Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-31
STEEL STRIKE AFTER ' WEEKS
Corporations Claim to be Slow
 ly and Surely Gaining.

ly and Surely Gaining. Mills of the Carnegie Go in Operation To-day-Seventy-fi Extra Police
 men Doing Duty at Duquesne Dur
 ing the Night.
 Pittsburg, Aug 31.-The steel strike
 has now been in progress for seven
 weeks and both sides to the controver- sy are still claiming the best of the argument The facts, however, seem to favor the corporation, inasmuch as in almost every instance they have succeeded in starting these mills which they said they would operate. Additional men have been secured
 during the past week at the various
 plants running in this city, and the
 managers say they will have at least one more plant-the Painters's-in full
 operation double turn within the next week The works at Wellsyille and Clark's mill in this city, will be in | full operation, and the strike at these plants is considered as a thing of the past.
 At McKeesport and Wheeling the strikers continue to have things l their own way all combine plants at l these places are practically tied up, and no efforts have been made to re- sumeA at any of them More or less dissatisfaction exists among the strikers at McKeesport, however, and l the steel managers expect break at any time It was. reported last night 1 that 40 men had returned to work III | the Seamless tube department of the l National tube works, but this was
 promptly denied this morning. The
 scene of action this morning was switched to Duquesne, from where an early report came in that the men had | gone on a strike at z o'clock. This proved untrue, although the strike l leaders claim that a partial tie up may occur some time during the day. p1ttsburr Aug sI.-The mHas df fhsSs Carnegie. company at Duquesiie were in operation this morning as usual, not withstanding the report of last night l that the plant was badly crippled and would likely have to close down at 6 o'clock this morning. The demonstra- | ton of McKeesport strikers yesterday
 and the discharge of men suspected of being union sympathizers would have caused, it was thought, a general strike. but such was not the case. It was claimed that everything but the
 Bessemer Steel department would be | idle to-day.
 Last evening committee of em-
 ployes from the open hearth depart ment notified the foreman not to re- I +l,,, ] on strike this morning at the end of l their turn. The foreman immediately
 notified the officials of the mill of the | intentions of the men and a hurried l conference was held. It was then de cided to make wholesale discharges in | the effort to stay the tide of union sen l timent The men discharged were two helpers, twenty ladlemen, two engi- neers. three electricians, two boss
 stockers and two brakemen. Eleven I of the discharged men were escorted | from the works by policemen and were
 not allowed to talk to their Fellow
 workmen while going out of the works. Seventy-five extra policemen were put on duty at Duquesne during the
 night and are there this morning. An official .at Duquesne who was
 seen this morning said:
 ''The works are going all right this
 morning and I think they will continue 1 to do so. The men have not yet for gotten homestead and I do not think
 they will strike.''
 1 The strikers claim that the strike is practically on and that the men clean
 ing up, preparatory to coming out. l There was no disorder about the mill
 though some excited talking was in dulged in, mostly by spectators who
 had no personal interest in the men quitting.
 The shutdown of the Duquesne Steel
 works would have seriously crippled l the American Tin Plate company When the Bellaire Steel Works closed
 down, the orders for tin plate bars
 were all transferred to Duquesne Since
 then the Duquesne plant has been stocking the tin plate plants. Some of
 them have two weeks supply on hand Denial is made i'll McKeesport this morning of the report that break has been made in the strike through the I return of about forty men to the seam less tube department of the National Tube works
 1 It is stated that the Seamless tube department did not start up. although there was number of men at work
 in the plant. These men, however
 were repair men. . number of whom
 aave been busy there for some time