Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-08-15
THE STRIKE GAINS A POINT
National Tube Works Plant at MeKees-
port Compelled to Close.

Pittsburg. Pa. Aug. 15.-There
were Victories on both sides OF the
great Ste-l strike Yesterday. but they
furnish no direct line ON the ultimate
result OF the conflict The strikers
succeeded in finally forcing the Ma
tional Tube works at McKeespOrt.
probably tlip largest Individual plant
ia the United States Sic ] corporations
40 finally Close down. ON the other
hand the steel corpora ton reopen d
the bi@ Painter mill i'm tIiS city and
also resumed operations with non
union men at the Or scent plant or
the American Tin Plate company at
cleveland. Two mills w re on at the
Painter plant. although one OF them
broke down during the day, and ac-
,-ording 20 the statement OF the Off
s-ialS E.Ilf the mills iu the Crescent
plant were moving. The forces at
both the plants named are TO be in
crca znd and the managers claim they
viii soon have them working in full
They make the fifth and sixth plants
which the steel corporation has sue
cccded i'm starting with non-union men.
the others being WellSville. Hyde
Park. CIark's and Lindsay * Nc
CutcheOn's.
Tnere was q great labor idemonStra-
zion at Whet ling yesterday and Presi-
dent Shaffer made q stirring appeal
20 his followers to fight on. In an in
ferview before he spoke he said that
If the western lodges did not heed the
final appeal Of Assistant Secretary NJ
T.. Tighe and come out they would be
expelled from the Amalgamated Asso-
citation and their offers of financial as
sistauce spurned. There were few
other developments of Importance dur
ne the day.
RumOr again settled the strike and
lent a hand to restaTt the Stilied
wheels of commerce. 1t was related
that President Shaffer had acknOwl-
edged that he could not win. that the
steel corporation feared that its rivals
would profit by an extended strike
and that they We're going to settle. No
sliawod Of confirmation of the story
was possible.
.I'ne general situation thus BRIEFLY
summarized: The spread Of the strike
ut McHeeseport and Wheeling has
brought the number of men who an
Swered the final strike order TO some
thing over 10000. and increased the
total number of men rendered idle by
the three orders to about 6J.OOO. Many
OF the men drawn into the movement.
willingly or unwilljngly. continue TO
act number now idle is a guess. The
strikers are fully I'm control at Nc
Keesport. Wheeling. Newcastle. Bell
aire. MingO Junction. and show some
strength here. The manufacturers
hold South Chicago. Bay View. Joliet.
Youngstown. Columbus. the Kiskimin-
etas valley. the tin plant at Monessen
and the Carnegie group.
or the last named property some
doubt is expressed as to the Lower
Union mil I'm Pittsburg. Some men
have left their places there and the
strikers boast that they will close il
down. 1t Is running. however. and
the managers say it cannot be stopped.
Desertions from the ranks of the strik-
srs ere reported from Painters mill
here aud the Crescent plant In Cleve-
and the managers say that II Is only
n question OF time before there ~
general break. These reports OF deser-
tion are emphaticaIly denied by the
strikers