The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-14
AMALGAMATED ASSOCIATION HAS
MADE SOME GAINS DURING THE
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
TRUST TO MOVE ONE PLANT
CHARTERS Mill at Carnegie Is to BE
DismantIed and the Ma
chinery Removed to
Leechburg.
WESTERN MEN STAY AT WORK

| employees in the steel trade, and the re-
| suit is still in the balance. The strikers
made gains at Pittsburg, McKeesport,
! Wheeling and Bellaire, in the last twen-
ty-four hours, but in the main the ad-
vantage is still with the mill owners.
Both sides claim to be preparing moves
| that will bring confusion to opponents
| but neither side has shown it's hand.
| The general situation tonight can be
briefly summarized as follows:
Ten men, five of them skilled, quit at
the lower union mill of the Carnegie
company in Pittsburg and joined the
| strikers. Their detection represented
| the first break in the Carnegie forces of
more than 1900 men. The strikers were
| jubilant over the incident, but the COM
| pany claims to have filled their places
at once and there will be no more de-
| sertions at any of the plants.
The Bellaire plant, at which the men
struck on Sunday, was finally closed
down today, working short handed until
yesterday afternoon. When another
start will be made is problematical. Sew
eral hundred boys, employed at the Ma
tional Tube works at McKeesport, went
out during the night and day and their
action materially aided the efforts 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 ana
the steel officials admitted today thSt
Benwood would be closed down. Clark $
mill here is moving along full handed,
Lindsey and McCutcneons is operating
with a small crew and the managers
are planning to open Painters mill and
increase the force at Lindsay and Nc
Cutcheon's. A break in the ranks of the
men who struck at Painter is expect
ed, but the strike managers deny that
hTsan i1 YO-
ported as possible at New Castle, but
there are as yet no positive indications
of It, The American Tin Plate company
has q small force at the Crescent plant
in Cleveland and is also planning re-
sumption at other points with non-unlon
men. So far good order has prevailed,
although the steel officials assert that
there has been Intimidation at Wheel
ing. cKeesport and Pittsburg. Presi-
dent Shaffer, of the Amalgamated as
sociation leaves tomorrow for wheeling,
where he is to address the strikers.
IDLE MEN NUMBER $1,000.
The number of men out as result OF
the three strike orders is placed at
62,000 Many strikers have found work
in Independent miAs or at other occupa-
tions and many are idle merely because
the skilled men are out,
According to the announcement made
. TO-DAY 10 d IGpI6SCIldNINS VI NAAN ~-S0~
ciated Press by officials of the American
Sheet Steel company, the destruction OF
another plant has been ordered by the
steel corporation as result OF the re-
fusal of the men to operate it. This time
it is the Charters plant at Carnegie that
is to be dismantled. 1t is owned by the
American Sheet Steel company, and the
orders to tear it down went out this aft
ernoon. 1t will be removed to Leech-
burg in the Kiskiminetas valley. The
strikers were called together yesterday
by Supt John Henry, and preliminary
notice of the company's plan served on
them. Eighty strikers responded, and
Mr.. Henry told them that the hres would
be lighted and all preparations made for
a start today. He said that at o'clock
the 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
whistle souned the men did not. respond.
The fires were at once drawn, and the or
der to dismantle and remove the mills
was given. The officials of the company
said that the plant would be down and
moved within two weeks.
WESTERN MEN WON'T STRIKE
The Steel corporation held its own at
Chicago, Joliet, Bayview, Youngstown
Columbus, the Kiskimenetas valley and
the Carnegie group, with the exception
of the instance named. The strikers are
considering plans for breaking the de-
cision of Chicago, Joliet and Bayview to
stand with the steel companies, but what
they plan to do has not been made clear.
They are charging some of the Western
men with both dishonesty and disloyalty,
and there is a general desire among mem
bers of the Amalgamated association here
for some form of inquiry.
There was no trouble at any strike
center today, although it was anticipated
at the points where plants are being par
TALLY operated, and the men are waver-
ing OH the question of going out. Crowds
surrounded the Carnegie plants here to-
day, and the officials finally called on the
police to clear them away The officials
say that the loss of ten men at the lower
Union mill can be directly traced to
threats of the strikers, who intercept the
men on the way to and from work. They
make the same complaint as to Benaire
Wheeling and McKeesport. They say
that the strikers at Riverside went to
Bellaire and literally bluffed the remain
ing men into going out. They also claim
that the same tactics gained the strikers
the steel workers in the National Tube
plant at Benwood, and also forced out
hundreds of loyal employees at McKees
port. They say they have given up hope
OF getting protection from the local au-
thoritieS at McKeesport and Wheeling
but have given no indication that they
intend to ask for state aid The strike
leaders, on the other hand, insist that
they are proceeding entirely within their
rights and the law, and that any re-
cruits won by them have been obtained
by means entirely fair.
MKEEsPoRT MAYOR TALKS.
Mayor r. ]. Black, OF McKeesport
gave out the following statement to a.
representative of the Associated Press
in reply to the numerous criticisms Of
his course in not dispensing the crowds
Of strikers at different times during the
strike:
"At a time like this IN McKeesnort
when so many men are idle thew are
bound to come out on the streets and
crowd them more than usual. and like
every other crowd, will gather where
there is an excitement, but so far there
has been little or no disorder. and in
all cases the police have handled the sit
uatlon admirably. There is no more or
derly set of men in this country than the
men who are idle in this city TODAY In
the instances in which the tube comnanv
requested me to send men to disperse tha
crowds, the chief of police was on fha
grounds at the time and reported thai
there was no disorder. We cannot orde,
a man to go home and stay there when
he is doing no harm and only standine on
the street. AS far as the tube comnanv
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