Bay View Joins Strikers in Solidarity Drive
Bay View reports workers walkout as labor unions step up pressure in tallies of sympathy strikes. Officials warn of production slowdowns and possible picket lines at several facilities.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1901
Page
1
Bay View reports workers walkout as labor unions step up pressure in tallies of sympathy strikes. Officials warn of production slowdowns and possible picket lines at several facilities.
Bay View Illinois Steel plant in Milwaukee will shut indefinitely with about 1400 workers idle after a five hour lodge meeting. The vote reportedly was unanimous to follow President Shaffer's order, reflecting a strong Amalgamated stance that could influence South Chicago and shape the broader steel dispute with United States Steel.
Enthusiastic reports say Milwaukee unions voted to join the Strikers and Wheeling plant workers also walked out. The move renews hope Joliet and Chicago can reverse recent votes and join the strike action as the Amalgamated association fortifies its ranks.
Today trains depart Butte for Anaconda to connect with the Miners union picnic at Mountain View Park. Schedules include multiple departures with direct service to the park and Anaconda return trips every half hour.
Amid quiet district conditions reports indicate widening union activity as the Amalgamated Association gains footholds at the National Tube plant in Pittsburgh and threatens a broader walkout. Union organizers press for wage gains while company leaders anticipate plant closings and possible violence at McKeesport and around Car negie facilities.
Chicago August 17 collision between a trolley car and a rapidly moving Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train on Forty seventh street left four dead and 11 injured. Victims include Frederick Edwards 27 Harriet Sutcliffe 56 Ida B Osler 29 months and an unidentified woman. Ambulances and police rushed to the scene as the car crossed tracks and crashed into the train.
A Joliet based Great Western works of the American Tin Plate Co representative declares the plant will never open. General Manager Jones is promoted to lead a larger territory and John Lafontaine is reassigned to Cleveland to oversee mills. Jones departs for New York to discuss future policy with trust officials and says mills are not expected to start this winter.
A Milwaukee special quotes Assistant Secretary Tighe saying he will not return to Chicago mills until invited and that the Amalga mated association does not want blood money. He notes union members have been read out and that nine independent mills in East Chicago may host a social visit Monday.
Sharon Pennsylvania August 17 The capitalization of the new steel combination is fixed at 10 000 000 The president is Daniel Egan of Sharon and the board includes W D Sargent Chicago Mayor Rolla Wells St Louis and Charles Miller Franklin Steel The principal concerns are Seaboard Steel Casting and Solid Steel Casting both of Chester Pennsylvania Eureka Steel Casting American Steel Foundry and Cullin Gallagher of St Louis Sargent Chicago Franklin Steel Casting Pittsburg Steel Casting and Otis Steel of Cleveland The constituent companies will take stock in payment for their plants.
Joliet August 17 The lack of rods from the Illinois Steel company threatens to close the American steel and wire mills as early as Tuesday. Up to 6 000 workers may be out of work, about half involuntarily, with streets full of idle men and no signs of violence observed. Continued on page eleven.
Livingston Aug 17 The Livingston Enterprise reports the Harney case hinges on a page from the New Albemarle hotel register. Judge Harney and clerk Harry Heimerdinger used false names. Ada H Brackett signed truthfully. the page vanished and no trace is found.
Governor Hunt explains voting to pardon Paul Corcoran after a divided board decision. He cites justice, restraint of further violence, and the need for peace in the Coeur d’Alenes, noting public petitions and sympathy for the accused’s family. Organized labor’s shift to peaceful methods supported clemency.
A Jefferson county coroner inquest at Clancy determined the man found dead in a cabin near Clancy died of natural causes likely heart failure. The body showed decomposition, lay on a floor mattress, and had no identifying papers. A. Stoddard Helena painter and companion discovered the scene. vest with a watch nearby argued against robbery.
A Brookyn trolley on the Fifteenth street line collided with a Long Island Railroad locomotive at Kensington crossing in the lower part of Brooklyn. Motorman Lee was killed, about 20 to 25 passengers were injured, with three expected to die.
Freight train No 222 wrecked seven miles north of Glendale Oregon on August 17 causing a fierce explosion that set the woods ablaze. Two powder cars exploded and the Victory mine area windows suffered damage while crews anticipated daylight for recovery. No serious injuries reported to the crew. Train Nos 11 and 16 were diverted.
Helena August 17 The state land office receipts for the week ended show 4251 dollars, slightly below average. Nearly all came from leases with 250 dollars from H W McLaughlin of Missoula for trespass after his men cut over 1 000 000 feet of timber on school grant land.
Cable from Torres Cardenas, secretary to President Castro, reports Venezuela massing 16 000 troops on the frontier after two invasions, blaming Colombia's conservative government for provoking the unrest. It notes 6 090 and 2 000 invaders expelled and asserts defense of national honor against perceived external aggression.
Two decrees issued from Maracaibo and Caracas suspend constitutional rights in Tachira Merida Trujillo Maracaibo and nationwide areas as public peace is cited as disrupted by Colombian incursions led by Carlos Ran Gardiras. Decrees dated July 26 1901 in Caracas and July 27 1901 in Maracaibo, signed by Gen Diogo Bautista Ferrera and President Castro.
Fragmentary text notes minimal details about a transport route via Galveston and colon area with references to troops and a French cruiser Suchet. The exact events, dates, and entities remain uncertain due to missing context.
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