Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-20
No MATERIAL Change N
IHt STRIKE SITUATION.
,ruoRs THAT A SETTLEMENT IS
IMMINENT FILL THE AK, but
LACK vERIFICATION.
RIG SCARE AT wELLSvILLE.
MERCHANTS FEAR TIN MILL MAY
BE MOVED AWAY FROM
THE TOWN.

pITTSBURG, Pa, July 19.-The
strike situation tonight cannot be
termed materially changed, although
many umors are in the air to the eff
feet that a settlement of the roubles
is imminent. Up to 10 p. m. none Oh
these reports have been verified and
Tho conclusion reached is that no set
Element is in sight.
At the offices of the Carnegie Com
pany. and at the headquarters OF the
manufacturers, the usual silence is
preserved concerning the condition OF
business or the status of the strike.
President Shaffer, of the A~malgama-
ted Association, however, expressed his
entire satisfaction with the progress OF
the battle and says the workers have
gained steadily while the m~anufac-
turers have lost continually since last
Monday.
He says up to the present time the
Amalgamated forces contemplate no
change in their programme, being per-
feetly satisfied with the showing their
neople have made. President Shafer
SAYS the advance in wages offered the
tube mill workers at McKeesport to-
day. while seemingly large, will not
bring the pay UP to the union scale.
Commencing in a day or two. two
weekly bulletins will be issued from
A~malgamated headquarters to give
workers and strikers official news Of
the exact condition of strike affairs.
FROM STORM CENTRE.
From the storm centre at Wellsville,
O., tonight comes word that striking
mill men in that vicinity spent an I'M
easy, restless day. There is no longer
any doubt that the owners of the Wells
vile plant of the American Sheet Steel
Company have many of the towns
largest merchants back of them In their
fight against the workmen and rluch
bitterness has resulted. Confronted
with what seems a certainty that II
the present trouble goes along much
further the Wellsville plant will be dis
mantled and brought across the line
into Pennsylvania, grocers, clothing
men and others who for years have re-
ceived the wages of the mill workers in
exchange for goods, are now trying to
show the strikers that they are wrong
and foolish i~nSkeeping up a fight.
Pressure brought to bear along this
line, the strikers say, is energy wasted,
as the strikers are more determined to-
night than before. They are more
than angry with the merchants. These
Wellsville men haT; Deen considered
excellent workmen and many of them
have money invested in property here,
as should the mill be taken to Wander
grift, as is threatened, they would suf-
fer. They do not believe the promise
which accompanies the threat that the
mill from Dennison, O., will be brought
to this place in case the present
trouble is settled, is true.
USUAL TRUST THREATS.
The proposition has been put to the
strikers in a semi-official way that II
he strike is settled winthin a reason
able time, the Dennison mill will be
brought here to increase the
IF the place and If the contest Is long
drawn out the local plant will be re-
moved bodily to Vandergrift, Pa. 1t
remains to be seen what effect this line
of argument will have on the strikers.
Mayor Dennis openly condemns the
merchants for their course in the mat
ter, and says they are going beyond
their province in trying to influence the
workmen.
The plant here was running to-day
about one-fourth full. Eighteen skilled
workmen, together with many laborers
and boys, are employed. Superin-
tendent Brookman says the force con-
sists of forty persons. The report from
Fittsburg that twelve non-union skilled
men had been secured to come here
proves untrue up to the present time,
none having made their appearance to-
day. The company officials, however.
say the plant will be running full in a
short time.
The reports tonight from Apollo
and Vandergrift, where the Amalga-
mated Association is making strenuous
efforts to gain recruits, are that the
situation is practically unchanged, but
much uneasiness is felt.
No official report has reached here
concerning Duncansville.
The Pittsburg Leader prints the fol-
owing, in reference to the reported
shortage OF tin plate:
TIN PLATE SHORTAGE.
Word was received here to-day that
= considerable shipment Of Welsh plate
is now on the water en- route to New
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