Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-07-20
NOTHING LIKE FINAL
SETTLEMENT IN SIGHT
Shafer Will Not Be First
With OVertures.
AFFAIRS AT WELLSVILLE
Strikers Will Hold Monster Mass
meeting Tonight at Whites Opera
House and Listen to Addresses From
the I,aadaps

meeting Tonight at Whites Opera
House and Listen to Addresses From
the Leaders.
PITTsBURG. July 19.-While Wells
vile, o., was the pivotal point
around which the interest in the great
strike was conferred yesterday, on ac-
count of the large massmeeting held
| there, two more points are on the map
now to which those interested in the
strike are looking. Those points are
Vandergrift, Pa, and Duncansville, Pa.
At Wellsville the situation practically
remains unchanged, or if there is a
change at all, it is in favor of the mills
going shortly into full operation. Man
ager Smith claims to have 40 men at
work and he says he will have a COM
plete force by Monday. This may be a
! sanguine statement on his part and the
Amalgamated people express great
doubts that it will be realized. De-
velopments at Duncansvilie are anx-
| tously awaited.
A delegate with the intention of or.
ganizing the men arrived last night.
The delegate to organize. the men went
to Duncansyille, at the request of some
of the men, and this lends color to the
assertion that the Amalgamated asso.
citation will be successful in closing the
mill down.
At Vandergrift the situation is still
favorable to the company, and although
the Amalgamated people are not leaving
a stone unturned to get the men to join
them, their efforts so far have not met
with any great success and the result is
that the place is now in a state of great
unrest and expectancy. LOCAL. the sit
uation presented no new featSes this
morning.
Strikers Avoid Mills.
At the Painter and Lindsay and Nc
| Outcheon mills the only signs of life
were the few hands engaged at repairs
and an occasional Watchman listlessly
pacing his beat about the property.
| There was nothing for him to do, as the
strikers are religiously obeying the ad-
vice of their leaders and are keeping
away from the mills. The men will be
paid off this afternoon, but no trouble is
expected The same number of men
were working in the billet mills as yes
terday.
There was a rumOr in the vicinity of
| this plant that non. union men had been
secured to operate it, and that an effort
would be made Monday to start up all
the furnaces. 1t was said that several
former employers of the mill were seen
about the plant during the morning
hours and were sounding the helpers re-
gardlng their willingness to continue at
work with new skilled workers. The
usual number of men were at work re-.
pairing the Devices Wood mill at Nc
Keesport and arranging for the proposed
resumption on Monday.
| FG was stated at the works this morn
ing that several strangers had applied
for work but the manager had told them
that he did not propose to engage any
new men until after next week, when
he said that he expected all the old men
would again be at work. AS a conse-
quence most Of the strangers have re-
turned to their old work and the strik-
ers have come to the conclusion that
probably settlement may be in sight
Special policemen were on duty at this
mill today, bnt they had nothing to do.
At the upper and lower Union mills of
Carnegie's the men were engaged at
work as usual and there was no evidence
of dissatisfaction, Notwithstanding Der.
sistent rumors of the unionizing of
these mills and probably sympathetic
strike.
1t was reported in this district today
that agents of the combine had been
busy among the workers Of Lawrence
vile during the past two or three days,
and that one of them had secured IL
men. These men agreed to work in the
Wellsville mill and were taken there
today on an early morning train.
No efforts have been made to induce
the strikers here to return to work be-
yond the posting of notices regarding
the men IN the forge department, and
the strike leaders assert that the men
will not pay the least attention to the
notice