The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1901-08-16
SIXTY THOUSANDOUT
New Call Obeyed by but Four
teen Thousand.
STRIKE LEADERS DISAPPOINTED.
However, They Are Keeping Up the
Fight In "A Spirited Manner and
Claim They Have Surprising
Strength In Reserve

strength In Reserve,
PITTSBURG, Aug. 13.-The struggI
for mastery between manufacturers an
men in the steel industry is now fairl
launched, and on the first show of strengt
advantage is with the former. The ger
eral strike order issued by President Shat
fer of the Amalgamated association ha
so far been obeyed by only about IA 00
men according to the best figures obtain
able here.
The first two preliminary calls were an
swered by about $4,000 men, so that tn
total number now out is in the neighbor
hood of 10000. The strikers made gain
here yesterday over the showing of Sun
day night, and their prospects for furthe
accessions at both McKeesport anC
Wheeling during the week are very favor
able.
The action of the Amalgamated men a
Chicago, Joliet and Bay View in refus
ing to come out and their failure to secure
any recruits in the Carnegie grouI
throughout the Kiskiminetas valley anC
the big plants at Youngstown and Co
lumbus, O., have been markedly disap
pointing to them.
They are keeping up the fight, however
in a spirited manner and claim that they
have strength in reserve which will sur.
prise their opponents. They assert that
they have gained foothold in the Carne-
gle mills in this city and at the time de-
sired the men will come out They are
pressing their advantages at McKeesport
and Wheeling, and their organizers are
still at work in those two cities.
President Shaffer has decided to per
sonally visit Wheeling and will go there
tomorrow to address a mass meeting of
his followers. He is here today directing
the fight and comforting with his assist.
ants as to plans for the future An ap
peal for financial aid has been made to or.
gained labor and the general public, and
it is expected that the response to it will
be LIBERAL
The Amalgamated leaders are not dis
posed to do much talking They would
not discuss the desertion of their western
fellows, although Mr. Shaffer made what
was evidently intended for a brief refer
ence to them in a short statement he gave
out at noon. Another declaration in the
same interview was regarded as highly
significant here. 1t was to the effect
that no effort would be made to call out
members of the American Federation OF
Labor and that any action on their part
must be voluntary.
The appeal for financial assistance was
prepared on Friday last, but was not sent
out until yesterday.
The men who are directing the fight in
the field for the steel corporation and its
constituent companies would give no indi.
cation of their plans for the future and
would only discuss the situation general
ly. A statement alleged to have been
given out officially by them at noon was
repudiated by them later in the day.
Their reports showed that the Carnegie
group, Chicago, South Bayview, Joliet,
Youngstown, Columbia, the Kiskimetas
valley group, Wellsville and Monesson
were going along full handed. Bellaire,
their advices showed, was badly crippled, |
but rad held ON until O'Clock FL the aft |
ernoon and would be started up again to-
day They admitted the loss of the Ma
tional rolling mill at McKeesport, which
they had expected to hold, and that the
Boston mill and Monongahela Steel works
at McKeesport and the Republic and Ell
ba here were tied up.
Their tube workers at McKeesport and
here were still at work, but menaced by
a possible shortage of material. Their |
tube men at Wheeling were out but the
furnace and coke men there were at work, |
and their steel men there showed an in
clination to stay on unless inundated.
They also claimed that many of their men
at McKeesport desired to work, but were
being terrorized by the disorderly ele- |
ment.
They also charged that many of their
men were being frightened from theiI |
places at Wheeling and insisted that ade-
quate protection for the men there would
insure continued operations. 1t was also
stated by the steel officials that Clark's |
mill here was moving along with its non.
union crews engaged last week and that |
another mill manned by old Amalgamated |
men had started up at Wellsville, repre-
senting a gain of one there since Satur-
day.
Officials of the National Tube company
and Mayor Black FLASHED yesterday over
the question of protection for nOnstrikers
and property. A large crowd of strikers
assembled around the works in the morn.
ing, and their pickets intercepted tube
workers on their way to the mills. There
was some excitement, and the mill officers
claimed that their men were being threat.
ened and in danger of violence and called
on Mayor Black to clear the streets and
protect them.
The mayor said that he would only in.
terfere to stop actual rioting and assault
Two other appeals were made to him
later in the morning, but he insisted that
there was no danger Of an outbreak.
Another crowd gathered at noon when
the tube men were leaving the plant, and
while the workers We're jeered no violence
was offered. The strikers say that it is
only a QUESTION of time when material will
give out and the tube men must quit.
Otherwise it is believed that there would
be serious trouble in McKeesport.
Reports from Wheeling and Bellaire
indicate that there may be trouble there,
AT the latter place an attempt is to be
made TO keep the plant in operation, and
the mill officials say that if they or the
men who did not go out are interfered
with they will ask for state militia to pro.
tect them.
AT Wheeling reports that men were tc
be imported have brought out crowds
bent on preventing their admission, and il
is predicted that there will be serious
clashes there before the strike is settled.
Most of the strike centers and Pittsbure
in particular are very orderly, however,
The strikers at Canal Dover, o., have
men watching the mills on the strength OF
report that nonunion workers were to
De brought there. Superintendent Harris
IF the tin mill has notified the men that
hnless the plant is rcopened within rea
sonable time he has orders to commence
lismantling it. Manager Warner has
made the same announcement to the men
Kho went ont NJ his service.
BOer Prisoners Try to Escape.
JAMESTOWN, st. Helena. Aug. 10.
Two Boer prisoners, HoIlanders. made