The age-herald., 1901-08-14
MORE PLANTS
 TIED UP BUT
 IND IS FAR OFF Neither Side Makes Move and Result Still Hangs in
 the Balance CARNEGIE'S RANKS BROKEN | weIve Men Leave the Mills and Join the Strikers-Number of Men Out
 On Strike Order Now
 Numbers 6o,oo0. ,tl
CARNEGIE'S RANKS BROKEN

moved in the great industrial conflict be- tween employees and employers in the steel trade, and the result is still in the balance. The strikers made gains at Pittsburg. McKeesport, Wheeling and Bellair, In the last twenty-four hours, with the mill owners. Both sides claim to be preparing moves that will bring con- fusion to their opponents, but neither side has shown it's hand. The general slt- uation tonight can be briefly summarized as follows:
 Ten men, five of them skilled. quit it the Lower Union Mill of the Carnegie Company in Pittsburg and joined the strikers. Their defection represented the first break in the Carnegie forces of more than 15,000 men. The strikers were jubi- lant, but the company claims to have filled their places at once, and there will; be no more assertions at any of the plants.
 The Bellair plant, at which the men struck on Sunday, was finally closed down today, working short-handed un- til yesterday afternoon. Several hundred boys employed at the National Trbe Works at McKeesport went out during the night and day and their action ma- terially aided the effort of the strikers to finally tie up the plant The works are going ahead short-handed, but the ranks of the workers are thinning and the supply of material is limited. The strikers made gains at Wheei ing and tn 3 steel officials admitted today that Ben- wood would be closed down. Clarks mill here is moving along full handed. Lind say and McClutcheons is operating with small crew, and the managers are plan ing to open Painters mill and increase the force at Lindsay and I1cCutcheons A break in the ranks of the men who struck at Painters Is expected but the strike managers deny that one will occur. An- other break is reported as possible at Newcastle, but there are as yet no posi- tive indications of 1t. The American Tin Plate Company has a small force at the Crescent plant In Cleveland, and is also planning resumption at other points with uIlOH lncu l H6 Slccl COlpOldliOh tO- day ordered that the Charters plant at Carnegie be dismantled and removed to Leechburg, because after due notice the strikers did not return to work at ] ?. m
 Good Order Has Prevailed.
 So far good order has prevailed, al- though the steel officials assert that there has been intimidation at Wheeling. Mo Keesport and Pittsburg.a
 The number of men out on the strike or der Is placed at 620O0. Many strikers have found work in independent mills or at other occupations. and many are idle merely because the skilled men are out.
 Tn Steel Corporation held it's ground at Joliet Chicago, Bay View, Youngs- town, Columbus, the Kiskiminetas valley and the Carnegie group with the excep- ton of the instance named. The strikers are considering plans for breaking the decision of Chicago, Joliet and Bay View men to stand with the steel companies, but what they propose to do has not been made clear.
 There Is a. general desire among mem bers of the Amalgamated Association here for some form of inquiry.
 Crowds surrounded the Carnegie plants here today and the officials finally called on the police to clear them away. The officials say that the loss of ten men at the lower union mill can be directly traced to the threats of the strikers, who intercept the men on their way 10 ana from work They make the same com nlaint as to Bellair, Wheeling and Mc- Keesport. They say that the strikers at Riverside went to Bellair and nteraiiy bluffed the remaining men into going out. They also claim that the same tac'ies sss oained the strikers the steel workers Tn the National Tube plant at Benwood and also forced out hundreds of loyal em- nloves at McKeesport. They say they have given up hope of getting protection f,o,,, the local authorities at Mckeesport and Wheeling, but have given no indica- tion that the intend to ask Tor state aio in either Pennsylvania or West Virglnia-
 Mayor Blacks Statement.
 Mayor R. J. Black of McKeesport to- ,,ight gave out statement declaring tne strikers had created no disoruer
 "I do not consider talking to non-union worxn,en disorderly in any sense, sald the mayor " and the men nave periect right to attempt all kinds of arguments as long as they do not resort to positive physical coercion.
 4 telegram from Youngstown says that the furnace workers have decided not to strike. but it was decided to organize all the furnaces of the two valleys and then all the furnaces of the country erecting a national organization which shall be af- filiated with the American Federation of Labor.
 The strikers at Connellsville have called an indignation meeting as a. result of the threat of the American Tin Plate Co. to operate its mill non-union or dismantle 1t. A dispatch from Wheeling says that District Superintendent Carter has in formed the strikers at Bellair that the mills will remain closed down until they are hungry and if 1t Is started again It will be run non-union.
 Mayor Blacks mail today brought him two peculiar communications. One was postal card which read:
 You will never live to serve your term. Somebody ought to kill you. There is place for such fools as you" It was signed "A Striker"
 It was mailed at Washington, Pa
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