The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-07-19
ZION WORKERS
NOW GO OUT
Conference at Pittsburg
Was Bare of Results.
SHAFFER ISSUES STRIKE ORDER
Aggregate Of 10000 Men Of
Amalgamated Association rIay
Be Affected By The Order.

q After a three days session in Pitts
burg, Pa, the conference between rep
resentatiyes Of the American Sheet
Steel, American Steel Hoop Company
and American Tin Plate Company, sub
sdary companies Of the United States
Steel Corporation, and the general ex-
ecutiye board Of the Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION OF Iron, Steel and Tin Work
eFs, adjourned finally at o'clock Sat
urday evening without reaching an
agreement. In less than an hour later
President shaffer, OF the Amalgamated
Association, had wired the following
order to all the Amalgamated lodges
in the tin plate, steel and hoop and
sheet steel mills Of the country:
Notify your men that the mill is
on a strike and will not work on Mon
day, July 18TH"
For the present President Shaffer
says that only the three companies
named will be affected but later all
the union men in the Federal Steel
Company, National Steel Company and
the National Tube Company may be
called out, if it shall be found neces-
sary to resort to extreme measures to
win the fight. At the start, it is
claimed $4,000 skilled worzmen, 10000
unskilled men, and directly many thou
sand more will be affected.
Statement by Steel Trust.
After the adjournment of the con-
ference the following statement was
given out by the officials of the COM
panies interested:
"The conferences between the Anal
gamated Association and Sheet, Hoop
and Tin Plate Companies failed to
come to an agreement, because the
Amalgamated Association did not re-
cede from its original position. The
manufacturers did not refuse their
rishts to organize, but have got many
men in their mills not in the Amalga-
mated Association who do not wish to
become association men and claimed
, they must respect these men in their
wishes, as we'll as those who are mem
bers of the association. In order to
effect a compromise, the manufactur.
evezs offered to sign for several mills
which have always in the past been
out of the association. No compromise
was offered by the Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION. The American Tin Plate
Company has only one non-union mill.
The company required the privilege to
make a special scale for this mill and
Ign the same. This was refused and
the company was given to understand
that men in all the tin mills would be
called out, even though the scale has
been signed for all the tin mills. The
privilege requested above would settle
all differences between the tin plate
company and the Amalgamated Asso.
Aiation."
President shaffer Talks.
The Amalgamated people are very
sanguine Of success.
"The strike was not of our own seek.
ing" said President Shaffer at was
forced upon us. We were not contend.
ing for wages but for principle, for
self-pFeservation. The tin and sheet
people will not be able to turn a single
wheel tomorrow. We have our forces
Il proughly organized and there will be
some surprises in store. | have not
heard today from a single lodge in an
swer to my strike order, but an answer
is not necessary. The order will be
promptly obeyet by all our men. But
there will be no trouble. Labor organ
izations have changed The Amalga
mated Association is not the associa
ton it was twenty years ago, not even
Eve years ago. The men are more
eadily controlled; in fact we have
our men under control"
President Shaffer could not give the
total number Of men that would be
idle. but estimated them from the re
ports from the other general officers
of the organization as at least 10000
It was his intention to have the strike
as. general as possible at the earliest
possible moment, so as to force a set
Element Of the dispute quickest.
A week W be required to reach al
the men that are TO be ordered out, anC
It will only be N that 1t would bt
sible to tell how effective the strike
Buld be and how complete its effec
the business OF the country. Al
sO3n as the mills shut down the ship