The age-herald., 1901-08-08
Steel Workers Close Steel Plant and Manufacturers Bust
 Strike ot One Place
TWO STATEMENTS ARE MADE
Schwab Says He Has Made Ills Last Proposition, and shaffer Says He Will Offer Nothing More.
 Neither Side Gains.

strike honors are even in this section to- night. The Amalgamated Association succeeded in closing down the big steel plant at Newcastel and the Manufac- turers partially broke the strike at the Clark mill in this city
 The United States Steel corporation. 1t was learned today from an official source will at once proceed in a systematic man. ner to start it's closed sheet mills. mak- ing the nonLunion plants of the Kiskim- iretas valley the cradle where strike breakers will be trained and then sent out to the mills that are closed.
 So far as President c. NJ. Schwab Is concerned no overtures will be made by the trust to the workers In a talk with a Pittsburg man in New York yesterday he said
 We have made our last proposition to the Amalgamated Association and will now proceed to start our works
 President shaffer makes this counter statement:
 "The next proposition must come from the United States Steel corporation off, cials"
 The trust officials have decided to go ahead slowly in the matter of starting mills and to do so with as little publicity as possible.
 The Strongholds.
 The strongholds of the sheet company are the mills at Vandergrift, the largest in -the county. Leechburg, Appollo and Scottda1e. It has been decided 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 danger of an outbreak. The places left vacant at the nills ncntioned will be filled with men deserving of Sro- motion and they will be given better po- sitions. This move will be undertaken cautiously. The plan further contem- 1 plates that after a time many of the strikers will return when they see one l after another of the closed mills resum- ing.
 The officials of the Amalgamated As- l sociation say that this move will, in measure, play into their hands. At Mo- Keesport President Shaffer said that he himself would lead men from Wander grift into the Wood mill. The officials feel that If they can keep Vandergrift men away from their environment little trouble will be found in bringing them to the association.
 Discussing the situation Secretary Tighe said:
 'sThat effort will not extend very far because there are only few skilled men. available and before enough can De trained to operate the mills snow will fly pretty thick A move of that kind might be attempted in Bessemer, or open hearth steel mills, but in sheet mill where the skill required Is of the highest order, the plan cannot do anything but ultimately fail.
 The action of the structural iron work CTS in the present strike was tersely out lined by J. w. Pryale, secretary of the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, who said today:
 There are no union mills making struc- tural steel or iron and our men have been working the material furnished them and l will continue doing so." l A canvass of Pittsburg jobbers develop ed that the supply of both sheet and tn l plate Is rapidly running behind the de- mand, especially in tin plate. The Amer l ican Tin Plate Company has not changed I It's quotations of S4. .25 per box, but con- l sumers have paid this week as high as l $550 for box immediate delivery. The combine price for sheets is $6O per ton, | hut S70. and s75 have been paid for sheet available at once. The independent mills are reaping a harvest. They are taking | contracts at prices as high in some cases as $7O ton tor future delivery.
 Cannot Take Orders.
 The sales department of the American Sheet Steel Company has given notice to tobbers that 1t cannot take any orders for some time, as the capacity Of the op- erating mills has been contracted for. I One of the most interesting factors of the strike is beginning to develop. It was intimated that a plan is on foot for the formation of an advisory board for the purpose of aiding President Shaffer in car- 1 rying on the struggle. which will be conn posed of the presidents of the various trade organizations. with headquarters in l Pittsburg. Such men as President simon Burns of the Window Glass Workers As- socation. President John Kunzeier of the 1 Flint Glass Workers, National Secretary | James Pryal of the Structural Iron Work l CTS Association, Patrick Dolan of the | United Mine Workers and any others who | can be brought together. No one in the offices of the trust seems | to expect any settlement of the strike ex- cept by the destruction of the organiza- tion of the Amalgamated Association in all trust mills.
 An unsuccessful attempt was made this morning to start the eight-inch mill at the Lindsay & McCutcheon plant of the United States Steel Corporation in Ale gheny. Fires were lighted on Tuesday night. but not enough men appeared to run the mill It Is stated another at tempt will be made to start the mill in the morning.
 | It is said tonight that emissaries of the company are out trying. to secure enough for two crews to start the Painter min at an early date.