Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-07-01
STRIKE DECLARED
Fifty Thousand Men In the
Amalgamated Will Be
Affected BY Call.
UNION vs.. NON-UNION
President Shaffer of the Amalgamat-
ed Association Talks Of the Rea-
sons That Are Uppermost.
1--WE Will Make 1t Strike to b.
Remembered" Says He In
Conclusion.

Pittsburg. July President T. ].
Shaffer of the AmaIsamated Associa-
ttion of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers,
this morning issued an order calling
out all union employees of the various
mills OF the American Steel Hoop com
pank, known as the hoop trust. 1t Is
estimated that 1900 men will be sub
tect TO the call which, III connection
with the big strike of the American
Sheet Steel company ordered by Pres
ident Shaffer on Saturday, will affect
$4,000 men.
President Shaffer said: "The i'm
preston that only the mills of the
American Sheet Steel company are af-
fected by the decision of Saturday Is
a mistake. The workfDen of all mills
in the American Steel Hoop company
are Interested and have been officially
notified that the scale has not been
signed and that they Will quit work.
To the well-organized mills this notice
will not be necessary. as the men will
have watched the situation carefully,
but what is known as open mills,
where union men have been allowed IL
work side by side with the union
men, is where we have to move. Un-
ion men must walk out of these open
mills in the hoop trust.
THE open mills TO be notified are
one 1T Hollidaysburg, Pa; three al
pittsburg, and one at Alonessen. The
organized mills which will close on our
40 h. tayyar mills
Youngstown, Ohio; Pomeroy. Ohio;
Sharon, Pa; Girard, Pa; Warren, Pa.
GreenviIle, Pa. This l believe will
bring the number of men affected up
to 5O.ovu.
1T is matter of regret that the
issue has been forced, but 1t now looks
as though it will be fight to the
DEATH" continued Mr.. Shaffer. 1.-The
Amaigamated association is not unpre
pared for it. We nave not had gen
eral strike for many years. and in thai
time we have not been idle We have
funds and will use them Right here
\ 4wapt to correct an ilplEes3ton whiel
mas DeSn given out tfift ilo pcnents
will he paid strikers until two months
have elapsed. The Amalgamated as
sociation will pegin at once to take
care of its people" Mr.. Shaffer con
cluded his talk by saying: Il vii
say now What l said TO Mr.. Smith
general manager of the Sheet Stee
company, in the conference. l said
If it is to be strike we will make il
one to be remembered. The officials
now dealing with us have but little
idea of the extent to which this strike
will go once it is on
The men explain their demand fol
the unioniZing of all the mills of the
combine" by stating that last veal
the combine had taken advantage OF
its position in having the nonunioI
mills by operating them first and leav
ing organized mills idle until pressure
of business forced them to start then
up. 1t was resolved by the men a
that time that such a chance should
never occur again for the combine"
that it would be either all union mills
or all nonunion mills. To gain thi.
point no change in the scale was ask
ed, but demand for unioniZing al
the mills was made definite.
The men claim that by the work o1
missionaries of late they have sue
ceetied in organizing TO such an extern
that it is doubtful if the combine will
be able to turn out the full tonnag,
officials of the American Sheet Stee
company refuse to- discuss the trou
bles with their wOrkmen.