Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-07-01
Steel Trust and Its Workingmen Enter
on Struggle.
GREAT STRIKE COMMENCED TODAY
Over $4,000 Employees Of Rolling
and Sheet Mills Involved.
BIG BATTLE TO CONE

the refusal of the representatives Of the
American Steel Sheet Company and the
American Steel Hoop Company, subsidiary
companies Of the great United States Steel
corporation, to sign the workers new scale
| at Saturdays conference, circulars were
sent out from the national headquarters of
| the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel
! and Tin Workers yesterday and today de-
| claring strike at all the plants of the
| two combines The great strike Is now on,
but it will be several days before its ac-
| tual extent is known. At the outset how
ever, over 5000 men will be involved as
| follows:
Union sheet mills-Aetna-Stand Steel
mills, Bridgeport, Ohio. $500; Midland steel
| mills. Muncie, Ind, 1000; Old Meadow roll
| ing mill, Scottdale, 400; Salisbury rolling
mills, Salisbury 300; W. De Wees wood
! mills, McKeesport. 1000; Cambridge iron
and steel mills Cambridge. Ohio, 400; Can
| ton rolling mills, Canton Ohio, $50; Char
| tiers iron and steel mills, Carnegie, 300;
Dennison rolling mills Dennison, Ohio, $50;
| Dresden iron and steel mills, Dresden.
Ohio 300; Falcon iron and nail mills, Niles,
| Ohio 45o; New Philadelphia mills, New
Philadelphia, Ohio, 100; Piqua rolling mills.
| Piqua, Ohio, 600: Reeves iron mills, Canal
Dover, Ohio, $50; Struthers iron mills,
| Struthers, Ohio 400; Corning steel mills,
Hammond Ind, 300; Lauffman steel mills
faultOn, HYDE Park IRON and steel
| mills, Hyde Park. $50; total, 1850.
Non-Union Mills.
The nom union sheet mills are: Apollo
| iron and steel mills. Vandergrift, 3,600;
Kirkpatrick mills, Leechburg, $50; Wells
vile plate and sheet iron mills, Weisville,
Ohio. 400; Scottdale iron and steel mills,
| Scottdale 500: total 800.
American Steel Hoop Company, 1900;
fydn ,,1a in,
| ber, 5000; total number of men involved in
strike, IS, $50.
The American Steel Hoop Company S
| main offices are in this city. The company
has three non-union plants in this city.
They are Painters mills, on the south side
and Lindsay & McCutcheon's and Clarke's
located in Allegheny, The company has
also a non-union plant at Monesson and one
at Duncanville, though the employees of the
latter are ready for organization as soon as
the Amalgamated people will take them In
The other plants of the company arc
| claimed by the Amalgamated people as
one each at Sharon. Girard, Greenville,
Pomeroy, Ohio, and Warren. Ohio.
President Shaner's Threat
What the strike Just inaugurated may
eventually lead to is problematical. Three
months ago, when strike occurred in the
| wood plant of the American Sheet Steel
Company at McKeesport, because the COM
pany refused to allow its men to become
members of the Amalgamated Association
President Shaffer threatened, If the Nc
Keesport strikers could not win with their
own strength he would order a strike in
every plant Of the company. If the latter
would not yield he would then call out the
union men in every plant of the United
States Steel Corporation. Such course
would now end in the biggest strike the
country has ever seen, involving several
| hundred thousand men.
For the first few weeks the situation will
not show the strength of the association.
Almost all the plants of the company,
shut down during the early part of July to
give the men a rest. They have been work.
| ing steadily since the first of the year,
many Of them without a weeks cessation.
Union and non-union alike they are de-
manding a short vacation, and the predic-
| ton is made that the companies will be
unable to keep any one at work for two or
| intense, and the men, one vice president
said today, are almost in state of revolt
The Real Battles Beginning.
It will be after, perhaps, the 1st Of Au-
| gust when the combine makes a serious at
tempt to start up in full, that the real bat
| tie will begin II no settlement has been
reached at that time. The company can
not well delay operating longer than that
on account Of the present flood of orders.
| In fact, the urgent orders now on the books
| can scarcely wait through July. Thus the
association has almost a month to prepare
| for the coming struggle 1t Is the boast of
the Amalgamated Association officials that
| by that time they will control so per cent
of the capacity of the combines plants.