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/ ploy sixteen thousand men.
Non-union mills: Apollo works. Vandergrift.
| twenty-seven mills; kirkpatrick, Leechourg, six
mills; Old Meadow, ScOttdae. six mills: Salisbury
works, three mills
The following plants of the Illinois Steel Com
/ pany are organized: South Chicago works. 5000
men: Bridgeport works. Chicago, 1900 men; Joliet
| works. 200 men; Bay View works. Milwaukee.
| 1000 men
| The plants Of the two Lorain companies at Lo-
| rain. Ohio and Johnstown, Penn. are credited with
| being non-union, but it is understood that the
| AmaIgamated Association has lodges of varying
sizes in the plants. and they may be drawn into
| the struggle
National Steel Company-Union mills: Shenango
Valley Steel Company, Newcastle, Penn: Beaire
Steel works. Bellare, Ohio; Etna- Standard Steel
| works. Mingo Junction, Ohio These employ about
5000 men,
Non-union plants: Ohio Steel works. Youngstown.
Ohio: King, Gilbert and Warner works, Columbus,
Ohio; Bull Steel works, Sharon. Penn. These en-
plOy 5000 men.
National Tube Company: Union milIs-Repubc
Iron Works. South Side. Pittsburg; Pennsylvania
Tube Works, Pttsburg Riverside Iron Works,
Wheeling; Continental Iron Works and Elba Iron
Works. Second-ave Pittsburg; National Rolling
Mill, McKeesport, and Boston Iron and Steel
Works. McKeesport. These employ an ag-
gregate of 10000 Non-unOn plants-National
Tube Works and Monongahela Steel Works Nc
Keesport; National Gavanizing Works, Versailles.
near McKeesport; Syracuse Tube Works Syracuse,
N Y; Ohio Tube Works Warren. Ohio; Allison
plant Philadelphia; Chester Pipe and Tube Com
pany Chester. Penn; Pittsburg Pipe Works, Sec
ond- Lave Pttsburg; American Iron and Steel
Works at Middletown Penn, and Youngstown.
Ohio. and Oil City Tube Works, Oil City, Penn
These employ 5000 men.
The National Tube Company employs at its Nc
Keesport works about eight thousand men, but not
all Of these are organized. Those who are occupy
skilled places and if they suspend work will at
be stopped in all the departments at least
for time. The rolling mill is the foundation of
the process of pipe making. II it suspends all de-
partments will be compelled quit sooner or later
II the company fails to start ii again soon The
same condition exists among other mills in the
various companies that placed in the non-union
list although in some the union is so weak as to
be entirely Intellectual unless strengthened.
There is scarcely one OF the 10000 employees of
the United States Steel Corporation but who may
feel the strike. 1t may be that the American
Federation of Labor will call out It's thousands
who handle products of the United States Steel
Corporation: the structural steel workers may re-
fuse to handle steel from the mills of the trust:
the miners may refuse to dig coal for trust mills;
the railway organizations may be drawn into the
contest. although that is not probable.
Unless it is speedily broken by the United States
Steel Corporation the strike and its results will be
felt over the whole of the United States. Mills
that manufacture finished product and obtain their
material from the trust In many cases will be
closed: blast furnaces that manufacture iron Will
the strike he carried for any length OF time,
and coke ovens will close when the furnaces stop.
The big works of the Carnegie Steel Company are
almost free Of unionsm, but they are the citadel
that will be attacked at once by the Amalgamated
Association If the union men can close the other
mills and prevail upon union men 70 stop handling
structure! steel and plates. the plants at Home
stead and Duquesne be seriously crippled. as
their product would not he taken. The Edgar
Thomson Steel Works At Braddork VIII not likely
be affected. They have contracts placed by rail-
roads direct will operate for months. IL
the Chicago Rail MIN be closed the Edgar Thomson
could roll some Of its contracts. The Homestead
armor plate department would scarcely be affected,
although If the workers there could be induced to
come out it would place the company In bad stu
alton regarding It's armor plate contracts with the
Federal Government. At Duquesne sheet and tin
plate bars are made largely. Much of the stun
made there in the last week has been stocked
Labor leaders think that the upper and lower
Urion mills might be induced to come out In case
general strike in all the corporation companies is
declared.
The following are the companies In which the
Amalgamated Association has no members. he
cause Of the Of the work done; American
Bridge Company Shelby Steel Company, IL c
Frck and other coke concerns, the railroad prop
critics, American Steel and Wire Company. coal
pror critics and other lines. general strike would
cause a suspension OF the plant of the American
Steel and Wire Company. II the steel mills manu-
featuring steel bilets could be closed. as wire Is
rolled from these hillets.
4 telegram from Sharon, Penn, tonight says
the announcement Of the failure to settle the
strike in New-York was received with much regret
there II is generally believed that general order
win be issued by President Shaffer calling out
every union iron. steel and tin worker on sym
pathetic strike until the trust realizes the strength
of its opponents. Should such an order go out all
the independent blast furnace workers In the Ma
honing and Shenango valleys ready to comply
with the request. The furnace workers announced
that they would take concerted action until the
outcome of the New-York conference was made
known The furnace strike would be attributable
10 the selling of forty thousand tons OF pig iron
the United States Steel Corporation by the Ma
honing and Shenango Valley Bessemer Association
to be used at non-union mills. About fifteen hun
dred will be affected II the strike is ordered
A meeting of the furnace workers will be held
morrow to decide upon what course they Will
pursue.
RlOTINfi AT WELLSVILI.E.
Wesvile, Ohio. reports this the most exciting
day since the strike began. The riot at early
hour this morning around the boarding house kept
union men are quartered. followed shortly at
ter noon by the proprietor of the house swearing
out warrants, charging twenty-seven of the mem
bers of the Amalgamated Association with riot.
Organizer Evans's name is included In the affidavit
OF the men named in the affidavit and the list
handed bv Phillips to the Mayor, Edward Price