Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-03
BOTH SIDES SATISFIED
Labor Situation at the Carnegie Works
and Elsewhere.
Employees and Employers Express
Themselves as Well Pleased
With Present Outlook.

The strike at the Homestead plant of the
Carnegie company, which was expected to
assume large proportions last night, did
not materialize in a degree appreciable to
the uninitiated.
The following statements were made by
the leaders of both sides: F. M. Schaffer,
who represents the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Iron and Steel Workers, said:
I'VE are satisfied with the results of to-
day. We have made progress; there have
been no disturbances and the amalgamated
men who are making the fight feel much
encouraged. There have been many Access
sions to our ranks and the fight for the
recognition of unioniSm can be said to be
well started
General Superintendent w. B. Corey of
the Homestead plant of the Carnegie COM
pany had this to say:
I'VE are operating our plants with the
usual forces. There are as many men at
work in the mills as there usually are on
Sunday nights. The men not in the mills
are those that have been discharged.
Both statements were made after the men
had reported for duty and the work of the
night was well under way.
Newspaper men were escorted through
the mills last night for the purpose of Civ
ing them ocular proof that all departments
We're In operation. To the reporters every
branch seemed to be working to the limit.
Both sides claimed to be satisfied. the
company because it felt assured that the
attempted strike was a failure; the asso-
citation because it had gained many new
members and expected to secure many
more during the Fourth of July holiday.
The situation at the mills of Spang Chal-
FAINT & Co., at Etna, and Moorhead Broth
ers Co, at SharpSburg, remained IN
changed. The clash that had been looked
for between the strikers and new men had
been averted, and the trouble between the
firms and their old employees will be al
lowed to settle itself.
George Heckel, chairman of the Etna
Lodge of the amaisamated association said
the firm of Spang Chaifant & Co. offered to
pay the highest amalgamated scale, but re-
fused to recognize the association. The
men, he said, were well organized and
would stand firm for recognition until the
trouble is adjusted. He claimed that the
800 men from the pudding department who
went out on Saturday have positions offered
them in other places, which they will ac-
cept by the end of this week unless the
firm signs the scale.
Thomas Lynch, a prominent leader of the
Moohead strikers, said the conditions at
Sharpsburg were practically the same as
at Etna, and the men will give the firm
until Wednesday to accede to their de-
mands He declared that under the present
demand for skilled labor it would be i'm
possible for the firm to fill the strikers
places.
Situation Today Unchanged.
PITTSBURG, Pa, July 3.-The strike in
augurated at the homestead Steel Works
OF the Carnegie company on Saturday has
not as yet made any visible effect upon the
operation of the great plant All the de-
partments were running, as usual, today
with a full complement of men.
Absolute quiet prevailed in HOmestc ad all
day. The strikers are keeping off the
streets and are making no attempt to in
terfere with the men on their way to the
mills. Chief of Police Williams had a line
of men stationed about the works when the
men changed turns today but there was no
disturbance.
No Work Tomorrow
AS Is the custom the works will close
down this evening until after the Fourth of
July. Work will be resumed at o'clock
Wednesday morning. 1t is announced in
certain circles that the final efforts will be
made Wednesday and Thursday, and if
the results are not favorable the contest
can be said to be. at an end, SO far as open
work is concerned. The developments of
the next three days will be watched with
interest
The company has never for moment adj
united that even a small strike existed at
Homestead. 1t claims that whatever trou-
Die mas resulted in the mills has come
ABOUT from about forty-five men and that
when the report was circulated that there
was likely to be a strike more applications
We're received from new men tnan was
necessary to fill all the vacancies. and that
be employed. 0
A representative of the Carnegie COM
pany stated that the timekeepers reported
that the entire force in the Homestead
pant was at work last night the places of
the thirteen discharged amaigamated men
haVlHs been hlled from the waiting list.