Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1891 — OYCOTTING CARNEGIE. [ARTICLE]

OYCOTTING CARNEGIE.

Mmrafavturers Trying to Cut Him Ont of His Supplies of Cast Iron for Building, It is staffed in New York that there is war in the iron trade, and the story fun® thus;- “The fight is to be made against Andrew Carnegie and his associates, and the opposition to him will be directed through the. house of J. B. &J. M. Cornell and other New York iron manufacturers allied with them. The Carnegie association do not make cast iron, and as the girders in buildings are usYtstlV of cast iron, Mr. Carnegie has to give out contracts for all the girders lie requires. Instead. however, of contracting with persons building, Mr. Carnegie’s agents make what is known as direct contracts. The result is thai such cast-iron linns as A. R Whitney, the agent of Andrew Carnegie, considers ill a position io do thexvdrk satisfactorily, get the preference of all others. Last week, a meeting attended by the representatives of the firm of J. B. A J. Nl. Cornell and others was held to fqrmulata aboycottwgainst Mr. Carnegie,- and yesterday the matter was freely discussed by prom inent jfon men. Air. A.’ R. Whitifey said he had just spoken with Messrs. Carnegie and Phipps, of Pittsburg, in relation to the matter, assuring them that they had nothing-to fear from the combine whatever. “We have made, it a rule to contract directly with the proprietors, instead of taking their orders for iron indirectly through contractors. We can get as much cast iron as we require, and no such boycott as this can injure us in the least.” Mr. W. S. Baldwin, of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, said he could not see how such a boycott could succeed. President Harrison has ordered an investigation into the. lynching of Hunt at Walla Wa la. bv United States soldiers.