The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-08-12
STRIKE ORDER D]S0BEYED.
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ing $50 workers in the steel departments
have asked to call meeting at which
| they may organize a lodge. This re-
quest has been granted and the meet
ing will be held Monday evening at
o'clock at Mozart hall in South Wheel
! ing. AT this afternoons meeting of the
Riverside men at Mozart hall we took
in 100 new members from the tube and
plate departments.
I'VE have succeeded in tying up the
Bellaire steel plant of the National Steel
company We organized $50 of the skill
ed men Saturday.
1.-THE Labelle, of the American Tin
Plate company, is closed tight, as are
the Aetna Standard mills, of the Amer
lean Sheet Steel and American Steel
companies. The Mingo Junction plants
of the National Steel and American
Steel Hoop companies are closed.
I'VE are arranging for great strik
ers' rally to be held at the West Vir-
ginia state fair grounds In Wheeling
next Wednesday or Thursday. Presi-
dent Shaffer will be the principal orator
and Assistant Secretary Michael F.
Tfghe will be second, If possible. At
the meeting of the Ohio Valley Trades
and Labor assembly this afternoon res
olutions were passed denouncing An
drew Carnegie"
Secretary Williams said tonight that
he placed the blame for the strike upon
the refusal of the United States Steel
Corporation to arbitrate, and declared
that before the strike was over thou
sands of men in other trades would be
drawn into it to save the Analgamated
Association and the principles for which
it stands. He said:
eve agreed to arbitration because the
business men and citizens of Pittsburg
urged us to do so. We were willing to
risk the interests of our organization in
the hands of others of this dispute If
there was any prospect for peace. 1t Is
practically the same situation as previ-
ously. The arbitration being fiat and
Internationally those who have been
urging us to submit to it will have
chance to prove their interest and
friendship for us in our inevitable bat
tie with the greatest trust that was ever
organized.
"Arbitration is what the manufacture
ers have been asking from us for years.
1t opens a new phase entirely in the
situation IF the manufacturers think
they can stamp out our organization
they are certainly laboring under the
erea test mistake of their lives. If they
should defeat lis now 1t will only cause
a new and far stronger labor organlza-
ton to rise up in our place within few
years that would have graver meaning
to it. If the United States Steel trust
is wise it will deal with US 1t is to
their interest to do so. Men in this
country will never submit to being OBJ
liberated, you can depend upon that.
Further than this I can say that the
men who come out on strike at this
time will not be the last to come out
before this fight is over There will be
thousands that will be drawn into the
struggle, as the organizations of the
country are vitality interested in the
fight we are making.
"Our position has been fair at all
times. There has been suggestion in no
way thet we have not fully considered,
While the trust has declined to even
discuss the question, we have been ex-
actly opposite and have done all In our
power to emeliorate matters.
II tell you there is condition exist
ing to-day that places this country on
the eve Of one of the greatest evolu-
lions that ever could occur in the his
tory of the world"
Mr. Williams said that the strike had
been studiousTy averted by the officers
of the Amalganated Association. 1t
had been as studiously encouraged by
H.. io1
The battle was now in the hands of the
men and it was UP to them as to what