Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-12
STORIES Of SETTLEMENT
ARE POSITIVELY DENIED.
PRESIDENT sHAFFER sAYs HE HAS
NOT BEEN ORDERED TO END
THE STRIKE.
MORE MEN WERE PUT TO WORK
IN sourH SIDE. PITTSBURG, PLANTS
YESTERDAY-THE GENERAL
SITUATION.

i StOii VI q RCdtSiti cttttNhithS
of the strike were heard to-day with
much force and persistency. President
Shaffer continued to deny them en-
phatically and said that the battle
would go on until they won. He de-
MED that the executive board had in
structed him to settle the strike on
any terms and said that he would not
go to New York or make any further
peace move for the present.
While the president of the Amalga-
mated Association was standing in this
position. the officials of the United
States Steel Corporation were putting
forth active efforts to start their
plants.
This was particularly the case on the
South Side. During to-day the COM
pany held the strikers pickets back by
a show OF police and got a lot Of pro-
visions, cooking utensils and cots for
the men to sleep on into the Monon-
gahela plant of the American Tin Plate
Company. 1t was oficially announced
at the same time that there was an
ample number Of men ready to enter
the plant and start the mills as soon
as they we're in readiness.
While the strikers were watching
these movements the officials of the
same company showed greater activity
about the Star mills. About IL o'clock
in the morning a car loaded with skill
ed men for the Star plant arrived in
the Union station. These men were
taken to the plant.
without Any interference
from the strikers as none were about
at the time. The pickets that had been
guarding the works had zone over to
the South Side to take part in the
of the strikers there. In
the carload was about sixty men. They
we're all men who had worked in tin
mills and among them were rollers,
roughers and catchers. They came
from the east anu IL 10 sdiu Hiuuy Vi
them had broken away from the ranks
OF the strikers in other mills and had
sought work in new localities under
assumed names. With this increased
force, the Star plant is practically fill
ed with skilled men and will be able to
operate all OF the mills there on full
x,,rps Tho aYorfo ~ fn-Huu II 10 hp-
lieved, have practically ended all pos
sibilities of the ~Amalgamated Associa-
ton ever getting back the Star mills
into their control as the men who have
gone to work there have declared their
intention of remaining as individuals
for all time.
President Shaffer discussed the trou-
BILE of yesterday on the South Side and
said he deplored it sincerely. He fur
Their said that any member Of the ANAL
gamated Association who was guilty
of such actions again would be
Dropped From the Rolls,
as such actions only injured the cause
and aided the combine in it's purpose.
The same rule would apply to violence
in McKeesport. Other officials of the
Amalgamated Association also express
ed themselves strongly in this matter.
Secretary Williams said he was pre-
pairing to send out the second Install
ment of strike benefits during the day
o-I xvo,,l1 bo no fhapn oil nrtf during tho
week.
The number to receive benefits Is not
more thar 10, 000, and this will require
about SAC, 900 weekly. II is claimed
claimed that the ~Amalgamated trea-
sury reimbursed by the lodges whose
members are at work will be able to
meet the payments with the aid Of
funos contributed by sympathizers.
The Hungarian strikers at McKees-
port held an indignation meeting to-
night and decided that IL they could
not draw benefits sure and quick they
would draw out of the strike. Strike
leaders have tried every means to p
ppdSe tuelT anger Jul tuC iCouit 10
doubtful.
Fires in the Monongahela steel works
which were scheduled to start to-day,
have been drawn. All repairs are sus-
pended and the men sent home. Fires
are still on in the National tube mill
and the report of indefinite shut down
cannot be confirmed. Demmler mill is
working smoothly, one-sixth capacity
and small increases each day in num-
Der Of employees. Pittsburg, McKees-
port and Youghiogheny railroad detec-
tives were driven of the tracks near
the mill to-day by a crowd Of strikers
whom they ordered off the company
property. Thomas Ennis, an old nan
employed at the tube works. was badly
beaten on his way to the mill to-day.
The New York Council
OF the National Tube Company met
with the local council at Pittsburg to-
day to discuss the strike. 1t was an
rounced that the council adjourned
withent taking nnal action and will