The age-herald., 1901-08-04
Meeting Will be Held Today and Plans Arranged for
 the Great Fight
NEWS RECEIVED WITH REGRET
The Association Figures That About 100000 Men VIII Be Affected.
 WelIsvIIle Has a Riot About
 Non-Union Boarding House.

Pittsburg, August 8-It is learned to- night that no time will be lost by the Amalgamated Association in completing it's plans for a.continuation of the strug- gle, and a meeting of the executive board will be held at headquarters tomorrow for this purpose. It Is considered proba- ble by all interested that the strike order will become general, calling out the union men in the National Steel Company, the Federal Steel Company and the National Tube Company. Nothing definite how ever. can be known until after the meet ing tomorrow. All the workers seen to- night are confident that the order will be issued at once and expect the response to be general and hearty.
 100000 Employees Affected. There is scarcely one of the 100000 em- ployes of the United States Steel Corpor- ation but what may feel the strike. It may be that the American Federation of Labor will call out It's thousands who handle products of the United States Steel Corporation; the structural steel workers may refuse to handle steel from the mills of the trust; the miners may re- fuse to dig coal for trust mills; the rail- way organizations may be drawn into the contest, although that Is not probable Unless 1t be speedily broken by the United States Steel Corporation the strike and it's results will be felt over the whole of the United States mills that manufacture finished products and ob- tain their raw material from the trust in many cases will be closed; blast furnaces
 that manufacture iron will be compelled l to pile. it. in stock and then stop if the
 strike be carried for any length of time
 and coke ovens will close when the fur
 naces stop.
 The big plant of the Carnegie Steel Com
 pany Is almost free of unionism. but this
 is the citadel that will be attacked at
 once by the Amalgamated Association. If
 the union men can close the other mills and prevail upon union men to stop ham, ding structural steel and plates. the
 plants at Homestead and Dequesne can be seriously crippled. as their product
 would not be taken. The Edgar Thomp- son steel works at Braddock will not like l ly be affected. It has contracts placed by
 railroads direct that will operate 1t for
 seven months. If the Chicago rail mills
 be closed the Edgar Thompson could roll
 some of Its contracts. The Homestead
 armor plate department scarcely would
 be affected, although if the workers there i would be induced to come out 1t would place the company in a bad situation re-
 garding its armor plate contracts with the federal government. At Dequesne
 sheet and tin plate bars are made largely. Much of the stuff made there in the last l ha SfOckad T.Qh hOr leaders think that the upper and lower union l mills might be induced to come in in case
 general strike in all the corporation l companies is declared.
 Where There Are No Members. The following are companies in which l the Amalgamated Association has no
 members because of the nature of the | work done
 | American Bridge Company, Shelby Steel Company, H. c. Prick and other con-
 cerns the railroad properties. American
 Steel and Wire Company. coal properties
 and other lines. general strike would
 cause suspension of the plants of the
 American Steel and Wire Company if the | steel mills manufacturing steel billets | could be closed as wire is rolled from
 these billets.
 A telegram from Sharon, Pa., tonight
 says the announcement of the failure to
 settle the strike in New York was re-
 
 erally believed that general order will
 be issued by President Shaffer calling out
 every union iron, steel and tin worker on
 a sympathetic strike. until the trust re-
 alizes the strength of it's opponents. i Should such order go out all the inde-
 pendent blast furnace workers in the Ma l honing and Shenango Valleys are ready
 to comply with the request The furnace
 workers announced that they would take 1 no concerted action until the outcome of . !. Az.wxF VaRL fAy Had Ia known. The furnace strike would be at- tributable to the selling of 10000 tons of pig iron to the United States Steel Cor poratien by the Mahoring and Shenango Valley Bessemer Aasocis tion to be used at non-union mills. About 1850 men will be affected If the strike is ordered. A meet ing of the furnace workers will be held tomorrow to decide upon what course they will pursue.
 Trouble at WeIIsvilie. 1 Weilsville, O., reports this the most ex- | citing day since the strike began. The riot at an earia hour this morning around the boarding house kept by a mill work CT named Phillips, in which non-union men are duartered, was followed shortly
 after noon by the proprietor of the house swearing out warrants, charging twenty seven of the members of the Amalgama- | ted Association with riot Organizer Ev- | ans name is included in the affidavit. | Of the men named In the affidavit and | on the list handed by Phillips to the | mayor, Edyard Price, Richard Rum | baugh, William and Elmer Moore. Chas. | Peth. Frank Adamrns, Jay Davis and | District Organizer George Evans have | been placed under arrest
 Adams and Evans were released on
 $500 bond for a preliminary hearing 70 be l held on August IA The remainder are | still in jail Amalgamated leaders are | working hard to secure ball for them. but so far without success. The inforna- l tion was made by Phillips at the request | of the American Sheet Steel company | Sheriff Morgan of this county has two | den,,t5ea on the ground tonixht to assiuf<