The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-11

side at Pittsburg would be started soon.
In preparation for this move the COM
pany this evening endeavored to place N
the plant cots and provisions for the ben
eft of the workers.
MOB WINS FIRST ROUND.
Word was sent to the strikers of the in
tentlon of the company, and when the
nrst wagon containing ice and edibles
crossed the Smithfield street bridge it
was met by a crowd of women and chill
oren and the driver told to turn back.
Without much ado the driver obeyed.
and the crowd rejoiced. This wagon was
Followed by cab containing six negro
workmen When the driver saw the
crowd he lost his nerve and drove his
load back to the Carnegie building. Here
ne was met by large crowd and had to
make run for it to get into the build
Ing safely. After the negroes had been
turned back, a wagon load of cots tiftv
In number, succeeded in making its way
as lar as Fourteenth street, where the
women gathered about it and cut the
ropes holding the load on. The driver
continued on his way, the cots dropping
or at every turn of the wheels, until
about thirty of them had become the
property of the women, who numbered
ABOUT 2o0. Some of the women ran into
their houses and came out with oil cans.
pouring the contents over the cots. which
had been piled in two heaps on Four
teenth street. In an instant two huge
oonfires were blazing briskly, while the
women executed war dance about the
Tires and pelted each other with pillows
and bedding which had fallen from the
wagon.
The twenty cots which the driver sue
ceeded in getting through were piled in
heap on Fifteenth street and a Gordon
II police surrounded it to keep back the
crowd, which had augmented until it
numbered fully 1900, mostly women and
children. AS soon as call could be sent
IN hfteen or twenty officers We're rushed
TO the scene of action, and now the COM
pany property is being guarded by them
The bar mill of the Painter plant, on
the-South side, started on night turn at
4:30 this afternoon, with crew of thirty
men.
The Star tin plant and the Lindsay &
McCutcheon mill claim increased produc-
ton, of better quality every turn, and
expect to be in full operation within a
short time.
Reports from other portions of the dis
trict show no material change from last
week.
BEATEN NEARLY TO DEATH.
The first violence of the strike at Nc
Keesport took place tonight when three
men were set upon by strikers or strike
syTnpathizers and badly beaten. Henry
Weier water tender at the TUBE works,
when he came to the mill, was warned
not to return in the morning. He started
to run, followed by crowd Of Hungar-
ians. He was caught and beaten so bad
ly that his condition is looked upon as
serious. Chas. Meyers, a labor boss at
Demmler, was also badly beaten by
mob when he returned to Mckeesport
and John Isenberg, furnace builder at the
National Rolling mill, parted with the
greater part of his clothing before ne
could escape from the strikers, who en-
deavored to prevent his entering the
mill. The streets tonight are filled with
men who are loudly protesting that the
mill shall not resume. For the most
part the crowd is composed of foreigners,
and many are thought to be strangers
Twenty-Five extra policemen have been
sworn in, and numerous arrests have
been made. The strikers claim to be in
nocent of any violence themselves and
deplore the action of the mob. The Ma
tional Tube officials have been busy get
ting names of participants, for the pur-
pose, it is believed, of applying to the
courts tomorrow for injunctions restrain
ing strikers from congregating about the
works.
RESTS WITH SHAFFER.
PITTSBURG, Sept. 1O.-President T. J.
Shaffer and his advisers in the general
Office of the Amalgamated association
hold the power by authority of the gen.
eral executive board of the organization
to settle the steel strike. Mr. Shaffer
and his advisers apparently allowed to.
day to lapse, after this authority was
vested in them, without closing any set
tlement. On Monday it is said the ex-
ecutive board directed President Shaffer,
together with Secretary-Treasurer John
Williams, Assistant Secretary M f.
Tighe and Ben 1. Davis of the advisory
board, to settle without delay on the
best terms obtainable.
Since then there has been no action
developing anything to further a settle
ment, but it is said that President Shaffer
is seeking to reopen direct negotiations
with the United States Steel corporation
in the hope of getting better terms than
those submitted to the Amalgamaed ex-
ecutive board as the result OF the en-
deawor last week in New York of the rep.
resentatives of the National Civil fed
GRAFTON. headed by President Samuel
Gompers, of the American Federation or
Labor.
The terms secured by the National
Civic federation were neither accepted
nor rejected by the Amalgamated board.
Instead a resolution was passed, directing
President Shaffer, with the aid of his
immediate advisers, to secure the best
possible settlement in the least possible
time. The terms submitted provided
simply for a signing of scales for all
union plants of the Tin Plate, Sheet Steel
and Steel Hoop company, except such as
had been started since the strike began.
The executive com r1itfoo naSSod re
resolution by a bare majority. President
Shaffer protested against proceedings
with so narrow a. margin and suggested
that the members of the board remain
in the city for possible further confer
ence on Monday. At the meeting Monday
1t is said the executive board gave the
Amalganated president unanimous sup