The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-08
PROGRESS OF STEEL STRIKE
NO GREAT ADVANTAGE YET SE-
 CURED BY EITHER SIDE.

the Clark Mill in Plttsburg,- N.
 Trouble Has Yet Occurred Striker
 Are Generally Quiet but Restless il
 SomeQuarters.
 Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 7.-In fthe big
 steel strike honors are easy in this sec
 ton tonight The Amalgamated As
 sociation succeeded in closing down the
 big steel plant at Newcastle and the
 manufacturers partially broke the
 strike at the Clark mill in this city.
 Neither side Is eXulting, nor is there
 any expression of Encouragement.
 Up to this hour not the slightest trou-
 ble has occurred at any point in this
 immediate territory and Amalgamated
 men are correspondingly happy be-
 cause this condition would seem to be
 the carrying out of the associations
 new departure in the handling of
 strikes. The quiet waiting of the strik-
 CTS may be one of the surprises hinted
 at by the national officers. From one
 or two points the strikers are reported
 as restless and eager for action but so
 far, have kept faith with their leaders
 and refrained from committing any
 breach of the peace.
 The United States Steel corporation, it was learned to-day from an official source will at once proceed in sys- tematic manner to start 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 to the workers He is quoted by Pittsburg man as saying: 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 officials"
 The manufacturers have decided to go ahead slowly in the matter of start ing mills and to do with as little pub 1icity as possible.
 The strongholds of the sheet com pany are at the mills at Vandergrift, the largest in the country, Leechburg, Oppollo and Scottdale. It has been de- cided to take as many skilled men from these places as possible without retarding operations there and start the mills where there is the least dan ger of an out break. The places left va can at the mills mentioned will be filled with men deserving of promotion and they will be given better positions. The plan further contemplates that after a time many of the strikers will return when they see one after another of the | closed mills resuming.
 Plans for starting the closed tin plate mills have not been completed. In this | branch the situation is different. The l tin plate company have only six of | their 232 trains going, while the sheet | will have a few less than half
 At McKeesport President Shaffer | said that he himself would lead men rom Vandergrift into the Wood mill. The officials feel that if they can get he Vandergrift men from their en- 1ironments there little trouble will be 'ound in bringing them into the asso- ,iation
 The action of the structural iron workers in tEe present strike was ersely outlined by J. W. Pryale, secre- ary of the bridge and structural iron who said to-day: There are 10 union mills making structural steel IT iron and our men have been working he material furnished them and will ontinue to do so. If there was union hill making the material used by us ve would possibly act differently" icI oft he 1 oard of arbitration, is in town and is isiting several of the combine offices, ] is said, in the interest of another con- erenec. He refused to discuss his movements, saying he was here on f ther than the steel organizations af- , airs. , The continuation os the strike and c he fact that it is to be extended to . reater proportions augmented the f cramble that has been on in Pittsburg e 1r two weeks to secure sheets and tin n la tes. A canvass of the jobbers de- i, eloped that the supply of both sheets f nd tin plate is rapidly running behind f le demand, especially in tinplate. The independent mills are reaping a arvest. They are taking contracts at i, rices as high in some cases as $70 a ,n for future delivery.
 The sales denartment of the Ameri- ln Steel Sheet company has given mo- f, ce to jobbers that it cannot take any n 'ders for some time as the capacity of u le operating sheet mills has been con- 1p1 acted for. c, headquarters were 1' ore quiet to-day than they have been nee the strike order was talked of T, he officials of the organization were A lsy all day attending to routine busi- T ,ss and getting out material for the st lrious local lodges of the association aI at have been organized during the st few weeks A report was received or rly in the morning from the strikers ga
 Newcastle, announcing that the or M 1T to strike had been obeyed to the nr tier and the strikers were out to tt an.
 The news of the starting of the Clark SC Ills here was not surprising to the sq icials of the organization as they had z, ceived intimations of what was to at open yesterday afternoon. The sit tion is perfectly understood in Law tn nceville, the officers say, and the mis- TO that caused the colored Fr ,n to return to work will, it is said, ac rectified in a short time. Ona Of tha nloSt interesting factors of 1 an