The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-18
May Soon Have All Their Works Rum
ming Full Blast as Before the
AmaIgamated Strike.
SHAFFER TO ISSUE CIRCULARS
WILL SUBMIT TERMS OF THE
AGREEMENT TO ALL LODGES.
Then He May Take the Public Into His
Confdence-Tin Plate Work.
ers still Aggrieved.

PITTSBURG, Pa. Sept. 17-After taking
time to think it over. President T. j. Shat
fer. of the Amalgamated Association, mas
announced that there will be no public
statement of the terms of the settlement
of the strike of his organization with the
United States Steel Corporation. He has
also decided TO issue circular giving the
terms of the agreement on which the men
were ordered to return to work and after
all the lodges have received il, the circu-
lar will be made public. To-day the offices
OF the Amalgamated Association were
more quiet and orderly than they have
been for some weeks, a large majority of
the strikers having returned to work. The
men who thus far have refused TO do so
were meeting their fellow-workers and
kept away from the organization.
The general condition of the mills Of the
United States Steel Corporation has i'm
proved during the past twenty-four hours
IN a wonderful manner. 1t was officially
announced that nine of the twelve butt
weld furnaces and three of the six lap weld
furnaces of the National tube works in
McKeesport were started to-day. The Of
fcials of the various plants have received
applications for work from many more of
the strikers and preparing to make
general start on Wednesday. The Con-
tinental, Elba and Pennsylvania works of
the tube company started to-day. The
American Tin Plate Company reported all
of its active plants except those in Atlanta,
Ind, Joliet, ILL.,, Johnstown, Pa, and Canal
Dover, O., have been placed in opera
ton. The last named will start as soon
as sufficient tin bars can be secured TO sup
ply the needs of the plants. In addition to
these four mills of the Star plant and four
mills of the Monongahela plant are run
ming, well as eight mills in the Demmler
plant, and all of the Monessen plant. The
Laughlin plant in Martins Ferry, with
twenty-three mills capacity, will be started
with ten mills tomorrow. The New Castle
and Shenango plants, with an aggregate
capacity of fifty mills started to-day with
full crews. Both of the kensington plants
will be started tomorrow.
The American Sheet Steel Company to-
day started up its union plants as follows:
The Aetna, Standard plant, Mingo juno
ton, Cambridge. o.; New Philadelphia. o.;
Muncie, Ind; Piqua, o.. Niles, o., and the
Dresden, o., plant will be started to-mor-
row. The Canal Dover plant of this COM
pany is operating. The strikers at the mills
still idle have been ordered to apply as
individuals for work during the week.
There will be no effort to start the Canton,
o., sheet mills until after this week, owing
TO the funeral of President Mckinley.
All of the hoop plants are running full.
The New Castle plant of the National Steel
Company started In full to-day. This was
the first plant called out after the general
strike order issued.
The National Steel plants in Bellaire and
M1ngO junction are the only plants OF that
company now idle, the Riverside plant of
the National Tube Company is the only
plant of that company that is wholly idle.
The manufacturers are confident the
strike feeling among the men is practically
cured for the present. n number of men
have since their return admitted that
they went out against their will and their
better judgment. The greatest trouble
seems TO be predicted in the plants of the
American Tin Plate Company that have
been conceded by President Shaffer as non
union. The men in those plants take their
defeat very hard, and many had determined
10 remain idle or get other employment
rather than go back unless their union is
recognized. 1t is probable the Monongahela
and Star mills and the Demmler mills in
McKeespOrt will be the last to get started
full turns.
All mills of the Carnegie Steel Company
and American Steel Hoop Company, en-
plOying about 10000 men, will be closed
from a. m. TO y. m. Thursday, the day
of President McKinley's funeral.
meeting of tin men from the Monon-
gahela, Star. Demnler and New KenSing
ton plants was held this evening to take
action on the strike settlement President
Shaffer was invited, but failed to appear.
and get statement of the condition of af
fairs and the meeting adjourned. The men
are determined not to go into a nonunlon
mill, and they may decide TO continue the
strike indefinitely. The arrangement un-
der which the men at the Republic and the
Elba plants of the National Tube Company
return to work is victory for the men,
The arrangements provide that the Anal
gamated strikers shall all be taken back
as union men and that the mills as hereto
fore shall be controlled by the Amalga-
mated Association. Both of these mills
We're said to have been lost to the asso-
citation.