The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-19
STRIKERS LEAVE CITY TO
CAMP OUT.
OTHER SIDE NOT PASSIVE
Manufacturers Say One Mill Will
Start Today with Nom
Union Crew.

P%ittsburg, July 16-The second
strike day closes with the Amalga-
mated association in a satisfied mood
and claiming to have made good
every promise as to results. On the
other hand, the manufacturers will
not say a word concerning the strike
and refuse to be quoted in any way.
Repeated efforts to secure statements
from President Cory of the Ameri-
can Sheet Steel company and General
Manager jerks of the Hoop company
have met with the response that there
was no change and nothing to be
given out.
The Amalgamated people say that
nothing has been said to them Of any
plan for mediation or arbitration and
they will continue to carry out their
programme as originally announced.
The closing down of the Clark mill
and Messen Sheet mill are looked
upon as telling victories and almost
complete the tie up of the three COM
panies in the district.
But n tin mill, that at Monessen,
and one sheet mill at Duncanville, re-
main at work. The fact that the Ma
tional Tube men, non-union, receiv-
ed a substantial advance in wages
yesterday has caused discomfort
among the union men employed by
the National Tube company at their
Second avenue plant, and the Repub-
lie mill on the south side. The men
here think they are entitled to a
similar increase. To consider the
matter, meetings were held tonight
on the south side and it is said a de-
mand will be made tomorrow.
The following telegram was receiv-
ed tonight: "Wellsville: The Wells
vile rolling mill will be run and it
will be run non-union. 1t will start
tomorrow
IF the mill could not be run non-
union, it would never be run at ALL"
This statement was made today by
P. F. Smith of Pittsburg, district man
ager for the American Sheet Steel
company. He was here this morning
and made an address to the strikers.
He told them they had no grievance,
and had been well cared for in the
past and would be in the future.
The announcement that the mill
will be started tomorrow as non-union
has given rise to no small specula-
ton and un%easiness among the cit
liens.
Many of the strikers, expecting pro-
longed idleness, have left the city for
hunting and fishing camps, where
they expect to spend the summer.
No e men have been brought in
and how Manager Smith expects to
start tomorrow is a matter of con-
lecture. Today, as yesterday, only a
few laborers were working.
The above is the first indication
as yet given by the manufacturers
that they were other than passive
participants in the big strike. What
the result may be of the attempt to
operate the W%ellsville plant none Of
the local Amalgamated people will
predict. All they will say is: at
cannot be accomplished"
Wellsville is looked upon by both
sides as an important point and de-
velopments are anxiously awaited by
all.
The position of the Tin Workers
Protective association in the strike
was settled today by the following
telegram to the leader: "Elwood,
Ind, July 16-Our association is
bound by an agreement with the
company to work, providing they live
up to their agreement. If the company
introduce black plate worked by nom
union men our men will be called out.
The Amalgamated people will have
u full support, if necessary"