New-York tribune., 1901-09-12

ONE PITTSBURG PLANT WON AWAY FROM
THEM-To SEND OUT STRIKE BENEFITS.


THEM-To SEND OUT STRIKE BENEFITS.
Pittsburg, Sept. 11.-While stories of a peaceful
settlement of the strike by the Amagamated Asso-
c1ation were heard with much force and persistence
to-day President Shaffer continued to deny them
emphaticay. and said that the tattle of the steel
workers would go until they won. He denied
that the executive board had instructed him
tie the strike on any terms and said that he would
not go 10 New-York make any further peace
move for the present
While the president of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation was standing In this position, the officials
or the United States Steel Corporation putting
forth active efforts to their plants This
was particularly the case the South Side. In
course of the day the company held the strikers
pickets back by show of police. and got a lot of
provisions. cooking utensils and cots for the
sleep on into the Monogahea plant of the Amer
ican Tin Plate Company. 1t officially
nounced at the time that there ample
number of men ready enter the plant and
the mills as soon they were in readiness.
While the strikers We're busy watching these
movements the South Side the officials of the
same company showed greater activity about the
Star mills. About II o'clock in the morning a
loaded with skilled for the Star plant arrived
in the Union station. These taken
the plant without any interference from the strik
ers, as none were about at the time. The pickets
who had been guarding the works had gone over
10 the South Side 10 take part in the movements
sixty men, They were all men who had worked
in tin mills. and among them were rollers rough
ers and catchers. They came from the East, and
1t is said many of them had broken away from
the ranks OF the strikers in other mills and sought
work In new localities under assumed names. With
this increased force the Star plant is practically
filled with skilled men. and viii be able operate
all OF the mills there full turns. The efforts
OF to-day. it is believed. have practically ended
all possibilities of the Amalgamated Association
as the men who have gone to work there have de-
clared their intention of remaining independent.
President Shafrer discussed the trouble of yester-
day on the South Side. and said he deplored IT
sincerely. He further said that any member of
the Amalgamated Association who guilty OF
such actions again would be dropped from the rolls
such actions only injured the and aided
the combination In its purpose. The rule
would apply to violence In McKeesport. Other OFF,
cias of the Amalgamated Association also
pressed themselves strongly In this matter
Secretary Williams said he going to send
the second instament of strike benefits to-day and
would have them all out this week. The number to
receive benefits is not more than ten thousand and
this will require about $4,000 weekly II is claimed
that the Amalgamated treasury. reimbursed by
the lodges whose members at work. will be
able able to meet the payments with the aid of funds
The Hungarian strikers at McKeespOrt held an
Indignation meeting tonight, and decided that If
won draw @ out t'W Of the strike Strike eaders hass
tried every means TO appease their anger but the
result is doubtful Fires in the MonOngahea Steel
Works, which scheduled start to-day. have
been drawn. All repairs suspended and the
men sent home. Fires still on in the National
Tube mill, and the report of an indefinite shutdown
cannot be confirmed. The Demmler mill Is working
smoothly, one-sixth capacity. and small increase
each day in number of employees. Pittsburg, Me
keesport and Youghiogheny Railroad detectives
were driven off the tracks the mill to-day by
q crowd OF strikers whom they had ordered off the
companys property. Thomas Ennis old man.
employed at the tube works, badly beaten
his way 10 the mill to-day.
The New-York council of the National Tube Conn
pany met with the local council at Pttsburg to-day
to discuss the strike. 1t was announced that the
council adjourned without taking final action, and
win probably meet again tomorrow: 1t was prac
ucally settled however, that no long shutdown
would be tolerated. and that the next attempt to
start will he a determined one. This is taken to
mean that an Injunction to protect the employees is
in store for Mckeesport, and possibly visit from
the State militia
Tonight for the first time since the strike the
steel hoop mill at Monessen is running full force.
which practically ends all semblance of strike
there Every min in that town Is now running day
and neht.
A telegram from Newcastle tonight says that
a party of fourteen Amalsamated men from that
city started this evening for some unknown point.
They told friends they were going to take places
in the Star min in Pittsburg but II is also rumored
that their real destination was Elwood Ind. where
attempt is to be made to operate the plant
Local strikers indignant at the detection while
others refuse to believe that the men really IN
tended taking the places of strikers