The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-07-04
FIFTY THOUSAND
laA;'::Iq INVOLVED NOW
Employees Of the american Steel
Company to Be Called Out
Today.
PRESIDENT sHsFFER ON STRIKE
he Declares the AmAlgamsted Associa ton
WIZ Make the Fight One to he Re
mcmbered-Is Well Prepared
for Long Struggle.

PittsEurg, Pa, July 2.-President L.
'. Shaffer. of the Amalgamated Assoc
citation of Iron, Steel and Tin workers,
will this morning issue an order
calling out all union employees of the
various mills of the American Steel
Hoop company known as the hoop
trust. 1t is estimated that $1,000 men
will be subject to the call, which, in
, connection with the big strike of the
American Sheet Steel company, ordered
by President Shaffer on Saturday will
affect $4,000 men.
President Shaffer said last night:
THE impression that only the mills
OF the American Sheet Steel company
are affected by the decision Of Satur-
day is a mistake. The workmen of all
mills in the American Steel Hoop COM
pany are interested, and will be Of
ficially notified tomorrow that the scale
has not been signed and that they Will
quit work. In the we'll organized mills
this notice will not be necessary, as
the men will have watched the situa-
ton carefully but in what is known as
open mills where union men have been
allowed TO work side by side with the
non-union men is Where we have TO
move. Union men must walk out or
these mills in the hoop trust.
THE open 3ills to be notified are one
at Eolidaysburg, Pa, three at Pitts
burg and one at Monessen. The or
ganized mills which will close. on our
call are the upper and lower mills at
Youngstown. o., Pomeroy, O., Sharon,
Pa, Girard, Pa, Warren, Pa, Green
Vile, Pa. This, 1 believe, will bring the
number Of men affected up to $4,000. :.
ut is matter Of regret that the is
sue has been forced, but it now looks
as though it will pc fight to death,
continued Mr.. Shaffer. THE Analga-
mated association is not unprepared
for it. We have not had general
strike for many years. and in that time
we have not been idle. We have funds
to correct an impression which has been
given out that no benefits will be paid
strikers until two months have elapsed.
The Amalgamated association will be-
gin at once to take care Of it's people.
Mr.. Shafrer concluded his talk by
saying:
II will say now what I said to Mr..
Smith, general manager Of the Sheet
Steel company, in the conference. l
said if it is to be a strike we will make
it one to be remembered. The officials
now dealing with us have but little
idea of the extent to which this strike
will go once 1t is on
ss1N SAIurOAy6 6trlkc Oruer.
Pittsburg, July 2.-The Joint con-
ference Of the committee of the Anal
gamated Association OF Iron, Steel and
Tin workers and the American Sheet
Steel company, which has been in ses-
sion here, has been unable to reach an
agreement on the wage scale for the
ensuing year and adjourned finally.
The A1nalgamated association officials
asked that the scale be signed for all
union mills and the manufacturers pre-
scented counter proposition not only
refusing to sign for all union mills, but
stipulating that two plants that We're
Included last year be excepted. These
mills are the old Meadow plant at
Scottdale and the Salisbury, Pa,
works The conference then broke up
and President Shaffer at once issued
strike order. The shutdown of the
union plants of the American Sheet
Steel company will involve nine Of the
largest plants in the country, involving
about 10000 men. Notwithstanding
Shaffcr's order 1t is thought another
effort win be made next week to effect
a settlement, as it is known neither
side is anxious for protracted shut
3 down.