The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-08-14
MILLS FORCED TO CLOSE.
Every Department OF the Tube
Works at MckeespOrt Idle.

The Strike of the Boys Makes IL I'm
possible to Continue Operations.
Five Thousand Men Quit work.
Locomotive Firemen Go Out.
McEEESPORT, Aug. 1.-THE National
Tube Mills here Closed down this morning
and the entire force Of 5000. except eight
furnace men quit work. The mill had
been $50 badly crippled by the strike of
the boys ihat TO continue operations was
useless.
Lyery department of the National Tube
Works is now idle and over 1000 men are
out on "a strike or rs a result OF IL IN this
city. The men i'm the Duqu,sne works Of
the Carnegie Steel Company are expected
to go out this week. Several worIImon
have quit the mill. rs they anticipate
trouble and do not wish 70 be mixed up
i'm it. The men are being organized rap
idly, although strenuous efforts are being
made L. prevent II.
Last night the firemen employed on the
locomotives in the company freight yard
struck. and during the night their work
was done by conductors and engineers.
These men protested against having 10
do the work of the fircmen and that had
something to do with closing of the plant.
I There were fifteen Of the irCmen and
when the shippers learned that they had
struck the shipping department was clos
cd also. Threc-fourths of that depart
ment left the mill The remainder Of
them stayed around the mill until the
shift hour this morning when they were
informed by the management that there
would be no attempt to run the mill any
longer
Five thousand FIVE hundred of the pipe
makers, including the boys. and with the
is fremen and $50 shippers. 5.6lS men and
boys We're rendered idle by the closing
Of the pipe mill today. This raises the
total number out TO lOgGo Until last
night one or two OF the furnaces in the
M0nongaheIa mills were running, pre-
paratory 20 letting the fires go out, but
tEcy have been closed down and the en-
tire line Of mills in this city fronting on
1 the NOn0uCaheIa River are idle This
came sooner than was expected and was
preCipitated by the action Of the butt
weld boys. yesterday
After the two bodies Of the boys left the
mills yesterday morning others walked
ont in twos and thrces until at the shift
hour this morning the number Of boys
missing was 40 oct Of a total of SEQ. This
affected both the lap-weld and the butt
weld departments, and as the managers
of the pipe mill had no means Of holding
the boys they ordered the shut down Had
they not done 50 several hundred tons of
iron would have been heated at al ex-
pcuse Of several thoUsand dollars for
nothing, for without the boys the stuff
could not be handled shortly after mid
night the boys in the butt-weld depart
meut held a meeting in the mill and voted
on q strike The majority voted no, but
so many Of the others sneaked out that
at daylight the mill was badly crippled
The men all came down to the pipe mill
this morning at the usual hour They
found great crOwd Of strikers waiting
for them AT the mill gate, even at that
early hour but there was no disorder
The men were admitted 20 the mill and
prepared for work II was not until they
had been in the mill for two hours that
word came out that the plant had closed
down. Then all Of the fires had been
banked and the worSmcn suddenly ap-
peared at the gates in a body. There was
some cheering as the workmen trampcd
away. Then they stopped and told the
strikers what had happened. There was
Erumbhng on the part Of some Of the men
because they were deprived Of their last
weeks wages by going out AT this partic-
ulaT time IL was an hour after the clos
ing Of the pipe mill before the men dis
persed- A large number Of strikers re-
mained on the ground, however, doing
picket duty.
Although one Of the most important
events Of the strike took place today
there was no disturbance There was
lots Of the hOOting that characterized the
conduct Of the strikers yesterday and on
Monday, but not man who went TO the
pipe mill this morning met with any in
reference from the pickets Last night
the town was very quiet The streets
We're fun Of strikers, as usual. but at II
o'clock the men went TO their homes. ex-
cent the ever-present pickets. Every
day and every night the crowds number
about 5000 men and boys.
The force Of men AT work dismantling
the W. Devices Wood mill viii be iucreas-
ID in day OF two and II looks as If the
persons who declare the order for the r,-
mGvaI Of the mill 10 be a bluff are mis-
taken.
Bumors to the effect that the iron and
tinpiate mill viii be started Up soon are
so persisteutIy circulated here that the
story Is now generally accepted as true.
One report has il that men viii be shipped
here from Nou'ssen where tho steel cor
ppratiou has another iron and tinplatC
mill. The strike leaders expect 10 be- al
tackled from that point and the plant is
under strict surveilIace 10y pickets. Ev-
cry night one Cr more Of TIE department
bosses stay in the mill md reliable watch
men are oH hand AZ an times.
Mayor Black announced yesterday that
he received on Monday a postal signed
"A Striker" that bore the following
You viii never live your term out.
Somebody ought to Kill you. There is d
place for such fools as you"
The card was dated Washington. Pa.
August j.. and was addressed 40 r. j.
Black, Mayor OF McKeesport The may
or also announces that among the many
letters ne has received is one from a Ia
Dor organization in the West offering him
its support as "a candidate for President
of the United States ln 1894 and urging
him 10 run for the office.
TINPLATE MILLS WORKING.
Claimed That Strikers Are Seeding