The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-14
NEITHER SIDE CLAIMS GAINS
BIG STEEL STRIKEIS IS IN PRACT
 CALLY SAME CONDITION.
Strikers Have Gained i'm Some Places but Advantage is still With the Manu- fncturers-Both Sides Talk or coming Moves but Neither Seems to Want to Show It's Hund.

Moves but Neither Seems to Want to Show It's Hnnd.
 Pittsburg, Aug. 13.-Neither side moved decisively to-day in the great industrial conflict between employers and employees in the steel trade, and the result is still in the balance. The strik- CTS made gains at Pittsburg, McKees- port, Wheeling and Bellaire in the last 1 twenty-four hours, but in the main the advantage Is still with the mill owners. Both sides claim to be preparing moves | that will bring confusion to opponents, | The general situation tonight can be | briefly summarized as follows: | Ten men, five of them skilled, quit at 1 the lower union mill of the Carnegie company in Pittsburg to-day and joined the strikers. Their defection represents the first break in the Carnegie forces of more than 15,000 men. The strikers were jubilant over the incident, but the company claims to have filled the strik CTS places at once and that there will be no more assertions at any of he plants.
 The Bellaire plant, at which the men struck on Sunday, was finally closed down to-d day after working short hand ed until yesterday afternoon. When another start will be made is problem | atical.
 Several hundred boys employed at the National Tube works at Mckeesport went out during the night and day, and their action materially aided the effort of the strikers to finally tie the plant up. The works are going ahead short handed, but the ranks of the workers are thinning and.the supply of material is limited.
 The strikers made gains at Wheeling, and the steel officials admitted to-day that Benwood would be closed down. Clark's mill here is moving along full handed. Lindsay and McCutcheon Is op- eratinp with a small crew and the man. agers are planning to open Painter and increase the force at Lindsay and McCutcheon's. A break in the ranks Of the men who struck at Painters IS eX- nected but the strike managers deny that one will occur.
 Another break is reported as possible at Newcastle. but there are as yet no positive indications of It. The Amerl- can Tin Plate company has smail force at the Crescent plant in Cleveland and is also planning resumption at potn points with non-union men, The steer | Corporation has ordered that the Char- tiers plant at Carnegie be dismantleo and removed to Leechburs.
 So far good order has prevailed ai- though the steel officials assert that there has been intimidation at Wheel ing. McKeesport and Pittsburg. Botn | sides express their confidence In ultl- mate victory and are actively carrying forward their respective campaigns President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association. leaves tomorrow for wbeeIine. where he Is to address the strikers.
 The number of men out as result of the general order Is now roughly estl- mated at 16,O00 and on the three orders at s2 .OOo. Many strikers have found work in independent mills or at other occupations and many are idle merely because the skilled men are out.
 According to an authoritative an nouncement made to-day to represeh- tstive of the Associated Press by oft1- cials of the American Sheet Steel com nsnv. the destruction of another plant has been ordered by the Steel Corpora tio, as A result of the refusal of the men to operate it, This time it IS the Charters plant at Carnegie that IS to he dismantled. It is owned by the American Sheet Steel company and the orders 10 tear it down went out this af- ternoon. It will be removed to Leech- burg. in the Kiskiminetas valley. The strikers were called together yesterday bv Superintendent John Henry and pre- liminary notice of the company's plans submitted.
 Eighty strikers responded, and MT. Henry told them that the fires would be liehted and all preparations made for a start to-day. He said that at o'clock inc whistle would be blown, and if the men failed to respond the fires would never be relighted. The programme as outlined was carried out, but when the whistles sounded the men did not re- spond The fires were at once drawn, and the order to dismantle and remove the mills was given. The officials Of the company said that the plant would he down and moved within two weeks