Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-16
VAST ARMY NOW IDLE
Nearly Seventy.five Thousand
Steel and Tin Workers Idle
Because Of Strike.
But Few Developments in the
Situation Today..No Signs
Of Compromise.
One More Non. Union Plant Or.
eanized and the Mill
Closed Down.

Pittsburg, July 16.-There were no new
developments in the great strike in this
district during the early hours of the
are shut down tight and matters about
the Painter mill. Lindsay & McCutch-
con. Clarks' Solar Iron works Monon
gahe!a and Star tin plate plants are
quiet. 1t is stated Painters mill is in
partial operation, but the only men AT
work were few Hungarians who We're
cleaning up about the yards. Replying
| to the rumor that the management had
brought a strike breaker from Alabama.
Assistant General Manager Harper
4 said We can preak our own strikes
/ Superintendent Albrecht was encoun-
| tered few npments later and said the
plant would be running in full within
/ few days. Speculation as to the prob
able settlement of the strike is active
/ in all circles and among business men
and manufacturers generally the con-
census of opinion is that the combin,
officials and Analgamated officials Will
! get together before long and arrange
! their differences. Some manufacturers
are emphatic in stating it will be ar
ranged within forty-eieht hours, yet
they could give no positive Information
| of any movement on foot to start nego-
4 tiations. In regard to the threat OF Pres
1 ident Shaffer to call out workmen in
/ other union plants of the United States
! Steel Corporation on Saturday. a signif-
4 cant statement from him today was
A that just now he was not In the sym
\ pathetic strike business which was
Il looked up as meaning that for the pres
ent the men will be allowed to continue
at work. Shaffer was cheerful when seen
this morning and said he was entirely
! satisfied with the situation. When
i asked about President Michelps state
ment last night. Shgffer said: II shall
4 not ask the miners to go on such a
!. strike God help the poor coal miner.
/, He is the best union man in the world
j and the poorest paid of them ALL he
has troubles enough OF, his own and we
have no desire to involve him. But while
v shall not invite nor solicit a sympa-
J, thetic strike. the Amalgamated Associ-
alton stands ready al any time to ef-
I feet an alliance With the United Mine
Workers or any other kindred organ
iZations, many of whose members are
employed by the United States Steel
Corporation.
Vice President David Reese reported
E to headquarters that he had organized
!, the men in Wm. Clarks' Sons mills TAX
ing 100 men out of 500 employed, and the
result was the plant would close today.
, This mill was the only hoop plant in the
, city that worked yesterday and has
been non-union since 1889
President Shaffer stated there was one
mill working at Durcansville, Pa, and
that the scottdale and Old Meadow
plants We're still at work. but nothing
} was heard from Salisbury.
j. r. Phillips. district manager of the
American Tin Plate company was asked
today whether the company would at
! tempt TO start up the closed mills with
non union men. He said he did not
know. Phillips was then asked whether
! any course OF action had been decided
upon at the meeting yesterday of the
local managers Of the three companies
involved in the strike. That was a ques-
ton he replied, which he could not dis
cuss.
A revised list of the plants of the
three combinations affected by tho
!; strike was prepared this morning, to-
ge,her with the number of skilled work
Z ers. In the mills of the American Tin
Plate Company. twenty-five are en-
ployed in three turns each as follows:
Roller. rougher, doubler doubler's
helper. heater, heaters helper, catcher
and screw boy and one shear
! man. who does the work for
three turns with two openers. Each o!
the mills full quota of skilled men is
; twenty-seven. The tin plate combina-
ton employees at its go mills 1920 skill
: ed workmen.
OF this number 6966 are on the
I strike and 324 are working at the ma
], tional works at Monessen. A corrected
/, list of idle tin plate mills is as follows;
Atlanta, Atlanta. six; Banfield, Iron
. dale. o.. four; Beaver. 1.,spon. o.. seven
D t Canonsburg. Canonsburg. Pa. five
. gChampion. Muskegan. Mich. eight
II Crescent Cleveland, six; Cumberland
Cumberland. Md. five; Cambridge
Cambridge. o., six: Ellwood Ellwooc
n City, Pa. six: Falcon. Niles, o., six
I Great Western. Joliet. H.. four. Hum.
I bert Connellsvlle. Pa, six; Irondale
> Middleton. Ind. six; Labele. Wheeling
/. ten: I.aughlin. Martins Ferry o.
: thirty-two: Monongahela. Plttsburg
i. fourteen; Norwood. Gas City. Ind.
: eight; New Castle. New Castle. Pa.
$ twenty. Pittsburg, New Kensington
;. Pa, six Reeves Canal Dover. six; She
mango. New Castle. thirty: Star. Pitts
$ burg. eight; United States. McKeesport
:. eleven.
!. Amalgamated men employed on eacl
J. turn in sheet mill No. Is as follows
:. Roller, rougher, catcher, pair heater
J. heater. heaters helper, doubler. match
j. er, shearman, shearman's helper. thre
; openers and two lifters Each mill EN-
: ploys forty-five skilled men The Ameri
/, can Sheet Steel Company employs 4,47
J. skilled men in its 1865 mills. OF this mum
r Der 2,250 skilled men are at work at fit,
It mills that were not closed by the strike
: They are: Vandergrlft. twenty sever
: mills Kirkpatrick. Lcechburg, six mills
r, Salisbury. three mills; Old Meadow, al.
y mills, and Scottdale, eight mills. TIL
: number of skilled men on strike is 5,22C
i. at the following plants. Cambridg
Works, Cambridge. O.. seven mills