Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-08
DIFFICULTIES IN OTHER PLACES.
Another Conference on the Strike at
Sharpsburg to Be Held Next Tues
day Evening.
WORKERS IN YOUNGSTOWN.
industrial Notes and Items of General Interest
Gathered in Day.

mills. He did not get to his Office however
until about O'Clock. The absence of him.
self and Assistant President Garland has
resulted in an accumulation of work that
twill require several days to catch up.
Mr.. Weihe is looking well, and does not
betray any effects that the several reverses
the Association has suffered, may have had
on him Indeed he was unusually Jovlal
Yesterday when DISPATCH reporter met
him.
His position on the Steelton strike,
i which he declared off shortly sitter his de-
parture from Pittsburg, has been thoroughly
explained in these columns The only thing
new that he could say relative to the mat
| ter was to deny all the rumors to the effect
that Vice President Gallagher, of the
Eighth district, had gained the ill-will of
the National Lodge officers by his actions at
Steelton. ''Mr. Gallagher did his whole
duty under the law" said Mr.. Weihe
firmly.
! SOME DISSATISFACTION EXPECTED.
! MI Weihe shows evidence of fear that
the association will lose a portion of the
membership at Steefton, because they were
not allowed to proceed with the strike as
they wanted to do. 81 suppose" said he,
s'that some of them will become dissatis-
fed. But they were clearly in the wrong
| and should not have expected assistance
| from this Office after precipitating strike
against the decision of the Executive Board.
| l explained to their committee when they
called on me that the decision of the Exec
utive Board could not be overruled. They
| did not listen to me, but took a vote of the
| lodges and presented the scale.
Among the other places visited by Mr..
Weihe while away were Pottsville,
Lebanon Catasauqua, Pencoyd and Lochiel
At the last two places strikes have been in
existence for several months. At Pencovd
| the trouble began in March over demand
for the scale, and at Lochiel the men are
striking because they are not getting the
Amalgamated price. Mr.. Weihe succeeded
in getting the difficulties settled at the
other places, and the only places remaining
where trouble of any Importance exists are
Sharpsburg, st. Louis, Pencoyd and
Lochiel.
HOPEFUL AS TO SHARPSBURG.
AS to Sharpsburg, Mr.. Weihe said he had
not learned any of the facts since returning
home. He thinks the St. Louis case still
hopeful, having Just read a letter from that
point stating that none of the union men
are working for Mr. Niedringhaus. He is
considerably surprised at the action of the
latter in insisting, against the opinion of
Secretary Foster, that he can import tin
plate workers without violating the alien
contract labor law.
81 am well pleased with the manner in
which THE DISPATCH has placed this
matter before the public, said Mr.. Weihe,
'tand think you have succeeded in show
ing the public generally the fallacy of Mr.
NieGringhaus' position. l have not given
the matter my personal attention during
my absence but other officials of the asso-
citation have, and we will take the matter
up in earnest, now that Mr.. Niedringhaus
shas seen proper to go to Washington with
the evident intention of having Secretary
Foster reverse his decision We have been
working on several people and if necessary
we will go to Washington with the facts
we have collected and prove to Secretary
Foster who is right. -
TIN PLATE WORKERS IN YOUNGSTOWN.
While talking to the reporter, Mr.. weihe
opened and read the following letter bear
ing on the tin plate controversy:
YOUNGSTOWN, O., Aug. g.
To the Officers of the Amalgamated Association:
DEAR SIRs-Having read great deal lately |
in regard to the importation of tin workers |
under the argument that there are none in |
this country, which, 1 understand. you are |
two brothers here with myself who have
been brought up in the trade as tin and |
washmeu. We have worked at it all our |
lives l also wish to state that l have |
worked the old way as well as the modern |
processes. 1 have also met scores of tin
workers in this country.
Yours truly,
JOIN JONES'
761 Albert street, Youngstown, o.
President Weihe and Vice President |
Sheehan had a consultation last evening
relative to the Sharpsburg difficulty. These !
officials seem well pleased that the citizens |
of Sharpsburg have taken up their cause,
and it is confidently believed that an ami |
cable settlement will be reached at the con- |
ference announced to be held next Tuesday |
evening at o'clock.
WILL ONLY TALK TO EMPLOYEES.
Mr.. Moorhead has given out, however,
that ne will confer with none but his own |
employees, which means that the officers of |
the Amalgamated Association, who have |
been prominent in the proceedings so far, !
will not be counted in this time The com |
mittee that has been appointed to meet Mr.. |
Moorhead are President Riddle, of the |
lodge at Sharpsburg, of the plate mill: |
Harry Gohegan, Of the guide mill; Thomas |
Young, rail mill, and George Zimmerman, |
Of the pudding department. There is con-
siderable speculation as 70 the outcome of |
the conference. The manufacturers will |
not concede and the men cannot. A dead |
lock is therefore all that can result
The men claim now, as they have done |
heretofore, that they have no power to do
anything more than they have done, unless
it is by the holding Of district convention. |
This is rarely done, even in such emergen-
cies The men still maintain that the only |
time for the fixing OF the plate mill rollers
scale was during the manufacturers and |
workers conference, and Mr.. Moorhead, in
support of the position he has taken, AYERS
that upon the last day he was at the confer
ence be nearly talked himself hoarse in try
ing TO get the wrong righted. The firm
holds that there are special scales for other
mills. The old employees also claim that if
special arrangement could be made for the
Vesuvius Mill the Amalgamated Associa-
tion would be compromising itself, and that
by going back on its own scale manufact-
urers generally would lose faith in the Or
ganization.
LABELLING UNION NAILS.