The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-04

National Tube Company.
Union Mills
Republic iron works. South Side. Pitts
Surc
Riverside iron works. Wheeling.
Continental iron works and Elba iron
Norks. Pittsburg.
Boston iron and steel works. near Nc
-eesport-
These employ an aggregate OF 5000 men.
-Nonunion Pants
National tube works and Monongahela
nee works. McKeesport-
National galvauiziug WORKS, Ncfsalles'
.ear Mckccsp0rt.
Syracuse tube work. syracgse. \. y.
Ohio tube works Warren. -.
Allison plant. Philadelphia.
Chester Pipe and Tube Company. Ches-
ter. Pa
American iron and steel works. Middle
Gown, Pa and Nognsstovn; o
OH City tub wO~ks. Oil city. Pa.
These employ 5000 men.
The National Tube Company employs az
Us McKeespo-t works about S.0oo men. Not
su &c these are organized. hut those who
are occupy skilled positions, and II they
strike work VIII Al once be stopped in eli
the departments al least for a time. The
rolling mill Is the foundation Of the process
% pipe making. II IT suspends all depart
ments will be compelled to quit sooner or
later II the company fails 10 start il again
soon. The same conditions exist in the
various companies that are placed in the
nOnunion list. although in some the union
T. so weak as 10 be entirely Intellectual I'M
less strengthened
EFFECT OF SYMPATHETIC STRIKES.
There is scarcely one OF the 10000 en-
ployes Of the United States Steel Corpora
ton but what may feel the strike. 1t may
be that the American Federation Of Labor
will call out IFS thousands who handle
products OF the United States Steel Cor
pOration: the structural steel workers may
refuse to handle steel from the mills of the
trust: the miners may refuse to dig coal
for trust mills: the railway organizations
may be drawn into the contest. although
tina lit is not probable. Unless IL be
speedily broken by the United States
Steel Corporation the strike and its
results will be felt over the whole
of the United States. Mills that
manufacture finished product and obtain
their raw material from the trust in many
cases will be closed: blast furnaces that
manufacture iron will be compelled 70 pile
It in stock and then stop If the strike be
carried on for any length of time. and
COKE ONtn5 vi tlDSc Nntn n idCtS
stop.
The big plant of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany is almost free of unionism. but this is
the citadel that Twill be attacked at once
BY the Amalgamated Association. If the
the union men can close the other mills
and prevail upon union men to stop ..and-
ling structural steel and plates. the plants
at Homestead and Duquesne can be seri-
ously crippled. as their product would not
b. taken. The Edgar Thomson steel works.
at Braddock. will not likely be affected. 1t
has contracts placed by railroads direct
that will operate it for seven months. If
the Chicago rail mill be closed the Edgar
Thomson could roll some of its contracts.
The Homestead armor-plate department
would scarcely be affected. although If the
workers there could be induced to come out
81 would place the company in a bad stu
alton regarding its armor-plate contracts
with the federal government AT Duquesne
sheet and tin plate bars are made largely.
Much of the stuff made there in the last
week has been locked. Labor leaders
think that the upper and lower Union mills
might be induced to come in in case a
general Strike i'm all the corporation COM
panies is declared.
Following are companies i'm which the
Amalgamated Association mas no mem
bers because of the nature OF the work
done: American Bridge Company. Shelby
Steel Company. II. c. Frick and other con-
Germs, the railroad properties, American
Steel and Wire Company, coal properties
and other lines. y general strike would
cause a suspension OF the plants of the
American Steel and Wire Company if the
steel mills which manufacture steel billets
eoufl no closed ne vCira iS rolled from these
billets.
REGRET AT SHARON.
\ telegram from Sharon, Pa. o-night
says: THE announcement OF the failure
10 settle the strike in New York was re-
ceived with much rgret here. 1t is gen.
orally believed that a general order will be
issued by President Shaffer calling out
every union iron. steel and tin worker on
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