Evening star., 1901-08-08

mate its probable outcome before commit
ting his organization to active participation
in it.
N. O. M
MORE MILLS START UP.
One in Allegheny and Another in
Lawrenceville at Work.
By Associated Press.
PITTSBURG, August S.-The Farm
mill of the Lindsay & McCutcheon Com
pany in Allegheny was started at o'clock
this morning with non-union men. Early
yesterday afternoon the fires were lighted
and everything was placed In readiness for
resuming work. No opposition was met
with from the striking mill men, for almost
to man they are working in other union
mills They were away at their work when
the Farm mill was started.
Guards patroled every entrance to the
mill, and it was next to impossible for a
stranger to gain admission to the mills
while the preparations for starting were
being made.
The mill that was put into operation is a
finishing mill and manufactures haif-inch
steel hoops 1t is one of three finishing
mills in the Lindsay & McCutcheon estab-
liShment. There is another mill In the
works which turns out billets, but neither
it nor the other two finishing mills We're
started this morning. 1t is reported that
an attempt will be made to start these just
as soon as men can be secured.
Few of the strike breakers were taken
into the mill until almost time for the
starting whistle to blow, and everything
was as quiet cemetery until that time
except for the noise of few laborers
working on repairs. 1t required the finding
of only twenty mill men to start the Farm
mill, for all the laborers needed were easily
obtainablea
Little or no excitement prevailed in the
neighborhood, because practically none of
the strikers from the McCutcheon mills
were at home. A watchman said early this
morning, however, that there would prob
ably be a large and curious crowd along
the railroad in the mill yards today watch
ing the operations, and he predicted that
there might be trouble.
Clark Plant Mill Starts.
The nine-inch mill of the Clark plant,
35th street, Lawrenceville, opened this
morning with forty-two men, 1t is claimed
by the company that this makes the total
number of men in the mill 463, and leaves
but one mill idle. 1t is said the 8, 10, II
and 2O-inch mills are now working full
turn All the men employed are non-union.
By Monday morning the management claim
the eight-inch mill will be running and the
plant will be in full operation. But few
strikers were seen about the place, and
everything was quiet.
Capt. Louis Brown of the mill said that
the report concerning the men sleeping in
the mill was unfounded He said they left
when their work was completed and re-
turned in time for the turn, and that the
strikers were not molesting them. He said
further that the work turned out by the
men yesterday was up to the standard and
that not a bar of material was lost, some
thing remarkable, he claimed, in a mill
where men who have not worked together
before are employed.
Painters mill of the American Steel Hoop
Company on the South Side, it is said, will
start operations today or tomorrow. The
furnaces have been lighted for two days.
One policeman is standing guard at the en-
trance to the plant, but reserve force of
six men is being held at number police
station.
Not Regarded as Important.
President Shaffer, when shown the report
of the starting of the Lindsay and Nc
Cutcheon plant of the American Steel Hoop
Company, said: There is nothing in it. 1
have report from Vice President Gibson
informing me that there are only two men
at the works. One is a roller and the
other a common laborer. 1t would do them
no good and would do the company harm
to take men from other mills and put
them there, as they would only break the
machinery and spoil the material.
There is no place for them to get raw
material, as they cannot get puddlers to
make it, SO how can they run the finishing
mills?
why, I can't get puddlers for union
mills. l have an order for ninety puddlers
to go to work at once at the Sligo mills
on the South Side and cannot get them
Men are wanted at st. Louis, Birmingham,
Ala, and all over the country. We have
advertisements in the Amalgamated Jour-
nal for all classes of skilled men, and 1t is
impossible for to get them.
What l can't see is how the trust can
secure men to work In their mills that are
on strike when we cannot get them to fill
good union jobs In union mills.
Other Mills Wanting Men.
"The Pork House mills Of Lower Alle-
gheny have been after me for some time to
get them men, but cannot furnish them
II have a report from Vice President
John Ward at Cleveland, stating that the
their brethren, and also word from Vice
President ChappelI at New Castle, who
says all is well and quiet"
Mr.. Shaffer was asked as to the alleged
refusal of the furnace men in Shenango
and Mahoning valleys to. come out, and
said:
II have not ordered them OUT
The furnace men- in question are in the
American Federation of Labor.
The union men in the Lawrenceville dis
trict are making great preparations for
their open meetings in Lafayette Hall to-
night The Carnegie upper and lower mills
are In this district, as well as the Clark
plant, and the strikers say they expect to
accomplish much evangelistic work The
meeting will be addressed by President
Shaffer and other officers Of the Amalga-
mated Association.
The question uppermost In the minds of
Mckeesporters is whether or not the Ma
tional pipe mills will go on a strike Satur-
day night.
The organized men in the pipe mills be-
long to the Federation of Labor, and some
claim it Is question of the constitution of
the Federation for members to come out
on sympathetic strike. The Amalgamat-
ed asserts that the National rolling mill
and the Boston iron and steel mill will
surely stop work on Saturday. They say
there Is no question on that point. AS to
whether the pipe mills will come out is not
definitely known, some men talked to say
ing the whole plant will be idle, while
| others thought it doubtful il the pipe mill
men would join.
Death Of JORenh EarnAale.