Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-08
TO TEST STRENGTH.
Steel Workers and Steel Trust
 Preparing for Battle.
WILL SOON BE FACE TO FACE

shaner and Gompers Are Having a
 Conference To-day Denies
 Rumor That Lindsay x McCutcheon
 Plant of Steel Hoop Co Had Started
 work-A Pittsburg Mill Opened To-
 day With Forty-two Men-Furnaces
 Lighted for Two Days Waiting for
 Workers.
 Pittsburg. Aug S.-Events are nov ing quickly in the steel strike now, and unless there is some unlocked for Intervention the cOntending sides VIII soon face one another in the full meas ure of their strength. This morning the United States Steel corporation succeeded in reopening the Farm mill at the Lindsay & McCutcheOn plant, and President Samuel J. GomperS Of the American Federation of Labor ar Ejved here to confer with President haffer of the Amalgamated associa- tion. The steel corporation count the reOpening of the Lindsay & McCutcn- con mill a material victory over the strikers. while the latter insist that the company has not sufficient men to keep the mill in operation. There was no disturbance over the reOpening or the mill. Most of the men who struck at that mill have found places in inde- pendent plants and when the start was made there was nobody on hand to Iffer opposition. The steel officials are elated with their success at the Wells vile Hyde Park, Clark and Lindsay & McCutcheon plants and are prepar- ing to open their other mills. The fires are lighted at the Painter mill and they may produce the men needed to start up at any time. There has been no violence as yet. but it is predicted here to-day that if the general strike order becomes effective state troops will be needed almost at once to pre- serve order.
 President Shaffer and President Gompers are now in conference. The latter came here last night from At lantic City, accompanied by Secretary Morrison, and reached the strike headquarters un0bserved. Thousands of the Federation men work side by side with the Amalgamated men, and the policy of the former as to the strike will be vitally important. Be sides that the Federation has a vast membership and its financial assist ance is an important consideration.
 President Shaffer, when shown the JGDOEE OI lue LII lnC 1Al1iucua x McCutcheOn plant of the American Steel Hoop Co, said: There is noth- ing in it. I have a report from Vice President Gibson informing me that there are only two men at the works. One is roller and the other a common labOrer It would do them no good and would do the company harm to take men from other mills and put them there, as they would only break fhe machinery and spoil the material.
 There is no place for them to get raw material, as they cannot get pud- dlers to make it, so how can they run the finishing mills?
 'Why. 1 cannot get puddlers from union mills. I have an order for nine ty puddlers to go to work at once at the Sligo mills on the south side and cannot get them. Men are wanted 3I St Louis, Birmingham. Ala, and all over the country. We have advertise ments in the Amalgamated Journal for all classes of skilled men, and it is impossible for us to get them. The Pork House mills of lower Allegheny have been after me for some time to get them men, but I cannot furnish them
 ..I have a report from President John Ward at Cleveland stating that the men there are strong and will stick by their brethren, and also word from Vice President Chappell at New castle, who says all is well and quiet.
 The union men in the Lawrenceville district are making great preparations i. for their open meetings in Lafayette hall tonight The Carnegie upper and lower mills are in this district. as well as the Clark plant, and the strikers say they expect to accomplish much rr-s1T he addressed by President Shaffer and other officers of the Amalgamated aSSO- ciatiOn-
 The question uppermost in the minds of the AEcKeesporters is whether or not the National pipe mills will go on A strike Saturday night. The organ ized men in the pipe mills belong to the Federation of Labor and some claim it is against the constitution of the Federation for members to come out on a sympathetic strike. The Amalgamated men assert that Nation al rolling mill and the Boston iron and stegI mill will surely stop work on Sat urday.
 P1tfsburg, Aug S--The nine-inch min of the Clark plant. 35th street, Lawrenceville, opened this morning with 42 men. It is claimed by the company that this makes the total number of men in the mill 463 and leaves but one mill idle It is said the Q. 10. 12 and 20 inch mills are now working full turn. All the men en- pIoyed are non-union. By Monday morning. the mana cement claim, the eight inch mill will be running and the plant will be in full operation. But few strikers were seen about the place and everything was quiet. Captain Louis Brown, of the mill. said that the report concerning the men sleeping in the mill was unfounded. They left when their work was completed and returned in time for the turn. and the strikers were not molesting them- He said further that the work turned out Dx the men yesterday was up to the standard and that not a bar of ma feriaI was lost, something remarkable. he claimed. in mill where the men who have not worked together before are employed
 Painters mill of the American Steel Hoop company. on the south side. it is said. will start operations to-day or tomorrow The furnaces have been lighted for two days
 New York, Aug Resolutions adopted at a meeting of 205 clothing