Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-07-02
A BIG LABOR Fight On
Great Steel Trust and the Amaiganat-:
ed Assoriation of Iron and Steel u
Men Lock Horns.
Thirty Five Thousand Skilled Labor b
!, ers at Various Points Have
Already Quit Work

ers ct Various Points Have
Already Quit Work
Contest is for Right II organize and
May Develop into igantic
abor5 String e.
tsz tits siburg, july a result of the
refusal OF the representa- ives Of the
American Sheet Steel company and
the American Steel Hoop company
subsidiary companies of the great
United States Steel corporation, to
sign the workers, new scale at Satur-ss
days conference, circulars were sent
out from the national headquarters of
| the Amalgamated Association OF Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers declaring
strike at all the plants 81. the two com
bines. The great strike is now on 4
but it will be several days before its
| actual extent is known. AT the out
set, however, over 35, 900 men will be-
involved as follows:
| Union sheet mills: Aetna-Standardx
steel mills, Bridgeport, o., 1880; Mid
land steel mills, Muncie, Ind, 900 ::8
Old Meadow rolling mill, Scottdale,
| 400; Saltburg rolling mill, SaItburg,
/ 300; w. Dewee Wood mills, McKees-
| port, 1000; Cambridge iron and steel
mills, Cambridge, o., 400; Canton roll
ing mills. Canton, o., $50; Charters
iron and steel mills, Carnegie, 300;
IDennison rolling mills, Dennison, o.,
$50; Dresden iron and steel mills,
Dresden, o., 800; Falcon iron and nail
i mills, Niles, o., 450; New Philadelphia
mills, New Philadelphia, q, 700; e
Piqua rolling mills. Piqua, %, 500;
Reeves iron mills, Canal Dover, o.,
75os Struthers iron mills, Struthers,
o., 400; Corning steel mills, Ham.
mond, Ind, 300; Lauffman steel mills,
Paulton, 200; Hyde Park iron and
steel mills, Hyde Park, $50; total,
4 $3.50. $s H :5sss; 5s 3
i Non-union sheet mills: Apollo iron
and steel mills, Wand dergrift, $500;
I Kirkpatrick mills, Leechburg, $50;
4 Wellsville plate and sheet iron mills,
i WellsVille, O., 400; scottdale iron and
| steel mills, Scottdale, $50; total, $780,
I American Steel Hoop company,
Ii,400; Independent plants, ~ in num-.
ber, 5000. a. ct
Total number Of men involved in
strike 35,75o. ~ n 5s5S. r. :is# ,
The fight is. mot for wages, but for
organization. Either the Amalgamat-
ed association must bow to the will
| Of the greater combine, or else the
greater combine will have to give up
! its non-union mills. 4. ,5*s - p.
+ May Involve 100000 Men.
4 What the strike just inaugurated
may eventually lead to is probIemati-
cal. Three months ago when strike
occurred in the Wood plant of the
American Sheet Steel company at Nc
Keesport,. because the company refus-
/ ed to allow its men to become mem
bers of the ANAL lgamated association,
President Shaffer threatened .df the
McKeesport strikers could not win
with their own strength he would Or
| der a strike in every plant of the COM
pany. II the latter would not yield he
would then call out the union men in
every plant of T the United States
Steel corporation. Such a course
! would result in the biggest strike the
country has ever seen, involving sew
eral hundred thousand men. For the
/ first few weeks the situation will not
show the strength of the association.
Almost all the plants of the company,
1sunion and non-union, will be compell-
Led to shut down during the early part
of July to give the men a rest. They
have been working steadily since the !
i first OF the year, many of them with
4 out a, weeks cessation. Union and
| non-union alike, they are demanding
| q short vacation, and the prediction is
! made that the companies will be una
Bile to keep any one at work for two
| or three weeks. The heatsis intense
and the men, one vice president said,
1 are almost In a state of revolt. f.
| 1t will be after, perhaps, the first Of
! August, when the combine makes Sc
rious attempt to start up In full, that
! the real battle viii begin If no settle :
! ment has been reached at that time.
i The company cannot we'll delay oper- {
atfag longer than that, on account OF
the, present flood OF orders. In fact. n
/ the urgent orders now on the books
can scarcely wait through july hns
] the association has almost month
more to prepare for the coming strng-
! Gle. q is the boast Of the AmaIga
j mated association officials that by
4 that time they will control so per cent
of the capacity of the combinations
| plants ss#s
Principal Demands Granted,
Binghampt ton, ]. Jsl n \.
strike Of Erie boilermakers BIT Susane-
! hanna, which mas lasted six mont MS
j has been settI led The d, en, who nlIr1l-