Show CAUSE FOR STRIKE American Steel and Wire Company Give their Side of Case Cleveland 0 Jan 35 Chairman Dates of the American Steel and AVIro company today made the CollowJric statement for the Associated Press con cerning the strike of rod mill men I Our company has 28SSO men on Its payroll at tho present time Of this I number not to exceed 400 arc In tho I Cleveland district asking for an ad vance of 10 per cent as against thu ad vance of 7 yA per cent which yc granted on January 1st These men are known as rod mill men and v orlc in four of our mills in Cleveland and will probably lo cause us suspend operations there We havo a total nf twentyone rod mills and arc longtime taking the product of three more und r I I contract to that wc have the C product ot twenty mHls out 01 twenty fOUl running day and night which Is r practIcally aU the r1h9 Wc I can dIspose I of In J1nlshet1 product It Is I btl i barely possible these men nSit object to the > 2i per cent I that we ttro I putting In a 8inklnc fund for the bene I fit of all l our mill 1 n5 employees In that and event wmfhl labor trouble Is not serious would not materially Interfere with our output ir none of these mills were operated In the nrxnl vtar |