Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-23
TWO QUEER STRIKES.
One Mill Crew Lays Down Its Tools
to Attend a Funeral.
ANOTHER OBJECTS TO OVERTIME.
National Marble Cutters Bitterly Opposing
Prison Work.
MOoRHEAD e. MCLEANE's GOOD REPORT

Two peculiar strikes were reported yes
terday. The first and largest is at the
Homestead Steel Works. Edward Will
Jams, the third victim of the converting
mill disaster, died at 5 o'clock yesterday
morning, 1t seems that when the metal
wheelers in the Bessemer department
learned of his death they wanted to quit
work until after the funeral. Their super
intendent objected on the grounds that it
would cause great loss to the firm. The
men, however, insisted upon the same priv
ilege that had been accorded the other en-
ployes in the departments when the other
two men died, and quit. They were imme-
diately discharged.
the indignation of the other men in the
Bessemer department, and they walked out
of the mill, leaving the cupolas full of
molten iron. This was an unnatural and
unexpected move on the part of the men, as
there was danger of the metal chilling.
NEW WORK FOR THE BOSSES.
Superintendent J. A. Potter hustled
around and mustered his assistants and
bosses together, and attempted to operate
the plant. They succeeded, after many heroic
attempts to run out the metal that the strik-
ers left in the cupolas completing the job at
4:3O yesterday afternoon. The managers and
bosses looked rs though they would not care
about being compelled to work much over
time when they completed the turn.
The o'clock turn did not report for duty,
and as Mr.. Potter refused ut first to see the
mill committee, 1t looked for a time as
though the strike would prove a dangerous
one. However, ut o'clock he called the
committee to his office, where, after con-
ference lasting for a couple of hours, the
matter was settled 80 far as taking back the
discharged men. The mill started up at
midnight, but 10 per cent of the men will be
allowed to attend the funeral of their de-
ceased fellow workmen, which will take
place Thursday morning at o'clock. The
remains of Williams will be buried at st.
Mary's Cemetery at Homestead. There will
be n high mass of requiem.
The other difficulty referred to is at the
Pittsburg steel works of Anderson ,Du Puy &
Co., CHARTERS. Yesterday morning the firm
THE DISPATCH:
WANTED-Fun crew for six-ton hammer:
w Inquire at mill Office of Anderson, Du Puy &
Co., CHARTERS station.
Yesterday afternoon worl1men from their
mill ordered the following to be inserted in
to-day's paper:
WANTED-M to know that there is a strike
w now going on at Anderson, Du Pny 4 Co s
mill at CHARTERS among the hammermen. q. H.
Lewis, for the committee, Box 46, McKee's Rocks.
LITTLE KNOWN OF THE TROUBLE.
Inquiries were made as to the nature of the
strike, but no information could be obtained
from labor officials President Weihe, of
the Amalgamated Association, said there
was no Amaigamated lodge Mt CHARTERS and
he knew nothing of the trouble. Master
Workman Dempsey said the men employed
there were formerly organized in the X. of
L., but they had dropped out some years
since.
David Shaw, general superintendent, was
spoken 10. He said: 1--WE have no difficulty
with our men that know of. We are ad-
vertising for q new crew of men simply be-
cause we need them. We have no strike
whatever and cannot understand the ac-
tions of the men,"
Workmen were found later in the day
who stated that the trouble was over q de-
mand on the part of the firm upon the men
to work late Saturday evenings, thus COM
pelling them to put in several eXtra hours
each week, which the men decline to do.
Anderson, DuPuy Il Co. operate one OF the
largest plants of the kind in the county. The
run five hammers with a capacity OF from $50
pounds to seven tons EACH Should the
strike prove genuine it will effect large
number of workmen. The men admit they
are unorganiZed, but make the claim that
unjust demands have been made upon them
and union men should stay away
This latter information as to the nature of
the difficulty was obtained too late to get the
firms statement in connection with it,