The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-28
GAINS MADE
 BY THE TRUST Strike, However, is No
 Nearer an End. THE TIN PIE E COMPANY
 -S- Hereafter It Wisc: Employ Only
 Non-Unids Wen.
 r. President shaffer Denies That Mem bers of the Amalgamated As sociation Have Broken Con- tracts with the Employers.

Pittsburg, Aug. 27.-Practically tle only significant event in the striks to- day was the positive stand taken py the American Tin Plate Company Tn reference to its course in the future. An official statement from this com many today denies that there are any negotiations on foot looking to settie- ment of the strike and authorizes the statement that mills put into operation will be continued non-union ana all men now going to work will be retain ed in their positions. This statement will have its effect because the fact that the tin plate trade has always been considered as among the strong holds of the Amalgamated ana the def appears to have been brought about by the association declaring strike against the Tin Plate Company after the scale for the year had been signed The company says that hence forth it is determined to cut loose from union labor entirely.
 The developments of the day would appear to evidence slow, but sure, gains by the corporations.
 The following summary gives the status in this district: Painters mill: Six mills being operated and manage ment says plenty of good material is being turned out. Star Mill: Men still at work upon two mills; no more men have entered the plant; third turn
 machsnery be put on at midnight. Lind say and McCutcheon mill: Several men secured: two mills open with separate crews. Clark and Union mills: Captain l.. T. Brown says the
 -Nr;lr sz fov. sYatl a rn concerned. Strikers say the mills are
 not running full. McKeesport: Rep resentatfves of the tube workers decide
 to stand by Amalgamated offictals. DeHfmler plant may be started this week. President T. J. Shaffer says he
 will consider a peace proposition from responsible persons. Amalgamated of- fcials are confident of ultimate eGc- cess.
 The one place within this district where the strikers have scored a vic tory is at Irondale, O. At this place the American Tin Plate Company was compelled to close down it's recently opened plant for lack of men to oper- ate it. The day was full of excitement in the little village, and street fights came thick and fast for time, until the inhabitants were wrought into a state of excitement bordering on terror The first fight of the morning took place when five non-union men left their homes and started for work in the mill. On the main street of the village they were met by party of about thirty strikers, who, by moral suas'on, tried to get them to desist from their determination to go to work
 When this failed, a stronger argu- ment was used, and the men were given a drubbing and driven back to their homes. The village had scarcely recovered from the surprise which this attack occasioned, when word was passed around that a party of new men were driving overland for Wells vile. Almost all the strikers started to meet the carriage, and when they passed the mill office, Ira Householder. a non- union man, shouted at them. This action precipitated fight. Man
 ager Banfield saved Householder by dragging him inside and shutting the door with difficulty. The Tin Plate Company then attempted to file inform ation before Justice Paisley charging the strikers with riot, but the justice refused to entertain the charge, say ing he would issue warrants for those mixed in the fights, charging assault, but no more serious offense. The at torney then began the preparation of papers to ask for an injunction re- straining the strikers from interfering with the non n-unionists in any way.
 In four more days. according to the AnAlgamated Association constitution, strike benefits will begin to issue. President Shaffer addressed the strik- | CTS of Painters Mills at a rally held on the south side tonight. He under- | took to refute the charge that the | Amalgamated Association had violated it's contracts with constituent com
 panies of the United States Steel Cor | poration.
 The Amalgamated Association has
 not broken it's contract and cannot af- ford to do so. Such charges are as
 malicious as they are false" declared
 Mir. Shaffer. It is true" he said. that some scales were signed this year, but | they were signed by the companies upon the condition that other com panies Cf the United States Steel Cor poration would sign. This was the case with the American Tin Plate Com
 pany." The other companies did not sign, he
 said. and consequently .he Amalgamat- | ed men broke no contracts by striking. Continuing. President Shaffer said:
 If the United States Steel Corporation will sign the scale for all mlls signed
 for last year with the understanding that no man is to be discharged for connection or sympathy with labor or | ganizations and if the scale is signed | for mills vNaere the men want to organ | ize the strike will be terminated" | According to the reports- from the
 organized tube workers who are strik-
 ing in sympathy with the Amalgamat-
 ed Association. There is a lot of trouble
 in store for the hasty action they took
 in walking out If the plants of The
 National Tube Company without tbe formalfty of submitting their cause to
 the general officers of the American | Federation of Labor. It has been dis
 covered. as the men gay. that they
 have violated the Constitution of the Federation which provides that hefore | going out on strike q local lodge re- ceiving a charter direct from the Amer ican Federation of Labor must suh-
 init a list of grievances to the Execu-
 tive Council of the Federation TOT ap- proval. Failure to do this cuts off the