Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-08-15
THE MILL OWNERS
Still Appear to Have Advantage
in Steel Strike.
Charters PIant!at Carnegie to e
Moved to leechburg.
Strikers Charge westerners With Trsachery.
They Gain Some Men.

Pittsburg. Pa. Aug. 13-Neither side
moved decisively. eOday, in the steel
strike and the result is still in the bal
ance. The strikers made gains at Pitts
burg. Mckeesport, Wheeling and Bel
laire in the last "a hours, but in the
main the advantage is still with the
mill owners.
Ten men. five Of them skilled, quit
work at the lower Union mill Of the
Carnegie Co. in Pittsburg. today, and
joined the strikers. Their detection
represents the first break in the Carne-
gle forces or more than $1,000 men, The
strikers were jubilant but the company
claims to have filed the strikers places
at once. The Bellaire plant at which
tn" men struck. Sunday. was finally
closed down. today. after working
short handed until yesterday afternoon.
Several hundred boys employed at
the National Tube Works at McKees-
port went out during the night and
day, and their action materially aided
the efforts of the strikers to finally tie
the plant up. The workers are thinning
and the supply of material is limited
The strikers made gains at Wheel
ing and the Steel Co. officials admitted
today, that BenwOod would be closed
down. Ciark's mill here is moving along
full handed. Lindsay & McCutcheon
are operating with a small crew and
the managers are planning to open the
Painters and increase the force at
Lindsay & McCutcheon's. A break In
the ranks of the men who struck at
Painters is expected but the strike
managers deny that one will occur.
Another break is reported as possible
a; Newcastle. but there are as yet no
positive indications of it. The Amerl-
can Tinplate Co. has a small force at
the Crescent plant in Cleveland and is
also planning resumption at both
points with non-union men.
The steel officials report intimidation
at Wheeling. Mckeesport and Pitts
burg. Both sides express their conf
dence in ultimate victory.
The number of men out as the result
of the general order is now roughly es-
timated at 5000 and on the three or
ders at $1,000.
According to an authoritative an
nouncement made. today by officials
of the American Sheet Steel Co. the
destruction of another plant has been
ordered. This time it is the Charters
plant at Carnegie. 1t will be removed
to Leechburg in the kiskiminetas val
ley
The strikers We're called together.
Yesterday. by Supt. John Henry and
preliminary notice of the company 8
nlans served on them. Eighty strikers
responded and MI. Henry told them
that the fires would be lighted and all
preparations made for a start. today.
He said that at , O'Clock the whistle
would be blown and if the men failed
to respond the fires would never be
relighted. The program as outlined
was carried out. but when the whistle
sounded the men did not respond. The
fires We're at once drawn and the or
der to dismantie and remove the mills
was given.
The Steel Corporation held it's ground
at Chicago. Joliet. Bay View. Youngs-
town. Columbus. The Kiskiminetas
Valley and the Carnegie group with
the exception of the instance named.
The strikers are considering plans for
breaking the decision of the Chicago
Joliet and BAY View to stand with the
Steel co. They are charging some Of
the Western men with both dishonesty
and disloyalty.
Crowds surrounded the Carnegie plants
here. today, and the officials finally called
on the police. The officials say that the
loss of 10 men at the lower union mill can
be directly traced to the threats of the
strikers, who intercept the men on the
way to and from work. They make the
same complaint rs TO Bella!re Wheeling
and McKeesport.
They say they have given up hope OF
getting protection from the local author
tiles at McKeesport and Wheeling, but
have given no indication that they intend
to ask for state aid. The strike leaders.
on the other hand, insist that they are
proceeding entirely within their rights
and the law.
Mayor Black of MckeeSport. gave out
a statement in reply to the numerous crit
icisms of his course in not dispensing the
crowds of strikers, in which he said there
had been little or no disorder and in ali
cases the police have handled the situa
ton admirably.
There is no more orderly set of men in
this country than the men who are idle
in this city, today. The Tube Co. has a.'
nronriated to its own use Il street of this
CITY, to which it has no legal right what
ever, and this is the very street on which
it is complained the strikers had congrt'
gated. If | allow private corporation
to take up and appropriate to its own use
street how can consistently refuse
private citizen the right to stand upoh
it,
MUST PAY THE TAX.