Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-08-08
HON0RS ARE EASY.
No Material Gain on Either Side
in Steel Strike.
Steel Corporation Plans to Quietly
Start Mill After Mill.
Strikers Say Canno. Do il and Will Lose Even
More Men.

Pittsburg, Pa, Aug. In the big
steel strike honors are easy in this sec
ton. tonight. The Amalgamated Asso-
citation succeeded in closing down the
big steel plant at Newcastle and the
ma nufacturers partly broke the strike
at the Clark mill in this city. Neither
SIDE is eXulting nor is there any eX-
preston of discoura cement.
I'D to this hour not the slightest
trouble has occurred at any point in
this immediate territory and Amalga-
mated 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
limited at by the national officers. From
one to two points the strikers are re
| ported as restless ana eager for action,
but 50 far have kept faith with their
/ leaders and refrained from committing
any breach of the peace.
| The United States Steel Corporation,
| it was learned. today, from an official
| source. will ut once proceed in syS-
! tcmatic manner to start its closed
sheet mills. making the non union
plants Of the I<iskiminetas valley the
| cradle where strike breakers viii be
| trained and then sent out to the mills
| that are closed.
| So far as President G. NJ. Schwab is
| concerned, no oVcrtureS VIII De made
| by the trust to the workers. lie is
| quoted by Pittsburg man as saying:
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 Cor
| poration officials
| The manufacturers have decided to
go ahead slowly in the matter Of STARE
| ing mills and To do so with as little
publicity as possible.
The strongholds Of the Sheet Co.
are the mills at Nandergrift. the larg
! est in the country. I.eechburg. Apollo
and Scottdale. 1t has been decided to
| take as many skilled men away from
| these places as possible without re-
| tarding 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 promotion and
they will be given better positions.
The plan further contempates that
after a time many Of the strikers will
return when they see one after anoth-
er of the closed mills resuming.
Plans for starting the closed tin plate
mills have been completed. In this
branch the situation is difficult. The
Tirplate Co. has only six of it's 232 roll
trains going while the Sheet Co. has a
few less than half
At Mci<eesro.;;. President Shaffer said
that he himself would lead men from
Nandergrift into the Wood mill. The Of
ficials feel that if they can get the Van
dorgrift men away from their environ
ments there. little trouble will be found
in bringing them into the association. The
action OF the structural iron workers in
the present strike was tersely outlined by
j. " Pryale. secretary of the Bridge
and Structural iron Workers who said,
today:
There are no union mills making struc
tural steel or iron and our men have
been working the material furnished them
and will continue to do SO. If there was
one union mill making the material used
by us we would possibly act differently.
Secretary Joseph Bishop of the Ohio
Board of Arbitration, is in town and il
visiting several OF the combine officers.
ii is said. in the interest Of another con
ference. He refused to discuss his move
mcnts. saying he was here on other than
tie steel organize TONS affairs.
The continuation of the strike and the
fact that ii is to be extended to greater
proportions augmented the scramble tina
has been on in Pirsburs for two weeks,
to secure sheets ANA tin plates. a can
vass of the iotbcrs developed that the
supply of both sheets and tin plate is
rapidly running behind the demand, es
pccially in tin plate.
The independent mills are reaping a
harvest. They are taking contracts at
prices as high in some eases as $40 ton
for future delivery. The sales depart
ment of the American Steel Sheet Co. has
given notice to jobbeis that il cannot take
any orders for some time, as the capacity
of the operating sheet mills has been
contracted for.
Amalgamated headquarters were
more quiet. today, tran they have been
since the strike order was talked of.
a report was received early in the
morning from the strikers in NewcaS-
tie announcing that the order for the
strike had been obeyed to the letter
and the strikers were out to n man.
The news of the starting of the Clark
mills here was not surprising to the
officials of the organization, as they
had received limitations of what was
to happen, yesterday afternoon. The
situation is perfectly understood in
Lawrenceville, the officers say. and the
misunderstanding that caused the
colored men to return to work, will, it
is said. be rectified in a short time.
1t was intimated that a plan is on
foot for the formation of an advisory
board for the purpose of aiding Pres-
dent Shaffer in carrying on the strug-
gle. which will be composed of the
presidents of the various trade organ
izations with headquarters in Pitts
burg. such men as President Simon
Burns Of the Window Glass Workers
Association. President John Kunzeler
Of the Flint Glass Workers, National
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