The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-07-04
IRON WORKERS OUT
No Agreement Reached On Wage
Scale For Ensuing Year.
FIFTY THOUSAND ARE AFFECTED
President Of AmaIgamated Association
Warns Companies That Con.
flict Will Be Memora.
BILE One.

The joint conference committee Of
the Amalgamated Association Of Iron.
Steel and Tin Workers and the Ameri-
can Sheet Steel Company. in session at
Pittsburg Saturday, was unable to
reach an agreement on the wage scale
for the ensuing year and adjourned a.
nally after q session of less tnan tweu-
ty minutes.
The Amalgamated Association OH.
eials asked that the scale be signed for
all the union mills. and the manufac-
turers presented : counter proposition
not only refusing to sign for all the
union mills, but stipulating that two
plants that were included last year be-
exempt from this scale this year. The
conference then broke up and Prest.
dent Shaffer at once issued q strike
order. The strike will involve all the
union sheet mills in the country ard
about twenty thousand skilled work
men.
Monday morning President Shaffer
issued a second order calling out all
union employees Of the various mills
or the American Steel Hoop Company,
known as the hoop trust. 1t is estima.
ted that $4,000 men will be subject to.
the call, which, in connection with the
big strike Of the American Sheet Steel
Company, ordered by President Shat
fer on Saturday, will affect $4,000 men.
President Shaffer said Sunday night:
"The impression that only the mills
of the American Sheet Steel Company
are affected by the decision Of Satur
day is mistake. The workmen Of all
mills in the American Steel Company
are interested and will ne officially no.
tilted tomorrow morning that the scale
has not been signed and they Will quit
work. To the well organized mills this
notice will not be necessary, as the.
men will have watched the situation
carefully, but what is known as open
mills, where union men have been al.
lowed to work side by side with the;
non.union, is where we have to move.
Union men must walk out Of these
open mills in the hoop trust.
"The open mills to be notified are
one at Hollidaysburg, Pa, three at
Pittsburg and one at Honessen. The
organized mills, which will close on
our call, are the upper and lower mills
at Youngstown, O., Pomeroy. O.. Sha.
ron, Pa, Girard, Pa. Warren, Pa,
Greenville, Pa. This, l believe, Will
bring the number of men affected up.
to $4,000.
1T is q matter Of regret that the is'
sue has been forced, but 1t now looks
as though it will be a fight to the
death. The Amalgamated Association.
is not unprepared for 1t. We have not
had general strike for many years.
and in that time we have not been idle.
We have funds and will use them.
| Right here I want to correct an Inn.
preston which has been given out
that no benefits will be paid strikers
until two months have elapsed. The
Amalgamated Association will begin at
once to take care Of It's people"
Mr.. Shaffer concluded by saying:
81 will say now what ! said to Me-.
Smith, general manager Of the Sheet
Steel Company, in the conference. I
said If it is to be strike we will make
it one to be remembered. The officials
now dealing with US have but little
| idea Of the extent to which this strike
will go once 1t is on"
Mills Shutting Down.
In order to take inventory, the mills
i in Youngsto%a and in the Mahoning
valley OF thesRelnblic Iron and Steel
Company will close for two weeks.
The mills here and at other points In
the Mahoning and Shenango valleys,
which are owned by the American
Steel Hoop Company, will remain idle
pending = settlement of the scale
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