The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-07-26
STRIKE PROSPECTS
Men Maintaining a Bold Trout in
the Great Struggle
ALL QUIET ALONG THE LINE
Last Night President Shaffer Elk
pressed Himself as Being More
Than Satisfied With the Weeks Re-
suits as a Whole.

Pittsburg, Pa, July 22.-The impor-
tant event in the strike history of the
day is the organization of the tube
mill workers at McKeesport. The
word from there is that after long and
arduous work, Assistant Secretary
Tighe of the Amalgamated associa-
ton succeeded in organizing 125 men
of the National Tube Works Co. At
the meeting 20 skilled men from each
of the departments were initiated into
the mysteries of the Amalgamated as
ISOLATION. and Mr.. Tighe claims that
within As hours enough more Of the
workmen will besecured to keep the
entire plant closed down, affecting g.
900 men.
From Wellsville nothing has been
received here except word that the
situation is unchanged, and the strik-
ers say everything is satisfactory to
them. 1t is believed, however, that an
attempt will be made today to put men
to work from other points, ten men
from Vandergrift, who are said to be
at East Liverpool ready to go in early
in the day, being the men relied on for
the purpose. While the strikers say
they will not commit any overt act,
there is an uneasy feeling manifest
throughout the entire valley and no
one is willing to anticipate the result
of the proposed attempt to put these
men at work.
When seen last night, President
Shaffer expressed himself as being
more than satisfied with the weeks
results. He said:
Things are very much better than
| thought they would be. More mills
are shut down than We anticipated or
could expect. There is more deter
mination on the part of the men than
was anticipated. There has been more
inclination to aid us morally and finan-
cially on the part of the other labor
organizations and vastly more support
from the general public than we were
looking for.
Late Saturday night | received a
telegram from one of our men at Dun
cansville, saying: 'Duncansville is
out At any time within the year we
could have formed a compact organi-
cation of the mill there. They have
sent us dozens of letters and a number
of kilograms declaring their anxiety to
join our cause.
I'VE have lost no ground in the
mills thrown idle in Pittsburg. Our
organizers at Wellsville report that af-
ter the advent of a solitary worker
there from Vandergrift to go into the
mill on Saturday representatives of
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vile and East Liverpool to find other
men on a similar mission and found
not one. can still repeat what ! have
said before in regard to the non-union
men taking our places. If the United
States Steel Corporation officials can
get non-union men | will help Lead the
men into the mills.
Mr.. Shaffer would say nothing of the
plans of his association during the
coming week further than to reiterate
! his former statements that his pro
! gram was perfected and would be car
ried out TO the letter. His people had
! been preparing for this conflict, which
! they foresaw for three years, and are
prepared to carry on the fight for an
almost indefinite period.
The 22-inch mill at the Boston Iron
! & Steel plant of the National Tube Co
at McKeesport will resume operations
today after a shutdown lasting three
weeks. The plant was closed for re-
pairs.
New York, July 22.-The General
federated union, at it's meeting Sun
day, resolved to go on record as in
dorsing the strike of the Amalgamated
association of sheet metal workers and
adopted resolutions pledging the finan
cial support of the union TO the strik
ers and calling on workers to combine
and "by the use of the ballot over
throw the system that makes combina
tions of capital like the steel corpora
ton possible"