The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-08-16

Strikers e ! Call \ ]. II "a BIG BLUFF
Drders IsAned TO a DfsniantIs the
I GreatS Dew syood PlAht 4 Mo
Kfeesport IN. gym MT : 5',o,fa McTxees-
DOT bort onicialsss Tor strikers RE-
s q 1al..iltl Pledges the
support 81 the Federation.

Z. Plttsburg, Aug IL: There were
sgravely important developments In the
strike sit uation yesterday The United
states Steel corporation moved de-
8cisiyely in Its strike campaign with a
peremptory order directing that the
great Dewees-Wood plant at McKees-
port be dismantled ana removed to the
Kiskimenetas valley. President Comp
-ers, Of the American Federal on Of La,
Dor. after al two-days' conference with.
Pruside lent Shaffer and his associates, is
SUED formal statement last night, spe-
cincally pledging. the federation to tho
moral and financial support Of the
) Amalgamated association. His written
review &of the train OF events leading
s-up to the Industrial quarrel, sustains
the course of the Amalga mated associ-.
J.atton and declares that nothing re-
mains for labor but, to- battle for the
! cause OF unionism.
The official announcement Sof the or
der to dismantle the Devices Wood
plant came yesterday afternoon toward
the close of an: otherwise .uneventful
day, and in Importance was such that
/. 1t claimed the serious consid eration on
either side, of the gss FAtg
Great Industrial Conflict
now being waged .here. Persifer F.
Smith. district marager for the Ameri-
can Sheet Steel company, made the
formal announcement in the following
statement:
IT have orders from President Nc,
Murtry of the American Sheet Steel
company to at ONCE tear down the
Devices Wood plant at McKeesport and
remove same to Kisminetas valley.
This Ishall proceed to do Immediately
The publication Of the order was a
great surprise and McKeesport received
it at first with doubt. Actual prepara-
lions were made later in the day for
the dismantling of the mill ar there Is
little room for doubt that it wAI be torn
down and taken apart, piece by piece.
The strikers heard the order in spirit
of defiance. They simply said that II
showed the steel corporation was con-
WINGED that it could not reopen the
plant in the face of the opposition Of
the Amalgamated association. Strike
leaders here said that the order was a
bluff that had been worked unsuccess-
seriously. A representative of the
press showed District Manage Smiths
statement to President Shaffer, but
s~ASSA ~ Sd0AA6 ~ AAS iiASCAAllSOS " SesAn
about it. The steel officials declined
To Give Any Reason
for the order, hut 1t is openly stated
here that the pronounced sympathy Of
citizens and city officials at McKees-
port with the strikers is responsible
for it. It is also said that tho plant of
the National Tube company at McKees-
port will be abandoned and the old
Carnegie plan for a. tube plant at Con-
neaut, Ohio, revived The National
Tube company has in contemplation
improvements at McKeesrort of an ex-
stensive nature; but it is now said that
owing to their disappointment at the
fact that their men have been drawn
into the Amalgamated dispute and the
policy Of the people at McKecsport that
they are seriously considering a plan
to remove. No official statement on the
subject could be obtained from any Of
the local officials.
3. The Devices Wood plant was founded
about forty years ago and is one of the
best known plants in. Pennsylvania.
It's yards and mills cover between
twelve and fourteen acres; it has en-
sployed 1900 men at it's busiest times
and its cost is placed at $5,OC0,OOO by Of
'fcials of the steel corporation.