The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-07-20
GREAT STRIKE rs ON.
Conference of Steel Men and Labor
Leaders a Failure.
No Agreement II Reached, and Or
der IL Sent Ont for Cessation of
Work-Thousands of Men
Are Affected.


Pittsburgh, Pa, July 15.-The great
strike of union labor against the
United States Steel corporation has
begun. The conference between the
labor leaders and representatives OF
the corporations adjourned Saturday
Afternoon, admitting the impossible
ity of bringing about an agreement
and an hour later President Shaffer
of the Amalgamated Association OF
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, sent out
a telegram declaring the general
strike. The message went to all the
subordinate lodges of the Amalga'
mated Association i'm the mills of the
American Sheet Steel company. the
American Steel Hoop company and
the American Tin Plate company, and
said: Notify your men that the mill
is on a strike and will not work on
Monday, July Is"
Vast Army Affected.
Forty-fve thousand skilled work
men and 10000 unskilled men are di-
rectly affected by this order. The en-
tire membership Of the Amalgamated
association is understood to be about
10000, but many outsiders sympathize
with them and will cooperate, enforc-
ing the closing of the mills and the
shutting out of still other workmen.
If this does not bring the United
States Steel corporation to terms the
strike will be extended before long
to the mills of a number of Others OF
its subordinate companies. The Fed
reral Steel company, the National steer
company and the National Tube COM
pany will all have their union work
men ordered out. Practically the
only company controlled by the
United States corporation which VIII
not be "struck" will be the Carnegie
steel company. in the mills of which
the Amalgamated Association is not
organized.
While this order calls out only 49,
900 men, it is the first step in the
great test of strength between labor
and capital. Strikes will be ordered
i'm other branches of the industry un-
til not one union man remains in the
.employ of the United States steel cor
poration. 1t is expected all labor or
PLANTATIONS connected in any way
with the giant combine will give ana
and mines, docks. steamer lines, ana
railroads controlled by the same in
terests as the steel corporation VIII
be tied up.
RensOns for the strike.
President Shaffer made the follow
ing statement:
"On Monday all the men In the mills OF
the American Tin Plate company sheet
Steel company, and the Amerlean 80.
IJoop company will refuse to go TO work.
W. wIll not at first extend the fight to the
otber nlants In the United States steer
corporation. That Will come later But
If necessary to win the strike an union
men employed In any mill OF the under
lying companies VIII De calieu GUY. 1
will include the employees Of the National
. steel company and the Federal steel COM
many where we control every mill, ana
two rolling mills of the National TUBE
company in Pittsburgh.
Later still. If II be necessary, we VIII
adopt the tactics we formerly used. OF re-
fusing TO allow the operation of any inde-
tnendent plants which sell finished or raw
,nroduct to any OF the mills against which
the fight has been declared. This would
compel the closing down OF such concerns
as the Sharon Steel company. which sells
it's product to the American Tin Plate COM
pany; the Keystone Rolling Mil COM
many. Pittsburgh, which sells to the Ma
tlonal Tube company. and many other In
dependent companies.
IL cannot state when these future meas
ures will be taken. 1t will be within rea-
sonabe time, and we VIII not walt long.
None of the concessions we offered to-day
will hold good now We are striking for
our original demand"
Employers Explain Their stand.
After the end of the conference the
following statement was given out by
the officials of the three steel com
panies interested:
The conference between the Amalga-
mated association and the sheet hoop and
Tin plate companies failed TO come TO an
agreement because the Amalgamated as
ISOLATION did not receGe from its original
proposition, which was that the three COM
panles interested should sign for all their
mills without regard to whether these mills
had In the past belonged to the Amalga-
mated association or not, The manufac-
turers did not refuse their rights to organ
tze. but having many men In the mills not
In the Amalgamated association who DO
not wish to become association men
claimed they must respect these men In
tnelT WlSnes as wen ds iHDst W HO mltH1-
bers of the association. In order to effect
a compromise the manufacturers offered to
sign for several mills which have always
In the past been out of the association. No
compromise was offered by the Amalga-
mated association.
1.-THE American Tin Plate company has
only one nonunion mill 1t requested the
privilege to make special scale for this
mill and sign the same. This was refused
and the company was given to understand
that the men In all the tin mills would be
called out even though the scale has bsen
signed for all other tin mills. The privilege
requested above would settle all differences
between the Tin Plate company and the
Amalgamated association"
Only nm Idle Tale.
New York, July 15.-According to
the Tribune's London correspondent
the reported engagement of LORD
Rosebery and the duchess of Alban,