The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-15
BIG STRIKE BEGINS TO-DAY
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 l will be made also to close down some l of the non union mills of the companies and cripple the rest. The Amalgamated l people are very sanguine of success.
 "The strike was not of our own seek ing" said President Shaffer to-day. Tt
 was forced upon us. We were not con-
 tending for wages. but for principle
 for sslf-preservation The tin and sheet people will not be able to turn a single | wheel tomorrow We have our forces l thoroughly organized and there will be some surprises in store. I have not heard to-day from a single lodge in answer to my strike order, but an an- swer is not necessary. The order will be promptly obeyed by all our men. But there will be no trouble. Labor organ izations have changed, The Amalga- mated association is not the association it was twenty years ago, not even five
 years ago. The men are more readily
 controlled; in fact, we have our men
 under control"
 Developments to-day indicated that
 Pittsburg is going to be a pretty lively
 strike center. The most interest at-
 taches to the Painters mill on the
 south side and to that of Lindsay &
 McCutcheon in Aileghany. Both mills
 are controlled by the American Steel
 Hoop company and have hitherto been aggressively n-union, and much de- pended upon the action taken by the men in these plants. The employees of both mills held ope meetings to-day and both decided to strike tomorrow. The roiyotor mill ok and the Lindsay & McCutcheon mill about BOO
 l. w. Jenks, manager of the Ameri- can Steel Hoop company, said tonight he had heard of the attempt to be made to tie up the two mills, but he had heard such strike talk for several months past. MT. Jenks said both mills would resume tomorrow morn ing, as usual The fight at the Painter mill is to be made the fight of the strike. Both sides will make stubborn resistance. If the Amalgamated peo- pie can close this mill they believe they will have won the greater part of the 1 strike. The mills are not only import ant ones, but the Steel Hoop company | has for years succeeded in thwarting | the efforts to unionize it.
 At the conference last week sthe rep resentatives of the steel corporation were repeatedly warned that the asso- ciatian was much stronger than they knew They were even told of the or eanzation of mills of which they had | no knowledge, But the steel men would not believe that the association was as strong as it was claimed to be. Thus it $ believed the first purpose of the as- sociation is to show it's strength by ,onfiping the strike to three companies. When that show of strength has been made, whatever it may prove to be, the association expects the operators to ask or another conference. If the com oan1es show no inclination to make a settlement, tue strike will be extended o additional companies, If the trust will not yield then the strike will be to such independent compa- lies as sell their finished products or aW materials to companies against l which strike has been declared | should the strike attain such propor- ions it would be likely to go still fur her. The Amalgamated association l { nd the Federation of Labor two years { 50 formed q secret alliance, 1t Is claim q, when it was agreed that the asso- { 1atlGn when on strike could also call [ ( ut the steel men of the Federation l he latter has organizations in many lllls whose workmen are not eligible membership in the association I