The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1892-08-19

Ia. were discharged this week.
April 10. 1899. The Keystone iron
mill. 81 Pittsburgh. Pa, employing too
men. shut down week ago to-day Tor
an indefinite period
April 10, 1892. The axle hammer men
| in Pittsburgh. Pa, are on strike az
present against a reduction In WAGES
amounting from 10 per cent The
I, wages Of the blacksmiths at this mill
| Edgar Thompson steel works. were
| al the same time reduced from 81. 30 70
| S2.7s = day and their helpers from
f, $3.50 to $3.50.
1 Nav 4. 1892. There has been rcduc-
! tion IN the wages Of $50 employees 81
| Andrew Carnegie At his Lower Union
| mills in Pittsburgh. Scventy-iive black
/ smiths accepted the cut OF about ~ per
/ cent without murmur, but seventy-hve
| hammer men struck. The strike was
| over in few days, ns II is a hard thing
! 70 get work when man is biacklistec
| because he went on a strike.
| On June 2, 1892. the Iron Age an
| nounced the formation Of new con-
| Germ to be known ms the Carnegie
| Steel Co. Limited. the consolidation &c
| become operative on July /. next. The
! new organization will own and operate
| the following plants: Edgar Thomson
steel works and blast furnaces at BESSIE
mer, Pa. and Allegheny Besseiner
! steel works nj Dnqucsne Pa, both now
controlled by Carnegie Bros. 4 Co.
| Limited; the Upper and Lower Union
mills and Lucy furnaces At Pittsburgh;
I the Homestead steel works. at Home
stead. Pa. and the Beaver Falls mills,
I ut Beaver Falls. Pa. all now controlled
by Carnegie. Phipps & Co, Limited,
| and also the plant Of the Keystone
Bridge Co, at Pittsburgh. which has
always been Carnegie interest As
often happens. the same journal that
records new combine announces a
| forthcoming reduction Of wages Edi-
/ torially in the same number Of the Iron
! Age a warning i given % the ANA ga
mated Association of Iron and Steel
| Workers. who Will meet next week.
that they must propose to accept q wage
scale (which viii show mate '.a' re-
duction over the -. that cxpirec the
last day OF this month"
The Iron Age knew the meaning VI
what was occurring. 1t knew that tie
new trust had designs on the life Of the
association. and il continued TO discuss
in June the ''precarious labor situa-
ton 1t knew that Henry w. oliver
and the other big iron and steel men
who practically made the iron and steel
schedule Of the Mckinley bill and who
announced later that they were well
suited with the new tariff schedule,
must have had purpose in reducing
voluntarily the duty on steel billets,
though they Were careful to leave it
above the prohibitory point This rur-
pose began to be manifest when the
consolidation of these great companies,
representing about $40. 900. 900 in steel
properties, was followed by the fortid-
cation of the Homestead works, where
steel billets are produced largely and
where the Amalgamated Associat ion
of Iron and Steel Workers is strongest
The shabby treatment Of this associa-
tions Ulcers at the conferences held
previous to July I, and the promptness
with which Pinkerton ,watchmen" APP
pearcd at Homestead with arms. am
munition and provisions makes it rea-
~onably certain that ever since the maxi
ing Of the Mckinley bill schedule. these
| manufacturers have been deliberately
planning the present dastarily raid on
honest labor. The intention being to
make the reduction heavy enough to
compel strike which would offer an
excuse for refusing to treat in any way
with organized labor. and then 70 con
| tinue on the aggressive until their
| former employees would forswcar their
4 unon and return to beg for their
| former places not already filed by i'm
1 ported and non-union labor. Routed
/ in this stronghold il would be easy to
1 follow mp the association in the oshcr
! mills of the company, or trust. and soon
| there would be no Amagamated asso-
citation and no organization Of labor to
| offer resistance To wage reductions
The election Of Henry Clay Frick as
chairman" Of this trust, the man who
had had greater success than any other
man in protected Pennsylvania in
handling" labor. and who. as Rev.
McIllyar. Of Homestead, said few
days ago. was the one man in Pennsyl-
vania most hated by laborers, is signii-
cant as IS also the disappearance from
Homestead Of those two great friends
oflabor. Messrs. Carnegie and Phipps.
In short, this trust. like hundreds OF
Others, is conspiracy to Cow" the
worhingmen and to defraud the con-
sumer.
- screw Loose some whore.
The Carnegie Steel Co. authorities
say that II all the men in all their mills