The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-24
TRUST RESORTS
TO INJUNCTION
InVOkes Aid Of Courts in Fight
With Steel Workers.
CRISIS IN BIG STRIKE
MAY BE a RESTRAINING ORDER
ISSUED TO-DAY.
CRISIS IN BIG STRIKE

Pittsburg, Pa, July 23.-The combine
forces have decided TO carry the strike
into the courts 1t is learned today
that Former Judge Mills Of Wellsvtne,
O., has been retained by Persifer +.
Smith. district manager Of the Ameri-
con Sheet Steel company. to prepare
papers for presentation within few
days to a federal court asking for a re-
sJTalnlng order TO stop strikers from
@CCCSIlng or mOleStlng in any way non
union men on the highways The move
premises a crisis N the strike, thus far
one OF Watchfulness and waiting
me application for an injunction
may be MADE in the United States dis
trlct court and at first will apply only
70 Wellsville, but it is believed the
plans are 10 pursue similar tactics at
McKeesport and other places where
necessary.
A rUmor is in circulation that a car
lead of men Will run into WellsviHe to-
morrow to supplement the force now at
work. THIS latter story has not been
verified up to midnight. Outside of
thess incidents che actual strike sta
tus IS unchanged.
According to strike leaders. the Of
Metals of the WeilsVille district are an
parentiy seeking to bring on an open
conflict in order TO invoke the aid of
the sherim's deputies and if possible
the militia. Earnest and renewed
warnings have been sent to the strikers
t. remain cool and keep within the law
There was much indgna ton among
the strikers today over a report that
Mayor A. p. Dennis had called two
strikers, Patrick O'COnnor and Daniel
RUmbaugh, before him ana forbidden
them 10 talk to men on the way to the
mill in the effort to keep them from
going to work Vice President chap
pelle of the Amalgamated association
Immediately sought the mayor and
asked him what he meant by trying to
abridge the right Of free speech. Mayor
Dennis denied that he had forbidden
the strikers to talk, and said:
Msvov Makes Denial.
What I did say to the men was that
members Of the association must not
take hold Of any mans coat and hold
him while alking to him. / told them
II was better to 80 to a mans house
and talk to him than to gather a
crowd on The street"
The mayor said neither Manager
BrOOkmaH nor any one else had put
him up TO advising the men not to
talk. though Mr.. BTOOkman had tele-
phOned him that Rumuaugh had inter
ftfcd with man who was on his way
TO work.
The Amalgamated men say that the
mayor has no authority to forbid free
speech, and that if he orders men not
TO talk TO non uniOLists on the street
the order viii not be Obeyed.
The reports from MCkeeSpOrt tonight
are "a a qUieting nature and no excit-
ing incidents are looked for at present
at that point. Much interest is center
ing in the situation at MOnessen. 1t is
reported that today twelve men were
discharged because OF their too close
friendship with the AmaIgamate5 peo-
pie. A report that the miners were
planning a march to MOnesseE to try
to draw out the workers of that place
is denied here. The miners, it said. are
as yet, and the Amalgamated officials
are opposed 10 march measures at this
time.
Among the many peculiar conditions
found at the Monessen mill is the tact
that the men are paid on a tonnage
basis and the company has by contract
with the men offered "A bOnJs on all
tonnage over certain limit, this bonus
to be pas5 a the end of the year. Some
ct the workers have as high as $500
1aus far coming to them, and they
realize that in case of a strike they viii
lose aUof this. The effect of this is to
hold the men to their places From
sharon q telegram was received to
night saying.
"A bin for preliminary injunction
has been granted by Judge Miller re-
strafning the strikers al the American
Steel Casting company works from en-
tering the grounds of the company