Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-08
STEEL COGIP'.aATIO! r ~S.
will Centralize It's Operations
 as Much as Possible.

Small Plants Will Be Wiped Out-It
 Will Mean a Big Influx of Works to
 Pittsburg The Morgan Combination
 Will Also Centralize It's Business.
 Plttsburg, May S.-The Commercial Gazette this morning publishes the following:
 "rhe United States Steel Corpora tion has adopted the policy of central izing operations, of abandoning it's smaller plants, those dlsadvantageous Iy located and those that cannot be run economically. The work heretofore done at these plants will be trans ferred to those that can be operated to the advantage of the company. or the details, l can say nothing 1 only know that to work out some of the details of this policy operating heads of the concerns of the United States Steel Corporation have been ill con- ference in New York. Undoubtedly the plan will revert with greatest benefit to the Pittsburg district, as the most favored of all ill which the United States Steel Corporation operates.''
 The above is the statement of Joshua Rhodes. of PittsDurg, retired as chairman of the board of directors of the National Tube Company now a constituent of the IT. s. Steel ICor- poration, in reply to an inquiry as to whether the new Morgan combination had adopted such policy.
 .Nf 4I,ie, ,NnI;o,x .1f ing operations by the United States Steel Corporation will mean to the Pittsburg district, if carried into ef- feet without delay, the bringing here within year of about 50,000 mill men from plants of the company that will be abandoned.
 The underlying companies of the Morgan combination have been work ing toward the same plan of mobiliz-' ing operations and abandoning the iso- lated and smaller plants and those that cannot be operated economically. The American Bridge Company has had plans drawn for new $1,000,000 plant to be erected in the Pittsburg district. This company has plants scattered through the east at points where they are at disadvantage to operate and are considered for aban- donment.
 Recent announcements that the American Sheet Steel Company had given up it's plan to operate the new and costly plant at Chester, w. Va. was q reflection of the new policy of the new Morgan combine. Tho, equip ment of this plant will be taken to yandergrift where the most modern plant of the company. that of the Apollo Iron and Steel Company is operated. Since the Sheet Company formed it has abandoned a number of its plants of lesser importance and nearly all of the apparatus of these was sent to yandergrift.
 For the American Steel and Wire Company the United States Steel Cor poration is expected to carry out the plan of the Wire Company to cen tralize all operations possible at Neville Island where $10.000,000 works are being built. This has al- ready led to the abandonment or plants at Worcester, Mass. and is ex- pected to he followed with works at Cincinnati, Ohio. the Portage works at Newburg. N. Y.. and the works at Everett Wash. Of the American Tin Company works those at Agnew and Johnstown. Pa, and Canal Dover, Ohio. are expected to be among those to be centered at, New Kensington, along with the Pittshurg works men, toned. The Carnegie Steel and the Federal Steel Company's works are ex- pected to remain much as they are Of the National Tube Company plants, among those considered for abandon ment is the Pennsylvania Tube works, which, although one of tho most inn portant of the company is not economi- cal in operation.