Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-08-20
PENDULUM VIBRATES
IN GREAT STEEL STRIKE.
MEN IN SEVERAL MORE
WESTERN MILLS JOIN sTHIk

On Othsr Hand Trust Opens More Mills
Iron Moidsrs at Chicago Vote to Hep to
Contribute $4,000 a Day-S.tuatiOn
Steadily Getting Delicate as Regards
Disorder.
Pittsburg, Aug l9-The steel man
ayers made another gain over the
strikers today. Two more mills at
the Paioters plant, started, making
four 10 all. There was no hresk in
the forces of the lower n ills or the
Carnegie plants today and there is no
other change in the situation.
Both sides are as determined as
ever to continue the struggle to the
bitter end and both are still confident
of ultimately winning the fight.
\ non.union worker employed in the
Wellsvills plan was seriously beaten
by party Of strikers early this morn
ing. He had been to Vandergrift
to spend Sunday and was returning to
work
The steel mills at Monessen. after a
long period of inactivity. were partly
put in motion by strike breakers
gathered in some of the southern
states, two more mills in the Painter
plant were started up and another
large mill at the Clark property vas
also operated for the first time
There was some disorder 10 the streets
of Mouessen during the day, but the
local police never lost control of the
demonstrative crowds and there was
no serious trouble.
the previous developments in the
~ r- t,. hn net. ia l. Il
been rather 10 favor of the men.
After the Joliet workers swung into
line the Bay View men at Milwaukee
decided Friday by vote that vas
made unanimous to obey the strike
order. The plant OF the Illinois steel
company at Bay View will be shut
dom indefinitely, and about l400
men will be thrown out of WORK.
AT a mass meeting at Chicago Sat
urday it was voted that every iron
moulier 10 the city should contribute
30 cents day TO the support Of the
men still on strike.
THIS will bring s250O a week into
the strike fund and will make a siz-
able addition to the amount which
the strikers now have to draw upon.
4 determined effort is nov to be
made TO induce the South Chicago
men TO reverse their action and join
ard to break in the solid combination
OF the Carnegie properties.
There is growing belief that the
good order, which has been general,
will not prevail much longer. The
strikers show rstlessness and irrita
ton at the points where they come
into contact with non-union men.
a party Of strike, e,hreakers brought
up from the South by special train
were safely delivered in the steel
mill at Mouseu, Pa. early Sunday
morning. The strikers were watch.
iug the railroads ard river and had
expressed n determination to prevent
the entrance Of the strike breakers.
The men who hendled the movement
for the steel corporation successfully
yelled their actions, however ard |
landed their charges safely within |
the plant hours before it vas known !
definitely by any one on the outside |
that the men had arrived.
The mills are guarded and the men |
will be kept 90 the premises until all |
danger of trouble ceases.
4 fence has been thrown around |
the property and guards have heen |
posted to keep out all intruders. The
strikers will undoubtedly make au |
effort to induce the strike breakers to |
quit. and fear is expressed that there
will be trouble IL any demonstration |
is made against the men or property.
The situation there is regarded as
very delicate
President Shatfer of the Amalgam
stei association is i'll.
Meanwhile there are rumors that
the trust is preparing profit sharing
scheme. lite managers will not talk
about it.
1t begins to look as if the steel
trust made serious blunder in or
lering the dismsntling of the steel
" vorks at Mckeesport. Pa, and the
of the industry to another
town. The Plttsburg correspondent
IF the Baltimore Sun says it is be
ieyed in that city that 'the threat
II the trust to move Its mills and
destroy communities as the thing
bat fiually induced the Joliet men to
strike, ard, is greatly aiding the
Amalgamated association leaders to
'ecruit in the Carnegie mills. - Very
ikely.