The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-07-18
ORDER Is OBEYED
GENERAL WALKoUT OF SKILLED
EMPLOYEES OF THE GREAT
STEEL COMBINE.
STRONG SHOWING IS MADE

In Addition to the Union Mills Closed
Down Number of Supposed Non.
Union Plants Respond to the Call.
Unionization Of All Plants Of the
Steel Trust the Object of the Pres
ent General Tieup.
Pittsburg, July 1.-THE strike of
the members of the Amalgamated as
ISOLATION employed in the tin plate,
sheet and hoop mills, which was or
dered Saturday night as q result of the
disagreement between the conferees
of the United States Steel corporation
and the Amalgamated association, was
generally observed in the Pittsburg
district. At the mills where the
strike order extended the skilled work
men who are under the control Of the
union failed to put in an appearance,
or if they did go to the mills it was
merely as spectators with no intention
of working. Early reports received at
the general Offices of the Amalgamat-
ed association were meager, but indi-
Gated that the strike order is being OBJ
served at all mills of the Tin Plate,
Sheet Steel and Hoop combine.
President Shaffer is in communica-
ton with lodge officials at all these
plants and he is confident that the as
sociation will make such strong
showing on this preliminary suspen-
sion of work that general strike of
all the mills of the United States Steel
corporation will not be necessary.
This latter proposition is the strong
card which the Amalgamated presi-
dent has up his sleeve and which he
has threatened to play if an early ad-
justment of the difficulty is not made.
This strike bears resemblance to the
historical Homestead strike in 1892, in
that it is not a question of wages, but
of recognition of the Amalgamated as
sociation. The association insists
upon unionizing all the plants of the
three companies in question. The man
ufacturers refuse to grant this demand
and say that the individual contracts
with workmen which are in force at a
number of the plants must stand.
At the headquarters of the Anal
gamated association it was said that
the situation was satisfactory. Presi-
dent Shaffer took personal charge of
the strike campaign. The executive
committee of the Amalgamated asso-
citation has placed the fight entirely in
his hands and he has been directed to
plan his campaign as he thinks best.
Non-Union Mills Closed.
The Painter mill Of the American
Steel Hoop company, of the South
Side, is shut down. Lindsay & Nc.
Cutcheon's plant of the American
Steel Hoop company, in Allegheny, is
also idle, and the Star and Mononga.
hela plants of the American Tin Plate
company are closed.
The Painter and Lindsay & Nc.
Cutcheon plants have been looked
upon by the officials of the United
States Steel corporation as the strong
holds of non-unionists in the Hoop
company.
The prompt action of President
Shaffer in thus forcing the fight early
and carrying it into his opponents
camp was looked upon as evidence
that the strike will be one of the most
spirited in Pittsburg history.
President Shaffer was pleased with
and he declared that not a wheel shall
turn in either the Painter or Lindsay
& McCutcheon works until the strike
shall have been settled. He said the
Painter plant was pivotal with respect
to the other non-union plants Of the
Steel combination and the men else
where have promised that If the Paint
er plant would join the strike move
ment there would be no trouble In or
ganizing the remainder of the plants.
He said that there is no question that
the men will respond as they have
been anxious to join the general move
ment and were held in check and kept
at work by the direction of the Anal
gamated officials.
In certain circles quiet interest is
manifested in the effect the strike may
have upon the Carnegie industries, es-
pecially the steel mills at Homestead.
These mills are generally supposed to
be non-union. But the same was
thought of other mills, until they sud-
Senly popped out as pretty well union
ted.
NOT A WHEEL TURNING.
Strike of steelwor<ers General In the