The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-09
HANNA MAY TAKE HAND
Senator Scott and Archbishop
 Ireland Also Talked Of.
contending Sides are centering Their Energies for Show of Strength i When the General Strike
 ; Order Goes Into
 Effect.

Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. S.-The con- tending sides in the steel strike are centering their energies for a show Of strength on the day that the general strike order becomes effective. The United States Steel Corporation is res opening mills closed by the first strike call to show it's independence of pnton- ism and gathering strength wherever it may to tighten the effect of the gen. eral strike order, and the Amalgamated Association bends its energies to the extension of its membership and to obtain the support and cooperation of the American Federation of Labor.
 The general strike order becomes eff fective Saturday night, and the claims put forth on either side as to the rs- suits that will accrue from 1t are widely at variance. Officials of the steel companies admit that thousands of men will obey the order of President Shaffer of the Amalgamated Assocla- ton and go out, but they positively de- ny that the tie-up will be general. They point to their success in reopen- ing four mills that were closed and say they have strong holds at points where the Amalgamated claims the greaeesu strength. The steel officials are in- clned to minimize the sympathetic as- sistahce which the Amalgamated As- sociation will get. One official stated the matter this way:
 What can the machinists do? Have trey not just been beaten? And the mine workers? Did they aid the fire- | men?'
 President Shaffer and his associates, on the other side, insist that the strike order will be generally obeyed and that they will obtain more than enough support to cripple the steel corpora | ton.
 I've have these people licked to a standstlll already" was the way that | Vice. President elect Gibson of Pitts | burg, voiced the feelings of the Amal- gamated people.
 | With both sides arming for the con- | flict and a general strike but forty | eight hours away. many ordinarily well-informed persons hold the belief that there will yet be d settlement of the strike. Some of the men who pre- dict a settlement believe there will be- outside intervention from powrful in- terests and a submission of the dis pute to arbitration. Men of national reputation, including Archbishop Ire- land and Senators Hanna and Scott, have been named in this connection but if effort is being put forth in that direction il Is being done without knowledge of the public.
 President Shaffer devoted today to a conference with President Gompers. who came here for study of the sit- uation before committing hinNSelf or L.S. ,f tan tVN conference resulted in no conclusion and will be resumed at 10 o'clock tomor- row morning. President Gompers de- clined to state the result of the delib- erations. The strikers believe they will secure the active cooperation of the
 Federation.
 The steel corporation succeeded to- day in getting the Farm Mill at the Lindsay and McCutcheon plant ana another mill at the Clark works start ed. They also received reports that at Hyde Park last night four of the mills did perfect work and an announcement came from Wellsville that the strike was virtually over there. They met with no opposition to any of the four points where they have re-opened mills The strikers insisted that there are nos forty men at the Lindsay and McCutch- con mills and predicted that it would close during the day. It was kept So- ing however, until night. It is plan- ned soon to open another mill at Lind- say and McCutcheon's and also to start the Painter mill and the Char tiers plant at Carnegie
 The steel corporation is evidently putting forth its greatest effort al Pittsburg, the headquarters Of the strike, for the moral effect elsewhere
 The first act of violence In this neigh borhood occurred at Natrona last nlSht when d foreigner was shot, presumably by strikers. He was employed in the copper extraction department of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Com- pany and was struck by shot ln three places, but vas not seriously injured. There were six or eight shots nred from the hill back of the works. The company has succeeded in filling the ; striking furnace mems places, and the strikers are trying to frgnten the new
 rten ava yby throwing rocks and shooting at them whit at work. A heavy guard of special officers has . been put on to protect the workmen. p The strike leaders plan series oi rallies for Saturday, the closing day oi their preliminary campaign.
 President Gompers of the American . Federation of Labor said he would re. f main in Pittsburg tomorrow and holC I another conference with President . . Shaffer.
 It was reported tonight that an at
 tempt would be made before morning l to reopen the Painter Mill.