The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-08
TRUST To
OPEN ITS MILLS
Preparing For War of Ex-
termination on Union.
STRIKERS ASSUME
WAITING ATTITUDE
Each Side Declares it Will Make
No 0vertures.

Pittsburg. Pa, Aug. I'm the bir
steel strike honors are easy in this. sec
| ton tonight The AmaIgamated assn.
citation succeeded in closing down tina
1 ois S s.eel plant at Newcastle. and this
manufacturers partially brOke,the strike
az the Clark mill in this city. Neither
SIDE IS eXulting, nor IS there any ex-
| preston of encouragement
/ Up 70 Ihls hour not the slightest
| trouble has occurred at any DOinr in
| this immediate territory. and the Anal
! samated association officials are cor
| respOndingly happy. because this con-
/ dltlon would seem to be the carrvfua
| OUT OF the associations new departure
IN the handling Of the strike situation
! Ihe quiet waiting Of the strikers may
/ De one or the surprises limited at by the
/ national officers. From one or two
| points the strikers are reported as rest
| less and eager for action, but so far
they have kept faith with their leaders
and RETAINED from committing any
, breach of the peace
The United States Steel CORPORATION.
It was learned today from an official
source. will a { once proceed in a svs-
tematic manner to start its closed sheet
| mills, making the non-union plants Of
the Kisktmenetas valley the cradle
where the strike brea kers will be
trained and then sent out to the mills
| that are closed
So far as President Schwab is con-
cerned no Overtures viii be made by
the trust to the workers. In a talk
| with Pittsburg man in New York
yesterday he said: I'VE have made
our last proposition to the Amalgamat-
ed association and viii now proceed TO
start our works"
President Shaffer makes this coun-
ter statement: The next proposition
must come from the United States Steel
I fo7n 1e
/ Thus the two stand It seems as if
! only outside efforts can bring them to-
| gether. The trust officials have d.
| rected to go ahead slowly in the mat
| ter of starting mills, and TO do so with
| as little publicity as possible.
Strongholds Of the Trust.
The strongholds of the sheet COM
pany are the mills al Vandergrift, the
/ largest in the country; Leech burg, ApOl-
10 and ScOttdale- 1t has been directed
to take as many skilled men away from
these places as possible without retard-
ing operations there, and start the
mills where there IS the least danger
( Of an outbreak The places left vacant
/ at the mills mentioned win be filed
with men deserving of promotion and
| they will be given better positions. This
/ movement will be undertaken slowly
I and with caution. The plan further
| contemplate that after a time many
| Of she strikers viii return when they
see one after another of the closed
/ mills resuming.
This plan was tested the first time
this week and was found to be FEAST
bic, so far as the mills at Hyde Park
and Wellsville go, and il has been di-
rected to adopt it so far as the sheet
and hoop mills are concerned.
/ Plans for the starting of the closed
tin plate mills have not been Contem-
plated In this branch the situation is
different The tin plate company have
only six of their 232 roll trains going,
while the sheet company has few
less than half.
The officials Of the Amalgamated as
ISOLATION say that this movement viii
in a measure play into their hands At
! McKeeSDOrt President Shauer said that
he himself would lead from Wander
grift into the Wood mill. The officials
feel that if they can get the Wander
: grift men away from their environment
very little trouble viii be found in
bringing them into the association. In
discussing the plan of the trust. AS
sistant Secretary n. +. Tighe said:
THAT effort win not extend very far.
because there are only a rev skllled
men available. and before enough can
be trained to operate mills snow VIII
be pretty thick. A move of that kind
might be made in the Bessemer or
open hearth steel mills. but in sheet
mill where the skill required is OF the
|. highest order. the plan cannot DO any
thing except ultimately fail. A sort OF
showing may be made for time, but
it will not last long
Attitude Of the Iron Workers.
>, The action of the structural iron
workers was tersely outlined by J. W.
Fryau. secretary of the Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, who SAID 10
day: nj -.,-,,,
structural steel or iron, and all our
men have been working the material
! furnished them and viii continue DONG
So If there was one union mil making
p the material used by US we Wo4.lo pos
| siblv act differently. / took TINS mat
ter I'D with President Shaner Two
!, wears ago, but he did not see then OF
what benefit an alliance with our order
would be to the mill workers.
Secretary Joseph Bishop Of the ONO
| hoard of arbitration is in town, and IS
j, visiting several Of the combine Ohlclais'
= is said. in the interest of another
I, conference. He refused TO discuss ms
/ movements, saying he was mere Oh
I other than steel organization aIIalfs-
IRE continuation of the strike and
/ the fart that it is to be EXTENDED 20
= greater proportions, augmented the
, SerauabIe that has been on IN PlttsDu 2
r for two weeks TO secure Sic. -
: [ nIatez 4 canvass of the 1oDDers &c
ve1of-~5 that the supply Of bOtn s1eels
= | and tin plate is rapidly running Deliltio
: / the demand. and especially IN TN piete-
y ! The 4 american TN Pate CoAiih5aa- --t-
: not changed its quotation OF 80 PEI
box. hut consumers have paid this week
as high as $3.50 per box for immealate
delivery. The combine price Tor sneets
: - $50 per ton, but $50 and S15 nave
= been paid for sheet available at once,
) The independent mills are reaping q
: harvest. They are taking contracts Al
: -Tiees as high in some cases as so
: ION for future delivery.
I TT vrbe saIes department. Of the Amer
5 lean Sheet company has given notice
], ~ io,bers that it cannot take any o.
. 5ers for some time, as the capacity q
: fhe operating sheet mills has been con
tracted for.
: Quiet at Strike Headquarters.
AmaIgamated headquarters were
: more quiet today than they have been
. since the strike order was talked or. A
= report was received early in the mora
r ing from the strikers in Newcastle an
: nouncing that the order for a STRIKE htd
been o5eyed TO the letter, and that ne
= men were out 10 man. The news u
the starting of the Clark mills here
was not surprising to the officials o.