The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-08
B0THSIDES ARE LOGGED
CAPITAL NOR LABOR SHOWS DIS.
 POSITION TO HELD.
President Schwab Says overtures Must Come from the Strikers. Shaffer Says the Trust
 Must Surrender.

Pittsburs, Pa., Aug. 7.-In the big steel strike, honors are easy in this section tonight. The Amalgamated Association succeeded in closing down the big steel plant at New Castle and the manufacturers partially broke the strike at the Clark Mill in this city. The United States Steel Corporation, it was learned today from an official source, will at once proceed in a sys- tematic 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 out to the mills that are closed.
 So far as President c. NJ. Schwab is concerned. no oVertures will he made by the trust to the workers In a talk with a Pittsburg man in New York yesterday, he said:
 We have made our last proposition to the Amalgamated Association, and will now proceed to start our works President Shaffer makes this counter statement:
 The next proposition must come from the United States Steel Corpo- ration officials"
 The trust officials have decided to go ahead slowly in the matter of starting mills, and will do so with as little pub licity as possible.
 The strongholds of the steel com pany are the mills at Vandergrift. the largest in the country, Leechburg, Apollo and Scottsdale. It has been de- eided to take as many skilled men away from these places as possible 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 promo tion and they will be given better po- sitions. This move will be undertaken slowly and with caution. The plan further contemplates that after time many of the strikers will return when they see one after another of the closed mills reopening. Officials of the Anal gamated Association say that this move will. in a measure, play into their hands. At McKeesport President Shaf- fer 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 environments there little trouble will be found in bringing them into the Association.
 In discussing the move, Assistant Secretary Tighe said: That effort will not extend very far, because there are only a few skilled men available, and before enough can be trained to oper- ate mills snow will fly pretty thick. A move of that kind might be attempted at Bessemer, or open hearth steel mills, but in a sheet mili where the skill re- quired Is of the highest order, the plan cannot do anything but ultimately fail,''
 The action of the structural iron workers in the present strike was tersely outlined by J. w. Pryale. Sec retary of the Bridge and Strut tAkral Iron Workers. who said today:
 There are no union mills making structural steel or iron. and our men have been working the material fur nished them and will continue doing so."
 canvas of Pittsburg iobbers devel- oped that the supply of both sheet and tin plate is rapidly running behind the demand. especially in tin plate. The American Tin Plate Company has not changed its quotation of $425 per box. but consumers have paid this week as high as $5.5o for boxes for immediate delivery. The combine price for sheets is $e0 per ton, but $70 and $75 have been paid for sheet available at once. The independent mills are reaping a harvest. They are taking contracts at prices as high. in some cases. as $70 a ton for future delivery.
 The sales department of the Ameri- can Sheet Steel Company has given notice to jobbers that it cannot take any orders for some time, as the ca pacity of the operating sheet mills has been contracted for.