The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-16

helper, heaters helper, catcher and
/ screw boy and one shearman, who
does the work for three turns, with
| two openers. Each mills full quota of
skilled men is q. The tin plate com
! bination employs at its 270 mills Z .z90
| skilled workers. OF this number SOS
are on strike and 324 are working at
the National works at Aonessen- The
corrected list OF idle tin plate mills is
as fOllOWs:-
Atlanta, Atlanta. 6; Banheld. Iron
dale, O., 4; Beaver. Lisbon. O.. q;
| Canonsburg, Canonsburg, Pa, 5;
era n pcon, Auskegon, Mich, s; Cres-
cent, Cleveland, g. Cumberland, Cum
berland, Nd, 5; Cambridge, Cam
bridge, o., 6; Elwood, Elwood City, Pa,
6; Falcon, Niles, O., s; Great Western.
Joliet, III, I; Humbert, Connellsv lille,
Pa, 6; Irondale, Middleton, Ind, 6; La
belle Wheeling, 10; Laughlin, Mayein's 5
Ferry, O., IL; MOnongahela, Pittsburg,
IA; Moorewood, Gas City, Ind, 8; New
Castle, Pa, 20; Pittsburg, New Ken
sington, Pa, 6; Reeves, Canal Dover,
s. Shenango, New Castle, 3; Star,
Pittsburg. 8; United States, MeKees-
The Amalgamated men employed on
each turn in a sheet mill number 10, as
follows:
Roller. rougher, catcher, pair heater.
heater, heaters helper, doubler, match
er. shearTnan, shearman's helper, three
openers and two lifters.
Each mill employs 45 skilled men.
employs 4,470 skilled men in its 166
mills. OF this number 2,250 Skilled
men are at work at SO mills that have
not been closed by the strike. They
are
Vandergrift, q mills; Kirkpatrick
I4eechburg, 81 mills; Salisbury. 3 mills
Old Meadow, mills, and Scotdale,
mills.
CONFERENCE WITH MORGAN.
New York, July 16.-President Charles
NJ Schwab of the United States Steel
corporation and the other officials of
the company here, declined today to
publicly discuss the strike situation Mr.
Schwab has been in conference with
J. Pierpont Morgan and others, but no
hint of their attitude or concessions mas
been given to the public. 1t has been
reported that there viii be a general
conference on the subject here, and
also that there was a movement atoot
for the settlement of the strike, but
confirmation or denial of these stories
could not be obtained at sources of
authority.
STRIKERS ARE LEAVING.
Pittsburg, July 16.-United States
lodge of the Amalgamated association
will meet this afternoon in Allegheny
and receive into the lodge IS members
of other lodges, who have been work
ing in the Lindsay and McCutcheon
plant of the steel hoop company. The
intention is to combine all workmen IN
the plant in the one lodge operating in
that district. There We're no disturb
plant today Two furnaces are running
but the strikers are not bOthering about
them. They are keeping away from the
mill and no police are required to guard
the place. Everything was very quiet
about the MonOngahela plant of the
American Tin Plate company on the
South side. A few laborers and hnishe1G
are working and VIII be for several
days until the unfinished product is
made ready for the market. That the
men believe the strike viii continue for
some time was made evident this morn
ing when many of them left the city.
A majority of the skilled WOrkmen OF
this place live in eastern Pennsylvania
western New York, Ohio and West Vir-
ginia and groups of the men could be
seen at the different depOts leaving for
their homes. About the mills the best
of order prevailed. A rumor was cur
rent in the LaWrenceville district today
that the workers in Carnegie's upper
union mills and the Black Diamond
Steel plant would join the strikers this
evening but this could not be confirmed
"A 900 MEN OUT.
The number of skilled men on strike
is 5.220 at the following plants: Cam
bridge works, Cambridge, o.. mills;
Canton works. Canton, O., 6; CHARTERS
works, Carnegie, 3; Denn1son works,
DennisOn, O., 4; Dresden works, Dres-
den, o., 4; Falcon works, Niles, O., 6;
Hyde Park works, Hyde Park, Pa, .;
8; Piqua works, Piqua, O., 4; Reeves
works, Canal Dover, o., 3; Struthers
works, Bridgeport, o., 18; Wellsville
works. Wellsville, O., 6: w. D. Wood
works at McKeespOrt, Is.
In the American Steel Hoop company
there are 1000 skilled worlxmen and all
but $50 at the Duncansville plant are
idle. The plants affected are:
William Clarkson & Co, Pittsburg;
]. Painter & Sons, Pittsburg; Lindsay
& McCutcheon, Pittsburg; Monessen
Union Iron and Steel company, Youngs-
town. o.. including mills at Young
town, Warren and Girards O.; P L
Kimberly & Co, Sharon and Greenville,
Pa: Aetna-Standard works at Bridge
port and Mingo Junction. o.; POmeroy
Iron and Steel company, Pomeroy. o.
This makes $4,000 skilled wOrkmen out
at present. It is estimated that the un-
skilled labor in the various mills affect
to the claim of $4,000 idle men, made by
the Amalgamated association
900 OUT AT ELWOOD.
Elwood, Ind, July 16.-Nine hundred
American Tin Plate company In thsi
city are out. Two weeks viii exhaust
the unfinished material, by which time
the tin house employees will lay off.
MINERS OUT AT WILKESBARRE
Wilkesbarre, Pa, July 16.-The strike
of stationary firemen began this MORN
ing. About zoo men are idle in this
region. Many of the mines had to
close down, throwing out of work, it is
estimated 15, 900 men,
The ]. 500 employees of the Kingston
Coal company went on SIIlkc LniS LlOI1l-
ing in obedience to an order issued last
night by the executive committee Of
district No 1, United Mine Workers,
The strike was ordered because of a
reduction in the wages paid for yard
aee'' on narrow work in the mines. The
company has been paying $1-50 per
yard but last pay day it Is claimed
the men were informed of a reduction
to 81 per yard
FOR LIFE OR DEATH