The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-05
Giants Of Capital and Labor Prepared to
Lock Horns.
ONLY ONE POSSIBLE HOPE,
Directors Of the Steel Corporation Said to be Dissatisfied
with Morgan's Position and Want Negotia-
tons Reopened

President Shaffer had tempOrized with
he trust officials so long.
That the officials of the United
States Steel corporation have been
preparing for this battle was made
apparent during the afternoon. 1t is
earned before any attempts are to be
made to break The Strike by the impor-
alton of nOn-uniOn men into all the
idle mills, one of the officials of the
companies now involved said that so
sar as furnishing skilled men for the
die plants is concerned, it is only
necessary to distribute the skilled
workers in the part non-union mills,
IN all the plants and make them gen.
eral ins, ructors of the green hands,
20 soon develop more of this class of
WOrkmen.
It was said that some of the skill
ed men from the Scottdale mills will
be sent into the other plants of the
company now rendered idle by the
strike and by their aid and of the men
taken from Vondergrft mill, it is
said that the sheet steel mill will be
able to make good showing before
Ong. The officials realize, however,
hat they have difficult problem on
heir hands, and express fear of the
outcome when they try to start up
.hese mills. They declare, however,
hat they will make the attempt ana
with just as much haste as is posi-
bic.
The National Tube company en-
,loys at it's McKeesport works about
5000 men, but not all of these are or
sanized, but what are occupy skilled
positions, and if they suspend work
Will at once be stopped in all depart
nents at least for time. The roll
ng mill is the foreign process of pipe
making. If it suspends, all depart
nents will be compelled to quit, soon
n or later, if the company fails to
start it again soon. The same condi-
ions exist in the various companies
hat are placed in the non-union list,
although in some the union is SO weak
Is to be entirely Intellectual unless
strengthened.
There is scarcely one of the 100000
employees of the United States steel
corporation but what may feel the
~ nil hn hot hn ovioo
federation of Labor will call out it's
thousands who handle the products
If the United States steel production;
he structural steel workers may re-
fuse to dig coal for the trust mills;
he railway organizations may be
1rawn into the contest, although that
is not probable. Unless it be speed
lily broken by the United States steel
corporation, the strike and it's results
will be felt all over the whole of the
United States. Mills that manufac-
ture iron will be compelled to pile it
in stock and then stop if the strike
is carried for any length of time. and
The coke ovens will close when the
furnaces stop.
The big works of the Carnegie
Steel company is. almost free from
unionism, but this is citadel that
will be attacked at once by the Anal
gamated association. II the union
men can close the other mills and pre-
vail upon union men to stop handling
structural steel and plates, the plants
at Homestead and Duquesne can be
seriously crippled. as their product
would not be taken. The Edgar
Thompson Steel works at BraddOck
will not likely be affected. 1t has
contracts placed by the railroads d.
rect that will operate it for seven
months. II the Chicago rail mill be
closed, the Edgar Thompson could roll
some of it's contracts.
The Homestead armor plate de-
partment would scarcely be affected.
although If the workers there could be
induced to come out it would place
the company in bad situation re-
garding its armor plate contracts with
the federal government In the Du-
quesne mill sheet and TIN plate and
bars are mostly made. Much of the
stuff made there in the last week has
been stocked. Labor leaders think
that the upper and lower union mills