The Iola register., 1901-08-16
THE STRIKE
NOW ON
The Amalgamated men Went
out Saturday
Conflicting Reports as to the
Success Attending the
Walk Out
SHUT down NOT COMPLETE
Several Mills are Still Run
ming a Force
Chances are that it Will be a
Long Hard Fight Before
it is Settled

| BY Scripps-hcRas Press Association.
Pittsburg, August l2.-Dispatches
from the strike centers this morning
show that the strikers at McKeesport
prevented twenty-five non-union men
from entering the National rolling
mill. At Youngstown six hundred
non-union men are running the Ohio
steel plant to its fullest capacity. The
National tube works started as usual
with five hundred on the night shift
and worked through. Five hundred
at the Valley plant. three hundred at
| Hazleton and two hundred at Resse-
mer reported punctually this morning.
All of the Independent furnaces in the
Mahoning valley are unaffected. At
the seven plants of the American steel
hoop, sheet steel and tin plate compa-
nies thirty-two hundred are on a
strike. Twenty-seven mills around
Apollo, Pa, are working full force. At
Pomeroy, Canal and Dover. Ohio and
New Castle Pa, nothing is doing. At
partly successful in startiag the mills.
Pittsburg, Pa Aug. .. There we. q
gravely important developments in
| the strike situation today. The United
States Steel corporation moved de.
cisively in its strike campaign with IA
peremptory order directing that the
great Deweese Wood plant at Me-
keespOrt be dismantled and removed
to the kiskiminetas valley. President
Gompers, of the American Federation
of Labor, after two days conference
with President Shatrer and his associ-
ates, issued aformal statement tonight
specially pledging the federation to
the moral and financial support OF the
Amalgamated Association. His
written review of the train of events
leading up to the i.du-.rial quarrel
sustains the course vi uhe Amalgamat-
ed Association, and declares tn
nothing remains for labor but to bat
tie for the cause of unionism.
The official announcement of the or
der to dismautle the Deweese Wood
plant came this afternoon toward the
close of an otherwise uneventful day.
and its Importance was such that it
claimed the serious consideration on
either side of the great industrial
conflict now being waged here. Persi-
fer f. Smith, district manager for the
American Sheet Steel Company. made
the formal announcement in the fol-
lowing statement:
81 have orders from President Nc
Murty, of the American Sheet Steel
Company, to at once tear down the
Deweese Wood plant at McKeesport
and remove same to Kiskiminetas
valley. This | shall proceed to do
Immediately"
The publication of the order was a
great surprise and McKeesport re-
ceived it at first with doubt. Actual
preparations were made later in the
day for the dismantling of the mill,
and there is little room for doubt that
it will be torn down and taken apart,
piece by piece. The strikers heard
the order in spirit of defiance. They
simply said that it showed the steel
corporation was convinced that it
could not reopen tho plant in the face
of the opposition of the Amalgamated
Association. Strike leaders here said
that the order was a bluff that had
been worked unsuccessfully before,
and declined to take it seriously. A
representative of the press showed
District Manager Smiths statement
to President Shatfer, but after read
ing it he declined to talk about it. 81
have nothing to say about this order
todismantle the Deweese Wood plant" ;"