The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-11-19
DrrrK1 OPPOSITION TO B16A1!H0
sT1IX1 SHOWN N p1AoNSTAA-
TON LAST H1oxf.
Appeals Of Sheriff and Chief OF PoAes
Needed and Mass Gathering Il
Permitted.

Employees Of the National Tuoe com
pany, the number Of which Is estimated
variously at as high as zoo men. at
mass meeting held at the Market Audi
forum last evening. voted their sentl-
ments in favor OF abandoning the steel
strike and returning to work IN the XIV
erside plant at Benwood.
Last nights meeting got under way
shortly before 9 o'clock after rather
emphatic demonstration on the part OF
q much larger number of steel strikers
who were out to show their disfavor or
the project Of returning to work. For
time II seemed that there would be
repetition Of Sundays incident at Nc
Mechen when strikers packed the NC
Aechen school hail and prevented
meeting from being held. but city and
county authorities were successful IN
their appeal TO the opposition TO the
meeting to leave the auditorium without
! disorder and permit the meeting to be
held.
- Fred Garrcty presided as chairman Of
tho meeting and delivered the principal
address. In his talk, Mr.. Garrety stated.
in effect. that officials Of the Riverside
works had told him that they (the Off
cials) were not responsible for shutting
the plant down: that IL was done by the
action Of the workmen themselves, ana
that II former employees will return TO
the mill office and apply for employ
ment they will be given work.
Carrety was followed by perhaps ten
or a dozen other men who stated that
they are convinced that the mills in
other districts are operating. and that
they, too. might - we'll work when
their families need their assistance.
Following these talks. q rising vote
was called for the proposition to return
TO work. and every man in the assembly
who gathered for the purpose Of voting
is declared to have stood up in favor OF
going back to the mill.
Opposition Il litter.
The oposition to the proposal to 10
turn to work was marked late last night
and early this morning by evidence OF
very bitter feeling toward the men who
voted to go back. The claim as to the
number of men who attended the meet
ing was sharply contradicted by num-
Der of the strikers who favor staying
out. one man making the assertion that
when he took a count, only twenty-five
men were In the meeting.
Statements were heard last night that
the strikers will not permit the men
who voted to rcturn to work to go back
into the mill.
Sheriff Howard H Hastings and CHIEF
OF Police Fred Frazier and their stairs
Of deputies, uniformed police and PLAIN
clothes officers. were highly compll-
mented on all sides last night for the
manner in which they hadled the rather
delicate situation which attended the
holding of te meeting Of Riverside EN-.
ployes who wanted to vote on the pro-
position to reaurn to work.
Strikers, numbering, perhaps, seven or
eight hundred. congregated in the
streets surrounding the Market Auditor
ium and ia the market floor OF the audi
torium in a quiet demonstration against
the proposition to return to work.
BY $50 o'clock, about one hundred Ma
tional Tube men who wanted to vote on
the proposition to return to work had
passed into the auditorium and took
seats on the main floor in the section
facing the stage. Men opposed to re-
turning to work. numbering not less
shai 500 swarmed into the gallery when
Chairman Fred Garrety gave instruc-
tons TO the doormen that all union men
should be admitted to the meeting.
Demonstration Begins.
When the meeting hour arrived, the
men in the gallery began cheering the
strike and their own band who were
sticking together in opposition to going
10 work. Chairman Garrety then asked
Sheriff Hastings ana ChleI FRAZIER 10
clear the auditorium Of all but employees
rf the National Tube company. The
sheriff and chief. with Deputy Sheriff
Ollie Smith and Detective Edward Min
ard stepped to the stage and the gallery
and main floor, in unity for once, Joined
in giving the officers a rousing round OF
applause.
Deputy Sheriff Smith acting as
spokesman, announced the request that
all persons who were not employees Of
the National Tube company leave the
auditorium. For a moment the request
was met with resolute silence Then
two or three men arose. there was a
cali from the gallery Of Everybody
out" and the gallery crowd began filing
out Just then Chairman Garrety ap-
peared on the stage The movement from
gallery stopped and Garrety was greeted
With terrific storm Of jeers, Kisses ana
boots Garrety stood calmly on the stage
and waited for the gallery to be clear CT.
waving the men who jeered him toward
the exit at intervals OF every few see
onds He.stood for perhaps five or eight
minutes while the men in the gallery
slowly filed ont and copRreRatad in the