The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-21
MILLS STARTED Up
The Steel Trust Puts Four in
Partial Operation.
The Greatest Fight is For The Mastery at the
Duquesne Mills Of the Carnegie
Company.
(By the Associated Press.)

Pittsburg, Pa, August 1O.-The Unit
ed States Steel Corporation made a
series of gains today in the restoration,
of properties crippled by the strikers
of the Amalgamated Association and it's
sympathzers. The Steel Mills at
Monessen after a long period of mac
tivity, were partly put in motion by
strike breakers gathered in some of the
Southern States. Two more mills in the
Painter plant We're also started up and
another large mill at the Clark property
was also operated for the first time.
There was some disorder in the streets
of Monessen during the day, but the To-
cal police never lost control of the dem.
onstrative crowds and there was no Sc
rious trouble.
The re-opening of the Monessen mill
is believed to be the first of a series of
aggressive moves on the part of the steel
corporation. PREPARATIONS are known to
be in progress for re-opening the Star
Tin Mills in this city and for increasing
the force of the Lindsay and McCutch.
con Mills, and it is thought to be only
a matter of time before the strongholds
of the strikers like Newcastle, McKees-
port, Wheeling, Bellaire and Mingo
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deny that any real progress has been
made at either Monessen or at Painters
and say they are not to be frightened
by the burning of lot of coal and the
mere operation of machinery.
The greatest fight in this district is
for mastery at the Duquesne mills of
the Carnegie Company. Both sides are
working secretly, the Amalgamated
Association to extend it's organization
and strength among the workers and
the Steel Company to block any plan to
get them out. Neither side has shown
its strength yet and it IS impossible
to get any line on the ultimate result.
The claims made privately on either
side are conflicting. The Amalgamated
organizers assert that they have secured
a strong position in that property and
when the word is given it will be shut
down The managers of the mills adj
NIT that the strikers have some friends
in the mills but express absolute con-
fidence in their ability to keep the entire
plant in operation. Coal and iron police
carefully guard the property, admitting
none except employees and their in turn
are watched by secret pickets of the
strikers
The men of the Pennsylvania works
of the National Tube Works in this
city joined the strikers and it is eN-
pected that the force in the FrankstoWn
plant will follow them tomorrow. About
600 men left the Pennsylvania works
and it is almost certain that all of the
remaining GOO will join in the movement
and completely tie the property up.
There are about 600 men in the Franks
town property and the total number of
men added to the army of strikers by
the movement is about 1,S00. The STRIFE
ers said they had quit rather than work
non-union made skelp.
There was an incipient strike at the
Keystone rolling mills, which is an in
dependent property, today. The men
objected to furnishing material to the
United States Steel Corporation, but
the Amalgamated Association ordered
them to resume work. This action is
taken as meaning that all contracts
made by independent mills before the
strike began will be respected.