The age-herald., 1901-07-21
Iron Workers at One Meeting Express Loyalty to Their
 Employers
THEY CONDEMN UN|ONISM
So Far the contending Forces Appear To Have Been. Watching Each
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 ment Causes Comment.

Pittsburg, Pa, July 20.-The first week of the steel strike closed today in this district with two big meetings, one en- dorslng non-unionism and the other con- demning 1t. The first was held at Van- dergrift this afternoon. Here the senti- ment of the workers of the vandergrift, Leechburg. Apollo and Saltburg plants of the American Sheet Steel company was expressed in speeches and resolu- tions More than 1,S0O men attended the gathering. Speeches were made by prom inrnt mill workers endorsing non-union- isin and declaring loyalty to the com pany. When the speech-making had end ed the following resolutions wero adopt ed:
 'whereas There Is at present trouble existing between the Amalgamated Asso- ciation of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers and the American Sheet Steel company, which has arisen by reason of the said association commanding that all non- union mills be organized into a union which demand we do not endorse; there- fore, be 1t
 Resolved, by the iron workers of van- dergrift, Apollo. Leechburg and salts- burg, assembled this 20th day of July, ioaf at vandergrift. Pa, That we hereby xpress our loyalty to thesmsnagers of the American Sheet Steel Company { ''During the years we have worked fdd said company we have received the fairesl treatment at their hands. our wages have been entirely satisfactory and we ask that we be permitted to work non-union, as wo have been doing since 1893.
 We feel that no labor union can make our condition any better or more honora- ble than 1t is at present. since we are subject to one mans dictation.
 We also hereby heartily endorse the action of the business men of vandergrift, Leechburg Saltsburg and Apollo in their recent endorsement of the policy of the American Sheet Steel Company and as- sure them that our interests are mutual; and that we, as workmen, will not be mis- led, nor do anything that will in any Way impair the good feeling and Pleasant ra lations that have existed between us and the management of the American Sheet Steel Company
 The meeting at McKeesport was exact- ly opposite to the Vandergrift gathering in object and action.
 The manufa cturers claim to be well satisfied with the developments of the week.
 Watching Each Other.
 So far the contending forces appear to have been watching each other. but the statement from J. P. Morgan has changed the complexion of the situation. Every body is talking about this now. and at Amalgamated headquarters all Is hustle and activity.
 It is now realized that the combines win not incline in any further temporizing and long struggle may be looked for.
 At Wellsville the company is strainIna every point to get the plant into opera tion, and the latest dispatches from there state that they claim they will have q full force at all furnaces by morning. Ik is said that they have the men imported from Pittsburg and win bring them to the works by that time.
 Everything seems to depend on the next development of the company's ef- forts at resumption on Monday. A large number of railroad tickets from here to Welisvilie have been purchased within the last few days, which are supposed to be for the new force,