Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-25
hON-UN|9N MEN NET AN
UNPLEASANT RECEPTION.
4 HUNDRED STRIKERS SURROUND
ED THEM WHEN THEY ARRIv-
ED At wELLsyILLE.
FOUR OF THEM TURNED BACK.
INDICATIONS NOT WANTING THAT
THE TRUST WILL FORCE A
BREAK SOON.

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PITfSBURG. Pa. July 24.-Two
moves. it is reported were made by
the American Sheet Steel Company
to-day toward the breaking of the
/ strike. One was the shipping of some
of the non-union men that have been
employed in the Vandergrift mills of
the company 10 WellsvilIe to assist in
the starting 81 the plant there.
The impression is strong tonight
that the general officers of the L. s.
steel Corporation have determined to
break the strike and TO ultimately OPP
crate all the idle plants.
The second move that is understood
/ to have been initiated to-day is the
! starting OF the long idle Hyde Park
plant OF the Sheet Steel Company
This plant was taken into the combine
burdened with Objectionable contracts
made by the former owners. and has
remained idle since the American
Sheet Steel Company took hold of the
| property. The long idleness of this
mill has caused most of the men for
merly employed there to leave Hyde
Park for other places and the COM
pany believes there would be less diff
ficulty in starting this plant than
where the Amalgamated Association
has control.
1t was apparent in Pittsburg this
evening that fresh and decidedly I'M
portant Development in the st~ke wera
about to take place. At the Amalga-
mated headquarters the two leading
| officials of the association were absent
during the greater part of the day. 1t
was stated that President Shaffer and
Secretary Williams were away on per
sonal business and had nothing in hand
| concerning the strike.
| The Conference Held on Tuesday
night which kept President Shaffer and
Secretary Williams out until early this
morning remains as mysterious as be-
fore Neither would give any idea of
what had taken place aside from STAT
| ing positively that they had not met any
! official of the United States Steel Cor
| poration.
The question of the manufacturers Sc
| cuyS NJ injunctions against the Amalga-
| mated Association was discussed guard
| eddy during the day. Assistant Seere-
tary NJ. f. Iigne said he did not think
| the measure would be resorted to. There
was no cause for such measure, and
l.if there was he doubted IL under pres
ent conditions the courts would grant
such orders. Particularly Is this the
| case in Pennsylvania. In Ohio, Presi-
| dent Shaffer seemed to feel confident
that such injunctions would not be
| granted Those best acquainted with
the manufactures say there is little
hot oh
will be resorted to now.
The seeming indifference of the com
bine concerning the idle hoop plants,
may have its explanation in the fnfor-
nation that the company intends to
abandon its plants and concentrate the
| business in the new mills now build
ing
For the Carnegie Company
| at Duquesne. This new plant will be
the largest hoop and tie mill in the
world.The Duquesne plant will be oper-
ated on a strictly non-union basis.
From Monessen came the report that
thirty men had been discharged for be-
| ing suspected of association with the
strikers, and the claim was made that
this would cripple the mill. From the
mill officials it is learned that the pls!nt
/
men are making big money.
Concerning issuance of general
strike order by the Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION, President Shaffer said to-
day:
1T will be issued when the necessity
arises. do not propose to fix a time
in advance. The men are all prepared
and will obey the strike order when re-
| cd ont will n q
| any chance from the present situation
We are ready for settlement but it must
be an honorable settlement
The explanation of the absence of
| President Shaffer and Secretary Will
liams was given in the following tel
egram from Wellsville tonight:
Disguised as a decrepit, half blind
ragged tramp. President 7. J. Shaffer,
the head of the Amalgamated Assoeia-
ton. slipped into Wellsvlle this after
noon, remained an hour in conference
with Vice President Chappell and 9TH
err officials and boarded the evening
train at East Liverpool to return to
| Pittsburg. Not a half dozen persons
knew he was in town. On the same
train with Mr. Shaffer from Pittsburg,
came nine non-union men from Apol-
10 and Duncansville, five of whom
evaded the strikers committee and
went to work in the mill while the
other four, after going through an ex-
perience with the one hundred strikers
which at one time seemed likely TO
end in violence, returned TO Pittsburg.
President Shaffer would not state
The Object of His Mission.
| It was intimated that he was here to
outline the policy of the strikers in
view of the threatened injunction pro-
ceedlngs He made this statement
Just before leaving East Liverpool:
There will be no injunction. L
think | have accomplished much. No
Injunction will be granted unless our
men resort to violence, unless we
! coerce and intimidate men into re-
naming away from the mill. Thus
far our men have violated no law"
The experience of the non-union men
| here assumed a very threatening as
pect. but FIVE of them got them into
the company offices almost before the
train had stopped. The strikers had re-
ceived notice of the corning and met
the train one hundred strong. When
the non-unionists tumbled off the
4 smoker they were surrounded. No vio-
{1l hx,t tho