Business or Votes.
Business men of Wellsville, Ohio, which place has for the past several days been called the “storm center” of the steel strike, have been using their influence to prevent the steel workers joining President Shaffers’s strike for union supremacy. Confronted, as they are, with what seems a certainty that if the present trouble goes much farther, the Wellsville plant will be lifted and taken across the line into Pennsylvania. Many of the men realize the force of this argument which is emphasized by the fact that they are themselves owners of Wellsville property, the value of which is dependent upon the regular operation of the steel works at that point. One prominent man, however, opposes the position taken by the merchants. Mayor Dennis, who seems to think the votes lie in the direction of union workmen and sympathizers, says the business men ought to keep out of it.