The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-16
PROGRESS OF STEEL STRIKE
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 day. It has been non union since it
 was built two years ago and the com
 pany says the men there will remain
 loyal. The Amalgamated people would
 not discuss the situation in that mill
 at present.
 1 While all the mills of the United
 States Steel Corporation are included in
 the general conflict, the three compa-
 nies are the first attacked. What the
 next move would be the workers would | not say. It is announced that the cir cular letter which was expected would | be sent out to-day calling on the men in the mills of the Federal Steel com pany, the National Steel company and the National Tube company to come
 out would not be issued at present
 The most interesting report to the Amalgamated men to-day was the dis patch from New York which said that
 a conference of the manufacturers was to be held in New York tomorrow at
 which Warner Arms, vice president of
 the American Tin Plate company, was
 to present a detailed account of the ex-
 periences of the committee that met the
 Amalgamated Association in this city
 last week. It was stated that the ques-
 tion of again extending the olive
 branch to the strikers or of taking up
 the fight and crushing the association
 would be determined Generally speak
 ing the workers from President Shaf- fer down seem to be looking for some sort of a settlement
 erarara1 offioarc of ha Ap1ariroro Steel Hoop company are in this city, but it was stated there day that President Corey, who is also executive head of the National Steel company, had nothing to say concerning the plans of the companies in meeting the diffi culties of strikes, nor as to what con- dition the mills were in where non- union men had joined the forces of the strikers. The policy of the manufac- turerrs, it was said, was to remain quiet for the time and await develop ments. The officials of the American Tin Plate company are all in New York and the company's side of the trouble was not obtainable here.
 At the district offices of the American Sheet Steel company a meeting of man. agers was held to-day. It was a close ly guarded meeting and information was hard to secure. It was said, how ever, that the reports from the man. agers referred to the condition of af- fairs in the non-union plants of the It was claimed that the men in the Old Meadow mill in Scottdale would not go out on strike The | Scottdale Iron and Steel mill is also | and no signs of strike are | visible there. The alleged attempt on the part of the association to attack the force in the big Vandergrif mill in Pa, was not regarded se- riously though the company Is watch ing closely all such movements.
 When President Shaffer was informed of the granting of the advance to the McKeesport tube workers, he said: T such action on the part of he manufacturers and have warned )ur men to guard against being blinded oy such dust-throwing methods. The tube men in McKeesport are morgan zed and this advance, coming with the beginning of the strike of the employees If three companies with which we are tt issue, is an indication that the steel orporation appreciates the strength of he Amalgamated Association and is rying to thwart its growth and aims y such means as have been adopted Il McKeesport. I expect that similar dvances will be given to the men in ther works of the United States Steel tion that have not been affected y the strike order, in the hope that to | hould be decide to extend the strike to II tho D1optc of t1a oorporotiop