The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-08
Policy of the United States
Corporation.
SOME PLANTS LEFT IDLE
These to Comprise Those That Can
not Be Operated Economically.
NOW PITTSBURG DOTH REJOICE
Fifty Thousand More Mill Men to BE
Brought to the City of
Smoke.
Pittsburg. May S.-The Commercial Ca

Pittsburg, May S.-The Commercial Ca
Zette says:
The United States Steel Corporation has
adopted the policy Of centralizing operations.
OF abandoning it's smaller plants, those dis
/ advantageously- located and those that cannot
be run economically. The work heretofore
done at these plants will be transferred to
! those that can be operated to the advantage
of the company. On the details Of this pol
( icy operating heads OF the concerns Of the
/ corporation have been in conference in New
York. Undoubtedly the plan will revert with
greatest benefit to the Pittsburg district, as
the most favored of all in which the United
States Steel Corporation operates.
Above is the statement of Joseph Rhodes
/ Of Pittsburg. retired as chairman Of the
board Of directors Of the National Tube
company, now a constituent Of the United
States Steel Corporation, in reply to an
inquiry as to whether the new Morgan
combine had adopted such a policy. The
adoption Of this policy of centralizing op-
erations by the United States Steel Cor
poration will mean to the Pittsburg dis
trict If carried into effect, without delay
the bringing here within year of about
90, 900 mill men from plants of the COM
pany that will be abandoned The mass
ing of much more Of the operations of the
company in Pittsburg will not only add to
the number Of mill men employed here,
but the plants from which the most i'm
portant supplies of raw material are
drawn in this district will also take on
more men. This is notably the fact in re-
lation to the coking plants of the com
pany in the Connellsville and adjoining
fields.
The underlying companies of the new
Morgan combine have bene working
toward the same plan Of mobilizing op-
erations and abandoning the isolated and
smaller plants and those that cannot be
operated economically. The American
Bridge company has had plans drawn for
a new S1.000000 plant to be erected in the
Pittsburg district. The American Bridge
company has its plants scattered through
the east at points where they are at a
/ disadvantage to operate and some are con-
sidered for abandonment.
The recent announcement that the
American Sheet Steel company had given
up its plan to operate the new and costly
plant in Chester, W. Va, was a reflection
Of the new policy of the now Morgan com
bine. The equipment of this and other
plants viii be taken to VANDERBILT, where
the most modern plant Of the company,
that OF the Apollo Iron and Steel company,
is operated.
For the American Steel and Wire COM
pany, the United States Steel CORPORA
ton is expected to carry out the plan of
the wire company to centralize all op-
erations possible at Neville Island, where
$4,000, 600 works are being built This
has already led to the abandonment of
plants at Worcester Mass, and is ex-
pected to be followed with works at Gin
cinnati, the Portage works at Newburgh,
n T., and the works at Everett, Wash.