New-York tribune., 1901-07-16
come to violent end with the completion Of this
struggle.
A AMALGAMA7 TED MEN Pleas ASED
ORDERLY BEHAVIOR OF STRIKERS-AN-
OTHER ESTIMATE OF NUMBER OUT.

IBY TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUNE.l
Pittsburg. July 15.-Officals of the Anal
gamated Association tonight express their com
plete satisfaction with the developments Of the
day. The showing made is source Of pride TO
them The most important Incidents OF the day
were the complete shutdown of the Lindsay
McCutcheon plant. in Allegheny City. and the
partial operation of the Painter mill, in Pitts
burg. Neither of these developments had been
anticipated. 1t was expected that the former
mill would be able to operate at least six Of it's
furnaces. but not of the twenty-five was
At the Painter mill probably one hundred
men were at work At both mills, however un-
expected strength shown by the associa-
ton. The superintendent of the Painter mill. in
a statement issued tonight, said that the re-
pairs now under way would be completed within
two weeks. and that the plant would be In full
operation by that time. 1t is said that men
can be had by the Steel Hoop company for the
mill at any time it wants them.
The who are out at the mills In the Pitts
burg district are behaving themselves In the
most orderly fashion. Without exception. Presi-
dent Shaffer's order that they keep away from
the mills is being obeyed, and interference
with any of the employees still at work has been
reported. For the most part. the men are MAX
ing the most of their idleness hundreds from
this city having pitched fishing camps along the
Monongahela and Ohio rivers President Shat
fer is at work the circular to the employees of
the National Federal Steel Companies, the Ma
tional Tube Company and the Joliet ILL.,. plant
of the American Steel and Wire Company Just
when the circular to these men will be issued
President Shaffer will not say. He says it is
not to be a call for q strike essentially but a
statement of the position of the association, its
arguments and its purpose.
1t was declared that the Old Meadow plant
at Scottdale Penn and the Salisbury, PENN
plant, would become union mills before the
strike has gone much further These two mills
were pivotal questions at the conference last
week They are run under Individual agree
ments, and the association demanded their
recognition union works This was the rock
on which the peace conference split. Now the
Amalgamated officials declare that the mills
will be admittedly in the union column before
the strike is much older.
Estimates of the number thrown idle are be
ing revised. In the three companies affected it
is probable that not more than twenty thou
sand are directly interested. or this number
about seven thousand are in the sheet COM
pany mills eight thousand in the tinplate mill
and five thousand in the hoop company mills.
President Shaffer commented tonight on the
statement made in Kansas City by President
John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of
America. He said: Il shall not ask the miners
TO go on sympathy strike. God help the poor
coal miner! He is the best union man in the
world and the poorest paid OF them all. He
has troubles enough OF his own. and we have
no desire 10 involve him. But while | shall not
insist invite or solicit q sympathetic strike, the
Amagamated Association stands ready at any
time to effect alliance with the United Mine
Workers of America any other kindred
ganization, many Of whose members en-
ployed by the United States Steel Corporation"
At Monessen. Penn, Is the only tin plate
plant In operation in the country. The mill is
unOTganfZod PfnplOyes
have not come out. Every other mill is organ
lied. and although the scale was settled for
them and the men have been working under II
since July i, they have Joined In the fight
against the three steel corporations. Tonight
practically every tin plate worker is out The
reapirers alone were busy at the mills to-day.