From the Perldoc for the function use:

Imports some semantics into the current package from the named module, generally by aliasing certain subroutine or variable names into your package. It is exactly equivalent to 
BEGIN { require Module; import Module LIST; }

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except that Module must be a bareword.
((emphasis mine))

So you see, the 'use' takes only a bareword: you can't use a variable.

The second doesn't actually execute anything, so the modules named in $plugin are never loaded.

What you want is to eval the use statements: 

for $plugin (<Main/*.pm>) {
    $plugin =~ s!/!::!g;
    $plugin =~ s/\.pm$//;
    $plugin = "use $plugin\;";
    ## $plugin;
    eval $plugin;
}

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As written, that may be risky -- read the documentation on eval (linked above) and understand the risk before implementing.

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In reply to Re: Loading all files in a dir with use via for loop by radiantmatrix
in thread Loading all files in a dir with use via for loop by Delusional

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