The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-20
MORGAN Will
REMAIN FIRM
Refuses to Consider Com
promise With Strikers.
ENDORSES POSITION
OF THE COMPANIES
Steel Workers Pleased With
Progress Being Made.

New York, July III P. Nor =
= gan gave positive denial today to >
= the TUmor of this morning that =
the steel strike had been settled. =
He made this statement 10 the >
Associated Press:
There is not word Of truth in ,
= it. There has been no settlement =
and there can be no compromise
? on such question The position >
Of the operating companies is per
fectly simple and well understood. =
and. so far as am concerned. has =
my unqualified approval
~ t~Tf4% - 49,
Pittshurg, Pa. July 19.-The strike
SITUATION tonight cannot be termed ma
leIldlIy changed. although many nm
mors are in the air To Inc aderT tI7s,t
d settlement of the troubles is immi-
| HFHt- Up 10 10 D. m none of these
reports have been verified. and tine con-
! cIusion reached is that no settlement
is in sight
At the offices of the Carneeie com
pahy and at the headquarters of the
manufacturers the usual silence is pre-
served concerning the condition of bust
ness or the status of the strike
president Shafter of the AmaIga-
mated association, however. expresses
MS entire satisfaction with the prog
ress or the battle and says the work
[ ers have gained steadily. while the
manufacturers have lost continually
since last Monday. He says that the
Amalgamated forces cOntemrtate M,
change in their programme being per
fectly satisfied with the showing their
people have made President Shaffer
says the advance in wages offered the
| tube mill workers at McKeesport to-
day, while seemingly large. will not
/ bring the pay up tn the union scale.
From the storm center at WeilsviIIc.
o., today comes word that the striking
millmen in that vicinity spent an un-
easy, restless day. There is no longer
any doubt 1hat the owners of the
Wellsvllle plant Of the American Sheet
steel company have many of the
town s largest merchants back of them
in their fight against the wOrkmen. and
much bitterness has resulted Con
/ frOnted with what seems a certainty
| that if the present troubles go along
much further the Wellsville plant viii
| be lifted and brought across the line
into Pennsylvania, grocers. clothing
men and others who for years have
received the wages of the mill workers
in exchange for goods, are now trying
to show the strikers that they are
wrong and foolish in keeping up the
fight.
Strikers Are Determined.
Pressure brought to bear along this
line, the strikers say, is energy wasted,
as they are more determined tonight
than before. They are more than angry
with the merchants. These WelIsviile
men have been considered excellent
wOrkmen, and many of them have
money invested in property there. so
3 n -hn h.
/ dergrift, as is threatened they would
suffer. They don't believe the promise.
which accompanies the threat, that the
mill from DennisOn, O., viii be brought
[ to this place in case the present trOu-
bic is settled.
The proposition has been put to the
strikers in a semi-oficiaI way that if
! the strike is settled within a reason
able time the Dennison mill viii be
| brought here to increase the resources
of the place, and that if the contest
is long drawn out the local plant viii
be removed bodily to Vandergrift. Pa
1t remains to be seen what effect this
/ line of argument Will have on the
strikers Mayor Dennis openly con-
dennis the merchants for their course
in the matter and says they are going
/ beyond their province in trying to in
fluence the WOrkmen
The plant at WellsViIle was running
today about Vne-fOurth full. Eighteen
skilled wOrkmen. together with many
laborers and boys. are employed. Su-
perintendent BrOOkman says the force
consists of forty persons The reports
tonight from Apollo and Vandergrift
where the Amalgamated association is
making strenuous efforts to gain re-
cruits, are that the situation is prac-
tically unchanged. but much uneasiness
IS felt. No official report has reached
here concerning the situation at Dun
canSVille.
J The nine men who quit yesterday
afternoon in the hot mill of the Ma
tiOnal plant were really discharged. il
is Gained by the strikers. for 9gitating
terday resulted in nothing definite.
Girls May Strike.
! The girls in the sorting room are
talking of quitting unless their de-
mands are complied with. Their sriev-
ance is that formerly they had a help
/ er to stack their tin. Helpers got s.
cents day and sOrters $110. Now the
girls have to do their own stacking and
get S1.10. while they want S125. It is
/ thought they win be out in a couple of
/ days unless they get their advance.
/ Forty girls are employed in this de-
/ partment and if they go out the mill
I Will be very badly crippled The Pitts
burg Leader prints the following in ref
| erence to the reported shortage Of tin
plate:
Word was received here today that
q considerable shipment Of Welsh plate
4 is now on the water en- route to New
York. Tt is reported that a portion Of
/ this will come here if the shortage
continues. 1t viii be much more costly
/ than the American make. but the ex-
/ igencies Of some Of the local cOnsum-
1 eTs are so imperative that they viii
pay no attention to cost. If long con-
tinued the strike is sure to be a good
! thing for the Welsh makers, whose
I trade for some time has been in an
! apathetic condition.
THE American Tin PlaTe company
/ has made no increase in prices for the
/ stock it has on hand. and cannot well
/ do so on account of the contracts that
/ il cannot fulfil. even with the material
/ that is now being worked up i'm the tin
! houses by the finishers. This supply
will be exhausted and shipped within
! ten days at all plants when the stoppage
/ in all but the MOnessen plant VIII be
! complete The members of the Tin
| Plate Workers International Protec-
/ tive association VIII stop work They
! have assured President T. J. Shaffer
1 Of their support. and VIII refuse %
/ work plate that may be attempted to
| be turned out BY new men. IN this way
this association, which has 1900 mem