Show UNITED STATES STEEL COMPANY AIMS VITAL BLOW AT STRIKERS immense plant from town whose sympathize with striker there are gravely important devel in the strike situation the united states steel corporation has moved decisively in its strike campaign with a peremptory order directing that the great dt v ees wood plant at mckeesport McKee sport pa be dis nantlee and re moved to the valley the dewees wood plant was founded about forty years ago and is one of the best known p ants in pennsylvania its yards and mills cover between twelve and fourteen acres it has em aloyed 1 00 men at its bi s est times and its cost is placed at 5 by officials of the steel corporation it is a blow struck at the vitals of the amalgamated association and the consternation and d carried into the hearts of the striking employees at the mill was visible all over the city the business men sav that the loss will be something which cannot be replaced many of the company offic iams are inclined to blame mayor black a utterance for the move made by the head of the combine the mayors pi ocla mation they say while it did not in itself indicate hostility to the trust was so t aisted and scon throughout the country that it has done the town an almost irre para ble injury in the eyes of the capital ests who do not know the a con editions the steel officials declined to give any reason for the order but it is openly stated that the pronounced sympathy of citizens and city offic als at mckeesport McKee sport with the str kers is re apons ble for it it la also said that the plant of the national tube corn pany at mckeesport McKee sport will be abandoned and the old carnegie plan for a tube plant at connant 0 revived on the arher hand president gom pers of the american federation of labor after a two days conference with president shaffer and his assoni ates has issued a formal statement specific ally pledging the federation to the moral and financial support of the amalgamated association his writ ten review of the train of events lead ing up to the industrial quarrel sus bains the course of the amalgamated assoc aaion and declares that nothing remains for labor but to battle for the cause of unionism |