| Show THE GREAT COKE STRIKE THE great coke strike in the vicin vicinity ity of pittsburg Pit has at last reached a crisis lat Late dispatches from that city state that rioting of a serious character is in progress on the dinst three of the principal coke works which had bad resumed operations with scab labor were raided and wrecked the aarik strikers were rallied in the early morning by the strains of a brass bran band and ma marching ching in procession behind this approached the works and captured them at the leisinring Leia works a bomb was exploded and the building occupied by nonunion non union men wrecked these latter were then chased away from the premises it is said that no lives were lost loat the report of the bomb was heard several miles from the scene of the explosion at morehead strikers assailed the works where the scab labor was employed these works were guarded by a force of deputy sheriffs or rather pinkerton Fin kerton detectives sworn in as deputies the guards were swept aside as if they were helpless children and the scabs 1 1 run out the works completely wrecked and the plant mutilated at uniontown Union town a judge has issued an injunction restraining persons not em aloyes from approaching the works on saturday next a hearing beaming will be given for the purpose of obtaining a permanent injunction then the sheriff can arrest a striker whether on the grounds for sets acts of violence or n the most deplorable feature of the rioting is the conduct of the women they arm themselves with murderous weapons of all kinds one woman armed with a bar of iron attacked a pit bow boss named cooper and mortally wounded him at homestead Homed tead huns italians bo hemmans and 13 clave are acting like infuriated demons there were a number of person wounded at this place at mt pleasant pa a state of terror prevails the strikers are camped on the hills bills and are prepared for deadly work the sheriff of westmoreland county has applied for permission to arm his big side aids with the guns of the militia abut but governor replied that before using the military the civil power must be exhausted it will be remembered that this strike took place several months ago when the coke workers presented their demands the employers ignored them and closed all the works there was no violence then nor since until work was resumed a few days ago it is thought that the strike was engineered by a few labor leaders leaden in the interest inte reet of the employers there was waa then an output of coal and a supply of coke on hand sufficient for six ift months the employers wanted the output and supply curtailed and a strike was just the way to do it but it looks now as if they acted without calculating what the reaction would be he who would rend the rook rock must calculate on the rebound this the employers of the coke workers did not consider |
