The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-14
THEY WANT PEACE.
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where plants are being partially operated
and the men are wavering on the question
of going out. Crowds surrounded the Car
negie plants here to-day and the officials
finally called on the police TO clear them
away. The officials say that the loss
of ten men at the lower Union mill can be
directly traced to the threats of the
strikers. who intercept the men on the
way to and from work: They make the
same complaint as to Bellaire. Wheeling
and McKeesport. They say that the strik-
ers at Riverside went TO Belaire and lit
orally bluffed the remaining men into GO
ing out. They also claim that the same
tactics gained the strikers the steel work
ers In the National tube plant at Ben
wood and also forced out hundreds of loyal
employees at McKeespOrt. They say they
have given up hop of getting protection
from the local authorities at Mckeesport
and Wheeling. but have given no indication
that they intend to ask for state aid in
either pennsylvania or West Virginia. The
strike leaders, on the other hand, insist
that they are proceeding entirely within
their rights and the law, and that any re-
cruits won by them have been obtained by
means entirely fair.
Mayor r.. J. Black. Of McKeesport, to-
night gave out the following statement in
reply TO the numerous criticisms of his
course in not dispensing the crowds of
strikers at different times during the strike:
AT a time like this in McKeesport. when
so many men are idle. they are bound TO
come out on the streets and crowd them
more than usual. and like every other
crowd will gather where there is an ex-
citement, but so far there has been little
or no disorder, and in all cases the police
have handled the situation admirably.
There is no more orderly set of men in this
country than the men who are idle i'm this
city to-day. In the instances i'm which the
Iuoe Company requested me TO send men
To disperse the crowds the chief Of police
was ON the ground at the time and reported
there was no disorder. We cannot order
a man To go home and stay there when
ne Is doing no harm and only standing on
the street. As far as the Tube Company is
concerned, II has taken and appropriated
10 its own use a street of this city TO which
~ mas no legal right whatever. and il is
the very street on which IL was complained
that the strikers had cOngregated. If |
allow a private corporation to take up and
appropriate to its own use a street. how
can ! consistently refuse a private citizen
the right TO stand upon ii. ! do not consider
talking to nonunion workmen disorderly in
any sense and the men have a perfect right
10 attempt all kinds of as long
as they do not resort TO positive physical
coercion"
Tn strikers were called together yester-
day at the CHARTERS plant by Superintend-
ent John Henry and preliminary notice
for the c~ompany's plan TO move the plant
TO Leechburg was served on them. Eighty.
strikers responded and Mr.. Henry told
them that the fires would be lighted and
all prepartioL.s made for "A start to-day. He
said that at ? o'clock the whistle would he
blown. and If the men failed to respond the
fires would never be delighted. The pro-
gramme as outlined was carried out. but
when the whistle sounded the men did not
respond, The fires were at once drawn and
the order TO dismantle and remove the
mills was given. The officials OF the COM
pany said the plant would be torn down
and moved within two weeks.
The steel corporation held its ground at
Chicago. Joliet. Bay View. Youngstown.
Columbus, the kiskimenta valley and the
Carnegie group, with the exception of the
instance named. The strikers are consider
ing plans for breaking the decision of Chi
cago, Joliet and Bay View to stand with the
steel companies. but what they plan TO do
has not been made clear. They are charg-
ing some of the Western men with both
dishonesty and disloyalty. and there is "A
general desire among members of the
Amalgamated here for some form of in
Quiry.
Mayor Blacks mail to-day brought him
two peculiar communications. One was n
postal card which read: You will never
live to serve your term. Somebody ought
TO kill you. There - a place for such fools
as you" 1t was signed "A Striker" and
II was mailed at Washington. Pa.
The other communication inclosed an ed
itorial from a New York paper arraigning
Mayor Black. On the margin of il was
written: Go take a dose of carbolic acid"
Other writer's encOurag ed and still others
discouraged the policy of the mayor.
Reports from the affected districts to-
night indicate that the good order which
has characterized the strike since II began
still prevails. Youngstown reports that
the announcement of the removal of the
Warren plant has been made there. Scott
dale reports that the Amalgamated organ
lzers are at work among the men there,
but the prospects OF inducing them TO
strike are but slight. The strikers at Con-
nellsville have called an Indignation meet
ing as a result OF the threat of the Amer
lean Tin Plate Company To operate its mill
nonunlon or dismantle IL. Advices from
Lorain say that an effort is being made 10
organize an Amalgamated lodge. but that
It's success is doubtful. A dispatch from
wheeling says that District Superintendent
Carter has informed the strikers that Bel
laire Will remain closed down until they
are hungry and that II 1t ever starts again
IL VIII be run nOnunion. The same dis
patch says that the steel men in the Ma
tional tube works at Riverside are the only
ones or the 10000 employed by the steel
corporation In Wheeling district who have
gone out.