The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-02

iron and steel mills. Cambridge Ohio; Can
ton rolling mills, Canton, Ohio; CHARTERS
iron and steel mills, Carnegie Dennlson
rolling mills. Dannison. Ohio; Dresden iron
and steel mills. Dresden; Falcon iron and
nail mills Niles Ohio: New philadeinhfl
mills, New Philadelphia, Ohio; Piuua rolling
mills, Fiqua, Ohio Reeves iron mill, Canal
Dover, Ohio: StTuthers iron mills Struth
ers. Ohio; Corning steel mills, Hammond
Ind; LauffInan steel mills, Pauiton; Hyde
PARK iron and steel mills, Hyde Park
steel mills, vandergrift; KiIpa e Fon m nh
Leechburg; Wellsville plate and sheet iron
mills, Wellsyile Ohio; ScottsdAe Iron ana
steel mills. Seottsdale: American Steel
Hoop company, independent niunts, twenty
seven In number Total number of men In
VOWED In strike 1880.
me, ,ahe A I'M. t. Steel Hoop eompany's main
three nonunion plants in this city They
aie Painters mills on the south side, ana
Lindsay and MoCutcheon's and Clarkc's, To-,
Gated in Allegheny. The company has also
n nonunion plant AZ Minesspn ana one al
Dnneanvile though the employees OF the
lnttcs are ready for organization ms soon
IN oher Baas peeps se vol com fahs tne%
daimed ~ the amalgamated people as
union. There are two AZ YOUNGSTOWN and
one each az sharon. Girard. Greenyille
Pomeroy. Ohio. and Warren, Ohio
What the strike Just lnaugurated may
efentnallE lead 70 Is problematical. Three
wood plant Of the American Sheet Steel
company an McKeespoft the company re-
fused 10 allow lts men to become members
q the amalgamate1 association, President
Shaener threatening, II the MeKeesport
strikers could not win with their own
strength, he would order strike in every
not yield, he would then call our the union
men in every plant In the United States
steel corporation Such course would
result in the biggest strike the country has
even, seen, involving several hundred Thou
For the first few weeks. the situation
WIZ not show the strength Of the asso-
| ciGtion. Almost all the plants OF the com
pany, union and nonunlon, viii be com
PEELED To shut down during the early part
% July to give the men rest. They have
been working steadily since the first OF the
year, many Of them without weeks ces-
sation. Union ana nonunlon alike. they
are demanding short vacation and predic.
tio'r is made that all the companies will
| be unable to keep any one at work for two
Is Intense ana the men, one vice president
said, are almost IN state Of revolt.
II VIII be after, perhaps, the first OF
august, when the combine makes a serious
attempt 70 start np Ia full, that the real
battle VIII begin X no settlement has bePH
| reached AT thai time, The company can
rot well delay operations longer Than that
on account af the present Hood OF orders.
II fact, the urgent orders now on the
hooks, can scarcely wait through July
! rus the association has almost d month
mere 10 prepare for the roming struggle.
ciriIon officials that by this fine they viii
| control 80 per cert OF the capacity Of the
eombuation's plants.
tiraauQliy The plqns OF President II j,
Shaefer Of the Ainalgamated association
are heing uncovered Since the trouble In
fhr w Devices Wood mills I'm MckeCspurt
A few months ago. tho Amalgamated assn'
citation has hpen actively engaged IN break.
ing M the present arrangement OF the
combine In operating parts Of their plants
With nonunlon men and the others with
union men. AIR ShaeHer says that IL this
Is not checked, fhe life ~ the Amalga-
mated association Is threatened. for the
combine viii always work their union mills
lsst aud the nnion mills Will suffer by uts
crlminatlons
II was believed by the Amalgamated as
saciaton that the promptnees with which
the steel combine came 70 their terms IN
the McKeesport trouble aud allowed the
union 70 exist In that plant, proved q
further ho0n 20 aggressive action on the
part Of the organized wprkmen ar, Z.
! Taking advantage Of the new United