The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-03
TRUST GETS
 MORE MEN Preparations for Opening Of Plants.
 s- A NEGRO MAN ASSAUL TED
William Jones Had Narrow
 Escape from Lynching.
Strikers are Charged With Having Intercepted a Messenger Bearing a Special Delivery Letter and
 Inspecting Its Contents.

FittsDurg, Pa-, Sept 2--The big Labo' Day demonstration monopoIixed the at tenticn of wcrkmen and strikers here and in the surrounding towns, but stee manufacturers went on making prepara. tons for the opening of the plants thu are shut down by the strike. and in- creasing the number of men at the mills already in partial operation.
 Evidences of impatience are croppins out on the side of the strikers and if ,s feared that the unlawful acts partici. pated in by tile strikers last night and today about the Star tin plant may mu.. tiply and so spread to other quarters.
 The officials of the Star plant claim that today che pickets about their mi,l held up special delivery boy from the postoffice with letter for the office while he was going down Twelfth Street and inspected the letter before he was allowed to proceed. The matter will be reported to the postal authorities at once It ts also charged that the strikers stoned the company carriage on Penn Avenue this morning but did not speci,l damage to the occupants.
 Ihe aggressfveness of the strikers was further demonstrated this afternoon when a mob surrounded William Jones.
 
 pon-union man from the Star works Ha nad a narrow escape from serious in- Jury and possible lynching by the ap- pearance of the police.
 Secured New Men.
 During the parade most cf the pickets were away rom the Star mills and the company succ 'ede3 In securing several Pittsburg eafly today 1t was said that a good man of them were sor the Demnnler plant in Me kctspor; ,.nl were now in nnat plant where oper atlons Ire 10 begin gs mated people to cripple the Carnegie open hearth plant at DuIuesne this norniIg is looked upon by tho steel oil. sis fbs casps ss sns dssiE II sloy Of thestrike in
 TT we hha knosp what we 1n nowt tile iass l.e ,2t,;; 2fsE ss ! aiia1 .s,i Or. eeptsd, said Ben 1: Daets, of the Ati. tisory Board and Executive coinraIttee e of the Amalgamated Association. and rscogniSed as an official representative of President ShaEer in all his uttelanees, todaX However, that Is past and gone, and we are now in fight with the cor roration. the organization are now urging on us that the strikers he 0rderei bAck 10 work, a practical surrender of .he AmaI- gamated Association. This will never
 
 national organization by the United States Steel Corporation. Our men, es- pectally the old members, those in the sheet mills and tn mills, will stand up H';nch attacks as those of ]. r Hickey sonal.''
 Officials of the American Tin Plat. Company in the Carnegie building today said many tin plate workers continue 10 apply. for places in the mills. but that they fear the molestation of the striiSers. A telegram from McKeesport tonight f'The delay in starting the D,m,dlsr mills. 1t seems. Is due to Mayor liIc ch |. hesitaney in guaranteeing polce Trotec: tion. The company. 1t is said, ap oealed to Governor Stone. and he promised to send State militia If necessary.
 Effort to Break Strike.
 Pittsburg. Pa. Sept. 2.-The first effort to break the strike of the Amalgamated Association at Newcastle. Pa. has been made. The local officers of the National Steel ComI any have offered to re-cnnploy all who were working for the company at the time the strike was commencer hut the men must return as individuals and not as members of any organization or trade union
 From towns all around Pittsburg come adVices that Labor Day was cefebrat ted with greater demonstrations than ever known before and Shaffer and the Amal- gamated Association received hearty en- dorsement generally. The one notable exception to this unanimity was at John ston, Pa. where the sixteen thousand people employed in the various big indus tries celebrated Labor Day by working. Only two organizations, the bricklayers and he'd carriers uunions observed the day,-and not many of the members of these unions joined in the celebration.
 Strikers are Stirred Up.
 Anderson Ind, Sept. 2-LocaI Tin Plate Workers were stirred this morn ing upon discovering mysterious activity in the yards and mills of the American Tin Plate Company about the time the