The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16
NOW FAIRLY LAUNCHED
STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE TRUST
AND STEEL WORKERS UN.
DER FULL SWING.
ADVANTAGE WITH FORMER
But Fourteen Thousand Additional
Men Obey President Shaffer's Or
der-TotaI Number Now Out Is
About Sixty Thousand-Strikers
Make Gains During the Day With
Prospects of Further Accessions.


Make Gains During the Day With
Prospects of Further Accessions.
Pittsburg, Aug. 13.-The struggle
Tor mastery between manufacturers
and men in the steel industry is now
talrly launched and on the first show
OF strength advantage is with the for
mer. The general strike order issued
by President Shaffer of the Amalga-
mated Association has so far been
obeyed by only about $4,000 men, &C
cording to the best figures obtainable
here. The first two preliminary calls
were answered by about $4,000 men,
80 that the total number now out is
In the neighborhood of $4,000. The
strikers made gains here during the
day and their prospects for further
accesSions at both McKeesport and
Wheeling during the week are very
favorable. The action OF the Amalga-
mated men at Chicago, Joliet and Bay
view in refusing to come out and
their failure to secure any recruits in
the Carnegie group throughout the
k1sklminetas valley and the big plants
at Youngstown and Columbus, o.,
nave been markedly disappointing to
them. They are keeping up the fight,
however, in spirited manner and
claim that they have strength in re-
serve which will surprise their oppo-
nents. They assert that they have
gained a foothold in the Carnegie
mills in this city and at the time de-
Sired the men will come out. They
are pressing their advantages at Nc
Keesport and Wheeling and their or
ganizers are still at work in those two,
cities.
Appeal for Financial Aid.
An appeal for financial aid has been
made to organized labor and the gen.
eral public and it is expected that the
responses to it will be liberal. The
leaders were not, dis
posed to do much talking. They would
not discuss the desertion of their
Western fellows.
The men who are directing the fight
In the field for the steel corporation
and it's constituent companies would
give no indication of their plans for
the future and would only discuss the
situation generally. Their reports
showed that the Carnegie group, South
Chicago, Bay View, Joliet, Youngs-
town, Columbus, the Kiskiminetas val
ley group, WellsviIle and Monessen
were moving along full handed. Bel
laire, their advices showed, was bad
~ crippled, but would be started up
again in the morning. They admitted
the loss Of the National Rolling mill
at McKeesport, which they had ex-
pected to hold, and that the Boston
mill and Monongahela steel works at
and the Republic and
Efba here were tied up. Their tube
workers at McKeesport and here were
still at work, but menaced by a pos
sible shortage Of material. Their tube
men at Wheeling were out, but the
furnace and coke men there were at
work anu their steel men there
Showed an inclination to Stay
on unless intimidated. They also
claimed that many of their men at
desired to work, but were
being terrorized by the disorderly ele-
ment. They also charged that many
of their men Wee being, frightened
from their places at Wheeling and in
sisted that adequate protection for the
men there would insure continued op-
erations. 1t was also stated by the
was moving along with it's non-union
crews engaged last week, and that an
other mill manned by old Amalga-
mated men had started up at Wells
vile, representing a gain of one there
since Saturday.
Officials of the National Tube COM
pany and Mayor Black. clashed over
the question of protection for nom
strikers and property. A large crowd
Of strikers assembled around the
works and their pickets intercepted
tube workers on their way to the
mills. There was some excitement
and the mill officers, claiming that
their men were being threatened and
in danger of violence, called on Mayor
Black to clear the streets and protect.
The mayor said that ne would only in
terfere to stop actual rioting and as
sauit. Two other appeals were made
to him later in the morning, but he in
sisted that there was no danger Of an
outbreak.
GoMPERS HOPES FOR PEACE.