The sun., 1901-08-05
STRIKERS REJECTED
STEEL TRUSTS TERMS
president Shaffer and Colleagues Meet Com
bine Men but Reach no Agreement.
WILL STICK TO THE BITTER END

constituent companies Wh1cn VIII DC ~
fected by the spread of the strike
Federal Steel Company. included IN
this company are the Illinois Steel Com,
pany, Loran Steel Company, OF ONO,
and the I,orain Steel Company, Penn
sylyania. The following plants of tho
Illinois Steel Company are organized:
south Chicago Works. 5000 men; Bridge
mort " orks, Chicago, 1000 men; Joliet
Works. 1000 men; Bay View Works, Mil
walkee, 1000 mn. The plants of the |
two Lorain Companies ut Lorain, ono |
land ,Jonnstown, Pa, are credited WIN
| being non-union, but it is understood
| that the Amalgamated Association has
lodges of varying sizes in the plants
and they may he drawn into the strug
gle.
/ The National Tube Company employs
| 1t its Mcl>eesport works about 5000 men,
| hut not all these are organized. me
lnnion men occupy. skilled positions, anu
+ they suspend work will at once nc
stopped in all the departments, at least
for IL time. The rolling mill is the foun-
laton of the process of pipe making
VI it suspends all departments VIII D"
.ompelled to quit. sooner or later, il the
.ompany fails to start it again soon
The same condition exists among other
mills in the various companies that are
Iulaced in the non-llnion list. There Is
;corcely one of the 100000 employees OF
he United States Steel Corporation but
what may feel the strike. It may be
hut the American Federation OF Labor
Mil call ont its thousands who handl"
noducts OF the United States Steel Cor
,oration: the structural steel workers
nay refuse to handle steel from the mills
# thc trust the miners may refuse to dir
.oal for trust mills; the railway organ
zatons may be drawn into the contest
Though that is not probable. lniess
L he speedily broken by the lnlten
states Steel Corporation the strike ana
Is results will he felt over the wholr
, i the United States. Mills that mnnn-
.octure finished products and obtain their
: nv material from the trust in many
oses may lie closed: blast furnaces that
I manufacture iron may be compelled To
oilc il in stock and then stop IL the
. trike he carried on for any length of
i ,;ne and coke ovens will close when
: he furnaces stop
y The big works of the Carnegie Stec
! COMPANY are almost free of uniohlsm
y but this is the citadel that will be at
d acked at once by the Amalgamated AS
e ;ociation. If the union men can Close
$ he other mills and prevail upon nniol
men to stop handling structural stee
MI plates. the plants at Homestead aii'
~ u Duauesne can be seriously crippled. q
i heir product would not he taken. IN
, Homestead armor plate department
i would scarcely be affected. although !
~ he workers there could he induced 7
/, .ome ont il would place the compan
!, II bad situation regarding its armo
~ ,ate contracts with the Federal Gov
eminent.
j.. The possille magnitude of the strik
A. may not he forctold readily. Should tn
I. upply Of raw materia he cut off frot
"a II. works of the wire trust. that col
~ .rru might be forced TO close from tn
d | Stlnntic to the Pacific coast.
4 The railroads will he heavily affecto
~ w the general strike. Their freight
Il nave already been affected by the longt
he % which the strike has gone, but shou
here he ANYTHING like n general s'l
,ension at the works Of this mnmmot
orporation the railroads would feel Il
" fleet Immediately and heavily. ;,
~ The coke workers in the Connel'svil
ne .egion are rnorganized, hut might
M Induced Ia strike They are paid on
Se, ,lians scale which has heen satisfacto
ar' % them for seven or eight wears. ~
ng' sos done away with all strikes duri
| hat time. ltft theN hiaN he hh''
zen ven If thev do not strike. as the cl'
m ny Of blast furnaces would throw th'
IN ut OF work. The steel cnrnnration OPP
,tas ffty-seycn blast furnaces.
non The entire system Of steel making
lrS perfected under this enormous GO
lrM ,nation through IFS constituent 60
non ,onies. resolves itself into nm endl'
tue hain. and if this chain is broken
nv lcngth Of time mt one on more p"l
ON he entire system must eventually 60
rtel % almost a complete standstll.