The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-14
BIG STRIKE
 IS ORDERED Shaffer Notifies Men to
 Quit Work. HE ISSUES STATEMENT
75,000 Men are Said to Be
 Directly Affected.
President of the Amalgamated Al. sociation Tells of the Proposi- tions Submitted by Each side
 to the Controversy.

Pittsburg, July 13.--After three days session the conference between xepre- sentatives of the American Sheet Steel, American Steel Hoep Company and American Tin Plate Company, suhetdt- ary companies of the United Statee Steel Corporation, and the general ex- ecutive board of the Amalgamated As- seciation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work CTS. adjourned finally at o'clock thts
 evening without reaching an aGree- ment. Less than an hour latar xresi-
 dent shaffsr of the Amaigamatsd As- sociation wired the following to all the
 Amalgamated lodges in the tin nlate,s steel hoop and sheet steel mials of the country:
 t"Notify your men that the miil h on
 a strike and will not work MonaaH.
 July 15.'
 For the present Mir. Shaffer says that only the three companies naEned
 will be affected. but later all the union
 men in the Federal Steel Company. Ma
 tional Steel Company and National Tube Company may be called out if t
 is found necessary to resort to extreme
 measures to win the fight. At the start it is claimed 45,o0e skilled work
 men, 30.0o0 unskilled men and. indi- rectly. many thousands more will be affected.
 "Late this evening President shaffer made public the following:
 Friday afternoon the manufacturers made their first proposition for a set clement of this strike in which they said: We agree to unionize the Old
 burg, Ky, leaving 1t to the opinion of
 the men employed there if such opin-i ion fs properly obtained This proposition was generally sNS cussed and this morning before the conference adjourned for lunch the general executive board Of the Asnal-
 garnated Association submitted the fol- l lowing:
 we hereby repeat our.reQuest that eour scale signed for all mills owned and controlled by the American Since Steel, the American Steel Hoop an the American Tin Plate. Companiei and believe that this should be conced- ed because 1t Is. in our opinion, req sonab1e and just. We agree that If our scales are signed as above, to classify the Monessen plant of the American Tin Plate Company as a special mill and arrange a scale in accordanuB
 herewith. Also that there shall be a reconstruction of the scale for the mills
 working hoop and cotton ties exclu-
 eively and we also agree that if our WOrk OI OTkaHtLAHB IlhA46 OuboAQG O1 the possessions of the above companies should cause the shutting down oi plants. or the calling out of men. there
 shall be no interference with the op- eration of the mills belonging to or op- erated by the American Sheet Steel | Company, the American Steel Hoop | Company or the American Tin Plate 1 Company during the scale year. "This agreement Is t0 abrogats ali contracts signed by the men of fhese companies in which they agree not to | join or be connected with the Amai-
 gamated Association or any other la bor organization.'
 After lunch." continued MT. Shaf- fer. i've were met with the following counter proposition from the manufac- | turers:
 i've agree to sign the scale for the following sheet mills: The Old Mea-
 dow Rolling Nsdll and the WellsviIie | Mills
 'tOf course tlis proposition was re-
 tected as 1t was considered no propo- | sition at all, inasmuch as the Wells | vile plant Is organized to a man and | so Is the Woods mill in MoKeeeport. The conference adjourned soon afeer
 this with regret expressed on both sides
 for the failure to reach an agreement"