Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-08-15
Very Important Develop
ments Therein.
HE PLEDGES SUPPORT.
Gompers Says the Federation Of
Labor Will Aid Strikers.
WILL TEAR DOWN MILLS.
United States Steel Corporation Orders
the DeWeese Wood Steel Plant Mt
McKeespOrt TO be DismantIed and
Removed to Another Locality.

Removed to Another Locality.
Pittsburg, Aug. 1O.-There were inn
portant developments in the strike
situation Friday. The United States
Steel Corpora ton moved decisively
with an order directing that the great
DeWeese Wood plant at McKeespsrt
be dismantled and removed to the
Kiskimenetas valley. President Com
pers, of the American. Federation of
Labor, after a two days conference
with President Shaffer issued for
NAL statement specifically pledging
the federation's moral and financial
support to the Amalgamated. His
written review of the events leading
up to the industrial quarrel sustains
the course of the Amalgamated asso-
ciation and declares that nothing re-
mains for labor but to battle for the
cause of unionism.
President Gompers would not say
what the Federation of Labor pro-
posed to do. 1t is presumed, howev-
er, that all of the federation men en-
gagged in the iron and steel trades
will be called out with the Amalga-
mated men. Mr.. Gompers and Secre-
tary Morrison left for Washington
last night. The presentation of their
statement cheered the strikers.
One estimate prepared here says
that $4,000 men are now idle under
the first strike call, and that the gem
eral call will increase the number to
125,000.
The publica ton of the order to dis
mantle the DeWeese Wood mill was Il
gAat 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 denance. They
said that it showed that the steel cor
Doration was convinced that it could
not reopen the mill in the face of the
opposition of the Amalgamated. The
strike leaders here said that the move
was bluff that had been worked un-
successfully before and declined to
take it seriously.
1t is also said that the plant of the
National Tube Co. at McKeesport viii
be abandoned and the old Carnegie
plan for a tube plant at Conneaut, o.,
revived. The National Tube Co. had
in contemplation improvements at
McKeesport of an extensive nature,
but if is now said that, owing to
their disappointment at the fact that
their men have been draw into the
Amalgamated dispute and the policy
of the people at McKeesport, they
are seriously considering plan to
remove.
The DeWeese Wood plant was
founded about 40 years ago, and is
one of the best known works in Penn
sylvania. It's yards and buildings
cover between II and IA acres; it has
employed 1000 men at its busiest
times, and its cost is placed at $5,O00,-
600 by officials of the steel corpora
ton.
McKeesport, Pa, Aug. 10.-The
passing of the old DeWeese Wood mill
begins to-day when the orders issued
bv the American Sheet Steel Co. will
be carried out 1t is blow struck
at the vitals of the Amalgamated and
the dismay carried into the hearts
of the striking employees at the mill
was visible all over the city last
night.
the loss will be something which
cannot be replaced. Many of the
company officials here are inclined to
blame Mayor Blacks utterances for
the move made by the head of the
combine. The mayors proclamation,
they say, was so mlscohstrued
throughout the country that 1t has
done the town an almost irrepara BILE
injury in the eyes of capitalists who
do not know the actual conditions.
Chicago, Aug. 10.-Union steel
workers in South Chicago last night
voted to donate per cent. of their
wages to the strikers as long as the
strike may last. Whether they will
strike in obedience to the Amalga-
mated association order will be de-
cided Sunday.