The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-08

was as quiet as a cemetery until that
time except for the noise of few laborers
working on repairs. It required the find
ing Of only twenty mill men to start the
Farm mill, for all the laborers needed
were easily obtainable.
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 prob
ably will be large and curious crowd
along the railroad in the mill yards to-
day watching the operations, and he pre-
dicted that there might be trouble.
Combine Claims victory.
The steel corporation counts the re-
opening Of the Lindsay & McCutcheon
mill material victory over the strikers.
while the latter insist that the company
has not sufficient men to keep the mill in
operation. There was no disturbance
over the reopening of the mill Most of
the men who struck at the mill have
found places in independent plants, and
when the start was made there was no
body on hand to offer opposition.
The steel officials are elated at their
success at the WellsYille, Hyde Park and
Lindsay & McCutcheon plants, and are
preparing to open other mills. They
have fires alighted at the Painter mill.
and may produce the men needed to start
up at any time. There has been no
violence as yet, but it is predicted here
to-day that If the general strike order
shall become effective state troops win
be needed almost at once to preserve
order.
The nine-inch mill of the Clark pIsnt
Thirty-fifth 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 nine, ten, twelve and twenty-tnch
mill IS now working full turn. All the
men employed are non-union. BY Mon
day 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 is quiet. Captain Louis
Brown, of the mill, said that the work
turned out by the men yesterday was up
to the standard, and that not bar of
material was lost, something remarkable.
he claimed, in a mill where the men
who have not worked together before are
employed.
Says Men Are Scarce.
President Shaffer, when shown the re-
port OF the starting OF the Lindsay g. Nc
Cutcheon plant, said:
There is nothing in It, I have renort
from yice-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 from
otner mills and put them there, as they
would only break the machinery and snoil
the material. There is no place for them to
get raw material, as they cannot get nud-
dlers TO make 1t; so, how can they run tho
finishing mills. Why, 1 can't get puddlers
for union mills. I have an order for ninatv
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 Rirm-
ingham. Ala, and all over the country. We
have advertisements in the Amalgamatsd
journals for all classes OF skilled men. and
1t is impossible for us to get them What
l can't see is how the trust can secure NAV
to work in their mills that are ON STRIKE
when we cannot get them to FIJI good union
jobs in union mills.
President Shaffer was asked as ~ +ha
alleged refusal of the furnacernen in
Shenango and Mahoning valleys To coma
out, and said: Il have not ordered them
out"
The furnace men in question are in the
American Federation of Labor.
The question uppermost in the minde ~
McKeesporters is whether or not the Ma
tional Pipe Mills men will go on a STRIFE
Saturday night. The organized men in tha
pipe mills belong to the Federation of la
Dor, and some claim 1t is a question Of