Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-07-19
STEEL WORKERS ON A STRIKE
PRES. sHAFFER SENDS WORD
Three Day Conference Came to
Naught-5O,OOO Skilled workmen
AGected-Both Sides Make State

days session the conference between
the representatives of the American
Sheet Steel, American Steel Hoop com
pany and American Tin Plate com.
pany, subsidiary companies of the
United States Steel corporation, and
the general executive board of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers, adjourned finally
| without reaching an agreement In
less than an hour later President Shat
fer of the Amalgamated Association
had wired the following order to all
the Amalgamated lodges in the tin
plate, steel hoop and sheet steel mills
of the country:
Notify your men that the mill Is on
strike and will not continue work on
Monday, July 15."
President Shaffer says that for the
present the three companies will be af-
fected, but that later all the union men
in the employ of the Federal Steel com
pany, National Steel company and Ma
tional Tube company may be called out
II 1T Is found necessary to resort to ex-
IRENE measures to win the fight, At
the start, it is claimed 5000 skilled
workmen, 10000 unskilled men and in
directly many thousands more will be
affected
Afterthe adjournment OF the confer
ence the following statement was given
out by the officials of the three 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 Amalga-
mated association did not recede from
its original position, which was that
the three companies interested should
sign for all their mills without regard
as to whether these mills had in the
past belonged to the Amalgamated as
ISOLATION or not. The manufacturers
did not refuse their rights to organize,
but having many men in the mills not
In the Amalgamated association who
do not wish to become association men,
claimed they might respect these men
in their wishes as we'll as those who
are members of the association. In or
der to effect compromise the manu-
facturers offered to sign for several
mills which have always in the past
been out of the association. No COM
promise was offered by the Amalgamat-
ed association. The American Tin
Plate company have only one non-union
mill. They requested the privilege of
making special scale for this mill and |
to sign the same. This was refused
and the company was given to under |
stand that the men in all the tin mills
would be called out, even though the |
scale has been signed for all other tin |
mills. The privilege requested above |
would settle all differences between the |
tin plate company and the Amalgamat-
ed association"
AS soon as the workers reached the |
headquarters of the Amalgamated as
ISOLATION statement was prepared for
the association side of the case. Presi-
lent Shaffer has made this public as
follows:
ION Friday afternoon the manufac-
.urers made their first proposition for
settlement of this strike, in which
hey said: We agree to unionize the
Did Meadow mill in Scottdale and in
Salisbury, by leaving it to the opinion
IT the men employed there, If such
opinion is properly Obtained
This proposition was generally dis
'ussed, and this morning before the
conference adjourned for lunch the
general executive board of the Amalga-
mated association submitted the fol-
owing: We hereby repeat our request
hat our scale be signed for all mills
'wned and controlled by the American
Sheet Steel, the American Steel Hoop
nd the American Tin Plate companies,
nd believe that this should be con-
eded. because 1t is in our opinion rea-
enable and just. We agree If our {
Gales are signed as stated above to
LASTLY the Monssen plant and arrange
scale in accordance Herewith. Also
hat there shall be reconstruction of
he scale for the mills working hoop {
nd cotton ties exclusively, and we
lso agree that If our work of organic S
lg mills outside of the possessions of 1
ne above companies should cause the c
hutting down Of plants or the calling r
ut of men there shall be no interior '
nee with the operation Of the mills O
elonging to or operated by the Ameri- t
IN Sheet Steel company, the American f
teel Hoop company or the American d
in Plate company during the scale r
ear
This agreement is to abrogate all
signed by the men of these
on which they agree not to
in or be connected with the Amalga- y
ated association or any other labor II
After luncheon we were met with II
e following counter proposition from =
e manufacturers:
/" We agre eto sign the scale for the
flowing sheet mills: The Old Meadow a
ling mill. Scottdale; the Salt Spring N
ills. the Wood mills in McKeesport.
ID the Wellesville mills
"Of course this proposition was re-
cted, as 1t was considered no PROPOSE lie
IN at all. inasmuch as Wellesville b.
ant is organized to man and so is HI
e Wood mill in McKeesport. so