders it is claimed that this number
cannot operate the mill in full. but how
ever this may be, the mill is running
tonight in good shape.
The Amalgamated men, however, are
on the ground making despei ate efforts
to keep all union men out. They make
the bold assertion that in two days
after President Shaffer issues his gen.
eral strike order, not wheel Will be
turning in either Vanderg-ift, Apollo
nor Hyde aPrk.
From Wellsville, Ohio, the following
, report is made:
The last four of the striking steel
workers who were arrested Sunday,
charged with riot. were released from
iail late this afternoon, upon bail.
There are warrants yet in the hands OF
the police for seventeen more OF the
strikers, which have not yet been
served, the officers, for some reason,
seeming to be afraid to serve the war
rants Henry B. Henderson. potter,
for whom the police have a warrant
has been trying to get himself IN the
way of the officers all day. to have
them arrest him, but they will not go
it. for the reason that Henderson IS
backed by the National Brotherhood OF
Operative Potters, and the officers fear
the
Vengeance of the Potters,
once thew are aroused, as they would
he If one of their number were put uu-
der arrest.
Secretary Duffy, of the Potters, when
seen to-day, denied that the brotner-
hood had any intention OF calling their
members out in sympathy with the
steel workers. Said he:
while the National Brotherhood OF