Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-14

strike centers to-day. although 1t was
anticipated at the points where plants
are being partially operated and the
men are wavering on the question of
going out. Crowds surround the Car
negie plants here to-day and the Of
ficials finally called on the police to
clear them away.
The officials say that the loss of ten
men at the lower union mill car be d.
reetly traced to the threats of the strik-
ers who intercept the men on the way
TO and from work. Thy make the same
complaint as to Bellsire, Wheeling and
McKeesport. They say that the strik-
ers at Riverside went to Bellaire and
literally bluffed the remaining men into
going out. They also claim that the
same tactics gained the strikers the
steelworkers in the National Tube plant
at Benwood. and also forced out hun
dreds of loyal employees at McKeesport.
They say they have given up hope OF
getting protection from the local au-
thorities at MeKeesport and Wheeling,
but have given no indication that they
intend
To Ask for state Aid
in either Pennsylvania or West Vir-
ginia. The strike leaders, on the other
hand, insist that they are proceeding
entirely within their own rights and
the law and that any recruits won by
them lave been obtained by means en-
tirely fair.
The steel corporation held its ground
at Chicago, Joliet, Bay View, Youngs-
town, Columbus, the Kiskiminetas val
ley and the Carnegie group with the
exception of the instance named.
The strikers are considering plans
for breaking the decision of Chicago,
Joliet and Bay View to stand with tho
steel companies, but what they plan
to do has not yet been made clear.
They are charging some of the west
ern men with both dishonesty and dis
loyalty, and there is a general desire
among members of the Amalgamated
here for some form OF inquiry.
Mayor r. J.. Black, OF McKeesport,
tonight gave out the following state
ment to a representative of the Asso-
ciated Press in reply to me numerous
criticisms of his course in not dis
persing the crowds of strikers at differ
ent times during the strike:
Blacks Statement.
"At a time like this in McKeesport,
when so many men are idle, they are
bound to come out on the streets and
crowd them more than usual, and, like
every other crowd. will gather where
there is an excitement, but so far there
has been little or nc disorder, and in all
cases the police have handled the situa-
ton admirably. There Is no more or
derby set OF men in this country than
the men who are idle in this city to-
day. In the instances in wu-ch the tube
company requested me to send men to
Lisperse the crowds, the cnieI Of police
was on the ground at the time and re-
ported that there was no disorder. We
cannot order a man to go home and
stay there when he is doing nc harm
and only standing in the street. AS
far as the tube company is concerned.
it has taken and appropriated to it's
own use a street of this city, to which
it has no legal right whatever, and this
is the very street on which it was COM
planned that the strikers had congre-
gated. If l allow a private corpora
ton to take up and appropriate to its
own us a street. how can I consistently
refuse a private citizen the right to
stand Upon it? | do not consider talk
ing to n%on-union workmen disorder in
any sense, and the men have a perfect
right to attempt all kinds of argu-
mnts as long as they do no resort to
positive physical coercion