The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-15
TIE UP CoMPLETE
Every Steel Plant in Pittsburg But
One L. Idle.

Pittsburg, July 15.-Reports received
at AmaIgamated headquarters are as
follows:
Every steel plant in Pittsburg ex-
ceptfng the Vim. C1ark's Sons company
is idle and all the sheet mills have
closed down. Only one tin plate mill
in this district is in operation. The
Iabelle tin plant at Martins Ferry. O.,
Laughlin tin plate works and the
Aetna-Standard plant at Bridgeport,
O., the Cambridge, O., plant and Green
vile, Pa, works are all shut down. The
Aetna-Standard company employs g.,
600 men and the Cambridge company
800 men, and they are all out.
At Newcastle, Pa, 1900 Amalgam-
ated tin workers are idle today, and
when stocks now on hand are used up
the other employees will have to quit,
and 3, 500 will be idle.
There are practically no new devel-
opments in the strike situation at the
Wellsvilfe, O., plant. All the men en-
ployed in the mill except fifteen have
Joined the ATnalgamated association.
Orders We're given to start the works
lighted in the furnaces, but there were
not enough men reported for duty to
make a crew. The effort to run the
mill has been abandoned for the pres
emit
s.All of our men are out, and the con-
dition for which we have been prepar-
ing these three years and more, and
against which we have repeatedly
warned the manufacturers, now con-
fronts the latter said President T. J.
Shaffer this morning. 1.-THE gratifying
unanimity with which our men assent
ed to the strike order is a vigorous ana
sufficient REPUTATION Of the statements
of interested persons on the other side
of this controversy that the strike is
one Of the officials of the Arnaigamated
association and not of the men. AS
showing that the iron, steel and tin
workers appreciate the gravity Of the
present situation and the imperative
duty devolving upon them, there are
some works that we could not reach
Saturday night in prom ulgating the
strike order, and yesterday and this
morning we have been in receipt of
indignant protests from these lodges
inquiring. why they were not ordered
out. They are out now In fact, all
our men are out, and the works of the
three underlying companies of the
United States Steel corporation are tied
up as tight an estate in an English
chancery court And SO they viii re-
main until the companies concede the
just demands of our men,
Secretary-T Treasurer John Williams
of the Amalgamated association says
the action of the men all over the coun-
try could not have been more general.
Continuing he said:
In an interview in this mornings
papers Mr. Arms is reported as say
ing that the manufa cturers insisted on
protecting the non-union men in the
non union plants, many of WHOM do not
want to become union men, L hardly
think that Mr.. Arms would make
statement of this kind. as his record
has always been one of fair dealing
with the Amalgamated association No
one knows better than Mr. Arms him
self that If the barriers were torn down
from the non-union mills we could or
ganize them all inside of two days.
This has been demonstrated by the
voluntary closing of all plants of the
American Steel Hoop corporation. The
only reason that the manufa cturers
could give that the conditions should
exist was that they we're afraid the
Analgamated association would attain
to so great a power it was necessary
that they themselves hold the balance
of power.
1.-THE manufacturers are refusing the
right that they exercised themselves IN
forming the CON binatiOn- They used
force in some instances IT Is believed IN
securing some of the plants now in
their company We do not propose to
coerce men into joining our organtzaL-
ton, but merely ask for recognition,
and I am certain the men now at work
in non-union mills will voluntarily and
gladly join our association.
The strike affects two plants in Nc
Keesport. The w. Dewes-W Wood plant
is idle today, not a wheel turning. The