Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-08-14
Injunction Granted Phillips Compan ny;
Workers Get What They Voted For
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SO
i The workers got Just exactly what
they voted Tor, when Judge Safer, sit
ting at Columbus, Ohio, Thursday
granted the Phillips Sheet and Tin
plate Company, of Steubenville, an in
junction restraining their former en-
Moves from intimidating or coercing
strike breakers or other employees
ohout the company's plant at that
l Mace. The decee was drawn up by
tbe attorney for the corporation and
signed by the Judge Friday The decl-
sion was not unexpected by the ma
iority of the workers who have at last
got their eyes open and know that
their only friends ar the workers.
The Phillips Com pany also have
found out that all the money THAT they
ran command will not run a mill, and
that it is labor and not money that
makes the wheels go round and brings
hack the coin The workers are
awakening to the fact that in the fut
IRE they will have to take possession
of tn ecourts of justice, If they want
to get justice. But at that the victory
will be a victory for the workers, for
there is nothing that will band them
together more than the blanket IN
innction granted the corporation
which tries to make slaves Of its en-
ployes.
(By Special Correspondent.
Steubenville, Ohio, Aug. 14.-Severe
inroads were made into the efforts OF
the Phillip Sheet & Tin Plate Com
many here in it's attempt to wreck the
Amalgamated Association, when On
Monday about go of its employees de-
serted their posts and departed for
other points.
On Monday afternoon about $50
about 80 men, marching in columns OF
lows, attired in civilian dress, many
carrying suit cases, were seen coming
up Third street in the direction of the
central portion of town. A monster
crowd followed. The route they pur-
sued seemed to indicate that they
were headed for the company's up
town quarters on North Third street.
Just north of aW sitting ot,nub6J. I'm
Just north of Washington, but when
the brigade reached the latter thor
oughfare it turned westward and went
up to the Panhandle depot, where the
6:10 train for Pittsburgh was boarded
Several of these men were interviewed
and told in substance the same story
One man with whom l talked said
he had been employed under gross
misrepresentation. He claimed he an
sweFed an advertisement in Pittsburgh
and applid at the third floor or the
Union, Bank building of that city, ant
hired out as waiter at $3.50 per day
When he arrived here he was met b.
armed men and escorted to the mill
On his arrived at the latter place ht
discovered men with big pistols pro
truding from their hip pockets waiting
on the table. He was astounded ant
asked of man who seemed to &C
in a supervisory capacity, what i
meant, and for the first time was en-
lightened as to the true conditions
This man said he Immediately demand
ed to be allowed to depart, but wa
denied He remained there four days
at which time the protest of disfac
ton became so general that the com
pany was forced to allow them to de
part The firm used ever siniste
method to detain these men, accord
ing to his statement. telling them /
they attempted to leave unprotectet
the strikers ON the outside woult
severely maltreat them. When tn
men finally left, the company let then
go without making absolutely no pre-
vision for their protection, the DIN,
guardian of the law accompanying tn
deserters from the mill gate to tn
depot being officer Bair, Of the loca
police force, who happened to be o.
duty in the vicinity Of the mill.
The man with whom l converse
said he had performed tire edays' Ia
Dor but received in return only
ticket from here to Pittsburgh, whic
is equivalent to $110.
Another said there were 40 othe
men who wanted to qui tbut the con
pany refused to let them go. H
stated that the men now employe
here are working ~ hours per da!
While not claiming to know anythin
a about the manufacture of tin, he sal
Y that majority of the men there seen
ed to be engaged in lodging tn
bosses. The mill, it was stated, ha
more the appearance of barracks
war time than a commercial instit'
tion
The Phillips Company is probabl
chuckhng over the fact that it think
1t put one over on the strikers an
Others here when it surreptitiousl
rented and fitted upk the Auditorium
rink here, where it Is now houisn
about 80 of the strike breakers. Co
tractors here employing card men e
cllsively and in accord with the pri
ciple of unionism, were deceived as
. the use to which the building was