The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-16
SHUT DOWN TIGHT
All Plants Closed by Strikers
Yesterday at Pittsburg
Remain in Idleness and Quietude
Today.
SPECULATION ACTIVE
Regarding a Probable Early Set
tIement'of the Trouble.
Some Place the Limit as Short
as As Hours.
$4,000 MEN ARE OUT.
President Schwab Sees j. P.
Morgan About It.
Some Place the Limit as ShorI
as As Hours.
$4,000 MEN ARE OUT.
President Schwab Sees j. p.
Morgan AbOut It.
Miners and Stationary Firemen
Strike at Wilkesbarre.

Pittsburg, Pa. July 16.-An the
plants closed yesterday We're shut
down tight today, and matters about
the Painter mill, Lindsay & McCutch-
con, Clarks Solar Iron works. the
] Monongahela and Star tin plate plants
We're quiet. It was stated that Paint
/ er's mill was in partial operation, but
j the only men at work were a few Hun
i garians who were cleaning up about
/ the yards Replying to the runor that
I the management had brought a strike
breaker from Alabama, Assistant Gen
eral Manager Harper said:
We can break our own strikes"
| superintendent Albrecht, encount-
cred a few moments later, said the
plant would be running within few
days
Speculation as to the probable settle
ment of the strike is active in all
circles, and among business men and
! manufacturers generally the consensus
! of opinion is that the combine officials
4 and Analgamated officials viii get
/ together before long and adjust the diff
/ ferences. Some of the manufacturers
i were emphatic in stating that it would
/ be arranged within 48 hours, yet they
/ could give no positive information OF
/ any movement on foot to start nego-
| tiauOns.- In regard to the threat OF
/ President Shaffer to call out the work.
men in the other union plants of the
| United States Steel corporation made
from him today that just now he was
not in the sympathetic strike business,
/ is looked upon as meaning tllaf for the
present the men will be allowed to con-
| tinue at work.
] President Shaffer was cheerful when
| seen this morning, and said he was
| entirely satisfied with the situation.
| He had Just been in communication
American Tin Plate Workers Protect
i've and international Association of
America, at Elwood City, who an
nOunced that his organization was IN
| hearty SYN pathy with the Amalgam-
ated strikers, and the statement was
untrue that 5000 dippery men would
continue work. 1t was reported that
| these men had decided to continue
tion of the Amalgamated association
when the scale with the American Tin
Plate company was adjusted a year
ago. President T. J. Shafer announced
that strike benefits will go to the idle
men from the time of the actual in
auguration of this strike yesterday.
The association has a substantial fund,
! he says, and the men remaining at
work in plants outside of the big steel
| combine will pay literally to support
the strike Moreover, many of the idle
men are anxious for a vacation. He is
preparing a circular of information on
| the strike. He said of it:
1T will be a circular letter to the
general N enbershfp of our order stat
pectations."
When asked about President Nit
chells statement last night, President
Shaffer said:
such a strike. God help the poor coal
miner! He is the best union man in
the world and the poorest paid of them
all He has troubles enough of his own
and we have no desire to involve him.
But while 1 shall not invite nor solicit
a sympathetic strike, the Amalgamated
association stands ready at any time
to effect an alliance with the United
Mine Workers or any other kindred or
ganization, many of whose members
are employed by the United States Steel
corporation
Assistant Secretary Tighe of the
Amalgamated association returned
from Monessen, Pa, today where he
went to organize a lodge in the steel
hoop mill of that place. He reported
that q lodge was formed with about 20
mem bers out of the ESQ men employed
in the mill and that he succeeded in
Vice President David Reese reported
to headquarters that he had organized
the men in the William ClarksOns mill,
taking in the lodge 100 men out of the
500 employed and as a, result the plant
was closed today. This was the only
hoop plant in the city that worked be-
ing non-union since 1893. President
Shaffer stated that there was one mill
working at Duncansville, Pa, and that
the Scottdale and Old Meadow plants
were still at work but nothing was
heard from Salisbury
The following telegram was received
by President Shaffer at an early hour
this morning:
Toledo. O.. July Is.
president Shaffer, Pittsburg.
s.Cigarmakers' union No. 48 is with
you. Advise US if any financial aid is
needed. WALTER J. DUHAIME,
president"
J. r. Phillips, district manager of the
American Tin Plate company was ask
ed today whether the company would
attempt to start up the closed mills with
non-upion men, He said he did not
know
Mr. Phillips was then asked whether
any course of action had been decided
upon at meeting yesterday of the
local managers of the three companies
involved in the strike. That was a ques-
ton. he replied, which he could not dis
cuss.
LIST OF IDLE MILLS
A revised list of the plants of the
three ordinations affected by the
strike was prepared this morning. to-
gether with the number of skilled
workers. In the mills of the American
Tin Plate company, Is men are en-
ployed in three turns in each as fol-
lows:
Roller. rougher. doubler. doubier's