The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-17
EACH SIDE
 STANDS PAT Strikers and Employers are Satisfied. MANY MILLS TIED UP Threats Made to Employ Non-
 Union Labor. Reported That GOO Union workmen to Be Paid Highest Wages are Wanted by the Tennessee
 Company.

Pittsburg, Pa., July 1e.-The second strike day closes with the Amalgamateo officials in a satisfied mood and claim ing to have made good every promise as to results. The manufacturers refuse to be quoted in any way. The Amal- eamated people say that nothing has been said to them of any plan TOT me, diation or arbitration, and they VIII continue to carry out their program as originally announced. .,,
 The closing down of the Clark mill and of the Monessen sheet mill are looked upon as telling victories, ana an almost complete tie-up of the three companies in the district. But one tin mill, that at Monessen. and one sheet mill. at Duncansville, remain at work. The fact that the National Tube Mill men (non- -union) received substantial advance in wages yesterday has caused discontent among the union men em' ployed by tho National Tube Company at their Second Avenue plant and at the Republic Mill on the South Side. The men here think they are entitled to similar increase. To consider the matter, meetings were held tonight on the South Side, and it is said a demand will be made tomorrow.
 The following telegram was received tonight:
 'WeilsvilIe, July ls.-The Wellsville Rolling Mill viii be run and 1t will be run non-u union. It will start tomorrow. If 1t could not be run non-union 1t would never be run at all"
 This statement was made today by
 P. F. Smith of Pittsburg, district man. ager of the American Sheet Steel Com
 pany He was here this morning and
 made an address to the striking mill
 men, He told them they had no griev- ance: that they had been well cared for in the past and would be- in the future. The announcement that the mill would be started tomorrow and started non- union has given rise to no little spec uiatfon and uneasiness among the citi- zens. Many of the strikers. expecting
 prolonged idleness. have left the city for hunting and fishing camps. No new
 men have been brought in and how
 Manager Smith expects to start tomor-
 row is a matter of conjecture. Today,
 as yesterday, only few laborers were working.
 The foregoing is the first indication
 as yet given by the manufacturers that they were other than passive partici- pants in the big strike.
 Wellsville Is looked upon by both sides as an important point and devel- opments are anxiously awaited by all The position of the Tin Workers Pro- 1 tective Association in the strike was settled today by the following telegram | to the leader:
 "Elwood. Ind, July 16.-Our associa- ton Is bound by an agreement with the | company to work provided they live up | to their contracts. If the company in- troduce black plate worked by non- 1 union men, our men will be called out | The Amalgamated people will have our full support if necessary.
 George Powell" A letter was received today by the | official of the new United States Lodge
 of the Amalgamated Association from
 the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
 at Ensley, Ala, in which 1t was stated that the company wanted 500 skilled
 men and would pay the highest wages.
 The plant is union and employs only
 union men.