The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-07-23
NO STEPS TAKEN TOWARD A SETTLE.
MENT BY ETHER SIDE
SHIFTING OF BATTLE-GROUND
To McKeesport Where Efforts VIII be
Union Labor-Chief Events of the
Vile Mill Not Opened-Aid Promised
the Strike Is Costing.

Pittsburg, Pa, July 1--we have
not heard from the other side at any
time in any way. or on any subject
since We parted at the Lincoln hotel
last Saturday."
This is the positive statement made
by President Shaffer. of the AmaIga-
mated Association. this afternoon and
disposes Of the rumor from New York
today that the strike had been settled.
Mr.. Shaffer stated further that no &C
tual negotiations were on between Pres
ident Bishop, of the Ohio state arbitra-
ton board, and himself tending towards
arbitration. A letter received by Mr..
Shaffer from Mr.. Bishop asking if he
would consent to a reopening of the
conference has not been answered yet.
The principal events in the days
strike history were the failure of the
sheet steel people to reopen the Wells
vile plant with non-unfon men, owing
to the fact that only thirty men report
ed; the offer of financial assistance
made to the ~Amagamated Association
by the 1000, 900 members of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor and the Amer
lean Window Glass Workers Associa-
ton; the concerted action Of the asso-
citation to organize the immense sheet
steel plant at Vandergrift. whose work
ers they are besieging to join the asso-
citation. n the fact that several of the
closed plants are being patrolled by
armed watchmen n guards.
n Amalgamated officials tonight
profess great satisfaction over the re-
suits accomplished since the strike be-
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heretofore, will say nothing. The only
man on the company's side who has
said anything up to date is President
Smith. district manager of the Sheet
Mill Company. The light he has on at
Wellsville is being followed closely by
the workmen, and tomorrow an open
public meeting will be held at Wells
Vile when President Shaffer. in person.
will present the strikers side of the
case and to overcome the eff
fects of alleged misstatements concern
ing the late conference
Manager P F. Smith has been invit-
ed to attend the meeting and make a
statement for the company. The entire
community of Wellsville is worked up
over the strike situation and friends
and enemies alike are expected to be
present at the meeting.
While Wellsville is the strike enter
new, Manager Smith says that he will
renew Ills attempt Id open mills
with men, the battle-ground
will be shifted to McKeeSport next
week, if the report be true that the w.
Devices wood plant of the American
Sheet Steel Company will resume OPP
erations. This would afford one of the
most trying situations of the strike. It
would neceSsitate the Importation of
non-union men from other places, and
the bitter feeling engendered by such a
move would be hard to control.
The platform of Enterprise lodge of
the Amalgamated Association. which
includes most of the employees of the
wood mill, is opposed to all violence.
During the strike last spring no effort
was made to hinder men from going to
work. The same policy. it is said. will
be followed in The present struggle and
every suggestion of violence will
frowned upon.
According to figures compiled by the
Pittsburg Dispatch, the steel strike is
daily costing the the three companies
1856. 900. 1t is estimated that in the
daily loss of nearly 5000 boxes of tin
plate a day. the American Tin Plate
Company is daily losing over 100000,
while the loss to the canning compan-
les because unable to secure their ma
terial, is enormous in addition. Prac-
tically no stocks have been carried n
the consumption has kept pace with the
production for come little time past.
About 7C0 tons of the 1000 tons daily
production of the American Sheet Steel
Company is being lost, and this repre-
sents a loss each day to the combine of
at least $4,000. The loSSS TO the gas