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Show CARNEGIE CONSOLIDATES. A "Limited" Company With a Capital of $i 5, OOO.OOO Lockout. Pittsbcrg, July L Beginning today the extensive operations in iron and steel ia which Andrew Carnegie & Brothers are interested in-terested under various names will be consolidated con-solidated under the name of the Carnegie) Steel Company, Limited. Capital, $25,000,-000. $25,000,-000. The company in its various plants employs upward of 40,000 men. At midnight the wage scale scale in all the iron and steel mills of this district for the current year expired and the new scalo not having .been signed tb.3 mills closed, throwing over a hundred thousand men out of employment. At the same time, according ac-cording to custom, all the glass plants here and elsewhere in the United Un-ited States shut down four to eight ' weeks to make repairs. The number of iron and steel mills that closed last night is estimated esti-mated at over 400. A number of these have been idle for some time, the others signed the scale, leaving about 250 at present idle. These ordinarily employ over a hundred thousand men. L The number of gTass'factories shut down 1 ; today is placed at 00, with 50,000 employes. A conference between the iron manufacturers manufactur-ers aud employes is in jjrogress this afternoon. after-noon. Strong hope of a compromise is entertained. |