Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-07
THE FIRMS ULTIMATUM
The Oil Well Supply Co. Will Not Be
Dictated to by Union Men.
WILL PAY AMALGAMATED PRICES,
Cut Must Be Allowed the Management of
Their BUSINESS.
THE JUNIATA STRIKE TIDE EBBING

The entire plant of the Elba Iron Mills
and Continental Tube Works, on Second
avenue, were still as graveyard yesterday,
and another strike was added to the list.
The firm, however, claim they have now
enough men engaged to run the entire con-
cern.
Preparations are in progress for the start
ing of the mills Superintendent John
Cook positively assured DISPATCH rep
resentative that the mills would start this
week. 1t is expected that they will be
running in full blast by Thursday evening.
Outside the works on the corners and for
three or four blocks to the west were groups
of striking workmen discussing the situa-
tion as it appears to them. When asked
what the chief cause of the trouble was,
none could be found that were willing to
explain. Half dozen men voluntarily Of
fered the information, but while attempting
to impart it were forced to admit that they
didn't really understand the question
thoroughly enough to explain it
Ready to Start Up again.
Before the mills shut down over 500 men
were given constant employment Super
intendent Cook says that the company has
nearly that number engaged now, and that
it will not be the slightest trouble to start
the mills full turn. The new pudding de-
partment is ready for work now, and
all the furnaces are lighted. A great deal
of repairing has been done lately, and this
fact, more than anything else. made it con-
siderably more difficult for the company to
set the works going.
As to anv heightened conference with the
men or any wait on their account, Manager
Everson said such was not the case. They
had met the committee of the Amalgamated
Association and were quite willing to allow
their workmen their prices, but the latter
thought fit to dictate to the firm how and in
what manner the mills should be run. This
was more than the Oil Well Supply COM
pany could afford to stand.
Objected to the Third Turn.
According to the firm the association were
not willing to grant them the same
privileges that were accorded to other firms,
hence the trouble The Elba Iron Works
proposed to put on third turn in the pud-
ding department, and here the men OBJ
jected. Why they should object cannot be
explained by the company. The firm
alleges that the third turn could not in any
inasmuch as the three turns were to be
within "a houre Where the trouble comes
in, they say, is that some workmen cannot
make heat in eight hours, but all good
men can. The new workmen will be
paid Amalgamated' prices for their work.
Day after dav the work at Shoenberger
& 60. IS plant is being attended with more
success. The firm is turning out more ma
terial in a given time from the blooming
and Bessemer departments than it ever did,
before in the same period There has not
been hitch since the works started and
each succeeding turn adds to the number of
employees within the mill.
Going Ahead on Full Turn.
Yesterday the old and new horseshoe de-
partments were started full turn and every
other branch of the steel department is run
ming double turn. Within one week from
to-day every department, both iron and
steel, will be in full blast and, according to
officials of the company, with the smoke
that escapes from the furnaces will go
every memory of the strike. The 112-inch
mill went on double turn last night Not a
vestige of life fingered at the headquarters
of the Shoenberger strikers yesterday, nor
was there one of them visible about the
mills.
Around the headquarters of the Law
renceville strikers all was quiet as usual
The same daily routine was gone through
by the men and the same statements regard
ing the progress of the Upper and Lower
Union Mills were made, Within the mills
everything and everybody were working.
The police guard and detectives were with
drawn from duty in the mill precincts
This Manager Dillon asserts is the last they
know of the strike