The sun., 1901-08-11
FULL STEEL STRIKE BEGINS.
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conference to-day at tho Amalgamated
headquarters. The conference. IL was ex-
planned. had no bearing on any plan asking
Tor arbitration.
Reports are current that the Keystone
Rolling MIL and the Republic Mil Of Pitts
burg will refuse TO obey the general strike
order IL Ii said that the employees Of these
mills will meet tomorrow to decide. but
that there is a strong conservative element
AZ both mills. This element holds that al
the scale has been signed its members
have no grievance that justifies suspension
| Of work.
To-day there was unusual quiet at the
Amalgamated Association headquarters.
Secretaries Williams and Tighe said that
except the various mass meetings to be
, held this afternoon in the several strike
centres nothing OF public interest Is in
| sight Vice-President William Gibson re-
ported that everything IL quiet at tho
local mills and that the general strike order
will be obeyed in Pittsburg TO surprising
| degree. lie says that no gains Ia the
working force are perceptible to-day at
either the Clark or Lindsey McCutchen
plants. A few men. he says, are about
| the Clark mill but there IL not sufficient
number at work to produce any great
output.
letter from Secretary Edward Klopfer Of
the Geneva, n. Y, Central Labor Union.
In which 1t is said that at meeting ofthe
union. Aug. 8, resolutions were passed
Offering moral and financial aid to the
steel workers during the continuance Of the
strike. They also pledged themselves that
In case the strike was prolonged TO petition
President Mckinley to call an extra session
OF Congress to remove the tariff barriers
20 that the trust may be brought to terms.
A copy OF the resolution Is to be- sent to
President Mckinley and to all the labor
unions Of the country.
EoN-UNIoN MAN ASSAULTED.
Yesterday afternoon George Marsh, a
rougher employed In the .indsey-McCutch-
con mill, while going through LaBelle steel
works. which adjoins the mill, was as
severely injured. Marsh was hooted and
shower Of scrap iron and stones was
hurled at him by dozen or more men.
-Four mills In the Clark mill are running
full to-day. The other mills are almost
completely repaired, and Capt. Lewis
4. Brown, manager of the plant, announced
to-day that they would be ready for opera
tion Monday evening and that on Tuesday
morning the entire plant would be running
full.
Capt. Brown denies the story being cireu-
lated that twelve men were discharged
from the Carnegie Lower Union mills. be-
cause they were members of the Amaiga-
matter he said that not a man had been
discharged. The 9-inch guide mill has
been closed down for repairs and the crew
from this mill had been laid on. not one
discharged. They will return TO work next
week. Capt. Brown thinks the mill will be
ready for operation before the middle OF
the week
John Pisrce, national organizer OF the
Amalgamated Association, had this TO say
to-day:
The threat OF the Trust to remove the
Wood mill is regarded by the Amalga-
going little further. should il be tho in
tention Of the trust to dismantle the mills
Of McKeesport and ruin the town, in re-
taliation against the men who stood up
for justice and right. IL would be the first
act Of destruction in the strike. 1t would
arouse universal indignation as a high
handed and arrogant assertion OF money
poNer"