The age-herald., 1901-07-15
THOUSANDS
 OF WORKMEN
 |DLE TODAY The Order of President Shafer Will be Obeyed by All
 the Members
MINERS MAY ALSO STRIKE
President of Amalgamated Association Gives Out Statement Bearing on the conference With the Op-
 orators and It's Failure.

Pittsburg, July 14-From present indi- cations it looks probable that President Shaffer's strike order issued last night to the Amalgamated Association members In the employ of the American Steel Hoop Company, the American Sheet Company and the American Tin Plate Company, will be obeyed and the great struggle be- tween the Amalgamated Association and the steel company will be on in earnest tomorrow.
 In the union mills of the three com panies, among which strike has been declared, 1t Is predicted that not wheel will turn tomorrow An effort will also be made to close down some of the non union mills and ito cripple the rest.
 ''The strike was not of our own seek ing" said President Shaffer today, 'it was forced upon us. We were not con tending for wages but for principle-for self preservation. The tin and sheet peo- pie will not be able to turn a wheel tomor- row. We have our forces thoroughly or ganized and there will be some surprises in store. But there will be no trouble. Labor organizations have changed. The men are more readily controlled; in fact, we have our men under control
 Developments today indicate that Pitts burg is going to be a pretty lively strike center. The most interest attaches to the Painters mill on the Southside and to that of Lindsay & McCuecheon in AL legheny. Both mills are controlled by the American Steel Hoop Company and have hitherto been aggressively non-union, and much depends upon the action of the men in these plants The employees of both mills today decided to strike tomorrow.
 l. W. Jenks, manager of the American Steel Hoop Company. said tonight that both mills would resume tomorrow morn- ing as usual.
 The fight at the Painter mill Is to- be made the fight of the strike. Both sides will make stubborn resistance. If the Amalgamated people can close this mill they will have won the greatest part of the strike The mill Is not only an im- portant one, but the steel hoop company has for years succeeded in thwarting the efforts made to unionize it.
 Sign for All or Nothing.
 President Shaffer late tonight said he received on Saturday night from the American Steel Hoop Company officials a request for the Amalgamated wage scale committee to meet them at the Hotel r las. company made was that they would sign the scale for the pudding departmen. of the Lindsay and McCutcheon mill. MT. Shaffer said the investigation was re- fused because the association could sigr only for the entire plant. including pud- alike.
 President Shaffer also announced that tomorrow evening to reach every member of the association employed by any mill operating constituent part of the United Steel Corporation. The letter will State fully the present conditions facing the workmen, the reasons for the failure of the conference of last week and order every man to go on strike ito uphold the principle involved. In addition to the 7i,9c, men already affected by the original strike order, the skilled men in the Federal Steel Companys employ in the National Steel Co., and the National Tube Com pany in volving in the aggregate more than 150, ,000 men in the strike.
 Five thousand workmen in Wheeling and vicinity will be affected by the strike.
 In describing the final conclusion of the conference in the hotel Lincoln Saturday President Shaffer said that after the final proposition of the manufacturers had been taken up and discussed there was a painful silence for about five minutes. The workers waited for some further re- mark on the part of the manufacturers and the latter appeared to be waiting for a remark from the workers. Finally one of the manufacturers broke the silence by saying:
 Nothing to Offer.
 Well, I guess there is no further use in waiting for other developments The men have nothing to offer and the man. ufacturers have gone as far as they can in justice to themselves"
 TTeSlueIl iSpico eudt ut dC- corded with this view. If the manufac- turers had no other proposition to offer, it was useless to remain. Each side arose to leave. Warner Arms, president of the American Steel Hoop Company. said then:
 q am sorry that our friendly relations in the past should have to be broken in this way. We have done all in our power to meet this trouble in an amicable man. ner. With this breach once opened 1t must be understood that the onus Is on the side of the Amalgamated Association and the public will understand this"
 While keenly regretting the break in the peace of the relations between the organization and manufacturers Presi- dent Shaffer said that there seemed no other course to pursue. His offer to the hoop company to reconstruct the scale for cotton tie and hoop mills was one