The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-07-16


representatives OF the American Sheet
Steel. the American Steel Hoop. and the
American Tin Plate Company. subsid-
iary companies OF the United States
Steel Corporation. and the general ex-
ecutive board of the Amalgamated AS
sociation OF the Iron. Steel and Tin
Workers, adjourned finally at 6 o'clock
this evening without reaching an agree
ment.
In less than an hour later President
Shaffer. of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton, had wired the following order to
all the Amalgamated lodges in the Tin
Plate. Steel Hoop and Sheet Steel mills
of the country:
Notify your men that the mill is ON
a strike and will not work on Monday.
July 18TH
For the present. President Shaffer
says. only the three companies named
will be affected. but. later. all the
union men in the Federal steel Com
pany. National Stee, Company and the
National Tube Company may be called
out IL ii shall be found necessary to
fight. AT the start, IL is claimed $4,000
skilled workmen. 10000 unskilled men,
and indirectly, many thousands more
will be affected.
After the adjournment of the con-
ference the following statement was
given out by the officials of the COM
panies interested:
ssrTha copferanra Tho
gamated Association and Sheet. Hoop
and Tin Plate Companies failed to.
come TO an agreement because TIE
Amalsamated Association did not re-
cede from its oriefnal position. The
| manufacturers did not refuse their
right 10 organize. but r, they have
many men in the mills not I'm the Anal
| gamated Association. who do not wish
to become association men. they claim
| they must respect these men I'm their
wishes, as well as those who are MEM
bers of the association. In order to
effect a compromise. the manufactur-
ers offered TO sign for several mills,
which have always IN the past been
out of the association. No compro-
mise was offered by the Amalgamateti
Association. The American Tin Plate
Company have only one non union mfIl.
Ihey required the privilege to make a.
special scale for this mill and sign the
same. This was refused and the :
pany was given to understand that
| men in all the tin mills would be called
] out. even though the scale has been
cd for a11 h.
i ege requested above would settle all
| differences between the tin plate COM
| pany and the amaIgamated associa-
| tion.''
None Of the officials OF the nanufac-
turing companies would consent to an
| interview as to the probable result of
| the strike. They would not estimate the
number Of men whom they expected to
go out on the order OF President shaf-
fer. and said that the facts I'm the
statement submitted was all that they
had to saw
so soon as the workers left the hotel
and repaired to the headquarters OF
the amalgamated association a state
ment was prepared for the association
"a ZIG NdSC dlfl ldlc tulS evening"
President Shaffer made this public as
follows:
| "On Friday afternoon. the manufac-
turers made their first proposition for
a settlement OF this strike In which
they said: We agree to unionize the
Old Meadow mill in scottsdale and In
Salisbury by leaving II to the opinion
Of the men employed there IL such
opinion is properly obtained This
proposition was generally discussed
and this morning before the conference
adjourned for lunch. we the general
executive board of the amalgamated
association submitted the following:
I'VE hereby repeat our request that
our scale be signed for all mills owned
and controlled by the American Sheet
Steel. the American Steel Hoop and the
American Tin Plate Companies. and
believe that this should be conceded be-
cause. 1t is. In our opinion. reasonable
and just We agree that IL our scales
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