The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-21
PRESSURE ON WORKMEN
Wellsville Merchants Would Force
Them Back to the Shops
A LONG STRIKE IS IxprcTtD BY SOME
Tin Plate Ordered From Wales. Orders fo
Sheet Steel 10 be Given no Attention
Under Three Months. Morgan
and Arms lnsa,ve wad
and Arms interviewed.
(By the Associated Press.)


Pittsburg, Pa, July 19.--Ths strike sit
uation tonight cannot be termed material
ly changed. Many rumors are in the air
to the effect that settlement Of The
trouble is imminent, lut none of these
reports have been verified.
At the offices of the Carnegie Company
and at the headquarters o. the manafac-
turers the usual silence is preserved.
President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated
Association, expresses his entire satisfac-
tion with the progress of the battle and
says the workers have gained steadily
while the manufacturers have loSs cen
tinually since last Monday. He says up
to the present time the Amagamated
forces contemplate no change in their
program, being perfectly satisfied with the
showing they have made. President Shaf-
fer gays the advance in wages offered the
Tube Mill workers at McKeesport today,
while seemingly large, will not bring the
pay up to the union scale.
Commencing in a day or two, weekly
bulletins will be issued from Amalgama-
ted headquarters to give workers and
strikers official news of the exact condi-
ton of strike affairs.
From the storm centre az WellsVille,
Chic, tonight, comes word that striking
mill men in that vicinity spent an uneasy
restless day The American Sheet Steel
Company have many of the towns largest
merchants back of them in their hight
against the workmen, the merchants fear
ing that if the present trouble goes along
tI, all II will hr
brought across the line into Pennsylvania.
Grocers, clothing men and others are try
ing to show strikers that they are wrong
and foolish in Keeping up fight.
Pressure brought to bear along this
line the strikers say, is energy wasted.
Many of the workmen have money in
vested in property here The proposition
has been put to the strikers in a semi
official way that if the strike is settled
within a reasonable time, the MILL at
Dennison, Ohio. will be brought here to
increase the resources of the place and il
the contest is long drawn out the local
plant will be removed bodily to Wander
grift, Pa. 1t remains to be seen what eff
feet this line of argument will have on
the strikers. Mayor Dennis openly con-
dennis the merchants for their course in
the matter and says they are going be-
You'd their province in trying to influence
the workmen
The Welsville plant was running today
about fourth full. Eighteen skilled
woikmen together with many laborers
and boys are employed Superintendent
Brcokman says the force consists of forty
persons. The report from Pittsburg that
twelve non-union skilled men had been
secured to come here proves untrue up to
the present time. none having made their
appearance today. The company officials
say the plant will be running full in a
short time. The reports tonight from
Apollo and Vandergrift, where the Anal
gamated Association is making strenuous
efforts to gain recruits, are that the sit
uation is practically unchanged but much
uneasiness is felt. Apparently the Sit
uation at Vandergrift is favorable to tina
company.
No official report has reached here con-
corning the situation at Duncansville.
There was nothing of interest in affairs
at Pittsburg the strikers keeping away
from the mills, which are closed.
A dispatch from Monessen, Pa, says
at has Just leaked out that a secret
meeting was held Thursday night by the
men of the National Tin Plant, and a
large representation OF workers decided
not to participate in the strike as they
have obtained an advance voluntarily, and
the management agreed to protect them. :
President Shaffer has not yet made a
move toward extending the strike to
other plants of the great steel combine.
Extra measures will not likely be taken
unless it is found to be absolutely neces-
sary in order to win. The contributions
of the men at work are needed to carry
on the strike.
A long strike is now expected in some
quarters A consumer OF sheets, who had
placed some large orders with the Ameri-
can Sheet Steel Company for delivery
during the next three months, writing to
steel brokers and iobbers here said in one
of his letters that the combine informed
him that his orders could not receive at
tention for at least three months.
1t is reported that consumers who have
pressing need for tin plate have ordered
Mate from Wales. The American Tin
Plate Company's supply will be exhausted
within ten days and as all plants but that
at Monessen will be tied up soon consum-
ers feel compelled to import the costlier
Welsh plate.