New-York tribune., 1901-09-05
THINK STRIKE is BROKEN.
STEEL COMPANY'S OFFICIALS SHOW
INCREASED CONFIDENCE
TUBE WORKERS RETURN AT MKEEsPORT
-DEMMEER PLANT TO START UP
TO-DAY UNDER GUARD.


-DEMMEER PLANT TO START Up
TO-DAY UNDER GUARD.
Pittsburg, Sept. 4.-The steel officials are in a
confident mood tonight. They appear to think
the strike is effectually broken. and that only
few days more will be required TO make it a
thing Of the past. The return of the 400 tube
workers at McKeesport. the report cha1 80 Of |
more went in at the Pennsylvania Tube Works
and the protection of Sheriff Mckinley and his
seventy-ive deputies at Demmler, where start
will be made tomorrow morning, give much
weight TO this belief. In addition these
breaks. the steel officials claim increased num-
bers at the Star. the Lindsay & McCutcheon.
the Painter and the Clark mills, and say other
plants will now be put in operation rapidly.
Agitation and uneasiness prevail in the ranks
Of the strikers. caused by the apparently un-
favorable developments Of the day. The leaders,
however. profess to be satisfied with present con
ditions. and assert that ultimate victory will be
theirs. Much hoped from the peace confer
ence in New-York but the announcement of the
failure to reach a decision put damper on
these hopes. Still. many hold to the belief that
a settlement will be speedily reached. President
Shaffer would make no comment the report
that the conference had adjourned without
reaching decision.
ARMED MEN GUARD DEMMLER MILLS.
Preparations have been completed for starting
up the Demmler Tin Plate plant at McKeesport
and the resumption will take place tomorrow
morning. The start will be made with a force
OF deputy sheriffs On guard. the American Tin
Plate Company having served notice on Sheriff
Mckinley. of Allegheny County, that violence
was feared. The Introduction of the strong arm
of the law into the steel strike will. 1t is be-
lieved. bring about crisis. In some quarters II
1-Tv- -.arWI
ment and in others that the presence of the
sheriffs forces may result in a conflict The
request for protection was made by Superintend-
ent Lauck and Sheriff Mckinley at once made
arrangements for sending deputies to the mill
The force is under charge of Chief Deputy
Lowry. Deputy Lowry said the sheriff had
sworn in a sufficient posse. but he did not an
ticipate trouble. The strikers. he said. would
be treated with the utmost respect. but they
would not be permitted to encroach on property
that Is not theirs. The deputies will be armed
President Shaffer said he knew last week
that the request for protection would be made
IF our men keep away from the mills. which I
have no doubt they will said he. they can
put all the deputies they want there"
President Shaffer will be on hand. or have a
trusted assistant at the plant, TO see that no
violence is done to strike breakers and that his
men make no demonstration
This morning four hundred men went TO work
in the National Tube Works There was a
crowd about the entrance to the plant. but the
strikers failed to make good their threat to pre-
vent the men from returning. and there was no
demonstration The men who went back to-day
were threaders. machinists. carpenters and
moulders
BREAKINCI STRIKE AT TUBE WORKS.
The strike at the Pennsylvania tube plant in
mn
of the strikers went TO work in the plant and
SuDarintendent McMutt says the plant will be
running full in few days.
Organizer Schwartz of the American Fedora
ton who organized the Pennsylvania tube
workers. called a meeting of his men this ar-
ternoon. at which IL was decided that none Of
them would return until President Shaffer gave
the word Mr. Schwartz said that not a man
of the organized tube workers at this plant had
gone to work. and the report that loo or them
had gone in to-day was false.
It was said at McKeesport to-day that the
tube works strike would be over before the end
OF the week and that the full force Of the tube
mill six thousand to seven thousand men, Will
be back at work on Monday morning
The situation at the other mills in this district
presented nothing new. The Star tinpiate
works management said that four mills were
working full, while the strikers assert that only
one mill is IN operation. and that the plant is
crippled more to-day than 1t has been for some
time The strikers still keep pickets on duty,
but there is no disorder
HICKEY'S STATEMENTS DENIED.
President Shaffer received a telegram from
President Gompers OF the American Federation
of Labor denying the published statements that
a committee had been appointed to investigate
the charges made by ex-Vice-President Hickey,
of Milwaukee. There was meeting at Buff
falo, and Mr. GompeTs was there to deliver
Labor Day address
The following handed to representative
of The Associated Press to-day without COM
ment by President Shaffer:
Wheeling W. Va. September 2. 1901.
We, the members of Crescen. Lodge. of the
Amaigamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin
plate Workers. assembled, denOunce the state
ment made by ]. D. Hickey when he that
this strike instigated by President Shaner
and is constitutional as absolutely false, and
is not worthy OF any consideration by the mem-
bers of the Amalgamated Association, and we
deny the assertion that " per cent of the mills OF
the United States Steel Corporation are at work.
STEVE DAWSON President.
w. G. EVANS. Secretary
The above together with the telegram received
by Mr. Shafrer to-day from President Gompers.
would Indicate that the charges have fallen
fiat
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