Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-08-08
MANY lABORERS AFFE'TED
General Strike Order Issued by Presi-
dent Shaffer Of AnaIganaated AT
fects 1oo, 900 Men.
Belief in Some Quarters that Settle
ment May be Reached Before
Strike Begins. ,$s
General Opinion that Struggle will
Only End When One Party Ad- 4. /.
mits Its Defeat.

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mits Its Defeat. ,]s#,s
Pittsburg, Aug. S.-With the Is
suance of a general strike order by
President Shaffer it is no longer a
theory but fact that confronts the
public. The result is that the tension
which kept everybody in suspense last
week as to what would be the out
come Of the conference and meetings
has now been lifted, the suspense is
over and although, while the imme-
diate effect is deplorable, those di-
rectly interested are not SO much af-
fected as the gravcness Of their posi-
tion would warrant. It Is now gener-
ally accepted as a fact that the strug-
gle will not be terminated until one
of the contending parties is defeated
Occasionally the hope is expressed,
however, that the order of President
Shaffer will not go into effect and that
compromise will be made before the
week is out. AS far as Pittsburg is
| concerned, although it is the head
quarters of the Amalgamated associa-
! tion, few men are involved in the
strike in comparison with other sec
tions, the total number being almost
| 100000 men. There is no question
that the various companies of the
United States Steel corporation will
make efforts to start up some of the
idle plants Immediately and thus pre-
vent the strike, if possible, before it's
inception. Already such a. movement
has been made at Clark's plant in this
city and CONSERVATION reigns among
the strikers in the Lawrenceville dis
trict when they learned that General
Superintendent Brown had
Stolen March Upon Them
and started up the 10 and 1R-inch
mills. The mills started, however,
with but 100 men and boys and guper-
intendent Brown says the entire plant
will be running before the end OF the
week. He said:
"We had no trouble whatever in Sc
curing men. Of those who went to
work, some are old men and some are
new"
About the entrance many men were
found who said they were seeking
work. The tied up upper and lower
mills at Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth
streets are claimed by the officials to
be running along quietly. Everything
is very quiet around the mills. The
strikers around Clark's mills are Or
derly and say they will make no at
! k@
to work, nor will they molest them in
any way.
| A report was circulated in Law
renceville that two detectives were
watching for any trouble about the
Clark mill, but it could not be verified
At Painters mill, on the South Side,
and the say-McCutcheon mill. in
Allegheny, everything also was quiet
Only few strikers were around to
watch for any attempt to start the
works.
At the Pennsylvania tube works,
| Second avenue. which 1t was said
would be affected by the strike, ev-
erything was running smoothly and
the management said there was not
the least intimation that the men
would strike
| Steel manufacturers generally do
not view the strike order with alarm.
The combine officials
Preserve the Same Reticence
shown since the beginning of the
struggle, but privately declared that
they felt sorry for the men, that the
strike will speedily end and that at
its conclusion there will be no Anal
gamated association to worry the man
lufacturers.
One manufacturers only fear was
the customary sympathy of working
men for workingmen. He said that in
strike of such proportions and so
widespread, no one can tell the effect
it will have.
The officers of the Carnegie Steel
company, the National Steel company
and the American Steel Hoop company
refused to make any comment on the
threatened extension of the strike.
This always has been the policy of
Andrew Carnegie and Mr.. Cory was
one of Mr.. Carnegie's young partners.
The effect of President Shaffer's
order on the employees of the Carnegie
Steel company is being watched with
interest. It is generally expected r.
mills of the Carnegie company are de-
pended upon by the United States
Steel corporation to keep the strike
from closing down It's business. The {
plants are SO extensive, the men SO
thoroughly non-union. the products SO
varied and of such a nature that they
can be little affected by the refusal OF
union nen In other trades to handle
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