Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-13
Secretary-treasurer,
NJ. F. TIGHE,
Assistant Secretary.
BEN |. DAVIS.
Journal Man


Journal Manager.
The men who are directing the fight
in the field for the steel corporation
and its constituent companies
Would Give No Indication
Of their plans for the future and would
only discuss the situation generally. A
statement alleged to have been given
out officially by them at noon. was re-
pudiated later in the day. Their re-
ports showed that the Carnegie group,
South Chicago, Bay View. Joliet
Youngstown, Columbus. the Kiskimi-
netas valley group. Wellsyille and
Monessen were moving along full hand
ed. Bellaire, their adyices showed, was
badly crippled. but had held on until
5 o'clock in the afternoon and would
be started up again tomorrow. They
admitted the loss to-day Of the Nation
al rolling mill at MeKeesport, which
they had exepcted to hold and that the
Boston mill and M~onongshela steel
va no AT tAAINttSB0it ~ Nv iNtPubttN
and Elba here were tied up. Their
tune workers at McKeesport and here
were still at work. but menaced by a
possible shortage of material. Their
tube men at Wheeling were out but the
furnace and cokemen there we're at
work and their steel men there showed
an inclination to stay on unless init
Undated. They also claimed that many
of their men at McKeesport desired to
work,
INT Were Being Terrorised
by the disorderly element. They also
charged that many of their men were
being frightened from their places at
Wheeling and insisted that adequate
protection for the men there would in
sure continued operations. 1t was also
stated by the steel officials that Clark's
mill here was moving along with its
non-union crews engaged last week and
that another mill manned by old Anal
gamated men had started up at Wells
vile, representing a gain of one there
since Saturday.
Officials of the National Tube Com
pany and Mayor Black. of McKecsport,
clashed to-day I'VE the question of
protection for non-strikers and proper
ty A large crowd of strikers assem-
bled around the works this morning
and their pickets intercepted the tube
workers on their way to the mills.
There was some excitement and the
mill officers claimeing that their men
were being threatened and in danger OF
violence called on Mayor Black to clear
the streets and protect them. The
mayor said that he would only inter-
fere 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 jser-
ed, no violence was offered. The strik-
ers say that it is only a question OF
time when material will give out and
the tube men must quit. Otherwise 1t
is believed that there would be serious
trouble in McKeesport. Reports from
Wheeling and Bellaire indicate that
there may be trouble there. At the lat
ter place an attempt is to be made to
keep the plant in operation and the
mill officials say that If they, or the
men who did not go out, are interfered
with they VIII ask for State militia to
protect them. At Wheeling reports
that men were to be imported have
brought out crowds BEN on preventing
their admission and it is predicted that
there will be serious clashes there be-
fore the strike is settled.
Most of the strike c~enters, and Pitts
burg in particular, are very orderly,
however. The strikers at Canal Dover,
Ohio. have had men watching the mills
since 2 o'clock this morning on tie
strength of a report that
workers were to be brought there.
Supt. Harris, OF the tin mill, has noti-
fed the men that unless the plant is
reopened within a reasonable time, he
has orders to commence dismantling 1t.
Manager Warner has made the same
announcement to the men who went out
of his service.
The Committee
of the Amalgamated Association will
probably make an exhaustive investi-
cation of the action taken by the lodges
at South Chicago, Bay View and Joliet
in refusing to make the strike. Presi-
dent Shaffer has been urged to go west
and personally investigate the matter
but it is unlikely that he will be able
70 snare the time for the present. A
radical element in the local lodges bit
terly the western members
and insist that there was something ir-
regular about the matter. Others init
mate that influences that would not
bear investigation were used on the
men. It is claimed that a canvas
made a week g showed a majority in