The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-05-02
ANGERGO BECAUSE WORkMEN
REUSED TO JOIN THEIR RANKS
Workmen Are Beaten and Policemen
Are Attacked BY Frenxied Mob
Call Out Office Force.

PITTSBURGH. Pa. Nav Anger
cd because workmen refused to join
their ranks. 5000 striking employees OF
the Westinghouse plants forcibly en-
Gered the mills OF four big steel COM
panies IN Rankin and Braddock late
Today attacked employees and caused
property damage amounting TO several
hundred dollars. One rioter WAS ar
ranged but hundreds OF strikers at
tackled the police with stones and re-
ecued the prisoner. The rioting lasted
three hours and was the most serious
that has occurred since the strike
began.
The plants entered by the strikers
were those OF the Edgar Thompson
works OF the Carnegie Steel company.
the American Steel and Wire Com
pany. the McClintic-Marshall Construc-
ton company. and the Standard Chain
works. District Attorney X. III. Jack
son as soon as notified OF the rioting
ordered the saloons In Braddock.
which had been permitted 10 reopen
place to be closed indefinitely.
The disturbance followed parade
OF 5000 strikers from East Pittsburgh.
Going 10 the plant OF the Edgar
Thompson works in North Braddock.
the marchers battered down heavy
iron gates at one OF the entrances and.
sweeping ten policemen who were
forced their way into the plant. Other
strikers blockaded the tracks OF the
Pittsburgh 4 Lake Erie and the Bal
timore & Ohio railroads. Railway de-
tectives tried TO dislodge them. but
they resisted. tieing up all traffic for
nearly so minutes on both roads.
Attacked Workmen.
Crying Eight hours a day" the
strikers rushed through the plant, at
lacking several workmen. When the
men refused to join them. the strikers
went TO the McClintock-M plant.
Battering open gate. they rushed
into the works. destroyed large belts.
damaged machinery and upset paint
over the floors in the paint depart
ment. according TO the police
AS the men entered the plant "A whis.
tie was blown and the workmen quit
work until the strikers departed. \
number OF men were beaten. but not
seriously hurt. and two foreigners
rushed out OF the plant and jumped
into the Monongahela river. swimming
10 the opposite shore.
The marcher- adopted tactics at the
other plants Officials of the various
concerns had received information
earlier in the day saying the strikers
intended marching To Braddock and
Rankin. and the workmcn were in
structed to quit work temporarily
when a signal WIS given indicating the
strikers had entered the plant.
Strikers al a meeting this afternoon
adopted a resolution requesting all per
sons employed in the offices of the
Westinghouse plants. TO strike not
later than Wednesday. J. &. Hall. a
strike leader. whose dismissal by the
westinghouse Electric x Nanufactur,
ing company, was one Of the causes
OF the present trouble. said that If the
clerks refuse 10 Join the strike they
Will be- regarded as strike breakers and
treated accordingly. The office EN-.
. ployes number 5000 men and women.
Closes Saloons
Sheriff George W Richards tonight
ordered saloons in Homestead closed
following the receipt OF reports that
strikers would hold a demonstration
there tomorrow This action. ~ was
explained. was taken IN an effort "a
prevent repetition o.. the trouble
which occurred In Braddock and Ran
kin today
Two hundred workmen in Painters