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Show UNITED ITATES STEEL COMPANY I AIMS VITAL BLOW AT STRIKERS. Remove I mmena I'lanl (ram lnantt h.i (imeera arnipalhlre vtllh airlher. There are gravely-important development devel-opment In Hie atrike ailualion. The foiled Si,le Steel corporation ha moved de. iaively In Itaatrlke ca::ipnlgn with a peremptory order dlrecllng that the grcal I . w ces. Wood plant lit Mch'eesiiorl, I'a , bedisiimiitli d and removed re-moved to the Kiskimlncta valley. I The lieweea-W.Hid plant was founded about forty year ago. and I one of the bet known plant In rennsylvania. It yiinl and mill cover between twelve and fourteen acres; It ha employed em-ployed 1 ,','uo men nt il busiest time, and It cost la placed at . IKHI. OlMI by (illli.iala of the alerl corporation. It I a blow struck at tha vital of the Amalgamated association, and the consteri.ation and dismay carried into the heart of the striking employee al the mill waa risible all over the city. The business men aay that the lo. will be Munching which cannot be replaced. Many of the company oflk-Inla oflk-Inla ars Inclined to blame Mayor lllarka utterance, for the move made by the head of the combine. The mayor'a proclamation they any, while lldld not In Itself Indicate hostility to the trust, waa an twisted and niiacon- trued throughout the country that It haa done Ihe town an aim... I Irreparable Irrepara-ble injury In the eyea of the capital-lata, capital-lata, who do not know the actual con-(llliou. con-(llliou. The at.-el olllclnl declined to give any reason for ll.e order, but II I openly staled that the pronounced ayinpiilhy of clllzcna and city olllciala al McKeesporl witli the atrlhera I re-aponaihle re-aponaihle for It. It I ,,!, sl, thai the plant or the National Tube company com-pany nt MeKrcsport will be abardoncd and the old Carnegie plan for a tube plant nt (oiiiiaul, (I , revived. On the ... her hand. lVesidcut Oom-per Oom-per of the American Federation of Labor, after a two days' conference with .resident Shaffer and hia associate, associ-ate, ha issued a formal statement apeclllclally pledging the federation to the moral and tlunnclal support of the Amalgamated association. Ill written writ-ten review of the train of event leading lead-ing up lo the lll.lllstriul iuarrel ail, talna the couran of the Amalgamated I aasoclnllon, and declarea that nothing I remain for labor but lo batllo for Ihs causa of unioiiiaui. |