The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-16
SOME MEN DISOBEY ORDERS
Union Men at Several Western Mills
Refuse to Go Out-Only About Sixty
Men on Strfke-Additlons
to This Number During the Week
Expected-The Strikers Make Gafns
Stubborn Fi9ht-Appeal for Aid.

former. The general strike order isl
sued by President Shaffer, of the ANAL
gamated Association, has Sc far been
obeyed by only about 1000 men accord
ing to the best figures o~btainable here.
The first two preliminary calls were
answered by about $4,000 men, s. that
the total number now out is in theI
n~eighborhood of $4,000. The strikers
made gains here today over the show
ing of last night and their prospects
for further aCcessions at both McKees-
port and Wheeling during the week
are very favorable.
The action of the AmaIgamated men
at Chicago. Joliet and Bay View in re-
fusing to come out and their failure to
secure any recruits in the arneg
group throughout the Kisminine val
ley and the big plant at Youngstown
and Columbus, Ohio, have been mark
eddy disappointing to them.
They are keeping up the fight, how
ever, in Il spirited ard claim
that they have strength in reserve
which Will surprise their opponents
They assert that they have gained a
foOthOld in the Carnegie mills in this
city and at the time desired the men
will come out.
They are pressing their advantages at
McKeespOrt and Wheeling and their
organizers are still at work in those two
cities.
President Shaffer has decided to per-
sonaIly visit Wheeling and will go there
Wednesday to address a mass meeting
of his followers He plans to spend to-
morrow here directing the fight and
comforting with his assistants as to
plans for the future.
An appeal for financial aid has been
noo6n RI n~rU3 niZa6 la hnr a nd the prPnPr9l
public and it Is expected that the re-
Spouse to it will be liberal.
The Amalgamated leaders were not
disposed TO do much talking today.
They would not discuss the desertion
of their western fellows, although Mr..
Shaffer made what was evidently in
tended for a brief reference to them
in a short statement he gave out at
noon. Another declaration in the same
interview was regarded as highly Sig
nifcant here. 1t was to n effect that
no effort would be made to call out
members of the American Federation
of Labor and that any action on their
part must be voluntary.
The men who are directing the fight
in the field for the Steel Corporation
and it's constituent would
give no Indication of their plans for the
future and would only discuss the sit
uation generally. Their reports show
ed that the Carnegie group, South
Chicago, Bay View, Joliet, Youngstown,
Columbus, the KiSkiminetas valley
group, Wellsville and MOnessen We're
moving along full handed Bellalre,
their advices showed, was padly GRIP
pled. but had held on until 5 o'clock in
the afternoon and would be started up
again tomorrow. They admitted the
loss today of the National rolling mill
at McKeesport which they had expect
ed to hold and that the Boston mill ana
Monongahela steel works at McheeeS-
mort and the Republic and Elba here
Tvara tied uu. Their tube workers at
McKeespoft and here were still at
work. hut menaced by a possible short
age of material. Their tube men at
Wheeling werc out, but the furnace
and coke men there were at work anu
their steel mer there showed an lncn-
nation to stay on unless 1ntlmldateu.
They also claimed that many OF their
men at McKeesport desired to work
but were being terrorized by the dls,
orderly element. They also charged
hat many of their men were DelhS
frightened from their places at Nneel-
ing and insisted that adequate protec-
tion for the men there would insure
continued operations. 1t was also stat
cd by the steel officials that Clark S
mill here was moving along with It's
n%on-union crews engaged last Week
and another mill anned by old Anal
I1C1 kAGAA
willie representing a gain of one there
sine Saturday.
Oficials of the National Tube Com
pany and Mayor Black clashed TO-DAY
over the question of protection for non
strikers and property.
4 large crowd of strikers
around the works this morning and
their pickets intercepted tube workers
on their way to the mills. There was
some excitement and the mill oflcerS'
claiming that their men were oelns
threatened and in danger of violence,
called on Mayor Black TO clear the
streets and protect them. The mayor
said hat he would only interfere to
stop actual rioting and assault. Two
other appeals were made to him later
in the morning, but he insisted that
there was no danger of an outbreak.
Another crowd gathered at noon when
the tube men were leaving the plant,
and while the workers were jeered, no
violence was offered
The strikers say that it is only a
question of time when material will
give out and the tube men must quit
Otherwise, it is believed that there
would be serious trouble in Mckee
SNORT Reports from Wheeling n Bel
Iaire indicate that there may be trou-
= BILE there.
The executive committee of the
Amalgamated Association Will propaoly
make an l~nVesuSalioh VI
the action taken by the lodges al
South Chicago, Bay View and Jollet III
refusing to make the strike. president
Shaffer has been urged to go west and
personally investigate the matter, ou'
it is unlikely that he will be able 70
spare the time for the present.
a radical element in the local lodges
z bitterly denounces the western mem
bers and insists that there was some
thing irregular about the matter. 9th
ers intimate that influences hat would
not bear investigation We're used on the
men. 1t is claimed that a canvass
made a week ago showed a majority
in favor of striking and that no reason
able explanation of the change of front
3 has been made President Shaffer re-
Trains from any direct criticism of the
act of western men, but it is known
that he deeply regrets the loss of their
s%rnDOrt.