Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-21
IT'S ONLY JUST BEGUN
Is the View of Wee President Lar
kins Takes of the strike-The Sec
ond Act In the Drama VIII soon
Begin.

onu ACT III VoVh
Begin.
Yesterday afternoon. for the first
time, the real scope of the battle waged
by the AmaIgamated Association of
Iron. Steel and Tin Workers against the
United States Steel Corporation was
made public by high local district of
fetal OF the former organization. II the
programme outlined by him can be car
rled out and he appeared to be conf
dent that ii would, the strike promises
to be the greatest In recent times and to
involve trades and Industries that have
hitherto scarcely been thought OF as
connected with the Amalgamated move
ment.
Walter Larkins, vice president OF the
Second district which includes eleven
plants of the Steel Corporation. namely:
Riverside, La Belle. Bellaire, Aetna
Standard at Bridgeport, Laughlin at
Martins Ferry, Steel Hoop and Steel
uiiiib at hihSO Nht IN 'iiii
and sheet mill at Cambridge and sheet
mills at Dennison and Dresden, was in
terviewed by reporter of the Register
yesterday, and said:
The curtain will rise on the second
act of this struggle within the next
week or ten days. 1t will be opened
with a general appeal to all union men,
of whatever trade, for assistance and we
know that we can depend on the Jealous
support of loyal trades-unionists in all
vocations Suppose the trust does start
a mill with non-union labor, the
Knights of Labor can order out their
ore-shovelers and block the running OF
the non-union mills. There are many
other departments also where the con-
certed action of true union men would
cause the closing of the plants should
attempts be made to run in non-union
men.
Again. Union trainmen will not han
die the product of non union laboR.
The Amalgamated Association may,
within the next few days, be superced-
ed in the management of the strike-as
it is rapidly becoming a death struggle
between unionism and capital-by the
Federation of Labor, the giant organiza-
ton with which we are affiliated. Then,
and not until then, will the real force
of the struggle begin to be felt II the
coal miners go out it will be matter of
days only until there will be no electric
lights. no coal for the furnaces or en-
gines. Traffic on the railways will be
greatly affected. Mills and factories
will be compelled to shut down for
lack of coal.
Already the ore shovelers at Chicago
are moving. Tomorrow night they are
to meet and consider the action of the
mill workers there in refusing to go out
and the duty Of the ore shovelers as I'M
ion men under the circumstances. The
Chicago men who refused to obey the
strike order are already receiving Sc
we're scoring at the hands of organized
labor of all classes as represented in the
Chicago Federation OF Labor, and have
been denounced by the latter as unfit
for the recognition or support Of union
men," because of having refused to
obey the order Of their president to
strike in support of their brethren who
are fighting the billion-dollar steel
trust, pleading as an excuse for their ac-
ton the existence OF a contract with
the said trust Some of the men at
Chicago have already come out and
Joined our fighting column.
"The monster meeting In East Chicago
last Sunday of union men employed In
independent mills. at which Secretary
Tighe and Vice President Davis spoke,
and the resolutions passed by various
lodges show what the sentiment of un-