The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-04

ploy, about 5000 men; non-union plants
! employ 5000 men.
! National Tube COMPANY. union mills
! employ an aggregate Of 10000 men; nom
! union plants employ 5000 men,
Inc National Tube company employs
az us MckeeSport works about 5000 men
but not all of these are organized. but
what are, occupy skilled positions and If
they suspend work will at once be stop
pea III all the departments at least for a.
Tune. The rolling mill is the foundation
Oh the process of pipe making. If it sus-
pends all departments will be compelled
10 quit sooner or later if the company
rams TO start it again soon. The same
conditions exist in the various companies
that are placed in the non-union list al
though in some the union is so weak as
to be entirely Intellectual unless strength
ened.
There is scarcely one of the 100000 en-
pl9yes of the United States Steel CORPORA
ton but what may feel the strike. 1t
may be that the American Federation of
Labor will call out it's thousands who
handle products of the United States
Steel corporation; the mine workers may
refuse to dig coal for trust mills; the
railway organizations may be drawn into
the contest, although that is not prob
able.
OF FAR-REACHING EFFECT.
Unless it 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 product and obtain
their raw material from the trust in
many cases will be closed. Blast
furnaces that manufacture iron will be
compelled 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 furnaces stop. The big works
OF the Carnegie Steel company is almost
Tree of un1onism, but this is the citadel
that will be attacked at once by the
Arnalgamated association. If the union
men can close the other mills and pre-
vail upon union men to stop handling
structural steel and plates, the plants at
Homestead and Duquesne can be serious
ly crippled, as their product would not be
taken. The Edgar Thompson Steel works
at Braddock, will not likely be affected
1t has contracts placed by railroads
direct that will operate it for seven
months. If the Chicago rail mill be
closed the Edgar Thompson could roll
some of its contracts. The Homestead
almor plate department would scarcely
be affected, although if the workers there
could be induced to come out it would
place the company in a bad situation re-
gardlng its armor plate contracts with
Lie l0ueIdI government. AT 1UQlIeSne
sheet and tin plate bars are made large
ly Much of the stuff made there in the
last week has been stocked. Labor lead
ers think that the upper and lower union
mills might be induced to come out in
case general strike in all the corpora
ton companies is declared.
The following are companies in which
the Amalgamated association has no
members because of the nature of the
work done. A neripan Rridpa
Shelby Steel company, H. C. Frick and
other coke concerns; the railroad proper
ties, American Steel and Wire company.
coal properties and other lines A gem
eral strike would cause a suspension OF
the plants of the American Steel ana
Wire company, if the steel mills manu-
featuring steel billets could be closed as
wire is rolled from these billets.
telegram from Sharon, Pa to.%,ht
says the announcement of the failure to
settle the strike in New York was re-
ceived with much regret here It is gen.
orally believed that general order
would be issued by President Shaner
calling out every union iron, steel and
tin worker on sympathetic strike I'M
til the trust realizes the strength of it's
opponents. Should such an order go
out all the independent blast furnace
workers in the Mahon.ng and Shenango
valleys are ready to comply with the
request. The furnace workers an
nounced that they would take no con-
certed action until the outcome of the
New York conference was made known.
The furnace strike would be attributa-
BILE to the selling of 1900 tons of pig
iron to the United States Steel corpora
ton by the Mahoning and Shenango
Valley Bessemer association to be used
at non-union mills. About 100 men
will be affected If the strike is ordered.
A meeting of the furnace workers VIII
be held tomorrow to decide upon what
course they will pursue.
Wellsville, Ohio. reports this the most