Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-16
THOUSANDS OF THEM OUT
Every thing Is Unusually Quiet Ir
Strike District.
NoN-UNION MILLS ARE WORKING
Strike Is Result of Disagreement of
Amalasamated Association Commit
tee and of the United States Steel
+ Corporation.


tee and of the United States Steel
3 Corporation.
Pitsburg, July 15.-The strike of the
members of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation employed in the tin plate,sheet
and hoop mills, which was ordered
Saturday night as result of a disa-
greement between the conferees of the
United States Steel Corporation and
the Amalgamated Association was
generally observed in the Pittsburg
district this morning. At the mills
where the strike orders extended, the
skilled workmen who are under the
control of the union. failed to put in
an appearance, or, if they did go to
the mills, it was merely as spectators
and with no intention of working. Tar
lin reports indicated that the strike
was peing observed at all the mills III
the tin plate, sheet and hoop com.
bines. The Painter mills of the Amer
lean Steel Hoop Company of the South
Side, have shut down. The men join
ed the Amalgamated Association and
this morning not one of the worlSmen
showed up. 1t is estimated that be-
tween 40 and 800 men are out. The
strikers are keeping away from the
plant, and everything is unusually
quiet. The tin mill at Monessan, Pa.
which is non-union, is running as usu-
al today. The Lindsay and McCutch.
con plant Of the American Steel Hoop
Company in Allegheny is also idle and
the Star anu Monongahela plants of
the American Tin Plate Company are
closed down.
President Shaffer is greatly
pseased with the reports re-
cegved from the two strongholds and
he%declared that not a wheel would
turnSi In either the Painter or the Lind
say & McCutcheon works until the
strike was settled. President Shaffer
said that the Painter plant was pivotal
with respect to the other non-union
plants of the Steel Hoop company and
the men elsewhere had promised that
If the Painter plant would join the
strike movement there would be no
trouble in organizing the renal nder of
the plants. He said there word be no
question but that they woul. respond
as they were anxious to JON the gen
eral movement and were J I'D in check
and kept at work by the direction of
the amalgamated officials. President
Shaffer said that the movement would
be carried to other plants not now rec
ognized by the combine as under the
wing of the association. He looked for
general response to the strike order
as the men have been awaiting just
such command since July l. He de-
clared the men were prepared to fight
it out on the original lines until
Doomsday."
The Painter and the Lindsay e
McCutcheon plants which were
looked upon by the officials of the
United States Steel Corporation as the
strongholds of non-unionists in Hoop
county. The prompt action of Presi-
dent Shaffer in thus early forcing the
fighting and carrying it into the enc
mys camp was looked upon as eyi-
dence that the strike will be one of
the most spirited in Pittsburg's his
tory.
At the Lindsay & McCutheon
plant in Allegheny 250 men are idle
OF the twenty-five furnaces only two
are reported in operation. The re
ports received at the Amalgamated
Association headquarters say every
steel hoop plant in Pittsburg except
ing the William Clarks Sons Compa
ny is idle and all the sheet mills are
closed down. Only one tin plate mill
in this district is in operation. The
Labelle tin plant at Martins Ferry
Ohio; the Laughlin tin plate works
and Aetna Standard plant at Bridge
port, Ohio; Cambridge, Ohio, plant
and Greenville, Pa, works are all shut
down. The Aetna Standard company
employs 5000 men and the Cambridge
Company 500 men and they are a.
out. At New Castle, Pa, 1900 ANAL
gamated tin workers are idle today
and when the stocks now on hand are
used up the other employees will have
to quit and $500 will be idle.
The $500 employees of the Nationa
Tube company, McKeesport, We're no
uneQ To-Day on lne advance
in wages of ten per cent, The mer
are not organized but the Amalgamat
ed association is making efforts to in
duce the INTO join the union. Sever
al months ago the men demanded II
per cent advance but were refused.
This morning the committee waited
on Manager Crawford and insisted up
on an increase. He was unable to Civ,
an mediate answer but a short time
later the officials gave out a statemen
granting the advance.
At Chicago.
Chicago, July 15. The members o
the Iron Moulders union in Chicago