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Steel strike broadside as mills reopen amid secret talks
Aug 8 dispatch reports United States Steel reopening the Lindsay and McCutcheon mill with no violence. AFL President Gompers meets Amalgamated leader Shaffer as talks unfold. Steel trusts push restarts at Wellsville Hyde Park Clark and Painter mills while Chartiers and Shelby works move to non union operation amid looming state troop deployment.
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United States Steel Corporation
Lindsay and McCutcheon
Samuel J. Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Shaffer
Amalgamated , Association
Steel Corporation
Wellsville
Hyde Park
Clark
Lindsay
McCutcheon
Shatter
American Steel Hoop Company
Gibson
Union Mills
Sligo
St. Louis
Birmingham
Ala
Amalgamated Journal
Trust
Urfion
Pork House
Lower Allegheny
John Ward
Cleveland
Chappelle
Newcastle
Shenango
Mahoning Valleys
Chartiers Mill
Chartiers
Carnegie
Henry
Republic Ironworks
Scottdale
J. W. Taylor
Justa M. Smith
WII
Shelby Works
New York
United of Steel Corporation
Shelby Tube Works
Uwini
Shelby
Greenville
Elwood City
Toledo
Hartford