The age-herald., 1901-08-25

He left this afternoon. late, for Chicago, where he is to address the South Chicago men Sunday His appearance there, he said, is to refute statements made in an open letter from the fourteen workers who claim that the contract entered into with the Illinois Steel Company cannot be disregarded.
 "I will say to them," said Mir. Tighe, that a contract like this cannot hold wa ter when it's observance means the very death of the organization whose members entered into it. believe my view will prevail and that South Chicago will join the strike
 A New Peace Story.
 A new peace stock coming from high labor authority Is to the effect that the Civic Federation will undertake to bring about settlement of the strike, and John Mitchell, national president of the Miners Union. will be the mouthpiece.
 It is known that Mir Mitchell has de- clined to encourage a sympathetic strike of the miners, but he has offered every aid possible to the Amalgamated Associa- tion. The gentleman who tells the story says President Mitchell will return to this city within a day or so, when active steps will be taken. Joseph Bishop, sec retary of the Ohio State arbitration board, arrived here this evening and his presence lends color to the report.
 Today the Amalgamated Association succeeded in forming a new lodge among the workmen at the Duquesne plant of the Carnegie Company, and one of the new members not knowing he was talking to a newspaper man fndiscreetly made the statement that strike had been or dered at that plant to begin at once. His version Is that the men when they left the plant tonight are not to return Sun day night. No specific confirmation of the story can be had tonight. Mayor Black of McKeesport, It is said, swore in twenty-five prominent strikers tonight to serve as extra policemen. This action was taken because Superintendent Pit cock of the Delmer tin plate works mo- tified the mayor today that the mill would be started on Monday morning and pro- tection was desired.
 A "Scab" Beaten.
 A telegram from Wellsville tonight says
 Interest was for a time transferred to East Liverpool this afternoon, where Homer Thompson, Jr., one of the men who went back to work in Irondale mill, was arrested on charge of carrying concealed weapons and fined s9.60 by the Mayor of that city. After he had been released he was met at the depot by mob who gave him frightful beating. When the train arrived J. D. Mcdonald, a prominent attorney of that city, assist ed Thompson onto the train and when he returned to the depot platform was set upon by a crowd of union potters and run up Broadway to his office with crowd of 800 men following behind on the dead run shouting derisively at him. The miners employed in the mines of the American Tin Plate Company at Irondale came out on strike today, rather than mine coal to be used in operating the mill non-union. The strikers claim all the skilled workmen employed in the Iron dale plant this afternoon promised that they would work no more If they were taken back into the association. This the strikers promised and 1t Is hardly prob able that the mill will work on Monday unless new men are imported to oper- ate it.