The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1901-07-02
EAT STEEL TRUST AND THE
ANAL LcAMATEp AssoCIA.
rloN LOCK HORNS.
|ILLeD MEN QUIT WORK
nv five Thousand Employees at Va
I;ous plants Of the Combine A.
kady Out and II May Develop Into
bne of the Greatest Strikes the
Eountry Has Ever Seen-Contes st
S Mainly for Right to Organize.


Mainly for Right to Organize.
bjttsburg. July As a result OF the
asal of the representative OF the
erican Sheo, Steel company and
American Steel Hoop company.
sidiary companies OF the great
ited states Steel corporation, 10
h the workers new scale at Satur
rs conference. circulars were sent
from the national headquarters OF
Amalgamated Association Of Iron.
eel and Tin Workers declaring q
ike At all the plants OF the two COM
hes. The great strike is now on,
/, viii be several days before its
3rnal eytent Is known. At the out
h1wever. over $4,000 men will be
koved as follows:
Union sheet mills: Aetna-Standard
eel mills. Bridgeport. o.. $500; Mid
mi steel mills. Muncie. Ind. 1000:
II Meadow rolling mill. Scottdale.
%. Salthurg rolling mill. Saltburg.
p. ". Dewee Wood mills. McKees-
lr'. 900: Cambridge iron and steel
ills. Cambridge. o.. 400: Canton roll
< mills. Canton. O.. $50: CHARTERS
oa and steel mills. Carnegie. 300:
snnison rolling mills. Dennison. O..
,N, Dresden iron and steel mills.
eesdrn. O.. 800: Falcon iron and nail
ills. Niles. o.. i5o: New Philadelphia
ills New Philadelphia. O.. zoo:
iqua rolling mills. Piqua. O.. coo;
,eyes iron mills. Canal Dover. O..
e. Struthers iron mills. Struthers.
:. ioo, Corning steel mills. Ham
ond. Ind. 800: Iaufiman steel mills.
lulton. 200: Hyde Park iron AMI
eel mills, Hyde Park. $50; total.
90. 80 -
Non'union sheet mills: Apollo iron
I'd steel mills. Vandergrift. $500;
fitzpatrick mills. Leechburg. $50;
'ellsville plate and sheet iron mills.
'ellsville. O.. 400; Scottdale iron and
81 mills. Scottdale. $50: total. 5.loo.
I'm rican Steel Hoop company.
I'm Independent plants, q in num-
Il 400. FL ,;-..ert-t
l4.4l number OF men involved In
fihe $3.50.
The fight is not for wages. but for
.sanlzation. Either the Amalgamat.
association must bow TO the will
the greater combine. or else the
"eater combine will have 10 give up
$ nonunion mills.
May Involve 100000 Men.
What the strike just inaugurated
ny eventually lead 10 is problemati-
H. Three months ago when a strike
CURED in the Wood plant Of the
~ rlcan Sheet Steel company at Nc
IS port. because the company refus-
% allow it3 men to become mem
- ot the Amalgamated association.
resident Shaffer threatened II The
heesport strikers could not win
~ their own strength he would or
y q strike in every plant OF the com.
any. II the latter would not yield he
oald then call out the union men in
very plant OF the United States
'eel corporation. Such a course
QUA result in the biggest strike the
ouiilry has ever seen. involving sew
'i hundred thousand men. For the
ISL lew weeks the situation will not
now the strength of the association.
''Alost all the plants OF the company,
,iioh and non-union. will be compeil-
: 10 shut down during the early part
'hiv to give the men a rest They
'Ne been working steadily since the
- OF the year. many OF them with
~ weeks cessation. Union and
oh-lnion alike, they are demanding
snort vacation. and the prediction Is
,aae that the companies will be una
'e 10 keep any one at work for two
three weeks. The heat Is intense
M the men. one vice president said.
'e almost In q state of revolt.
II Will be after. perhaps. the frst OF
usust, when the combine makes se-
Gus attempt to start up in full. that
'e real battle will begin II no settle