The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-18
GREAT STEEL STRIKE IS
COSTING $366,OOO A DAY
Immense Loss to the Companies and WOrkmen By
Conflict Now Going On.
No Prospect in Sight of Settement-Srikers Pleased
With Their Progress.

PittsbuTg. Pa, July 11.-AccOrdinS to
figures compiled by the Pittsburg Dis
patch, the steel strike is daily costing
the three companies involved s21O. 600,
and the workmen $156, OOO.~ In addition
the many and varied industries Grip
pied represent losses to the men of
I large sums that cannot be computed
now.
The Amalgamated men are said to
! nave fund Of over $500. 900 with which
to keep the strike going, and the con-
/ trlDutiOnS of the Amalgamated men
employed in the various mills still
operating viii go a good way toward
keeping the sinews of war in good con-
dition.
We have not heard from the other
side at any time, in any way or on
any subject since we parted at the Lin
coin hotel last Saturday"
This positive statement made by
President Shaffer of the AmaIganated
association this afternoon. disposes of
/ the rumOr from New York today that
/ the strike had been settled. Mr. Shat
fer stated further that no actual negO-
/ tlations were on between President
/ Bishop Of the Ohio state arbitration
] board and himself. tending toward ar
bitration. A letter received by Mr..
Shaffer from Mr.. Bishop asking if he
would consent to the TeOpening of the
| conference. has not been answered yet
| The principal events in the days his
/ tory was the failure of the sheet steel
/ people to reopen the Wellsville plant
! with non union men; the offer of finan-
/ clal assistance made to the Amalga-
mated by the 10000 goo members of the
/ American Federation of Labor and by
/ the American Window Glass Workers
! association; the determination of the
| association to organize the immense
/ steel plant at Vandergrift, and the fact
/ that several of the closed plants are
/ being patrolled by armed watchmen
/ and guards.
Strikers Are Satisfied.
] The AmaIgamated officials tonight
/ profess great satisfaction over the re-
( suits accomplished since the strike, but
( officials of the companies, as hereto
! fore, viii say nothing. The man upon
l the companies side who had said any
/ thing up to date is Persifer T. Smith.
! district manager of the sheet steel
I company. The fight that ne has on at
( Wellsville is followed closely by the
{ Worlzmen and tomorrow an open public
meeting viii be held at Welisville,
I when President Shaffer in person viii
] present the strikers side of the case
and endedVOr to overcome the EFFORTS
of alleged misstatementS concerning
/ the late conference. Manager Smith
has been invited to attend the meet
ing and make a statement for the
sheet company
While WeIlsviIIe-i is the present strike
/ center now the battlefield viii be
shifted TO McKeespOrt next week if
/ the report be true that the Devices
Wood plant Of the American Sheet Steel
company will resume operations. This
would afford one of the most trying
situations of the strike. 1t would nee
essitate the importation of non-union
men from other places, and the bitter
feeling engendered by such move
would be hard to control The report
from WeIlsville, O.. tonight, says;
1.-THE attempt to start the Wellsvilie
plant of the American Sheet Steel com
pany this morning resulted in partial
success. As a result one mill was IN
operation today with an incomplete
force. Boys are doing mems work and
receiving mems pay. Helpers are tax
ing the places of skilled workers, ano
+ confusion reigns. Although steam IS
issuing from every smOkestack and the
management says three mills are work
ing. mill men laugh at their claim and
saw that there are not men enough IN
side the plant to operate one mill prop