Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-13
Everything is Quiet About
All the Mills This
Morning.
MAKES APPEAL TO LABOR
The Situation Today Shows That the
Amalgamated Association Has Prob
ably Not Gained All That 1t Hoped
in Its Great Struggle.

Pittsburg, Aug 12-The Amalgam.
:ted association failed to make good
its threat to stop the upper and lower
union mills this morning. At 9 O'Clock
the mills seemed to be working in full,
and the management appeared to be
satisfied The Lindsay and McCutch-
con plant also started with a small
force Not a striker was about and
everything was quiet.
TIL republic, Painters and Franks
town pudding and rolling mills OF the
Continental department of the Nation
al Tube company are closed.
An attempt was made to start UP the
Republic Iron Works but the men re-
fused to work.
The pipe department of the Franks
town works, winch is also known as
the Elba Iron works, resumed with q
full force. The men claim they have
no connection with the Amal2amated
association. There are no strikers
about the premises and the manage
ment says no effort will be made at
present to start the works.
Employees of the Scottdale and Old
Meadow plants of the American Sheet
. Steel company at Scottdale, went to
work as usual There is no sign of
disaffection.
The Mingo plant, at Mingo Junction,
is closed, the men having struck Sat
urday.
There is no change in the situation
at Sharon. Not a mill has been shut
down as the result of Shaffer's order.
The mills of the American Sheet
Steel company at SSridergrift, Apollo,
Leechburg, Hyde Park and Salisbury
are all running with full force, none
of the old employees failing to report
for work
Departments of the National Tube
works at McKeesport are closed as
follows: National Rolling Mill two
thousand; Boston mill, five hundred; !;
Monongahela mil, four hundred. The
rest of the plant is running as usual.
Twelve mills were started at Wells
vile, making a gain of one since Sat
urday.
The Amalgamated Association has
issued general appeal to organized
labor for financial aid. The address
was prepared Friday and goes into the
=
mail today.
The National Tin Plate mill at Mo
nossen, Pa, started tits morning on
the frst turn with full quota of non
union men. The strike leaders, after
an all night session, decided to aban
don all opposition for the present
At Wheeling. the Riverside plate
mill, of the National Tube company
is closed. The steel department men
may be organized into an Amalgamat
ed lodge tonight, when it is hoped by
strike leaders to make the tie up al
Riverside complete.
The Bellaire steel men made two
heats during the night contrary to ex
pectations of the strikers.
Situation at Other Plants.
The Charters rolling mill at Car
inegie is idle today. All is quiet and
the furnaces are out.
At Duncanville the plant of the
American Hoop company, no attention
was paid to the strike order
The Canton rolling mill is closed
since the first order and is still idle.
At Youngstown the plants of the Ma
tional Steel company and the Nation
al Tube company are in full operation
The employees, while they say they will
not come out are sending portion
of their wages to the Amalgamatet
strike fund.
The Clark mill of Pittsburg, is re
ported running the same as last week
Strikers are keeping away from thu
plant.
The LaBelle steel works at ALE
gheny voted a days pay every twt
weeks to aid the strikers.
Eight Hundred Go Out.
Pittsburg, Aug. 12.-Eight hundre,
men in the sheet mill and tin plat
plant at Cambridge, Ohio, have gon
out