The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-15

ton OF their plans IN those districts. Both
sides express their satisfaction with the
progress OF the strike.
Encouraged by success IN keeping Mones-
sen going and IN operating their plant al
Cleveland. the officers of the American 'fii
llaie Company are planning Resumption
Win nOnunlOn men at other points. Ihey
VIII not say where their Lext move VIII
bc made, bu, say that IL will be maze
quiShly. They mace the following formal
statement TO n representative OF the AssO-
ciated Press Tonight.
As the result of the attempt made by
the American Tin Plate Company 20 start
lts Crescent works at Cleveland, in twenty
Tour hours half the mills were put IN Sue
ccasfui operation, manned largely ~ Tor
mer workmen. who have seeded from he
Amalgamated Assoc tiOn, stating their be-
lief that the officers OF the association
had done wrong In violating their written
agreement with the company. The start
al Cleveland having succeeded. the com
pany Will In short time make a similar
move elsewhere
The strike headquarters here to-day were
m charge of Secretary John Williams and
several members of the executive board
were on hand TO advise with him and as
SiSt. 1hey denied positively that there was
satisfaction with the policy of President
Sharer. that there any disagreement
IN the board. or that there was any waNeI-
ing along their battle front. All stories to
the contrary they pronounced canards
started by the enemy TO iDJure their cause.
They said that so many independent plants
were being started that those already in
operation were taking many of the
skilled men on strike that the steel corpora
tion alone would suffer a. a result of the
strike.
Workmen began to-day To dismantle the
Charters mill at Carnegie. The machinery
will be taken to Leechburg where the mill
Will be located. Work on the Devices Wood
property at McKeesport has been sus-
pended 1t is said there is a mortgage of
100000 on the mills and that nothing to-
ward dismantling them would be done until
some arrangement is made as TO the mort
gage.
The fact that the annual encampment of
the Second Brigade of the National Guards
OF Pennsylvania was postponed and that
IL Is To be held at Somerset. near Pitts
burg, Is regarued as significant. The en-
campment begins this week and will last
until the latter part Of next week. and IL is
thought here that the strike had something
days the State viii be in a position to
throw troops into Pittsburg, MckeespOrt
ard New Castle within "A few hours. The
present situation, however, does not war
rant the calling out Of State troops
There was some disorder around the
Painter and Lindsay and McCutcheon mills
tonight and the police had 10 escort the
nOnunion workers home. The strikers claim
that the Painter mill cannot be operated
tomorrow
A lodge of 500 members was initiated to-
night into tie American Federation of
Labor. The new members are tube work
erS employed by the Pennsylvania Tube
Company, of this city. The Amalgamated
any time the word is given. The strikers
also assert that thirty men from the upper
Union mill o. the Carnegie Company were
taken into the association tonight. and
tnat strong foothold has been secured by
the association in the Homestead plant.
This last statement, the steel people say.
is without foundation and not worthy of
notice