The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-17
NO CHANGE YET
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STRIKE OF THE STEEL WORKERS
BIDS FAIR TO BE PRO-
LONGED
IDLE MEN NUMBER $4,000
RttRnIc Struggle Between Labor and
Capital In Tin Plate, Sheet
Steel and Steel Hoop
Mills.
STRIKES IN MANY TRADES

in a satisfied mood and claiming to have
made good every promise as to results
On the other hand, the manufacturers
Will not say word concerning the strike
and refuse to be quoted in any way
Repeated efforts to secure statements
from President Cory, of the American
Sheet Steel company, and General Man
Rger jerks, of the Hoop company, have
been met with the response that there
was no change and nothing to be given
out.
The Amalgamated people say that
nothing has been said to them of any
plan for mediation or arbitration, and
they will continue to carry out their
programme as originally announced.
The closing down Of the Clark mill
md of the Messen sheet mill are looked
upon as telling victories and almost a
complete tie-up of the three companies
3n the district.
But one tin mill, that at Monessen, and
one sheet mill at Duncanvillle, remain
at work. The fact that the National
Tube mill men (non-union) received a
substantial advance in wages yesterday,
has caused discomfort among the union
men employed by the National Tube
company at their Second avenue plant
and Republic mill the South side.
The men here think they are entitled to
q similar increase. To consider the mat
ter meetings were held tonight on the
South side and 1T Is said a demand will
be made tomorrow. The following tele-
! gram was received tonight:
WITH NON-UNION MEN.
WeHsville, July 16-"The Wellsville
rolling mill will be run, and it will be
run non-union. 1t will start tomorrow.
If it could not be run non-union, 1t never
wQuld be run at all.
nihis statement was made today by p
Il. Smith, of Pittsburg, district manager
for the American Sheet Steel company.
91e was here this morning and made an
address to the strikers. He told them
they had no grievance; they had been
well cared for in the past, and would be
3n the future The announcement that
the mill will be started tomorrow nom
union has given rise to no little specu-
lation and uneasiness among the cit
tzens. Many of the strikers, expecting
prolonged idleneSs, have left the city for
hunting and fishing camps, where they
expect to spend the summer. No new
men have been brought in, and how
Manager Smith expects to start tomor-
row is matter for conjecture Today,
as yesterday, only a few laborers We're
working.
The above is the first indication as yet
given by the manufacturers that they
We're other than passive participants in
the big strike What the result may be
of an attempt to operate the Wensvile
plant none Of the local Amalgamated
people win predict. All they will say
IS: "It cannot be accomplished"
Weilsville is looked upon by both sides
as an important point, and developments
are anxiously awaited by all.
The position of the Tin Workers Pro-
tective association in the strike was set
tied today by the following telegram to
the Leader:
"ElWood, Ind, July 16-Our associa-
zion is bound by an agreement with the
company to work providing they live UP
~troduce blaGS, plate worked by non-union
men our men will be called out. The
Amalgamated people will have our full
George Powell"
Z MEN WHO ARE OUT.
A revised list OF the plants of the three
combinations affected by the strike was
prepared today, together with the num-
Der of skilled workers. In the mills of
the American Fin Plate company the
men are employed in three turns, in each
as follows: Roller, rougher, doubler
doubler's helper, heater, heaters help
ell, catcher and screw boy and one shear
man, who does the work for three turns
with two openers. Each mills full quota
of skilled men is twenty-seven. The tin
plate combination employs at it's 20
mills 1890 skilled workers. OF this num-
er 6,S66 are on strike and S24 are work
ing at the National works at Monessen.
The corrected list of idle tin plate mills
IS as follows:
- Atlanta, Atlanta, 6; Benheld, Irondale.
Ohlo, 4; Beaver Lisbon, Ohio, z; Can
onsburg, CanonSburg, Pa, 5; Champion,
Muskegon Mich, 8; Crescent. Cleveland,
b; Cumberland, Cumberland, Nd. S: Cam
bridge, Cambridge, Ohio, g. Elwood, FL
wood City, Pa, 6; Falcon, Niles, Ohio
.; Great Western, Joliet, H.. 4; Humbert
Gonneilsyille. Pa, G; 1rondale, Middleton,
1nd., o; LaBella, Wheeling, 10; Laughlin
Martins Ferry, Ohio, 80; Monongahela
Flttsburg, IA; Moorwood, Gas City, Ind
.; New Castle, New Castle, Pa, 20;
Pittsburg, New Kensington. Pa 6.
Reeves, Canal Dover 6; Shenango. New
slastle, 20; Star, Pittsburg s: United
States, Mcheesport, H.
- The Ama1gamated men EMPLOYED on
each turn In a sheet mill number IL 40
eollows; Roller, rougher, catcher, pair
heater, heater, heaters helper. doubIer
matcher shearman, shearman's helper.
three openers and two lifters. Each mil,
employs As skilled men.
The American Sheet Steel company en-
ploys 4470 skilled men in its 166 mills. or
this number 2,z5o skilled men are at work
at so mills that have not been closed bv
the strike. They are:
VANDERBILT, q mills; Kirkpatricty
Leechburg, mills; Saltberg, 8 mills: Old
Meadow, mills, and Scottdale, mills.
The number of skilled men on strike f.
b,220 ct the following plants:
Cambridge works, Ohio, 7 mills. Canton
works, Canton. Ohio, 9; Charters works.
Carnegie, 8; Dennison works Dennison
Ohio, 4; Dresden works, Dresden. Ohio. 4:
Falcon works, Niles, Ohio, g. HYDE Park
works, Hyde Park. Pa, 5; Laufman
works, Paulton, Pa, 8; Midland WORKS, worEs
Muncie, Ind, Z; New Philadelphia, New
philadelphia, Ohio, 8; Piqua works Piuua.
Ohio, 4; Reeves works. Canal Dover. OsiO
9; Struthers WORKS. Bridgeport, Ohio. Is:
Wellsville works Wellsville, Ohio 6: w
D. Woods works, McKeesport, Is.
In the American Steel Hoop company
there are 1000 skilled workmen and ali
but go at the Duncanvile plant are idle
The plants affected are:
William Clarks Sons & Co. Pittsburs
y Painter q Sons, P1ttsbu-g: Lindsay &
McCutcheon, Pittsburg; Monessen Stee
Company, Monessen Pa; Union Iron and
Steel company, Youngstown, Ohio, Anclud.
ing mills at Youngstown, Warren and al.
rard, Ohio; p. L. Kimberly & Co, Sharon
Pa. and Greenville, Pa; Aetna STANDARD
E&rks Bridgeport and Mingo Junction
Qaio; Pomeroy Iron and Steel company
Pomeroy. Ohio.
This makes 1900 skilled workrnen out
prpSaof 10 AatfYo Cd fhat +le -.