Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-08
SIDE GAINED A POINT
IN THE STRIKE YESTERDAY.
A~malgamated Association Closed Down the Big
Steel Plants at New C~astIe-Trust Put Part of
Clark Mill to Work.

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,a.ton succeeded in closing down the
bg steel plant at New Castle, and the
manufacturers PARTLY broke the strike
az the Clark mill in this city. Neither
sie is exulting, nor is there any express
sion OF Encouragement. Victory or de-
feat Of either at this early stage of
tine warfare can have but little effect
asvond indicating the probable line of
battle to be pursued by each.
70 to this hour not the slightest
trouble has occurred at any point in
this immediate territory, and Amalga-
mated men are correspondingly happy
because this condition would seem to
b. the carrying out of the associations
new departure in the handling of
strikes. The quiet waiting of the strik-
e-s may be one of the surprises limited
al By the national officers, and from
che or two points the strikers are re-
ported as restless and eager for action.
but SO far have kept faith with their
leaders and refrained from committing
any breach of the peace.
Recorder A. N. Brown does not anti
Gpate that there
VIII BE Any Disorder
in Pittsburg on account of the steel
strike. If there should be disorder, he
SAYS. it will be the duty Of the bureau
Of police to suppress it and arrest all
who are concerned in it. Recorder
Brown incidentally remar ed that there
would be no discrimination between the
strikers and employers, and that all are
equal under the law and will be so
treated.
The United States Steel Corporation,
f. was learned to-day from an official
sousee. will at once proceed In a sys-
tematie manner to start all its closed
sheet mills, making the non-union
plants of the Kiskiminetas valley the
cradle where strike breakers will be
trained and then sent out to the mills
that are closed.
So far as President c. M. Schwab is
concerned. no overtures will be made
by the trust % the workers. In a talk
with a Pittsburg man in New York yes
terday he said:
we have made our last pro-
na.ft;ar IN tho np0lQQ mated
AssociatiOn and will now pro-
coed to start our works"
President Shaffer makes this counter
statement:
The next proposition must
come from the u. S. Steel Cor
poration officials"
thus the two executives stand. 1t
seems as if only outside efforts can
bring them together.
The trust officials have decided to go
ahead slowly in the matter of starting
mills and to do so with as little publ
city as possible.
The strongholds of the sheet COM
pany are the mills at Vandergrift, the
largest in the country, Leechburg,
Apollo and Scottdale. 1t has been de-
cided to take as many skilled men
away from these places as possible
without %retarding operations there and
start the mills where there is the least
uanger of an outbreak. The places left
vacant at the mills mentioned will be
hled with men deserving of promotion
and they will be given better positions.
1nis move will be undertaken slowly
and with caution. The plan further
the strikers will return when they see
one after another of the closed mills re-
suming.
Ihis plan was tested the first few
Gays of this week and found to be
feasible so far as the mills at Hyde
Fafk and Welisville go, and it has been
decided to adopt it so far as the sheet
sAd hoop mills are concerned.
THE TIN PLATE MILLS.
rams for starting the closed tin plate,
NILS have not been completed. In this
branch the situation is different. The
IN plate company have only six of
'Ae'r 232 roll trains going, while the
eAeet company have a few less than
hat.
The officials of the Amalgamated AS
so-Iatton say that this move will in 4
Measure play into their hands. At
'Aeesport, President Shaffer said,
'4-t ne himself would lead men from
~2dergrift into the Wood mill. The
o"lt ais feel that if they can get the
'aaiergrift men away from their en-
s1foaments there, little trouble will be
4olh1 In bringing them into the asso.
@ciat.on.
III discussing the move Assistant Sec
'e'dry VI. F. Tighe said:
That effort will not extend
very far because there are only
q" lew skilled men available
ana before enough can be train
ed to operate mills, snow Will
ny pretty thick. A move of that
h'nd might be attempted in
Dessemer or open hearth steel
mills, but in u sheet mill where
we skill required IL ON the
"ishest order the plan car not
90 anything bat ultimately fail.
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