Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-01
||[[L WORKERS DLE
D BIG Strike Actually Begun
Eln Some Eastern Districts
! Today.
|bable That the Mills Will Be
| Closed Down for Few
Weeks.

W0SASs
ke May Spread to All the
Steel Mills..Situation
Is Grave.
Esburg, Pa, July las result of
ssfusal of representatives of the
Scan Steel Sheet Company and
Hican Steel Hoop Company, sub
By companies of the great United
&s Steel Corporation, TO sign the
YRS new scale at Saturdays con-
Gee. circu,a1yy We're sent out from the
bnal Headquarters of the Amalga-
I'D Association of Iron and Steel and
HWorkers yesterday and today de-
&ng strike at all the plants of the
companies. The great strike is now
but 1t will be several days before
A5Ictual extent is known. At the out
M however, over $4,000 men will be
Ntlved as-follows:
E3lion Street Mills: Eetna Standard
E}l Mills, Bridgeport, Ohio, $500; Mid
@l Steel Mills Muncie Ind, 1000; Old
MAdow Rolling Mill, Scottdale, 400;
Mtsburg Rolling MILL Salisbury, 300;
# Devices Wild Mills, McEeesport
40; Cambridge Iron and Steel Mills,
#nbridge, Ohio. 400; Canton Rolling
Mls, Canton. Ohio. $50: Charters Iron
Md Steel Mills. Carnegie 800: Dennisor
8hing Mills Denrdson, $500; Dresden
In and Steel Mills, Dresden, Ohio, 300;
Mlson Iron and Nail Mills, Niles Ohio,
nv New Philadelphia Mills, New Phil
Msiphia. Ohio, 700; Plqua Rolling Mills
Hlua Ohio. 900; Reeves Iron Mill,
E3lal Dover, Ohio, T50; Struthers Iron
3Xlls. Struthers. Ohio, 400: Corning Stee!
Sals Hammond, Ind. 300; Lauffman
Feel Mills. Paulton. 200; Hyde Park
Aon and Steel Mills, Hyde Park, $50;
Eptal 1850.
MON Union Sheet Mills-Apole Iron and
Seel Mills. vandergrift, $4,000: Kirk
Etrick Mills, Leechburg. $50; Wellsville
Gate and Sheet Iron Mills, Wellsvllle,
Eio, 400: Scottdale Iron and Steel Mills,
kottdale, 500. Total l5.100. American
seel Hoop Company, 1,400; Independent
8ants, twenty-seven in number.Y 5000
RStal number men involved in strike
& $50.
sSyVhat the strike Just inaugurated may
22,n,stually lead ID IS problemstical.
Mf months ago when the strike oc-.
M In the wood plant of the Amer
3heet Steel Company at McKees-
81 because the company refused to
~ Its men to become members of
&malgamated association. President
Mner threatened If the McKeesport
Gers could not win, with their own
Hlgth, ne would order a strike in
ssy plant OF the company. If the lat
would not yield he would Their call
the union men in every plant Of the
|leed States Steel Corporation Such
lcourse would result in the biggest
Hke the country has ever seen, involv-
6. several hundred thousand men. For
1 first few weeks the situation Will not
Hw the strength of the association. AL
wr all the plants of the company.
Mn and non-union, will be compelled
hut down during the early part of
M to give the men a rest. They have
M working steadily since the first of
III year, many Of them without
Wsk's cessation. Union and non-union
HI alike are demanding a short va
Wsn and the prediction is made that
accompanies viii be unable TO keep
None at work for two or three weeks
$% tomorrow. The heat 10 intense and
M, the vice president said today, are
HSst In q state OF revolt.
Mtwill be after perhaps the first of
Mhst, when the combine makes a
Mus attempt to start up in full, that
#real battle Wall begin. If no settle
Hit has been reached at that time.
Mhe company can not well delay oper-
Eng longer than that on account of the
Resent floods Of orders. In fact urgent
Ksders are now on books and can scarce
W wait thru July. Thus the association
Ms almost month month more to pre-
{Are for the coming struggle. 1t is the
Toast OF the Anlaigarated Association
ftncials that by that time they will con-
yol eighty per cent of the capacity of
he combinations plantr.
G1 adually the plans OF President T. j.
Ichaffar, OF the Amalgamated Associa-
ion are being uncovered. Since the
rouble in the w. Dewes Wood Mills
n McKeesport. few months ago, the
Amalgamated Association has been ac-
lively engaged in breaking up the pres
mt arrangements Of combine in the
,peratinS parts Of their plants with non
Inion men and others With union men.
shaffer says that ii this is not checked.
he life Of the Amalgamated association
5 threatened. for the combine will al
rays work their union mills last. and
lnlon men will be sufferers by this dis
It WAS believed by the Amalgamated
Association that the promptness with
which the sheet steel combine came to
heir terme in the MeKeesport trouble
nd allowed the union to exist in that
plant would prove boon to further ag-
yressfve action on the part Of orga aized
worlomen. Taking advantage of the new
United States Steel Corporations as the
'arent head OF all other combines with
which the Amalgamated Association
lad to deal. 1t felt that a threatened
trike OF all union men In all branches
4 the steel business would 80 friyhten
he combine officials they would give In
nd allow every one of the non-union
,lants to be union. The strike order
gainst the American Sheet Steel Com
ANY has been ordered because thie
,ortion OF the Unked States Steel Cor
soration has thus far stood out against
he increase in union mills, now recog-
4dz6H as union. to remain so. The Amer
Van Steel Hoop Company stands in
sme position,
Xhe fight Is not for wages, but for or
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