The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-08-17
THE STRIKE.
The Situation Shows Practically No
ChnnEc-DOth Sides C0n1i-
dent of Victory.

Ilttsburg, Pa, Aug. 14.-Neither side
moved decisively Tuesday in the great
Industrial conflict between employers
and employees in the steel trade, and
the result is still in the balance. The
strikers made gains at Pittsburg, Nc
heesport, Wheeling and Bellaire in the
last "a hours, but in the main the adj
vantage is still with the mill owners.
Both sides claim to be preparing moves
that will bring confusion to opponents,
but neither side has shown its hand.
The general situation can be briefly
summarized as follows:
Ten men, five of them skilled, quit
1T the Lower Union mill of the Carne-
sie company in Pittsburg and Joined
he strikers. That detection repre-
sented the first break in the Carnegie
forces of more than $4,000 men. The
strikers were jubilant over the Incl
lent, but the company claims to have
Tiled their places at once, and there
will be no more assertions at any of
he plants. The Bellaire plant, at which
the men struck on Sunday, was finally
,losed down Tuesday, working short
handed up to Monday afternoon. When
mother start will be made is problem
,tical. Several hundred boys employed
vt the National tube works at McKees-
nort went out during the night and
lay and their action materially aided
he effort of the strikers to finally tie
he plant up. The works are going
head short-handcd, but the ranks Of
he workers are thinning and the sup
y Of material is limited. The strikers
AIDE gains at Wheeling and the steel
'Iicials admitted Tuesday that Ben
wood would be closed down. Clark's
III here is moving along full-handed,
'ndsey and McCutcheon are operating
With small crew and the managers
'rr planning to increase the force at
lindsey & McCutcheon's. A break in
y" ranks of the men who struck at
'&ntcr's is expected. but the strike
Hanagers deny that one will occur.
mother break is reported as possible
Newcastle, but there are as yet no
"siive indications of it.
Sn far good order has prevailed, al
cough the steel officials assert that
'l"re has been intimidation at Wheel
Wy, McKeesport and Pittsburg. Both
i''"s eNrrrss THEW confidence in ulti-
mate victory and; are actively carry
~ forward their respective cam
Nai%ns. President Shatfer, of the
Amnlgamated assnciat ion. leaves to-
lay for Wheeling, where he is to adj
'rcss the strikers.
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VI the general order is now roughly
estimated at 10000 and on the three or
lers at G2,000. Many strikers have
found work in independent mills or at
other occupations. and many are idle
merely because the skilled men are
out.
According TO an authoritative an
,ouncement made Tuesday by officials
If the American Sheet Steel company,
The destruction of another plant has
been ordered by the steel corpora ton
us result of the refusal of the men
10 operate il. This time it is the
CHARTERS plant at Carnegie that is to
be dismantled. 1T is owned by the
American Sheet Steel company, and
the orders to tear it down went out
Tuesday afternoon. 1t will be re-
moved to Leechburg, in the Kisllimine-
1as valley. The strikers were called
together Monday by Superintendent
John Henry and preliminary notice of
he company's plan served on them.
Eighty strikers responded and Mr.. Hen
ry told them that the fires would be
lighted and all preparations made for
a start Tuesday. lie said that Mt two
o'clock the whistle would be blown,
and if the men failed to respond the
fires would never be rclighted. The
programme as outlined was carried
out, but when the whistle sounded the
men did not respond. The fires were
ut once drawn and the order to dis
mantle and remove the mills was given.
The steel corporation held it's ground
at Chicago, Joliet, Bayview, Youngs-
town, Columbus, the Kiskiminetas VAL
ley and the Carnegie group, with the
exception of the instance named. The
strikers are considering plans for
breaking the decision of Chicago, Jo-
liet and Eayview to stand with the
steel companies, but what they plan
TO do has not been made clear. They
are charging some of the western men
with both. dishonesty and disloyalty,
and there is a general desire among
members of the Amalgamated here for
some form of inquiry.
Chicago, Aug. 14.-Assistant Secre-
tary Tighe, of the Amalgamated ASSOC
citation, came TO Chicago from Pitts
burg to induce the South Chicago steel
workers to reconsider the action in
refusing to strike. President Shn fer
says South Chicago, Milwaukee and
Joliet men who refused to strike will
lose their lodge charters and be ex-
pelled from the Amalgnmated associa-
zion if they do not rescind their action
Of Sunday and come out.
Destructive Forest Fires.
Vancouver, y. c., Aug. 14.-The for
est fires which annually destroy thou
sands of dollars worth Of property
are now raging on the British Column
bia coast. Reports from up the coast
state that several small islands have
been completely denuded of trees and
the wood is SO dry that fires on the
mainland, once started, spread with
fearful rapidly.
Michigan Jurist Dead.
Bay City, Mich, Aug. 14.-Hon. San