The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-22
ONE SIDED.
Latest Developments in the
Steel Strike
Appear to Be Favorable to the
Manufacturers.
NEW MEN BROUGHT IN.
100 Nom Unionists Got Safely
Inside the Gates.
Arrivals Are Escorted to Mills
by Police.
NEW MEN BROUGHT IN.

Pittsburg, Pa, Aug. 22.-The develop
ments in the steel strike this morning
were all favorable to the manufacturers.
Early this morning the American Tin
Plate company succeeded in getting
about 100 men safely inside the gates of
the Star plant on Twelfth street in this
city and preparations were in progress
for starting up two mills before the
close of the day: another crew was put
on at the Lindsay & McCutcheon
works in Allegheny and the 'Jinney''
mill started and 25O men We're reported
at work in the Painter plant on the
South side.
The seven foreigners arrested for dis
turbing the peace at the Pennsylvania
Tube plant last evening were given a
hearing by Magistrate McGarvey this
morning and severely reprimanded. All
We're discharged but one VINO was fined
for having a dangerous weapon in his
possession when arrested The magis-
trate requested the AmaIgamated Off
cialS to instruct the foreigners as to the
rights of others as well as how far they
themselves could go without breaking
the law. He then said:
THE recorder the police and the
magistrates mean to maintain civic
order at all costs. Hereafter, l want it
very clearly understood any one who
is arrested in connection with strike or
ders will be made to feel the utmost
penalty of the law. The police depart
ment, myself. Director J. o. Brown and
superintendent Leslie, no matter how
our personal sympa thies go, have but
one duty to perform and that is to
protect the commonwealth and this
duty Will be fulfilled at all hazards.
inspector Henry Whitehouse is an
efficient officer and he and other officers
were sent down to the works to do
their duty and they will do it. It is now
the duty of the officers of the Amalga-
mo Tod aG a fn n a
that have been arrested and those not
arrested, that strikers must not con-
gregate at the mills, at the street cor
ners or even on the streets, and that If
they do so, especially after this warn
ing it will be the duty of the ma gistrate tes
to impose on them the utmost penalty
of the law.
1T is a disgraeeful state of affairs
when the police, as in this case. had
to draw their revolvers to protect those
whom they had arrested from being
taken from the patrol wagon. The ex-
cuse that the men did not understand
English viii not count On other Oc-
casions they understood it very well.
but when they get into trouble they
plead as an excuse the fact that they
are from a foreign country, speaking a
foreign tongue and used to foreign
laws. Let 1t by fully understood that
laws of this country to which they have
come to earn their bread are to be fully
enforced at all hazards and that ig
norance of them or of the language will
not be accepted as plea"
There was much excitement in Nc
Keesport last night, especially about
the Dem1er tin plate works
Several hundred strikers assembled
about the plant to thwart any attempt
to introduce non-uniOn men, which was
expected to take place during the
night.
There was a report that the works
would resume today, and the strikers
kept up their vigilance until daylight
this morning no nOn-uniOn men
We're taken into the works, and all is
quiet there now. However, three fur
naces We're lighted yesterday. and
everything pointed to an early resump-
ton of opera tions. The plant is the
pioneer in the tin plate industry in the
United States, and when running full
employs about 500 men.
The report that the Anal lgamated
association will enter suits against the
operating companies of the United
States Steel corporation charging Vio-
lation Of the Pennsylvania law respect
ing the discharge of union labor, is de-
MED by William J. Brennan, solicitor
for the workers organization, who said
that the association will not seek to
terminate the strike by litigation OF at
tack the legality of the United states
Steel corporation in the courts.
Notices have been posted at the Ma
tfonal Tube works. McKeesport, re-
questing the strikers to call at the
company offices tomorrow and Satur-
day and receive their money.
The strikers are guessing as to what
the move made by the company means.
Many think that the company is
through with the men and an effort
may be made to open the mills with
new men in case the old employees do
not return
It was reported at McKeesport that
the National Tube company would ask
every employe when he calls for his
money whether he wants to return to
work and if enough men signify their
intention to return the mill will be
started Monday, but the story could not
be confirmed at the coInpany's Office.
An official of the tube works made the
statement that the company was re-
ceiving letters from all over the coun-
try from skilled workmen making ap-
plicat ton for positions
The fires in the bar mills in the
Painter plant were lighted this morn
ing and preparations made to start the
mill According to Manager Harper.
many of the old men are back at work
and more are coming in each day. He
expects to have the entire plant rum
ming next week.