The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-04
WOMAN STANDS
OFF STRIKERS
Armed With Revolver She
Protects NOn-uniOn Men.
AND SINGLE-HANDED
PUTS MOB TO FLIGHT
Steel Workers Fight Assumes
a SeriOUs Phase.

Pittsburg, Aug. g. A wensvile. O.,
dispatch says: Deeply enraged by being
outwitted by the mill officials. who yes
terday afternoon succeeded in running
nine new workers into the mill. the
strikers became desperate last night
and asserted that no more accesstons
must be made to the mill workers. Ac-
cOrdingly more than 100 of them guard
ed both entrances 10 the mill all night.
They made extra effort tho be vigilant
when the midnight train from Pitts
burg came TO town, but were unable to
locate any more strike breakers.
About O'Clock this morning they went
/ to the house of mill-wOrker named
Harry Phillips. Phillips wife boards
three Of the men who came here a few
days ago to work at the mill The
| strikers pelted the house with stones.
| breaking nearly all the windows. and
demanded that the mill men who were
boarding there come out Several shots
were fred by the men, but no one was
| hurt.
Mrs. Phillips is a pluc<y woman, and
armed with a gun she went out INTO
! the crowd of strikers and dared them
| to touch her She then took the men
! who were boarding with her including
/ her husband, to the mill, she walking
| beside them with loaded revolver In her
] nanQ. ana at the same AAAllE tAelA ms AAA1
| strikers to interfere. She got the Tour
men inside the mill and then turned
/ and put the mob as she calls them, 10
/ rout She saws that she knows many
of them and win have them arrested
| Some interesting developments are
| looked for before Monday The plant
| is now-running five of its mills -FOUR
| of them double and one Of them single
! turn- Manager BrOOkman declares
! that tie mill will be running in full by
/ Monday.
Exciting Day at Wellsville.
/ WeIlsville tonight reports this the
| most exciting day since the strike be-
4 gan. The riot at an early hour this
| morning around the boarding house
| kept by Mrs. Phillips in which non
| union men are quartered, was followed
| shortly after noon By the proprietor Of
/ the house swearing out warrants
/ charging twenty-seven of the members
| of the Amalgamated ASSOCIATION with
| riot Organizer Evans name IS lncluu-
| ed in the affidavit, and he and several
| others have been arrested The intor-
Z nations were made at the request or
! the American Sheet steel company.
] Sheriff Morgan OF this county has two
deputies on the ground tonight 10 as
| sist the local police in maintaining Or
| der. -
Word has. been received at Wellsville
that the strike viii be made general.
! The sentiment is strong among all steel
/ workers. Harry Phillips. around whose
/ house the riot occurred this morning
notified the police late tonight that an
| effort would be made to blow up MS
/ home tonight. The entire police Iofce
| is guarding the Phillips home
A McKeespOrt dispatch says Last
night was a night of anxiety and IN
| rest throughout McKeespOrt, and the
excitement was very noticeable among
| the strikers. The patrols were douolea
and messages from Amalgaflla-Ied
! headouarters were expected AT any
] time. During the early evening cohH-
| dence was expressed that q genera
! strike would be ordered. and the stTlh-
] ers who would be thrown out or WoIh
| nv the closing down Of their Iolillls
r1i11s inquired frequently for news
! A furry of excitement was caused %
tho story of the two men who tried 20
lent a house TO quarter men VINO Would
| - brougbt to Dreak the strike at Ins
| DernnIer mill of the American IN
| pate company. Several pa solSeNpe en- I
| most of the night in looking LoL IN. In
men who had disappeared, ana sun .I
ano+ber crowd kept in readiness tuI
material necessary for a coat or - -
- Feathers. An organizer OF me
American Federation Of LABOR y IN
naCted here. and a lodge OF '9O IlleIl " ~
he formed among the tube "oLAe1