The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-13
LAwLEssNEss AT mkEEsPoRT.
Mayor Declined TO Interfere with
MISREPRESENTATION Elsewhere.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Elsewhere.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 1.-THE men who are
directing the tight IN the field for the Steel
Corporation and its constituent companies
would to-day give no indication OF their
plans for the future and would only dis
cuss the situation generally. A statement
alleged 10 have been given out officially
by them at noon was repudiated later in
the day. Their reports showed that the
Carnegie group. South Chicago. Bay View.
Joliet. Youngstown. Columbus. the ks
kiminetas valley group. Wellsville and
Monessen were moving along full-handed.
Bellaire, their advices showed. was badly
crippled. but had held on until ; o'clock
In the afternoon and would be started up
again later. They admitted the loss to-
day OF the National rolling mill at McKees-
port. which they had expected TO hold.
and that the Boston mill and Monongahela
steel works at McKeespOrt and the Republic
and EIba were tied up. Their tube work
ers at McKeesport and here were still at
work, but menaced by a possible shortage
OF material. Their tube men at Wheeling
were out. but the furnace and coke men
there were at work and their steel men
there showed an inclination 70 stay on un-
less intimidated. They also claimed that
many OF their men at Mckeesport desired
TO work. but were being terrorized by the
disorderIy element. They also charged that
many OF their men were being frightened
from their places at Wheeling and Insisted
that adequate protection for the men there
would insure continued operations. IL was
also stated ly the steel officials that Clark's
mill here was moving along with its nom
union crews engaged last week and that
another mill manned by old Amalgamated
men had started up at Wellsville, repre-
senting "A gain of one there since Saturday.
officials of the National Tube Company
and Mayor Black clashed to-day over the
question of protection for nonstrikers and
property. a large crowd of strikers as
sembled around the works this morning.
and their pickcts Intercepted tube workers
on their way to the mills. There was some
excitement and the mill officers. claiming
that their men we're being threatened and
In danger of violence, called on Mayor
Black 10 clear the streets and protect
them. The mayer said that he would only
interfere 10 stop actual riOting and assault.
Two other appeals were made to him later
in the morning. but he insisted that there
was no d.tnger of an outbreak. Another
crowd gathered at noon when the tube
men We're leaving the plant and. while the
fered. The strikers say that il Is only a
question of time when material will give
OUT ana the tube men must quit, Other
wise. IL is believed that there would be seri-
Gus trouble i'm McKeesport.
Reports from Wheeling and Bellaire in
dicate that there may be trouble there. Vt
Ire latter place an attempt is 10 be made
10 keep the plant in operation and the mill
1iheIals say that II they or the men who
dld not 60 out are interfered with they Will
ask Tor State militia 10 protect them. II
Wheeling. reports that men were being i'm
ported have brought out crowds bent on
preventing their admission, and IL is pre-
there before the strike is settled Most of
the strike centers, and Pittsburg i'm par
ticular. are very orderly, however.
The strikers at Canal Dover. o.. have had
men watching the mills since : o'clock this
snorning on the strength of a report that
Honunlon workers arc TO be brought there.
notlled the men that unless the plant Is
reopened within a reasonable time he mas
ager Warner. OF the sheet mill, has made
the same announcement to the men who
went out of his service.
The executive con mittee of the Amalga-
mated ASSOCIATION, probably Will make an
exhaustive investigation OF the action
taken by the lodges at South Chicago. Bay
View and Joliet in refusing to make the
strike. President Shaffer has been urged
10 20 West ana personally investigate the
matter. but II Is unlikely that he will be
a~5i--to-Ssre tho time for the present. A
RADICAL element IN the local lodges bitterly
oenounce the Western members and insist
that there was something irregular about
the matter. Others intimate thai inhu-
ences that WOULD not bear investigation
were used on the men. II is claimed that a
canvass made a week ago showed a ma
Jority In favor of striking and that no rea-
sonable explanation of the change of front
has been made. President Shaner refrains
from any direct criticism Of the act of the
western men, but IL Is known he deeply re-
srets the loss of their support. He says
that he will await official reports before
acting and that he can do nothing until he
returns from Wheeling. He is TO be ac-
companied TO Wheeling by Rev. Charles III.
fltzwilliam, OF ATLANTIC City, who will ad-
dress the strikers. The two were close
friends when the strike leader was in the
ministry.
Reports tonight from Lorain say that
the mills are working as usual and that
there Is no prospect of trouble. Mingo
Junction reports that there may be an early
attempt to start the National steel plant
there with nonuniOn men. Altoona wires
that the seven-inch mill of the American
Steel Hoop Company at Duncansville.
which has been idle for months, will be
started tomorrow, and that the prospect
OF trouble in the mills there is slight. The
Oil City plant Of the National Tube Com
pany Is moving without trouble.
IL Is reported that an attempt will be