The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-08
STRIKE HONORS EASY
BOTH SIDES MAKE GAINS AND
LOSSES.
THE GREAT FIGHT JUST BEGUN.
HAVE MADE OUR LAST PROPOSE
TION, SAYS sCHwAB.

Closed Sheet MilIs-Strikers Pre-
serve the Best of Order, but Some
Are becoming Restless.
Pittsburg, Aug. TN the big steel
strike honors are easy in this section
tonight. The Amalgamated Associa-
ton succeeded in closing down the big
steel plant at Newcastle and the man
ufacturers partially broke the strike at
the Clark mill in this city. Neither side
is exulting, nor is there any expression
of encouragement. Victory or defeat
of either at this early stage of the
warfare can have but little effect be-
yond indicating the probbale line of
battle to be pursued by each.
Up to this hour not the slightest trou-
BILE has occurred at any point in this
immediate territory and Amalgamated
men are correspondingly happy because
this condition would seem to be the
carrying out of the associations new
departure in the handling of strikes.
The quiet waiting of the strikers may
be one of the surprises hinted at by
the national officers. From one
are reported as restless and
eager of action, but so far have kept
faith with their leaders and refrained
from committing any breach of the
peace. Recorder A. NJ. Brown does not
anticipate that there will be any dis
order in Pittsburg on account of the
steel strike. If there should be disor-
der, he says it will be the duty of the
bureau of police to suppress it, and ar
rest all who are concerned in it.
Recorder Brown incidentally remark
ed that there would be no discrimina-
tion between strikers and employers
and that all are equal under the law
and will be so treated
The United States Steel Corporation,
1t was learned to-day from an Of
f1cial source, will at once proceed in
systematic manner to start its closed
sheet mills, making the non-union
plants of the Kiskiminetas valley the
cradle where strike breakers will be
trained and then sent to the mills that
are closed.
schwab and Shafer Speak.
So far as President C. M. Schwab is
concerned no overtures- will be made
by the trust to the workers In a talk
with Pittsburg man in New York
yesterday he said: sc -
I'VE have made our last proposition
to the Amalgamated Association and
will now proceed to start our works"
President Shaffer makes sthis counter
statement
THE next proposition must come
from the United States Steel Corpora
ton officials"
Thus the two executives stand. 1t
seems as if only outside efforts can
bring them together.
To Start sheet. Mills.
e The trust officials have decided to go
ahead slowly in the matter of starting
mills, and to do so with as little pub
licity as possible. The strongholds of
the sheet company are the mills at
-Vandergrift, the largest In the country,
Leechburg, Apollo apd Scottdale It
has been decided to take as many skill
ed men away from these places as pos
sible without retarding operations there
and start the mills where there is the
least danger of an outbreak. The places
left vacant at the mills mentioned will
be filled with men deserving of pro-
motion, and they will be given better
positions. This move will be under
taken slowly and with caution. The
plan further contemplates that after a
time many of the strikers will return
when they see one after another of the
closed mills resuming. This plan was
tested the first few days of this week
and found to be feasible so far as the
mills at Hyde Park and Wellsville go,
and 1t has been decided to adopt it so
far as the sheet and hoop mills ~are
concerned.
Plans for starting the closed tin
plate mills have not been completed. In
this branch the situation is different.
The tin plate company have only six
of their 232 roll trains going, while the
sheet company have a few less than
half.
VIII Play Into Strikers Hands.
The Officials of the Amaugamated
Association say that this move will in
a measure play into their hands. At
McKeesport, President Shaffer said
that he himself would lead men from
Vandergrift into the Wood mill. The
officials feel that If they can get the
Vandergrift men away from their en-
vironments there little trouble will be
found in bringing them into the asso-
citation.
Amalgamated headquarters were
more quiet to-day than they have been
since the strike order was talked of.
The officials of the organization were
busy all day attending to routine bust
HESS anu ScLliIlS Oul lIldleIldl lOE the
various local lodges of the association
that have been organized during the
past few weeks. A report was receiv-
ed early in the morning from the
strikers in Newcastle. announcing
that the order for the strike had been
obeyed to the letter and the men were
out to a man. The news Of the start
ing of the Clark mills here was not
surprising to the officials of the organi-
zation as they had received intimations
of what was TO happen yesterday after
noon. The situation is perfectly un-
derstood in Lawrenceville, the officers
say, and the misunderstanding that
caused the negroes TO return to work
will, II is said, be rectified in a short
time.
To Advise with shnfrer.
One of the most interesting factors
of the strike is beginning to develop.
1t was intimated that a plan is on foot
for the formation of an advisory board
for the purpose of aiding President
Shaffer in carrying on the struggle.
which will be composed of the presi-
dents of the various trade organiza-
tions with headquarters in Pittsburg
Such men as President Simon Burns or
the window Glass Workers Associa-
ftion; President John Kunzler, of the
Flint Glass Workers; National Secre-
tary James Pryal of the Structural
iron Workers Association; Patrick Do