The sun., 1901-08-08


-shaTer Now After Bridge werkers.
PrrTsBURo, Aug. 7,-As II they had been
simply waiting for the Amslgamated Asso-
ciation to make its threatened aggressive
move against the Sheet Steel, Steel Hoop
and Tube combines, the manufacturers
to-day, twelve hours after the latest strike
call, began the work Of starting up Idle
mills. Several rolls In the Clarke Hoop
mill were put in operation. preparations
were made 10 resume work at the Lindsey.
McCutcheon plant in Allegheny and by the
arrival OF forty non n-union men at the Wells
vile, Ohio, works. notice was served on the
Labor Trust that the time for dallying has
gone by.
The steel strikers already find their hands
full In trying to prevent the starting up
Of two or three mills With 10000 more
men called out yesterday by President
Shaffer the strikers will be overwhelmed
with the work Of sustaining the strike.
The days developments came like q
thunderbolt to Shaffer Tonight he would
hardly talk on the subject uppermost In
his mind, except to make mysterious al
lusions to the surprises that the Amalga.
mated Association had in store for the
Steel Trust and to predict that the obedi-
ence to his strike circular sent out yester.
day. would be far more general than either
the manufacturers or the public suspect.
BY a piece OF strategy that threw CON
sternation among the strikers at the Clark
Hoop Mill In Thirty-fifth street to-day
Lewis 7. Brown, general superintendent,
started the three and twelve-inch mills
with two full crews. Not until the smoke
was seen coming out Of the stacks shorty
after daylight did the strikers realize that
the plant where 80 much was at stake was
slipping from their grasp. When the re-
port spread that the mill had started many
Of the strikers focked 10 the entrance
and stood gazing in wonder at the volumes
Of black smoke pouring out Of the stacks
For time they thought the entire plant
had been started, but II was soon learnei
that only two OF the mills had been put
into operation.
1t was the intention Of Mr.. Brown TO start
the 9-inch mill at the same time, but ths
hot-bed had not been finished and tho
crew which had reported for work in this
mill was sent home with orders to report
this morning. The hot-bed was COM
pleted this afternoon and the 9-inch mill
will be in operation tomorrow. Many
white men and negroes called at the mill
entrance asking for work. They were
sent to the Office and nearly all OF them
were engaged
There il no lack Of men, said Manager
Thompson, .and we are engaging none bud
the most skilled"
We have had no trouble in securing
men," said Mr.. Brown. -Of course. SONS
Of those who went to work this morning
are old men employed at this mill several
years ago"
Just then truck load OF hoop iron came
out of the mill
This is what we are turning out. said
Mr. Brown, -and II will compare with any
previous run before this strike began. It
is as good as any similar material ever
turned out of the mill.
Mr. Brown and President Shaffer Of the
Amalgamated Association worked together
several years ago in the plant OF Moorehead.
Mclean & Co. In Pttsburg. The strikers
are keeping away from the mill. Several
| special officers patrol Butler street fro m
Twenty-ninth TO Thirty-sixth. Detectives
are keeping lookout for any signs OF dis
, order.
Circulars were distributed to-day in
the Lawrenceville district by members
of the local lodge, calling for an open meet
| ing Of Lafayette Lodge No. 80. The meet
ing will be held in Lafayette Hall, Thirty
seventh and Butler streets. at o'clock
| tomorrow evening.
| Twenty men, some OF them non-union
and some Of them strikers, have been
obtained for work in the Lindsey McCutch-
con mill In Allegheny. At S A. NJ. to-
morrow the finishing mill in that works
will be started up with an e1perienced
crew and the management believes that
when the evening turn goes on more than
one set Of rolls will be in operation.
| At least two crews will start to work
| in the Painter mill tomorrow. The Pain
ter, Clarke and Lindsey -McCutcheon mills
are three hoop mills that had been nom
union for years. but ranged themselves
| in the Amalgamated column when Shaher
Steel Hoop Company, the American lin
| Plate Company and the American Sheet
Steel Company.
A. NJ Brown, the City Recorder. the
| new name for Mayor, announced to-day
that he would put on additional police
men if il should he found necessary to
maintain order. City policemen and de-
and Clarke mills.
The Arnalgamated Association tried to
minimize the lesson furnished by the START
ing Of the Clarke mill by saying that only
one white man was at work and the other
strike breakers were negroes. Neverthe-
ess the negroes at work there are Anal
gamated men, admitted into the organiza-
ton not more than three weeks ago.
II was then said that the negroes were
strong union men. Many negroes are
working in the Clarke Painter and Lind
sey-McCutcheon mills They were brought
from the South several years ago to break
strike, If they follow the example OF
the Clarke mill men the strike at the three
mills will last only a short time.
II Skaters allegation that the trust
cannot find enough non-union men to make
a showing In the mills on strike should be
true, the United States Steel Corporation
will have no difficulty in operating idle
mills. At vandergrift, Apollo, Leech-
burg. Salisbury and Duncansville are
several thousand non-unionists, and In
other manufacturing centres are a few
thousand men not affiliated with the Anal
gamated Association and working in the
mills OF the trust.
All these men are available for strike-
breaking purposes. Itistrue that the Anal
gamated men make the assertion that
they will not lend themselves to the policy
of being taken TO strike centres to operate
tho idle mills, hut the starting up OF the
HYDE Park sheet mill yesterday, the i'm
porting of forty men into Wellsville. Ohio,
the presence OF workers in the three Pitts
burg Hoop mills, all show that the men now
employed in non-,inion mills that are work.
ing are willing 20 obey orders and 60 wher-
ever they are sent