Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-12-10
TIN WORKERS
STRIKE TAXES
SERIOUS TURN
REPORTS OF VIOLENCE CLEARLY
DEMONSTRATE TEMPER OF
PARTICIPANTS.
SOLDIER FIRES UPON STRIKER,
Dynamiting of Non-union Mems Home
Results in Injuries to Seven
Persons
SOLDIER FIRES UPON STRIKER.
open SHOP ORDER THE CAUSE.

PITTSBURG, Pa. Dec. S.-The
strike of the Amalgamated Association
of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers against
the American Sheet and Tinplate COM
pany, a subsidiary of the United States
Steel corporation, which has been in
progress during the past five months. in
Pennsylvania, is gradually assuming Sc
rious proportions.
Much Violence Reported.
Developments in the labor dispute to-
day clearly demonstrated the temper of
the participants. A house, occupied by
non-union men at Struthers, O.. was
dynamited and seven persons injured
a soldier opened fire on a striker at
Bridgeport, O., without effect. however
non-union men were severely beaten at
New Castle. Pa, and the authorities at
Wheeling, w. Va, and Martins Ferry,
o., are preparing for any trouble that
it is feared may occur momentarily at
mills in that vicinity.
The officials of the United States Steel
corporation and American Sheet and Tin
plate company are said to be holding Sc
cret conferences in this city and New
York
In West Virginia the civil authorities
have so far been able to cope with the
situation; Pennsylvania authorities are
considering the ACCESSIBILITY of seeking
the aid of the state constabulary and in
Ohio the military has been invoked.
Follows "Open Shop" Order.
The strike followed the "open shop
order of the company. If successful, this
means it is said the exclusion of the
Amalgamated association in the plants
of the steel corporation.
A conference of national labor lead
ers, under the auspices of the American
Federation of Labor, will be held here
next Monday, and the attitude of the
United States Steel corporation towards
organized labor will receive thorough
consideration.
House Is Blown Up.
STRUTHERS, O., Dec. S.-A large,
double frame house, occupied by the
families of Harry Birney and Louis
Smith, recently imported here by the
American Sheet and Tinplate company,
to work in the local MILL where a strike
is in progress, was dynamited early to-
day.
William Birney, father of Harry Biz
ney, was almost suffocated by being
buried under the debris, and six other
members of the two families sustained
slight injuries. The house was practically
demolished. portion was blown away,
and the plaster was torn from the wall
of every room.
The seven occupants escaped death by
the narrOwest margin. Cut and bruised
they had no more than reached the street
when the front and enc side of the house
collapsed.
Within a short time deputy sheriffs
searched the territory for some clue to
the perpetrators, but without success.
The sheriff is of the opinion, however,
that the dynamite was discharged by the
same persons who, three months ago, at
tempted to wreck the residence of c.. /.
Gibson, superintendent of the plant At
that time a reward of $4,000 was offered
for the apprehension of the dynamiters.
Await New York Meeting
BRIDGEPORT, O., Dec. S.-Strikers,
officials and military were in an expec-
tant attitude here today pending a con-
ference scheduled at New York between
District Manager G. A. Robinson of the
Aetna-Standard mills Of the American
Sheet and Tinplate company and the Of
ficials of the United States Steel corpora
ton.
The outcome of the New York meet
ing, it was believed here, would be the
operation of the plant non-union or its
permanent suspension. In the former
case, it was feared trouble would result,
as the union men, members Of the ANAL
gamated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers, are struggling for the life
of the organization against the steel cor
pOratlOn.
Troops Leave for Home