The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-02
BIG STRIKE NOW ON Settlers 10 RUSH IN
THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND STEEL
OWNED MILLS
PLANTS ARE ALL SHUT DOWN
REAL TEST OF STRENGTH BE-
TWEEN TRUST AND UNION WILL
COMB IN THE FALL
FIGHT NOT ONE FOR WAGES

plTTSBURG, July las a result of the
refusal Of the representatives of the
American Sheet Steel company and the
American Steel Hoop company, sub
sidiary companies of the great American
United States Steel corporation, to sign
the workers new scale at Saturdays
conference, circulars We're sent out from
the national headquarters of the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers yesterday and today, declaring
a strike at all the plants Of the two
combines The great strike is now on,
but it Will be several days before it's ac-
tual extent is known. At the outset,
however, over 5000 men Will be involved,
as follows:
PLANTS INVOLVED.
Union Sheet Mills-Aetna-Standa
Jteel mills, Bridgeport, Ohio, $500; Mid
land Steel mills, Muncie, Ind, 1,OO0; Old
Meadow Rolling mill, Scottdale, 400;
Salisbury Rolling mill, Salisbury 300;
LOCO; Cambridge Iron and Steel mills
Cambridge, Ohio, 400; Canton Rolling
mills, Canton, Ohio 250; CHARTERS Iron
and Steel mills, Carnegie, 300; Dennison
Rolling mills, Dennison, Ohio $50; Dres-
den Iron and Steel mills, Dresden, Ohio,
500; Falcon Iron and Nail mills Niles,
Ohio, 45O; New Philadelphia, New Phil
adelphia, Ohio, ZOO; Piqua Rolling mills
Piqua, Ohio, 900; Reeves Iron mills, Ca
nal Dover Ohio, $50; Struthers Iron
mills, Struthers, Ohio 400; Corning Steel
mills, Hammond Ind, 300; Lauffman Steel
mills, PaultOn, 200; Hyde Park Iron and
Steel mills Hyde park, $50. Total, IL, $50.
Non-Union Sheet Mills-Apollo Iron and
Steel mills, VandeIg gr!ft, $3.50; Kirkpatrick
mills, Leechburg $50; Wellsville Plate and
Sheet Iron mills, Wellsville, Ohio, 400;
Scottdale Iron and Steel mills, Scottdale
$50 Total, 500.
American Steel Hoop company, 1,4OO;
Independent plants, twenty-seven in num-
Der, 5000.
Total number of men involved in strike
$780,
The American Steel Hoop company s
main offices are in this city. The com
pany has three non-union plants in this
city They are Painters mills, on the
south side, and Lindsay and McCut-
cheon's and Clarkes, located in Alle-
gheny. The company has also a nom
union plant at Monessen and one at Dun
canville, though the employees Of the lat
ter are ready for organization as soon as
the Amalgamated people will take the m
in. Other Ilants Of the company are
claimed, by. the .Amalgamated people as
union. There are two at Youngstown and
one each at Sharon, Girard, Greenville,
oPmeroy, Ohio, and Warren, Ohio.
POSSIBLE SCOPE OF STRIKE.
What the strike just inaugurated may
eventually lead to is problematical Three
months ago when a strike occurred in the
Wood plant of the American Sheet Steel
company at McKeespoIt, because the
company refused to allow its men to be-
come members of the Amalgamated asso-
citation, President Shaffer threatened if
the McKeesport strikers could not win
with their own strength, he would order
q strike in every plant of the company.
If the latter would not yield he would
then call out the union men in every
Plant Of the United States Steel corpora.
tion. Such a course would result In the
biggest strike the country has ever seen.
involving several hundred thousand men.
For the first few we ks the situation W II
not show the strength of the association
Almost all the plants of the companv
union and non-union, will be compelled to
smut down during the early part of JULY
70 give the men a rest. They have been
working steadily s,nce the first of the
year, many Of them without a week $
cessation. Union and non-union alike
they are demanding a short vacation, and
the prediction Is made that the COM
panies VIII be unable to keep any one 0t
work for two or tn, ee weeks after to.
morrow. The heat is intense and the
men, one vice president said todav. are
almost in a state of revolt
II VIII be after, perhaps the first OF
August, when the combine makes a SER
ious attempt to start up in full, that t. q
real battle will begin if no settlement has
been reached at that time The comranv
cannot Well delay operating longer than
THAT, on account of the present floods of
orders. In fact, the urgent orders now
on the books can scarcely wait through
july Thus the association has almost a
month more to prepare for the coming
struggle. 1t is the boast of the AmaIga-
mated association officials that by that
phie they will control so per cent of the