The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-18
GAIN NEW STRENGTH
ACCEssIoNs AT MILWAUKEE, AND
WHEELING ENTHUsE STRIKERS.
HOPE YET FOR CHICAGO HELP.
STRIKERS MAKING EFFORT TO Ex-
TEND ORGANIZATION.

pected to Walk Out-A Strong Pos
sibiIity of an EARLY Break in the
Ranks of the Strikers at McKees-
port-Good order So Far Preserved
Throughout the Strike District.
Pittsburg, Aug. 1.-THE news that
the Milwaukee man had decided to
cast their fortunes with the strikers
supplemented by the wired announce
ment that the steel men in the River
side plant at Wheeling had voted to
strike awakened new enthusiasm In the
ranks of the Amalgamated Association,
and it's followers.
The Milwaukee vote inspires them
with the hope that Chicago can be pre-
vailed upon to reconsider it's vote, and
finally decide to come over to the
strikers. When the news from Mil
waukee reached here tonight it was
quickly spread among the strikers.
They were highly enthusiastic over it,
and renewed their assurances of their
complete confidence in final success in
their contest against the United States
Steel Corporation.
The word from Milwaukee and
Wheeling came after a day of exceeding
quietness throughout the strike dis
tricts. The forces at the non-union
mills in operation were not increased
during the day and neither side had
made an important move. The en-
ployes of the Pennsylvania Tube
Works, a plant in this city controlled
by the National Tube Company, COM
pleted their organization as a lodge of
the American Federation of Labor to-
day and made a demand on the man
agement for a general advance in
wages.
The strikers are making a determined
effort to extend their organization
among the men employed by the great
group of Carnegie mills. 1t is under
stood that they have secured a foot
hold in the Duquesne property and that
the men who have Joined them will be
called out probably tomorrow or Mon
day. The officials of the company ad-
NIT that they may lose some men, but
that the boast of the Amalgamated AS
sociation to close the plant down will
never be fulfilled
There is a strong possibility that
there will be an early break in the
ranks of the strikers at McKeesport.
Many of the unorganiZed men have be-
come dissatisfied and make no secret
of their threat to go bodily back to the
National Tube Company and ask for
their places just as soon as they gain
sufficient following to withstand pres
sure from the strikers or are given a
guarantee of personal protection. Good
order has been preserved through
out all the strike districts, but
the irritation at points of contact
between strikers and strike breakers is
increasing, and it is believed here that
there will be violence before another
week elapses. Monessen is picked as
one of the places where trouble is ex-
pected. It is stirred to the fighting
point by the plan to start the steel mill
with non-union men. A force of the
latter gathered in the South is expect
ed at the mill daily and the strikers
declare that the non-union men shall
not be permitted to enter the mill.
There is also danger of trouble at the
Carnegie plants. They are all heavily
guarded, and a demonstration against
them by the strikers would, it is feared,
provoke a serious clash.