The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-14
ORDER ISSUED TO STEEL WORK
ERS ny PRESIDENT SHAFFER,
OF THE AMALGAMATED
sETy oDD THOUSAND MEN
Are Employed by the Three Com
panies of the steel Trust
Whose Employees Are
Called Out
NEGOTIATIONS OF NO AVAIL

daNS session, the conference between
rep esentatives of the American Sheet
steel, American Steel Hoop company ana
e American Tin Plate company, sub
ia1y companies of the United States
eel corpo. alton and the general exec
i've board of the Amalgamated Asso-
} tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers.
ourned finally at o'clock this evening
4 thout having reached an agreement. In
than half an hour later President
:: after, of the Amalgamated association,
4 wired the following order to Ill
1nalgamated lodges in the tin plate,
IT el hoop and sheet steel nils of the
country:
NCtfy your msn that the mill is on q
st Ike and for the present only the three
companies named will be affected, but
later all the men in the employ Of the
Federal Steel company National Steel
Company and National Tube company
may be called out if it is decided to re.
sort to extreme measures to win At
the start it is estimated $1,000 skilled
workmen, $1,000 unskilled and indirectly
many thousands more will be affected"
POSITION OF COMPANIES.
After the adjournment of the confer
ence the following statement was given
out by the officials of the three companies
interested:
The conference between the Amalga-
and Tin Plate companies failed to come
TO an agreement because the Amalga-
: mated association did not recede from
Its original position, which was, that the
three companies interested should sign
for all their mills, without regard as to
whether these mills ad in the past be-
Ionged to 1.-The Amalgamated association
or not. The manufacturers did not re-
fuse their rights to organize, but having
men in the mills not In the Amalgamated
association, who did not want to become
association men, claimed they must re-
sp6ct these men in their wishes as well
as those who are members of the aSsocI-
1 at on.
In order to effect a compromise the
manufacturers offered to sign for several
mills which have always in the past been
out Of the association. No compromise
was offered by the Amalgamated aSsocia-
tion. The American Tin Plate company
nave only one non-union mil. They re-
quested the privi ege to make a special
scale for this mill and sign same. This
= was refused and the company was given
to understand that the men in all the tin
mills would be called out, even though
the scale had been signed for all the
above would settle all differences be-
tween the Tin Plate company and the
Amalgamated association
It was after o'clock tonight when the
members of the executive committee of
the Amalgamated associated filed out
from the conference men. The members
looked unconcerned, and when questioned
as to the result of the days work, de-
clined to say anything. Each referred in
quirers TO President Shaffer who, they
said, was still in the conference room A
wait for nearly an hour developed the
fact that President Shaffer had eluded
the newspaper men and had departed
from the hotel by private exit. Warn
er Arms, vice president of the American
Tin Plate company, and Voyl Preston, on
behalf of the American Steep Hoop COM
pany, shortly afte. wards announced that
they had but one statement to make re-
garding the conference. This was en-
bodied in the above communication.
None of the officials of the manufac-
turing companies would consent to an IN
terview as to the probable result of the
strike They would not estimate the
number OF men who would go out on the
order of President Shaffer and said the
facts in the statement submitted was all
they would say. AS soon as the workers
left the hotel and repaired to the head
quarters of the Amalgamated association,
statement was prepared for the asso-
citation side of the case and late this
evening President Shaffer made this pub
lie as follows:
POSITION OF STRIKERS
'On Friday afternoon the manufacture
ers made their first proposition for a set
tlement of this strike, in which they
say; We agree to unionize the Old Mead
leaving it to the opinion of the men EN-
Obtained
This proposition was generally discuss
ed and this morning before the confer
encs adjourned for lunch the geE1al ex-
ecutive board of the Amalgamated asso-
citation submitted the following:
we hereby repeat our request that our
scale be signed for all the mills owned
and controlled by the American Sheet
Steel, the American Steel Hoop and the
American Tin Plate companies and be-
heve that this should be conceded be-
cause 1t Is, in our opinion, reasonable and
just. We agree that If our scales are
signed as stated above, to classify the
Monnesen plant of the American Tin
scale in accordance Herewith. And also
that should there be a reconstruction of
the scale of the mills working hoop and
cotton ties exclusively, and we also agree
that If our work of organizing mills out
side OF the possessions of the above COM
panies should cause the shutting down Of
plants or the calling out of the men,
there shall be no interference with the
operation of the mills belonging to, or
operated by the Amalgamated Sheet Steel
company, the American Steel Hoop com
pany or the American Tin Plate company
during the scale year. This agreement is
20 abrogate all contc acts signed by the
men Of these companies in which thew
agree to join, or be connected with the
Amalgamated association or any otlAa~ Ia
Dor organization"
After lunch we were met with the fol-
lowing counter proposition from the man
ulaclufefS. we agree to sign the Scale
for the following sheet mills: The old
Meadow rolling mill, Scottdale; the Salts
burg mills, the Wood mills in McKees-
port and the Wellesville mills OF course
this proposition was rejected, as Il was
considered no proposition at all mas
much as the Wellsville plant is organized
TO man and so is the Wood mill in Nc
Keesport. The conference adjourned
after this with regret expressed on both
sides of the failure to reach an agree
ment."
MANY PLANTS AFFECTED.
The plants affected by the strike are:
American Sheel Steel Company
Aetna Standard Iron and Steel com
pany Cambridge, Ohio; Canton Rolling
Mill. company, Canton Ohio; CHARTERS
Iron and Steel company, Carnegie Pa;
Coshocton Rolling Mill company, Coshoc.
ton. Ohio; Dennison Rolling Mill com
pany Dennison, Ohio; Dresden Iron and
Sheet Steel company, Dresden, Ohio;
Hyde Park Iron and Steel company,
Hyde Park, Pa; Kirkpatrick & Co.
Ieechburg Pa; Midland Steel company,
Muncis Ind; New Philadelphia Iron and
Steel company, New Philadelphia Ohio:
Pittsburg Sheet Manufacturing company
Shousetown, Pa; Piqua Rolling Mill com
pany Cincinnati Corrugating company
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