The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-02
PITTSBURGH STRIKE
STEEL AND WIRE
Attempt to satisfactorily Arbitrats
Matters Failed and the Trouble
ls on in Earn
OFFICIALS ARE ON HAND
Coolest Night Of Winter, Workers Lefs
the Hall Determined to Con-
tinue Their Strike
indefinitely.

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PITTSBURGH, Pa. Feb. l.. The
strike in the Rankin and Braddock
mills Of the American Steel and Wire
Company. in which more than 5000
men are out, will continue and the
strikers will begin missionary work
among 100000 other steel and wire
workers in Pittsburgh at once, at
tempting to enlarge the membership
of the union
The strikers voted such action at .
mass meeting late today. following a
conference with General Manager G..
W. Jewett, OF the Rankin plant, which
they claimed was unsatisfactory.
The mills among whose workmen
American Federation of Labor organiz-
ers tonight urged their men to work
for new union members are: The
Homestead mills, the Carte furnaces,
the Edgar Thomson steel works and
the Duquesne Steel Works. The
Homestead works alone employ more
than 5000 men and, with the others,
Threatened, forms the backbone Of the
steel industry in the Monongahela val
ley.
Following week of strike marked
i by a riot on Monday in which ono
man was killed and twenty were In
] Ijured the strikers today appointed
4 two committees, representing the
Braddock and Rankin mill workers
and a conference with Manager Jewett
4 uro q orroy H,nl r5o
clear that he would not receive repre-
sentatiyes Of any union. but that he
! would gladly hear any workmen with
! grievances. When the committees
| presented themselves for conference
| he is reported to have refused to rec
| ognize them as committees, calling
each member for conference, individu-
ally.
During the afternoon the strikers
had agreed on wage schedule which
i they wished to use as basis for ne
/ gotiations and each man had a copy
of this schedule with him.
The committeeman returned I'd
Braddock hall tonight after their con-
4 ference with Jewett. Before thous-
and strikers they made their report
Keep your wage schedule in your
pocket they quoted Jewett as saying
to them, the company announced =
revised wage schedule Thursday.
/ Those who wish may return to work
Monday. If you do not return, we viii
have other men at work In your
| places"
The response OF the men was an inn
4 mediate declaration for continuation
/ of the strike and for enlarging ana
strengthening the union by gaining re-
4 cruits from nearby plants.
! Frank Morrison, secretary OF the A.
! F. of l.. here to look the situation
over, spoke. urging the men to COM
nit no violence. He repeated his
!, promise, made earlier in the day, that
| the federation would stand behind the
l strikers, financially and morally.
| Organizers Thomas Flynn and John
B. Lotnek followed Morrison urging
the strikers to stick together"
On the coldest night of the winreA
| while the temperature Is lowering
around zero, the steel and wire work.
/ ers left the hall for their homes ap-
/ parently determined to continue their
! fight Indefinitely.
general meeting of the strikers
will be held tomorrow afternoon in
a Braddock hall to discuss ways and
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