The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-09-02
FAILED TO CLOSE THE MILL.
Threat OF Union Leaders Not Made
Good nt Duuuexne.

! MckEESPORT. Pa. Sept 2-The
| threat Of tho union leaders that they
| would close the Carnegie steel mill a.
! DuuuCsue proved futile Tocay the entire
plant is running All that the leaders
/ could do was Co inconvenience the open
/ hearth department slightly. but not 50
/ badly but that the difficulty can bc over
| come The two hours between 8 o'clock
/ and this morning were an anxious pc
| Rod for the mill BOSSES That was the
/ time when the leaders were going TO close
/ the mill When o'clock came. il was
] expected that the union men would turn
/ out in force An attempt was made last
night 10 have a parade from AIcKeesport
I Co buquesne at daylight today. but the
/ men would not turn out They got enough
/ paraCinE last week when President shat
| fer threw them down and the Duquesae
police thwarted their plans for demon
stratiOn
Instead Of throHg OF enthusiastic pa
| raiders. an army OF riekets and a brass
band. there assembled at the mill gate
| this morning three pickets who watched
the gate for two hours while the day shift
went on and 5hru they went away. When
I they were asked where the other pick
cts WEE they replied; 'In bed" Police
were everywhere about the mills and
streets They travelled I'm twOs and th-ees
and kept everyone in the streets moving
Inside OF the mill yards the coal and iron
policemen could be seen patr0lliug ia
pairs Nowhere was there any attempt
by the p.ckets to stop a workman and
the shifts were changed without an Incl
dent.
When ii was all over not one Of the
oTen-hearth furnaces had to close and all
that the union leaders claimed was that
there were two men in the mill who were
watering between working and cclttire
The situation at Duquesue has been o.
peculiar one throughout and entirely diff
ferent from that in any other mill While
the DUqUesne. Braddocl1. and Homestead
mills could not be said to be uon-uui0u.
they have not been union mills since they
We're not organized But there were IN
ion men In all Of them =. sides an Of the
mills at the three towns are Carnegie
mills. When men were wanted 10 90
from one mill to another. no objection
was expressed by them, whereas in any
case they would have refused 20 60. In
fact. six men Of BraGdock did refuse 10 90
10 the Painter mills to work week before
last because the Painter plants were not
allied mills from their point Of view and
they were discharged This is why every
place in the Duquesne mills that has been
made vacant by discharge or disafection
have been easily filled
The best that the union organizers at
DUquesne have been able TO do yet was TO
turn back from the mill nine men last
night They were LADDERS. whose places
We're filed by Ladders from the Bessemer
mill. and not e. furnace lE the opeu-hearth
department was left without its fun COM
pIcmCut Of men The Efforts 10 turn back
the boss meters and the first helpers last
night failed utterly Every man went IN.
Counting all the men who have left the
mil. either Of their own v0liti0n OF at
the instance of the managers. there are
Dut sixty men out on both shifts These
are nearly all LADDERS The crane men. pit
men. cinder men, engineers. brakemen,
and crackers have refused TO strike. and
the total number Of men who had actually
struck last night was nine II is the
boast Of the leaders that they can cripple
the mill by keeping out the second helpers
Eleven Of them have been discharged. and
last week their work was performed By
other men who were got from the Res
semer mill. This taking Of men from the
BeSsemer mill is a matter Of no cOnse-
qUence as that plant is not pressed with
work. ana in fact has been expected Tor
some time 70 shut down temporarily