The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-12
Their Movement Only Partially Successful, as a
Number of Mills Are in Operation,
Though Shorthanded
Perfect Order Prevails Thus FAR Strikers Issue
an Appeal to the Public for Finan-
CiaI Aid

Pittsburg, Aug. 12.-The strikers made
gains to-day at McKeesport and Bellaire
and regard the situation as more favora-
bic to them than yesterday. At the for
mer place they won the National rolling
mill Of the National Tube company. The
men of the Boston Rolling mill joined the
strike, but an impression had been ere
ated that the National would not go out.
The tube works at McKeesport were
started as usual to-day, but it is not clear
how long they can be kept going. Nc
Keesport has been developed into
stronghold of the Amalgamated associa-
tion and the strike leaders assert that
they are completely in control of the
dtuation. At Bellaire, more men of the
National Steel company cast their for
tunes with the strikers and it is believed
that the plant will have to close down.
1t was admitted by steel officials that the
strikers had made material gains there
and that the mill would probably be
closed down temporarily.
The strikers claim that they will COM
pletely tie up the Riverside and other
plants in the Wheeling district. The
Riverside plate mill of the National Tube
company was prepared for work this
morning, but none of the men appeared at
the works when the time for starting the
works came officers Of the Amalga-
mated are at work among the men and
have plans for forming an Amalgamated
lodge tonight.
Plants That Are Running.
The trouble anticipated at Monessen
this morning did not come and the large
plant of the American Tin Plate company
there is in full operation to-day. Both
sides claim control The strike leaders
planned to call the men out this morn
ing, but at the last moment refrained
from doing so. They say that they will
act later, while the officers of the COM
pany say that their position is quite Sc
cure and that the plant viii not be af-
fected during the present difficulty.
The Farm mill at the Lindsay and Nc
Cutcheon plant, which was operated last
week with a nonUnion crew, made
wavering start this morning and is in
pperation although short handed. The
Republic Iron Works is tied up and the
hres started this morning in anticipation
Of resumption are banked. Painters MILL,
closed on the first CALL is still smokeless.
The steel people have planned its re-
opening for several days, but as far as
outward appearances show, have done
nothing.
The men of the Elba or Frankst1yn
pudding and rolling mills have all joined
the strikers and the works are complete
" crippled. All of the Carnegie proper
ties and the mills of the American Sheet
Eteel company at Vandegrift, Apollo,
Leechburg and Salisbury, are in opera
tion to-day and the manufacturers assert
hat there will not he the slightest
trouble at any of them.
Reports from all the strike centers in
aicate that perfect order prevails, but it
Is believed here that clashes are inevita-
ble at the more turbulent places when
attempts are made to put nonuniOn men
On where the strikers have quit.
Appeal for Financial Aid.
Secretary Williams of the Amalga-
mated association said.
We are in a fight until honorable settle
ment can be reached. We are issuing a call
to the general public for financial aid. 1t
will go out to-day.
The call reads as follows:
To the Members of Organized Labor
Brethren: AS you are undoubtedly aware,
the United States Steel corporation is now
waging a war against organized labor by
making the Amalgamated Association the OBJ
5ect on which to begin operations. At our
last convention 1t was unanimously decided
to ask the United States Steel corporation,
when settling their annual scale with the
Amalgamated Association, that they sign or
recognize the scale of the Amalgamated AS
sociation in all their mills. When the mat
ter was broached, the matter was perempto-
rily refused. After the holding of several
conferences the demand of our association
was modified to take in only the mills
Of only three of their constituent companies
namely: The American Sheet Steel company,
the American Tin Plate company and the
American Steel Hoop company, where local
lodges had been formed and where the men
very desirous of being union men and
we're now out on strike for recognition.
In the conferences which were held by the
representatives of the United States Steel
corporation and the Amalgamated Associa-
tion, the representatives of the United States
Steel companies only arguments were that
they did not desire the Amalgamated Associa-
tion to become too powerful and they should
hold the balance OF power. Later confer
ences were held with the heads of the United
States Steel company, who submitted a prop
osition that we only sign for the mills signed
last year, with the exception of the sheet
mills IN Salisbury and Scottdale which were
signed for the year previously. Their propo-
sition was rejected as 1t meant that the
Amalgamated Association would merely have
to remain in a quiescent state, while they
were expanding and adding to their non
union possessions.