The sun., 1901-08-12
GREAT STEEL STRIKE
HAS BEEN ORDERED
Order Generally Obeyed and Thousands of
Workers Are Out.
SHAFFER BEGINS FINAL TOUR AMONG MEN

i workers went out ON the nrSI Oruer
and that the United States Steel Coke
works are not organized. Youngstown,
o., wires that the general order will
have no new effect in Mlhoning val
ley, MS the mills affected went out Inst
month. Scottdale telegraphs that the
general order will have no effect. The
men at Bellaire, o.. will go out, but
Leechburg and Hyde Park report that
the men are with the steel corporation.
Mex Keesport Excited.
Excited crowds throng the streets of
| McKeesport, and sentiment IL largely
with the strikers. The plan to start
an independent plant to take the place
of the Devices Wood mill seems to be
iapproved by popular sentiment.
A citizens committee of Dubois. Pa,
has forwarded the following PROPOSE
tion to J. Plerpont Morgan:
I'VE are authorized to sny to you that
the citizens of Dubois, Pa, will give
81, 600, 900 to have the Mckeesport mills
of the United States Steel corporation
moved to Dubois"
When President Shaffer's general
strike edict went into effect, every mill
OF the National Steel company, Fed
eral Steel company and the National
Tube company, for which the union
scale had heretofore been signed, be-
came nonunion. Upon the entrance of
the Republic mill of the National Tube
company on the south side was posted
| this notice:
"Ths mill will start absolutely non
union"
Officers OF the United States Steel
corporation are literally carrying the
wnr into Africa" They hnve accepted
the challenge of the Amalgamnted ms
sociation, have calmly watched their
plants close down and as calmly an.
nounced that in future they would rec
ognize no unions. They have refused
point blank to nrhitrate the differences
between the workmen of the constit,l-
ent companies of the parent corpora
ton and haze decided TO throw off all
Amalgamated association ties and work
Independently of that organization.
The notice posted. ut the Republic mill
was a fac-simile Of the notice posted on
the entrance of all the heretofore un-
ion mills of the National, the Federal
steel and the National Tube company's
mills 1t is the most decisive step that
the trust has thus far taken.
The policy of the American Fedora.
tlon of Labor has not yet been fully
disclosed, and that fact contributes
another element of uncertainty to the
situation. The action of the executive
officials of the mine workers at III
dinnapolis in resolving to support tho
strike clleered the Amalgamated men
and they are confident that the fedora
tion will aid them to the fullest eN
tent. The closing hours of labor ant
i | the opening hours of the general strik,
lacked spectacular action.
Pittsburg the storm Center.
This city, which is the strike center
was calm and undisturbed. There was
no excitement or Violence and til,
pulse of the community was normal.
Police officials issued an order stls
pending for the time being the vaca
/, ton system. They do not anticipate
!, trouble, but want to have every MAJ
j, here and ready for duty in case j
Y should come. They say that Presiden
7 Shaffer has counscled peaceful meth
: ols and hopes strikers and their sym
pathizers will heed his advice.
! A striking development was an Off
, cial announcement from the American
:. Tin Plate company to the effect tina
certain plants of the company cripple'
by the strike would be dlsmantle'
u and removed to Monessen. The f0rma
y announcement, given by w. NJ. Iced
after lengthy conference of the Off
4, cials of the company, reads as follows
!, "Offieers of the American Tin Plat
n company authorize the following state
o. ment: Since the relations between th
: American Tin Plate company and til
y workmen at Monessen have been mi
tually satisfactory, insuring stead
and proatable operation, it has bee
\ determined to more than double til
plant at that point, and some of TIL
mills now Idle on account of the strik
,d declared in violation of the contrat
signed by the Amalgamated associi
tion, will be dismantled and moved
Monessen. Undoubtedly this will
'el done In the case of those works
OF which the sentiment Of the employee
cd DELAYS the resumption of work"
nd Almost mt the same time 1t was III
air officially announced that there was
lite chance that the plant of the America
m Steel Hoop company at Warren, Y
Or would be torn down and removed
ed some community more favorable
ed the corporation. The order directiI
al that the Devices Wood plant at M
Keesport be dismantled is already b
M ing carried out. and the announcemel
ne from the American Tin Plate compar
created marked impression. Repr
zen sentatives of the strikers insisted tn
M the company was not in good faith
he the announcement and TINT even II
NY was 1t could not win with such met
The ods. Opponents of the strikers cour
'tfi- ed the plan another victory and d
go clared that the strike must fail In q
eel face of such decisive action.
in Shuffer's Final Tour.
Will President Shaffcr has begun his mn
all four among the strikers. Two INC
as sand organized workinen paraded
New Castle before his arrival ana ilh
the I'm around the Union station 10 gre
go him, His welcome was an enthuslas
tin one He spoke to 6.0Q0 union msn