Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-20
NO TALK OF A TRUST.
The Tin Plate Association Will Be
Formed for Mutual Benefit.
A CLOTHING BOYCOTT ORDERED,
Contractors Claim to Be Making Headway
in the Strike.
DOINGS OF A DAY IN LABOR CIRCLES.

| A meeting of the tin plate manufacturers
| will be held in the Hotel Anderson to-day to
| further the organization that has been
started for the purpose of promoting the tin
plate industry throughout the country. The
manufacturers claim it is possible to leave
| the rolling of sheets to the mills who are
| now equipped for the work and have the
| timing plants proper in the hands of others.
By this plan it is also thought the industry
| could be established at less expense.
The following firms are expected to be
represented in to-day's meeting: The United
States Tin Plate Company, P. H. Laufman &
Co., of Apollo; Somers Bros. & Co., Brook
lyn; Marshall Bros. & Co., Brooklyn; the
Britton Rolling Mills Company, Cleveland;
the ST. Louis Stamping Company, st. Louis;
Jennings Bros. & Co., Pittsburg; the Can
nonsburg Iron and Steel Company, Cannons-
burg, Pa; Kirkpatrick & Co., Pittsburg, and
the Falcon Iron and Nail Company, Niles,
o. These mills are already in working
order and turning out plates at the rate OF
nearly 60,0O0 tons annually. Atarecent ntmeet-
ing in New York a committee was appointed
consisting of A. Marshall, F. G. Niedringhaus,
D. M. somers and w. C. Cronemeyer, to act
in conjunction with the Chairman and Sec
retary, j. NJ. and c. r. Britton respectively,
for the purpose of reporting plan for per-
manent organization. This committee will
report at to-day's meeting.
1t is said that letters have been received
from mining companies in the far West
claiming that they can furnish any amount
D. NJ. Somers, of Brooklyn, and F. r.
Phillips of Philadelphia, arrived last even
ing. The others will be here this morning.
first call stated the object was to promote
the tin plate industry in the country. The
committee on organization will report at
this meeting, and then the plan of operation
posed to anything like q combination
as it would kill the business, and so
far as he was concerned the main motive
would not be to keep up the present Nc
Kinley tariff. He thought the object was to
help each other and the business by COM
parison of ideas every once in a while The
Somers, "for the next three years, and then
under the present duty the manufacturers
will be as thick as black birds. In my
opinion it would be good thing for the
trade to cut down the duty as it would keep
atgreat many people out. Even if the tariff
were cut to cent per pound, the old duty,
we could still make tin plate. We are large
consumers, and might as well make
it ourselves. The only way to make
plate successfully is to build entirely new
works with improved machinery, and this Is
what we are doing. Our plant will be ready
to operate about September l. We have
started in with determination to make tin
plate, and will show the people that it can
be done. About three-fourths of the plate
IIiluo III luc WOIlu Is CUuSullleu III 3AIuOllCu
The importers are showing their hand
all over the country in trying to get the
agencies from the different manufacturers"
Mr.. Phillips is tariff man, and, in the
main, spoke in a similar strain. His COM
pany is building plant. Not as many
people have gone into the business as par
tisan papers have represented since the
passage of the new tariff. This gave the op-
position press a chance to go to the other
extreme and declare that no tin plate plants
were being erected. Herein both sides mado
blunders. He says the Americans can COM
pete with the foreigners, and the latter know
it only too well. The raw material will be
imported from Australia, where England
gets her supply.