Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-17
MANAGER SMITHS THREAT
Will Start the Wellsville Rolling Mill
 With Non-Union Men.

Pittsburg, Pa, July 1.-The threat of District Manager Persifer k. smith of the American Sheet Steel Co 10 start the Wellsyiile rolling mill and operate it as it had been in the past, by non-union men, was the only new feature in the steel strike situation thls morning, and the eyes of all Interested were turned to that plant.
 A dispatch to the Associated Press from Wellsville, O., at 10:30 o'clock, says: 'The strike situation here re- mains as it has been ever since the men were called out of the mill. F. F. Smith, manager for the American Sheet Steel Co for the Pittsburg dis trict, gave orders for the mill to start this morning. In response to smith order about thirty went out to work two of them were members Of the Amalgamated association. The man aeer of the mill concluded that thirty men was not sufficient to man the crews and the attempt for the present has been abandoned. It is said that non-union men fronS other places will be brought here to-day, in which case serious trouble is feared"
 Now that Mir Smith has declared himself it is thought that the man agers of the other non-union plants WILL Uldke GllOIl tO ISShlHC etAoc within few days and developments of an exciting nature can be expected Men dre at work at the Dewees-W Wood pIanI of the American Sheet Steel Co at AIcKeesport clearing up and making repairs, and well defined rumor was prevalent on the south side of this city to-day that an effort was to be made by the mill officers in the Painter plant to break the strike by bringing work CTS here from out of the city. In con- firmation of this. for the first time since the strike began, watchmen pa- trolled all sides of the mill this morn ing The mill officers declined to dis cuss this matter, and said when they were ready to move they would do so without any noise. For the present nothing was being done beyond clean ing up the mills and making repairs that had been neglected owing to the rush of business.
 In direct opposition to Manager Smiths declaration and the evident preparations at the Painters and Woods works, an official of another of the companies interested, who did not want his name used,- asserted that the companies had no intention of starting their plants. What the man. ufacIGrers generally think of the strike cannot be learned.
 President Shaffer is still hopeful of an early settlement of the strike. The information he received from the strike ceIiters to-day was quite meager. This he interpreted to mean that the strike WAS going on well.
 In reference to the issuance of a strike call to the Amalgamated men in the mills of the United States Steel corporation outside the three compan- ies against which the fight is now di- rected, President Shaffer said he would issue the order only when it becomes necessary.
 It is evidently the purpose of the association to confine it's efforts for the present to the three companies now in terested
 Dispatches frdom Scottdale report the efforts of the strike organizers at the Old Meadow works up to this time as fruitless. \ nNmber of employees declared that. they would not go out on 2 strike under any circumstances.
 At Saltsburg. everything is moving harmoniously and strike is not ap- prehended. The plant is running in full with three mills, and the men are | apparently a unit against striking.