The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-08-09
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CLEVELAND, o., Aug. 1.-The big
steel combine Is utilizing negro labor
to supplant its white workers In the
Newburg mills here. Already a cou-
pie of hundred of colored men have
core to the city from Pittsburg, Home
stead and adjacent iron centers In
Pennsylvania. They are domiCiled in a
large dwelling house at the mill.
The negroes from Alabama and Ten
nessee, according to the colored agent
of the steel corporation, see in this
strike a glorious opportunity to i'm
prove their condition. and are Hooking
north In large numbers.
1t Is also asserted that the steel cor
poration has given authority to its
agents to gather all the colured iron
workers possible, and to center them
at the various points of the strike.
NEW YORK, Aug. REPORTS that
the negotiations for the strike settle
ment We're abandoned brought heavy
Offering of steel stocks on the mar
ket, but the sale of $4,000 shares caus-
fall of only "a In price The pre-
ferred stock opened up an eighth.
then yielded. Changes In the general
market were narrow and mixed. Rock
Island was off two points and rubber
preferred up nearly point. Dealings
We're on a very small scale.
The stagnation Of the market invit-
ed attacks by bears which they cen
| tered upon sugar, driving that stock
down ga Declines of l to 1l2 were re-
! hected in the principal grangers. Pa
cities and Southewesterns and in Nor
folk & Western. Pennsylvania, and
Peoples gas. Very light selling suffic-
ed to cause the fall. Consolidated gas
rose ~. and Long Island Az. Rail
road bonds We're dun. but irregular
The strikers ut Clark's mills in this
city are very much discouraged at the
turn affairs have taken with regard to
the settlement of the trouble, and sew
eral of the most enthusiastic strikers
have intimatcd their intention of re-
turning to the plant at the earliest
moment on the most favorable terms
possible.
The strikers at Painters mill and the
| Lindsay IL MCCutcheon plant are still
enthusiastic, and say they will stay
out until the leaders notify them TO
return TO work.
At Wellsville, Ohio. the feeling is
growing that there will not be an early
settlement.
The strikers are not relaxing one iota
I of their vigilance. Every avenue of
/ entrance to the town Is being closely
I guarded. \ McKeesport dispatch says:
/ THE presence of three supposed
strike breakers was the cause OF con-
The first of the supposed strike break
ers was discovered about o'clock in
! the afternoon, and gave his name as
/ Edward Meyers. He frankly announC-
. ed his intention of going To- work in
the Devices Wood mill. and was told
Just as frankly by the patrol which
was questioning him that such "A move
would result in some accident occur
I ring to him. He was put on a street
/ car ana taken to Pittsburg by several
strikers. Two more men were found
in the evening, and after considerable
questioning were requested to leave
town. They promised to leave, and
then gave their guards the slip. Pa
t'ols made search for them during
/ the night, but could not locate them.
/ The strikers thgeaten to handle them
| without gloves when they are found
Fifteen striking structural iron work
ers attacked n number of non-unon
/ men unloading iron at Williamsburg.
| Pa, this morning, and Charles Force.
one of the workmen. was seriously in
| jured. The workmen. reinforced by a
/ number of policemen and about one
/ hundred citizens, attacked the strikers
who retreated and disappeared In Fern
/ Hollow. Search is still being made for
the men, and should they be caught
| there VIII be trouble.