Warren sheaf., 1901-07-18

even possible that building operations
might be seriously hampered. The de-
mand for coke and coal would fall off.
The possibilities of the strike are start
ling.
Reports Show Extent of Strike. #
Reports received at Amalgamateds
headquarters: a.. #
Every steel hoop plant in Pittsburgh ex-
cepting the William Clark's Sons company
!; Is idle, and all the sheet mills have closed
down. Only one tin plate mill in this dis
trict is in operations. The Labelle tin plant
at Martins Ferry, O.. Laughlin tin plate
works and the AetnaStandard plant at
Bridgeport, O.; Cambridge (O.) plant and
Greenville s(Pa.) works are, all shut down..
The Aetna-Standard company employs
5000 men and the Cambridge company 500
men. and they are all out.
AT Newcastle, Pa, 1000 amalgamated tin
workers are idle. and when stocks now on
hand are used up the other employees will
have to quit and $500 will be idle.
There are practically no new develop
ments in the strike situation at the Wells
Vile (O.) plant. All the men employed in
the mill except IS have joined the Anal
gamated association. Orders were given
to start the works at one o'clock Monday
morning and the fires were lighted in the
furnaces, but there were not enough men
| reported for duty to man a single crew.
The effort to run the mill has been aban-
doned for the present. -. ae-s
Interview with Prestdent Shaner.
"All of our men are out, and the con-
ditiOn for which we have been preparing
these three years and more, and against
which we have repeatedly warned the
| anufacturers, now confronts the latter"
said President T. ]. Shaffer Monday morn
ing. 1.-The gratifying unanimity with
which our men assented to the strike order
is a vigorous and sufficient refutation of
the statements. of interested prsons on the
other side of this controversy that the
strike is one of the officials of the Anal
gamated association, and not of the men.
AS showing that the iron, steel and tin
workers appreciate the gravity of the pres
ent situation and the imperative duty de-
volving upon them, there are some works
that we could not reach Saturday night
in promugating the strike order and Sun
day and Monday morning we have been
in receipt of indignant protests from these
lodges inquiring why they were not or
iered 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 as estate in an English chancery
court. Ard so they will remain until the
companies cOncede the just demands of our
men,.
Secretary Williams Talks.
Secretary 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:
ptc iy,t
Mr.. Arms is reported as saying That the
manufacturers insisted on protecting the
1Onunion men in the nOnunlOn plants,
many of whom do not want to become
union men. l hardly think that Mr. Arms
would make a statement of this KIND, as
his past record has always been one of
fair dealing with the Amalgamated asso-
citation. No one knows better than Mr..
Arms himself that if the barriers were
torn down from the nonun1on mills we
could organize them all inside of two days.
This has been demonstrated by the vol
untary closing of all plants of the Amer
lean Steel Hoop company. The only rea-
son that the manufacturers gave that
the previous conditions should exist was
that they we're afraid the Amalgamated
association would attain too great power
and it was necessary that they themselves
hold the balance of power.
The manufacturers are refusing US the
forming the combinations. They used force
in some instances, it is believed, in securing
some of the plants now in their company.
We 90 not propose to corce men into join
ing our organization, but merely ask for
recognition, and 1 am certain the men now
at work in nonuniOn mills will voluntarily
and gladly join our association
Federation Will Help.
Washington, July 16.-Secretary
Morrison, of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, Monday refused to
either admit or deny that there is
an agreement, dating back two years,
between the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Steel Workers and the
Federation of Labor under which the
former can call out the steel work
ers of the latter when deemed neces-
sary. He, however, said:
I'm the recent strike al Reading, where
the tube workers and iron and steel work.
ers were concerned, not a man remained
in the mills The same conditions ndoubt-
edly will apply to all the plants controlled
by the trusts if the adjustment is not Sc
cured before the strike extends that far.
We have tube workers organized and also
iron and steel workers there who are not
eligible to the Amalgamated association.
Our advices indicate that these desire bet
ter conditions. There also is no question
that they will desire to come in under IN
agreement and secure an increased COM
pensation for their work at the same time
as the amalgamated men,"
Statement by Vice President Arms.
New York, July 16.-Vice President
Arms, of the American Tin Plate Co.,
who has just returned from Pitts
ourgh, where he attended the confer
ence between the steel manufacturers
and the eAmalgamated association, said
of the strike that the question tissue
was the right of the three companies to
run their own mills and to protect the
men who worked in them. No question
of wages was involved. Under this
years scale the men were getting
higher wages than ever before. The
company did not consider that it was
the aggressor. The demand of the
A ~, 1ro poato1 accCciation uae tbat