New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-11

rjoting tell The same story. All hands
agree that outsiders were here CIV
ing orders and leading the men; i,
was. think. mn organized affair. What
we must find ont Is who organized II
and why
81 have looked over the written
charges OF Flynn. | know Flynn nc
has played fair IN this matter am
going TO put him before tho grano jury
and let HIM tell oil he knows. -,
Il shall also call Mr.. Campbell lie
may know some things we want 10
know. lie can. for instance, tell US
about the now guards he brought III
and what was done with them. II inc
merger has anything 10 do with TINS
thing we want to know it
Henderson will see tomorrow George
=. West. Of Washington. who Is mere III
the interests Of the Walsh Industrial
Commission West, who arrived TINS
morning. said tonight he was inclined
20 think that the trouble was caused
from the outside.
Flynn. IN his statement 10 the prose-
cutting attorney, says:
I'VE have evidence. regarded by us as
conclusive. that this entire trouble was
caused by paid sluggers brought 10
East Youngstown by the Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Company.
Here are some OF the things we have
established:
These sluegers. working for tho
company. conducted deliberate cam
paign Of liquor buying on Friday 20 get
as many as possible of the workers IN
toXicated.
49,. ~ I'LL L.. al. p,,o,or;o, ,vCrL
ors on Thursday for our use Friday
morning was taken away by the com
psny so that We could not use IT. The
hall was Rumanian Hall. Our purpose
was 20 urge the workers not TO drink
and not 10 permit themselves 10 be
drawn into trouble. The gunner who
did the shooting were residents or
Pittsburgh.
Blames Merger Promoters.
81 do not think there was any for
eign influence involved. think II was
n financial scheme rugged up as the lest
desperate resort to depress the value
Of tube works stock, 30 that interests
that arr trying TO form q great haif
billion dollar merger could get the con
troll they wanted. Strangely enough
control OF tube works stock is held by
local men. They did not want 70 sell.
Tney figure that stock worth $500 TO
others. was worth that 90 them. and
they wanted TO keep the control IN
Youngstown.
IL have seen sluggers here that /
can identify as sluggers that have oper-
ated in other places. know these men
we're brought here for this job. This
whole thing was engineered by fnan-
GERS. Organized labor demands that
this rotten thing be investigated to.the
finish"
Mr. Campbell had planned TO answer
the Flynn charges tonight, but at the
lost moment he changed his mind. con
,suting himself with saying that he had
not examined the allegations. The sit
walton. he added. was unchanged. with
no new developments in the matter OF
the merger
Dan Montgan. twenty-five. who was
shot during the rioting. died tonight,
bringing the number OF deaths 10 three.
Persistent reports tonight said tnat
the strikes in the plants of the YounCs-
town Sheet and Tube and the Republic
Iron and steel Company. in East
Youngstown. Struthers and Lansing
vile. affecting $4,000. had been settled.
Confirmation was impossible.
Thirty-0ne foreigners arrested for
carrying concealed weapons were to-
day fined from So 10 500 in East
Youngstown. More than two hundred
arrests were made and tho police Off
cials intend 70 dispose Of the rest OF
the cases as soon as possible.
Counsel for persons whose homes and
places of business were burned by the
mob. resulting IN a loss estimated at
more than Sf.O0OoOO, said that they
would be unable TO collect any dam
ages. Insurance companies will not
nav. IL IS held. and neither the state
nor the county can be held liable.