The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-12
SAVANNAH, GA, MONDAY. AUGUST 10,


it would enable manufacturers to ask
the same concession from US. and this
we have in the past declined to grant,
because we feared the results. This
arbitration being turned down fiat and
Internationally, those who have been
urging us to submit to II will have a
chance to prove their interest and
friendship for us in our inevitable bat
tie with the greatest trust that was
ever organized.
Arbitration is what the manufac-
turers have been asking from us for
years. 1t opens a new phase entirely
in the situation. II the manufacturers
think they can stamp out our organi-
zation they are certainty laboring un-
der the greatest mistake of their lives.
If they should defeat us now, it will
only cause a new and a stronger labor
organization to rise up in our place
within a few years that would have
graver meaning to it. If the United
States Steel Trust Is wise 1t will deal
with us. 1t is TO their interest to do
so. Men in this country will never
submit to being obliterated. you can
depend upon that. Further
than this, I can say
at this time will not be the last to
come out before this fight is %over.
There will be thousands that will be
drawn into the struggle as the organi-
cations of the entire country are vitality
Interested in the fight we are making,
and feel that their own future depends
on our success. Our position has been
fair at all times. There has been no
suggestion for peace that we have not
considered and acted upon while the
trust has from the start declined to
even DISCUSS the question.
Il tell you, this question will have to
be settled in some way If not by
peaceful strikes, then by legislation. If
that fails the ballot will be tried. If
all else fails believe that it will result
in an appeal to the bayonet. / tell you
there Is a condition existing to-day
that places this country on the eve of
one of the greatest revolutions that
ever could occur in the history of the
world"
The Amalgamated Association has
begun it's appeal to the other organiza-
tions of the country. They believe that
fund of fully $l.OOO,000 will be con-
tributed to them, and that they will
secure sympathetic action.
According to a conservative estimate
made tonight it is believed that the
refusal of the steel workers at Chicago.
Joliet and Milwaukee to obey Presi-
dent Shaffer's general strike order will
reduce the number of new strikers to-
morrow to about 5000.
Spirit of CaImness Pervades.
Pittsburg passed the first day of the
strike in a spirit of calmness. There
are strong undercurrents of sentiment
and sympathy running through popu
lar feeling, but there were few surface
indications of them. 1t was a bright,
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filled with holiday crowds. There SEEM
ed to be a general agreement to throw
off the worry and evils of the serious
labor conflict for the time being. The
strikers and their leaders kept a close
watch on the strike situation, however.
The early reports were unfavorable to
them, for they showed that the ie-
sponses to the general order to go out
had not been as large as
they had been led to ex-
pect They seemed confident, how
ever, that more men would decide to
strike to-day and that the showing by
Monday would be satisfactory to them.
The strikers did not congregate in
force at any point and there was not
a suggestion of disorder anywhere The
police authorities reported at 5 o'clock
that they had no word of prospective
trouble anywhere.
President Shaffer spent the day
quietly at his home in this city. He
received. reports from a number of his
lieutenants, but during the day denied
himself to callers. He holds rather
strict ideas as to Sabbath observance,
and throughout the strike has insisted
that as little as possible be done on
that day. When an Associated Press
representative called at the house to-
day he was received by Mrs. Shaffer,
wife of the strike leader.
Shafrer Sees No One.
my husband can see no one to-day"
she said HE is resting and preparing
himself for the work ahead of him to-
morrow and through the week. He
will be at the Amalgamated Associa-
ton headquarters tomorrow, and can
be seen there by anyone wishing to see
him."
The day at McKeesport passed with
out any startling developments. The
indications are that the Demmler plant
of the American Tin Plate Company
will start up soon. superintendent
Pitcock, who has just started on two
weeks vacation, has been recalled from
Virginia and work is being pushed
rapidly on high board fences around
the plant. Steam is being kept up in
the boilers and all indications point
to an early resumption.
Many meetings were held to-day by
the workers, but no results are made
known except the announcement by
the strikers that many new members
were taken into the organization.
The rolling men of the National Tube
Company have been ordered to report
for work at o'clock Monday morning.
The strikers make the boast that few
will respond. The company officials,
however, seem to have no doubt of
their success.