Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-12
ONLY A LOSS OF TIME.
Sharpsburg Mill Men Gained Nothing
in Last Nights Conference.
THE WORKS WILL RUN NON-UNION.
Work on the Rolled Steel Wheel Plant at
Kensington About Done.
EX.AGENT JEWELL WANTS HIS SALARY

There can be no mistaken guesses as to
Co. in relation to the management of their
works at Sharpsburg. The Amalgamated
Association has simply lost the fight, and
Mr. Moorhead has given out the word that
those of his employees who want to get in
out of the wet had better do so pretty soon.
The conference last night might as we'll
not have taken place. 1t resulted in the
breach between employer and employees be,
ing widened rather than otherwise. 1t
lasted only Is minutes, but during
that time Mr. Moorhead succeeded in ex-
planning his position pretty thoroughly,
while the mill committee could say but lit
| tie in support of their position. Mr.. Moor
head had announced previously that he
would not meet the Amalgamated officials.
| They, therefore, remained away. and the
mill committee, headed by President Rid
die, of the local lodge implicated in the
struggle, met Mr.. Moorhead in the Ander-
son street office.
READY TO START ANYHOW.
AT the very beginning MIR. Moorhead told
the committee that he could not see what
could be accomplished by the conference,
as he would refuse to talk about
the plate mill crew. He claimed
a victory in that department, and the only
thing he had to say was that if the men in
the other departments wanted to return at
scale wages they might do SO, but he assured
them that he was about ready to start and
those who want work had better apply with
as little delay as possible.
The men wanted to discuss the wages on
the plate mill, but Mr.. Moorhead would not
have it that way, and the conference came
to an abrupt end. President Riddle was
other members of the committee, re-
next. One thing is certain the men
have now no friendly feeling toward Mr..
directly. but ask questions like this: "What
would Mr.. Moorhead or the public say of us,
if after our scale had been signed, and the
mill put in readiness for operation, We
even our own association would not sustain
u.s."
RESULT OF THE STRUGGLE.
The result of the present fight will be that
the men who have formerly been employed
ut Sharpsburg must seek employment else
where. The association cannot afford to
concede the points asked for by the firm
neither can it allow their men there to go
to work in that mill if it is be run as O non
union mill. There is no prospect whatever
OF amlcaDle Sebtlement, ana Inere Is nOtnlnS
left for the men to do but to leave.
1t may be some days yet before this will all
take place, but unless the men go back to
work at the firms terms, it is the only thing
they can do.
The Advisory Board of the Amalgamated
Association has decided to interfere in the
Mahoning Valley fight between the puddlers
and helpers, and the committee from
Youngstown left for home yesterday in an
angry frame of mind. The fight will there
fore be continued, and there is no telling
where it will end.
President Weihe went to Hazleton, O.,
yesterday to settle a local difficulty, and il
is reported that Roller Mccullough is look
ing al a mill at Ironton, O., with view to
buying it.