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be no necessity of chartering foreign tonnage to carry naval stores.- There would be plenty of American ships to be had. STRIKE SITUATION. Latest advices from the head of the lakes are to the effect that the companies operating the shipping docks will en- deavor to resume work on Thursday, if rot with the old men, then with new ones; as the companies feel that thére is nothing on their part to compromise. Many of the men that struck did 'so against theit! personaliwishes and therein lies the hope of the situation for they are naturally anxious to be again in receipt of their daily wages. Since last week when was reported the strike of the dock men at Duluth and Two Harbors, the laborers: at»the Allouez docks have gone out, quit- ting very unexpectedly on Thursday, and an attempt has been made-to suspend mining operations on_ the Mesabi range by the Western Feder- ation of Miners. The dock strikers have organized unions during the week, have held several meetings and while perfectly orderly, have emphat- ically refused to moderate their de- mands for a 25 cent increase or to consider a compromise The railroads are pursuing a uniform policy and while the officials of the Steel Corporation railroads have re- ceived representatives of the strikers, nothing was accomplished as the' rail- roads refuse to consider any other proposition than that the men return to work on precisely the same condi- tions as previously existed. No, at- tempt is being made by either side to force the situation andit is claimed none is contemplated though it is un- derstood that enough men could be obtained to operate the docks. | The railroads are not inclined to provoke possible' violence by the substitution of new men on the docks and seem content to let the men stay idle till they choose to go to work; so the length of the strike seems to de- pend on the ability of the laborers to live without an income. Their only available funds amount to about a dollar a man in the treasuries of the newly organized unions which are not allied with any other organization. The men at the Allouez docks quit without notifying the company until afterward what their. demands were. At Duluth ,not. a.boat. has. been loaded since Sunday. A dozen boats are lying in the harbor, light, an- chored in the basin or at one of the elevators or coal docks. Several boats loaded. with coal have arrived in the last three days and are unloading. At Of any sort: TAE Marine. REVIEW Two Harbors, one boat got away on Thursday, but none loaded has been ,Since, and there are 17 at the docks now. The docks are filled with about 150,000 tons of ore. At Allouez there are also 17 boats. Since the strike was declared, four have been loaded by their crews the ore being in the dock. They were the W. B. Davock, the B. Lynam. Smith, Australia and the barge Maia. The crews have now been forbidden by the. seamen's un- ion, however, from doing this any more. A number of boats left the Duluth-Superior harbor for Ashland where an increased amount of busi- ness is being done, though the: possi- ble increase,there)\is, not. large.,.Mar- quette and Escanaba are also loading an increased number of boats and the mines are being pushed to an extent that will bring the season total from the old ranges to a point materially above last year's output. The barges and some of the smaller boats of the Pittsburg Steamship Co. fleet. are be- ing laid up, as the scarcity 'of cargogs becomes more pronounced. | The 'amount of ore shipped during the week from Two Harbors was 168,463 tons and from Allouez 249,- 561 tons, a total of « 418024. tome. which is a loss compared with the amount that would have been shipped during the week of about 650,000 tons and as compared with the same week last year a loss of 570,913 tons. of boats sent to Allouez after the work was stopped at Duluth and Two Harbors, these docks managed to ship more ore during four days than they did in the entire week last year. The losses at the head of.the lakes will be decreased but compara- tively little by the increased shipping from lower range ports. The number of men affected by the dock strike laborers, 4,000 open pit laborers and trackmen, 700 shovel men and 830 trainmen on the three railroads, in all esd. men. "Of these only a. part of the 1,700 dock laborers were respon- sible for the entire tie-up and the en- forced idleness, unwillingly brought upon the trainmen and the great ma- jority of the others, has been a great injustice and enough in itself to con- demn the action of the dock strikers. The strike of the 'miners inaugur- ated by the Western Federation of Miners can scarcely be said to have complicated the strike situation though it has added to its scope. This trou- ble has been brewing all summer. At the time the .dock men went out, the probable action of the miners. was ' : morning' S. Owing to the number. includes 1,700 ore dock 21 discounted and a policy' pursued which would meet that contingency should it arise. Beyond the possibil- ities of destruction of property as the result of violence the mining of ore is not hindered to much greater de- gree than with just the docks idle. It has a great seriousness, nevertheless, not the least of which is the fact that many of the good miners. who had no desire to quit work are leaving the range .in anticipation of a long struggle and their return is problemat- ical. On Thursday the 18th, the committee representing the miners sent to the Oliver Iron Mining Co. at Duluth the ie ing ultimatum: "Thomas F. Cole, president, Oliver Mining: Coy, Duluth, Minn, Dear Sipe. I have been instructed to forward. and leave with you the enclosed copy -- of the resolutidns adopted at. this meeting by the. special committee 'appointed » by tthe Minne- sota District Union-No.' 11, Western Federation,,.of Miners. ; The' resolutions are plain enough and need no comment of mine. However, I take the liberty to 'serve a. notice on you "that, should at any time any of your employes be dis- charged from work for his connection with our organization, the members of the Western Federation of Miners will at once quit working in and around the mines owned by the company of which you are _ presi- dent. Yours truly, Signed--Teofilo Petriella, Ene. Acting Secretary, M. D. UL For some unknown reason the strike was directed in the first instance against the Steel Corporation' and even yet the independent operators have not been no- tified of the demands of the miners though efforts have been made at vari- ous of their properties by the strikers to force the men who have continued to work to quit. Without waiting however, until July 29 notices were posted at the mines of the Steel Corporation on Saturday ordering the men to quit. Since that time the comparatively large number of miners who did not go out have been intimidated and. threatened with the re- sult that many were frightened into quit- ting. Where the men have not a threat- ened the Steel Corporation is still oper- ating its underground mines, putting the ore on stockpile, elsewhere it has closed them entirely and laid off the men. To many of its men who continued after the _ strike was called it has paid the season bonuses. The mining work in the open pits is entirely suspended except for some stripping work. The = stripping operations and underground mines of the independent 'interests have been inter- (Continued on page 24.)