Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-09-05
INTEREST TAGGING.
The Public Satisfied Steel Strike
Is Now One Of Endurance.
PREPARATIONS FOR OPENING PLANTS
Fesrs That strikers May Commit Unlawful
Acts-A Force Of Men Put to Work
to Dismantls the Mckay
Chain Works.


Dor day demonstration monopolized
the attention Of workmen and strik.
ers here and in the surrounding
towns, but the steel manufacturers
went on making preparations for the
opening Of the plants that are shut
down by the strike and increasing
the number Of men at the mills al.
ready in partial operation. Public in
terest in the strike itself is tagging,
as the contest seems to have settled
down to an issue Of endurance, Evil
dences Of impotence are cropping
out On the side Of the strikers, and
the authorities fear that the unlawful
acts participated in by the strikers
Sunday night and yesterday about
the Star tin plant may multiply and
spread to other quarters.
The officials of the Star plant claim
that yesterday pickets about their
mill held up a special delivery boy
from the post Office with letter for
the office while he was coming down
Twelfth street and inspected the let
ter before he was allowed to proceed
The matter will be reported to the
postal authorities at once. It is also
charged that the strikers stoned the
company carriage on Penn avenue
yesterday morning, but did no special
damage to the occupants. The ag-
gressiveness Of the strikers was fur
ther demonstrated late yesterday aft
ernoon when a mob surrounded Will
liam Jones, a colored man, who was
mistaken for a non-union man from
the Star works. He made narrow
escape from serious injury by the ap-
pearance Of Police Lieut.. Crossan,
who came to his rescue. Before
Crossan could secure additional aid
he was almost overwhelmed by the
large crowd that had gathered. The
prompt arrival of a large force of Of
ficers probably saved Jones from Sc.
rious injury, as the mob appeared a
desperate one and many demands
were made that he be strung up.
During the parade most of the
pickets were away from the Star mills
and the company succeeded in secur-
ing several new men. OF the lot that
arrived in Pittsburg early yesterday
morning il was said that good
many of them were for the Demmler
plant at McKeesport.
The Lindsay-McCutcheon plant in
Allegheny did not start up yesterday,
and the management said the men
there wanted to celebrate Labor day.
The mills will be operated as usual
to-day, The Painter mills in West
Carson street started up as usual,
with increased forces. There was no
change in the lawrencevile district.
The failure of the Amalgamated
people to cripple the Carnegie open
hearth plant at Duquesne yesterday
morning is looked upon by the steel
officials as the death blow of the
strike in the Carnegie mills at least.
Sunday night the strike managers at
McKeesport announced that a march
would be made yesterday morning to
and predicted confidently
that the men would not go to work
and that the entire plant would be
tied up. Yesterday morning no pa
raiders appeared. the men went to
work and the plant is in operation as
usual. 1t is more than probable that !
this latest failure at Duquesne will
have the effect of making the strike
withdraw all efforts in that
While there is visible indication
that the National Tube company in
tends starting It's plant at McKees-
port in the near future, the foremen
in the mill say that the entire plant
will be in operation next week.
A force of men was put to work
yesterday dismantlng the plant of
the Mckay chain works. The com
pany has erected much larger plant
at MeKee's Rocks and will abandon
the Lawrenceville plant. Strikers
were notified yesterday that the new
plant would open in three weeks and
those who wanted to return at the old
wages could do so.