The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-10-09
SOME THINGS
ABOUT SHAPFER.
Opinions Of His Fellows Are
Not All Favorable.
MUCH PAY AND LITTLE WORK
That Is the way q Puddier Puts II, and
Thinks Ofcers should he
Paid as the Puddiers
Are Paid.

Paid as the Puddlers
Are Paid.
Pittsburg, Oct. 5.-The Post says: Iron
and steel workers are being heard from
in vigorous terms on the subject of pros.
perity under the reign of the trusts.
The services of President Shaffer, of the
Amalgamated association, as a cam
paign speaker in Ohio, have been reject
ed by Chairman Dick, as the workers
suspect, because the trusts believe that
in the face of wage reductions and clos
ing mills he would do more harm than
good. Besides this, we'll posted mill
employees are coming to the front and
showing their fellowworkmen that trust
government is bringing an area in which
the great majority will be out of en-
ployment, while those who have work
will work for less wages and under less
favorable conditions than the mill men
have heretofore had to endure.
Secretary M. F. Tighe, of the Amalga-
mated association, says that President
Shaffer, has been in his Office only two
hours during the past three weeks.
IT have heard" said Mr.. Tighe, that
Mr.. Shaffer was rejected as a stump
speaker by Chairman Dick, of Ohio, and
also that he said he has so much re-
spect for trusts that he never called
them trusts. This is every word true,
and the knowledge that President Shaf-
fer has spoken In that way has caused
any amount of talk in the association.
"It was at a conference with manu-
facturers that Shaffer made his remark
about trusts, and he wanted to be con-
ciliatory to the manufacturers, but 1t
was unfortunate that he should have
said anything of the kind. With an 8
per cent reduction forced upon them, all
our members have realized how detri-
| mental to the workingmen these combi-
| nations are, and every day angry ex-
presslons are to be heard in this Office
| against McKinleyism and the COM
bines."
NJ. P. Sullivan, member of the wage
conference committee of the Amalga-
mated association, which a week ago
agreed to scale reducing wages, has
made declaration. He is credited with
|
and steel workers in the Pittsburg dis
trict will vote for Bryan. AS reasons
for this he gives the reductions in
wages in all the mills controlled by the
Amalgamated association, the notice Of
the Carnegie Steel company of change
in scale and the closing down of the
Federal Steel company's plant at Toilet.
Mr.. Sullivan Is also credited with being
incensed at the action Of President
Shaffer in offering to resign to take the
stump for Mckinley in Ohio.
| Vice President John Pierce, of the
Amalgamated ASSOCIATION, is emphatic IN
the declaration that the alleged pros
perity does not exist. He said:
| Thousands of workmen will vote
against the administration which sup
ports trusts and their kindred evils.
While Mark Hanna is talking about
the prosperity of the workingmen their
wages are being hammered down all
along the line.
| "While the Spanish war was in pro-
gress we had the prosperity that comes
Of the strife between nations. When
that conflict closed all the big manu-
| featuring concerns of the country re-
turned to their old movement to form
combines. These trusts are the worst
enemies that the honest laborer could
have. They rob him of his indepen-
dence. Every week there Is a new COM
bine' created, and all along the line we
hear of reduction of wages.
II don't know whether President
Shaffer ever intended to take
the stump for the Republican
party or not. For my part 1 think
Amalgamated association members
who want to take the stump should 60
to Indiana for the Democratic party and
show by wage reduction and trust
tyranny that 1t is time for a change
in the administration which fosters all
these oppressors of labor"
Secretary williams said he had heard
that Chairman Dick had first engaged
President Shaffer to take the stump,
but after the setback results Of the
scale conference at Cincinnati had said
Shaffer's appearance on the stump as an
advocate Of the administration would
prove a regular boomerang.
| A member of s. A. Gourley lodge,
Amalgamated association, of the South
side, writing to the Post, says that the
settlement of the scale, as effected, is in
the interest of the trusts. He suggests
that IL Mr. Shaffer wants to resign to
make speeches for Mckinley. whom he
denominated the father of the trusts, he
ought to be allowed to do so, and that
hereafter the officers Of the Amalgamat-
ed association should be paid in the
same manner as the puddlers are paid,
that is for the work they do. The writer
is puddler and advocates puddlers OBJ
serving the scale for the next year, now
that II Is made, and then cutting loose