Connecticut western news., 1901-08-15

Men at Youngstown VIII Not Go Out.
 Ten Skilled workmen In Lower
 Carnegie MilI Quit-SeveraI Hum
 dred Boys at McKeesport Leave.
 Pittsburg, Aug. 14.-While the strik CTS have made gains in Pittsburg, Me Keesport, Wheeling and Bellaire in the past 24 hours, the main advantage seems to be still with the mill owners. The general situation can be summa- rized thus:
 Ten men, five of them skilled, left the lower Union mill of the Carnegie com pany here and joined the strikers. This first defection in the Carnegie forces of more than 15,O0O men made the strikers jubilant, but the company as- serts that it filled their places at once and that there will be no more deser- tions.
 The Bellaire plant, where the men struck on Sunday, was finally closed after working short handed until Mon day afternoon.
 Several hundred boys employed at the National Tube works at McKeesport went out during the night and day, ma
 
 The works are going ahead short hand ed, but the ranks of the workers are thinning, and the supply of material Is running low.
 The strikers made gains at Wheeling, and the steel officials admitted that the Bellwood plant would be closed. An other break is reported likely at New castle, but there are no positive indica- tions of 1t.
 The American Tin Plate company has started small force in the Crescent plant in Cleveland and is also planning resumption at other points.
 To Dismantle Chartiers Plant.
 Orders have been given for the dis mantling of the Charters plant at Car negie and it's removal to Leechburg. The strikers were called together on Monday by Superintendent Henry and told of the company's purpose. Mir. Henry said that the fires would be lighted and all preparations made for a start on Tuesday. At 2 o'clock the whistle would be blown, and if the men failed to respond the fires would never be relighted. The programme was car ried out, but when the whistle sounded the men did not respond. The fires were drawn and the order to dismantle and remove the mills was given.
 The strikers are talking of expelling the western steel men who refused to strike, but their plans are not yet well defined.
 A telegram from Youngstown, O., says that the furnace workers have decided not to strike. The executive committee of the Furnace Workers union of the Mahoning and Shenango valleys met In that city yesterday to receive and take action on the report of the subcommittee appointed to in- vestigate the rumored sale of the out put of the furnaces of the two valleys to the United States Steel corporation. The subcommittee's finding was to the effect that the rumor was correct, but the executive committee after long discussion of the situation, in view of the fact that the steel corporation has furnace capacity of it's own sufficient to supply its present needs and the further fact that the furnace owners involved have given the men assur- ances that if they will continue at work no pig iron will be shipped under the contract with the steel corporation | resolved that a strike at the pres ent time is unadvisable. It was de- cided to organize the stockmen and all other employees of all the furnaces of the two valleys and then to organize all the furnaces of the country, affect ing national organization which shall be affiliated with the American Fed | eration of Labor.