Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-01

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willingness of the men to continue work
| but Superintendent Parks said the com
pany had decided to shut down. Clever
hundred men are thrown out of employ
ment.
Rolling mill, formerly the Etna company
has signed the scale and the employees say
the Britton Iron and Steel company has
though the proprietors decline to affirm OIL
deny. The Forest City Iron works either
has or undoubtedly will. No other estab,
llshments here are affected by the Pitts
burg action, and there is no sign of q
strike.
YOUNGSTOWN, o., May 31.-There is re-
Jolclng among the iron workers because
work will be continued tomorrow on the
new scale, although suspension was ex-
pected. All the mills will go on except
two or three whose stock is exhausted and
which expect to resume at the earliest OPP
portunity.
ST. LOUIS, May 31.-So far there are no
indications of a strike amongst the iron
workers here. Only two mills in this i'm
mediate vicinity employ union men, the
Reedringhams mill, in North st. Louis
and the nut and bolt of East st. Louis, but
the men in them have made no demands
as yet. In the non-union mills, of course,
there is no disturbance, they being IN no
way effected by the action of the Amalga-
mated association.
CINCINNATI, June 1, 1890 a. MAS a
matter of fact six rolling mills in Ciucin-
natl, Covington and Newport shut down
half an hour ago, which was midnight,
May 81. The time after the receipt of the
news that Pittsburg had signed the scale
was not sufficient for negotiations, and
only to-day can tell whether the strike is
ended or will be prolonged.
CHICAGO, May 31.-There are but three
mills in this state working upon merchant
iron, and as this is the only class affected
by acceptance or rejection of the scale at
Pittsburg, the fact that the iron masters
there haYe accepted the terms of the men
only concerns them. These mills
are the Calumet Iron and Steel
works, Chicago, and the mills at Springfield
and Belleville. The last two have not yet
been heard from. D. G. Bradley, of the
Calumet Iron and Steel works, says his
mills will shut down on Friday morning
for repairs at any rate, and will start again
when the plant is thoroughly overhauled
He says the old scale for pudding remains
at $3.50 ton for pudding in the West
and $3.50 to 81 per ton in Pennsylvania,
hence, he says, the iron trade cannot but
slip away from the West and become man
ufactured East. The repairs on the Calu-
met mills will require a month at least.
CINCINNATI, May 31-The situation of
the iron workers here is peculiar. The
puddlers ask an advance of fifty cents q
ton, making Sc. The proprietors refuse
to consider any proposition, claiming that
by contract made Oct. IS, 1881, and re-
affirmed July Is, 1882, the subject of wages
was fixed, and was to be the same as that
fixed at Pittsburgh. The contract also
contained a provision that il case no price
was agreed on at Pittsburg the puddIers
here would not have the united support of
other workmen. A meeting of tinishers is
called for tomorrow, from which puddlers
will be ex ,lUded, when it is said action will
be taken to compel the puddlers to
recede from their position. One OF the
mill owners announces tonight that
he will olly shut down one day to allow
the men to attend this meeting, and then
supply the places of puddlers and 60 on.
The agreement at Pittsburg makes the
demand of the Cincinnati workmen more
hopeless.
One leading mill owner was asked 40
night his view of the effect On the strike of
tho agreement at Pittsburg. He answered
that it would undoubtedly end the strike
here. He had received information of the
Pittsburg settlement too late to communi-
cate with the men so as to prevent a strike
going into effect here in his mill, and the
sauna wac trua of oil otbar mills l,ut he
thinks as soon as the Pittsburg situation is
made known to the men, they will at once
return to work. This view is strengthened
by the fact that workmen regard the Pitts
burg settlement victory for them.