The sun., 1901-08-04
AFTER THE CARNEGIE MILLS.
The Striker Hope to Cripple Them n q
General War Begins.

PIrrsBuRo. Aug. 3.-According to esti-
mates made tonight the Federal Steel
Company has 1000 union workmen and 5000
non-union; the National Steel. 1000 union
and 5000 non-union National Tube Com
pany, 10000 union and 5000 non union
total 5000 union and 1900 non-union.
The list includes the unskilled workers
who are not organized. but who will be
made idle by the strike. The average Ia
one unskilled man to each skilled one.
In the Federal Steel Company are included
the Illinois Steel Company. Lorain Steel
Company Of Ohio and the Lorain Steel
Company OF Pennsylvania. The follow
ing plants OF the Illinois Steel Company
are organized South Chicago Works. 5000
men, Bridgeport Works. Chicago. 1000;
Joliet Works. 1000; Bay View Works.
Milwaukee. 1000. The plants Of the two
Lorain companies at Lorain. Ohio, and
Johnstown, Pa. are credited with being
non-union. but it is understood that the
Amalgamated Association has lodges Of
varying sizes In the plants and they may
be drawn into the struggle. The two
Lorain companies employ 5000 men. The
National Steel Company has these union
mills Shenandoah Valley Steel Company
New Castle, Pa; Bellaire Steel Works,
Belaire Ohio; Etna Standard Steel Works.
Mingo Junction, Ohio. These employ about
1900 men. The non-union plants are
the Ohio Steel Works, Youngstown. Ohio;
King Gilbert and Warner Works. Columbus.
Ohio; Buhl Steel Works, Sharon, Pa. These
employ 5000 men.
The National Tube Company has these
union mills: Republic Iron Works. South
Side, Pittsburg; Tube Works, Pittsburg;
Continental Iron Works and Elba Iron
Works. Second avenue. Pittburg; Ma
tional Rolling Mill. McKeesport; Boston
Iron and Steel Works, near Mckeesport
These employ an aggregate Of 10000 men.
The non-union plants are the National
Tube Works and Monongahela Steel Works,
Versailles, near McKeesport; Syracuse
Tube Works. Syracuse, n. Y, Ohio Tube
Works, Warren, Ohio; Allison Plant, Phia-
delphia; Chester Pipe and Tube Company,
Chester. Pa; Pittsburg Pipe Works, Second
avenue; America Iron and Steel Works at
Middletown, Pa, and Youngstown, Ohio;
employ 5000.
The National Tube Company employs
at its McKeesport works about 5000 men,
but not all Of these are organized. Those
who are occupy skilled places and II they
60 out work will at once be stopped
In all tho departments for a time.
There is scarcely one OF the ZOO en-
ployees Of the United States Steel Corpora
tion, the strikers say, that may not feel
the strike In tneir confidence they say
that the American Federation Of Labor
will call out It's thousands who handle pro-
ducts Of the United States Steel Corpora
ton; that the structural steel workers
IN hap
the mills Of the trust: that the
miners may refuse to dig coal for trust
mills; that the railway organizations may
he drawn into the contest. Unless II be
speedily broken by the Steel Corporation
the strikers go on to say that the strike
States. They declare that mills that
manufacture finished product and obtain
their raw material from the Trust will be
closed: blast furnaces that manufacture
iron will be compelled to pile 1t In stock
and then stop il the strike be carried on
and coke ovens will close when the furnaces
stop.
The big works OF the Carnegie Steel
Company is almost free OF unionism, but
this Is the citadel that will be attacked at
once by the Amalgamated Association.
II the union men can close the other mills
and prevail upon union men to stop hand
ling structural steel and plates the plants
be crippled. The Edgar Thomson
Steel Works at Braddock. will
not likely be affected. 1t has contracts
placed by railroads direct that will operate
Il for seven months. II the Chicago Rail
Mill is closed, the Edgar Thomson could
take some Of its contracts. The Home
stead armor plate department would
scarcely be affected, although II the work.
ers there could be induced TO come out II
would place the company in bad situa-
ton regarding its armor plate contracts
with the Government. At Duo uesne
sheet and tin plate bars are made largely.
Labor leaders think that the upper and
lower union mills might be induced to
come out in case general strike in all the
corporation companies IL declared
The following are the companies In which
the Amalgamated Association has no MEM
bers because Of the nature OF the work
done: American Bridge Company, Shelby
Steel Company, II. C. Frok and other coke
concerns; the American Steel and Wire
COmpany