The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-18
NOTHING TO
ARBITRATE.
Steel Colossus Declares Itself
on the Strike.
Willing to Agree to All De-
mands of Mem
ON WAGES AND HOURS.
Amy Other Question Is Regard
ed as Sentimental.
Iron Trade Review Discusses
Effect of the Strike.
Carnegie Absolutely Refuses to
Commit Himself.
ON WAGES AND HOURS.
Any Other Question Is Regard
ed as sentimental.
Iron Trade Review Discusses
Effect Of the Strike.
Carnegie Absolutely Refuses to
Commit Himself.

New York, July 1s.-The following
statement according to the Journal and
Advertiser has been given out by
member of the firm of J. P. Morgan &
Co.:
The United States Steel corpora
ton will not consent to any arbitration
of the present difficulty. There is moth
ing to arbitrate. The con pany stands
willing to agree to the demands of the
men as to wages and hours. If there
is any other question at issue it is
merely a sentimental one raised by the
Amalgamated associa ton"
EFFECT OF THE STRIKE.
Cleveland, O., July 1S.-The Iron
Trade Review this week will say:
Contrary to predictions the threat
ened strike of the Amalgamated assO-
citation has come, and that organiza-
ton has closed all the union mills of
the American Tin Plate company, the
American Sheet Steel company and the
American Steel Hoop company, in ad-
dition to three mills of the last named
company heretofore non-union. Neither
side now offers any CON promise. and a
surrender need not be expected with
out a test of endurance. There is no
room for predictions of early settle
ment.
The first effect looked for. though
not yet in evidence, is q scarcity of
tin plates and sheets. The non-uniOn
plants of the sheet company and the
independent mills have been crowded
for weeks, and there is little or no
choice to expand, except as the inde
pendent works may be able to draw
on the ranks - the strikers and or
ganize triple turns. Tin plate produc-
ton is reduced nearly 80 per cent. by
the strike, and only a small fraction
of the remaining 10 per cent. is avail
able for the market. The shutdown of
all the American Steel Hoop COM
pany's mills but one creates a famine
in hoops and cotton ties and reduces
~.Ct -.
of the American Steel and Wire COM
pany in Cleveland Will be started at
once Altogether plants having year
ly capacity of about 100000 tons or
about 20 per cent. of the entire fur
nishing capacity of the United States
Steel corporation, are involved in the
strike There is already a slight ad-
vance In the price of bars as a result
of the strike and advances that may
be sharp are looked for in sheet and
tin plates Jobbers have no stock to
speak of, and Independent steel mills
have two or three months business on
hand, so that conSun erS will feel
promptly the pinch of the shutdown.
An accumulation of steel and of besse-
mer iron will be realized at once in
central western plants and all other
condition Quotations below $24 Pitts
burg are now announced, and inde-
pendent finishing mills win have the
double advantage of lower prices on
material. Meantime, independent fur
naces are at sea as to the demand upon
them in the second half of the year.
and there is introduced into the ore
situation another element of uncer-
tainty.
CARNEGIE WON'T DISCUSS IT.
New York, July 18.-Mr. Andrew Car
neg1e, on being approached at his home
in Scotland by a representative of the
Journal and Advertiser, and asked to
express an opinion with regard to the
strike, formally declined to be litter
viewed. He was asked if he would in
terfere, and replied:
IT must firmly refuse to do So"
On being asked If he considered the
men right in their demands, he said:
It will not discuss the strike"
ARBITRATION TALK.
New York, July 18-Arbitration Of the
steel workers strike is already being
talked of by the local representatives
of the American Federation of Labor,
with which the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Iron and Steel workers is a.ffiH-
ated The subject has been discussed
by the organizers of the federation and
it was said that though the strikers in
quitting work struck the first blow they
viii probably be ready to arbitrate the
strike soon-
It was said that the National Civic
Federation, which tried to settle the
strike of the machinists but did not
succeed stands ready to assist in ar
bitrating the strike of the steel workers
if called upon. Theodore Shaffer, presi-
dent of the Amalgamated Association,
is a member of the arbitration board
of the Civic Federation, as are also
Samuel Gompers and the leaders of a
number of other national labor bodies
Independent of the Civic Federation,
it was learned, the organizers of the
Federation are preparing to have ar
bitrators on hand in case any emer-
gency occurs rendering it necessary for
them to provide arbitrators. AS the
federation, if the strike lasts more
than q week or two, will have to face
the question of a general per capita as
sessment to aid of the strikers the or
ganizers are anxious to have the strike
ended soon.
Herman Robinson, who IS general or
ganizer for the federation in the east
ern states, said last night that the fed
GRAFTON stands ready to assist as soon
as arbitration is asked for A letter is
to be sent to the executive committee
of the federation today submitting the
name of Herman Ridder as an arbitra-
tor, and asking that he be approved by
the committee
WORK FOR STRIKERS.