Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1901-08-17
ALL DID NOT STRIKE
Western Men Refused To Obey
Skaters Order.
TRUST DECLINED ARBITRAT ION
A Solution With Bayonet Some Day Pre-
dicted by AmaIgamated official if
Strikes and the Ballot Fail.

dicted by Amalgamated official if
Strikes and the Ballot Fail
Pittsburg. Aug. 12.-Steel Trust
men are claiming victory in the gem
eral strike which began Saturday
evening.
They base their claim on the refusal
of the Amalgmaated Association men
at South Chicago and Joliet, H.,
and Bay View, Wis, to obey the gem
eral strike order of President Shaffer
and on their success in maintaining
operation in other plants where 1T
was expected there would he serious
trouble. The strike leaders meet
these claims of victory with the as
sertion that their cause is making
satisfactory progress and that they
will show themselves masters of the
situation before the contest has pro-
crossed much further. They do not
conceal their disappointment at the
refusal Of their Western brethren to
1Olu Iu6Iu al tilC Stiih6.
President Shaffer refused to be in
terviewed, and kept watch i'll the
seclusion OF his home. He holds
stri ct ideas as to Sabbath observance
and throughout the strike has insisted
that as little as possible be done on
that day. When reporter called at
~ L l. rnoatuAd NV rc
Shaffer, wife of the strike lea der.
my husband can see no one to-
day, = she said. He is resting and
preparing himself for the work ahead
of him tomorrow and through the
week. He will be at the Amalgamat-
ed Association headquarters Monday
wishi ng to see him. =
STRIKERS PREDICT GAIN S
LATER.
The leaders who were seen intimat-
ed that there would be developments
throughout the week that would
materially change the situation. They
would not say what they had in mind
or how their cause was to gain in
strength. 1t was said that they were
counting upon strong aid from the
American Federation of Labor and
other organizations of union men, but
those bodies have not yet given any
public indication of what they will
do.
The Amalgamated Association has
developed great strength in the
Wheeling district and has made gains
in some of the Pennsylvania districts.
TRUST OFFICIALS ELATED.
The steel officials were in commune
cation with their superintendent
and district managers and at ii p. m.
made public the result of their re-
ports. The latter showed that South
Chicago, Joliet and Bay Veiw had
voted to stay in, that the Ohio works
of the National Steel Company, at
Youngstown, and the King, Gilbert
and Warner plant of the company at
Columns, has resumed without trouble
that the Homestead, Edgar Thomas.
Duquesne, Upper and Lower, Union
and Howard Axle Works of the Car
negle group employing more than 10,
600 men had resumed withouttrouble
that the converting and blooming
mills of the National Tube Company
at McKeesport, had started without
difficulty and that Bellaire had been
only partly crippled. They were also
advised that the men of the Boston
Rolling Mills, at McKeesport, had
notified the National Tube Company
that they would go out tomorrow and
that while the National plant at Nc
Keesport would be started in the
morning it was certain that many
would go ont. 1t was admitted that
the Wheeling plants were crippled.
When the general strike edict of
President Shatfer went into effect
every mill of the National Steel Com
pany the Federal Steel Company for
which the union scale has heretofore
been signed, became non-union. Up
on the entrance of each mill was post
ed this notice:
NOTICE - This mill will start
non-union Monday morning.
National Vice President Walter
Larkins, of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation, discussing the situation in
the Wheeling district, said
AT the Riverside plant of the
National Tube Company the plate
and tube mills will be off Monday and
possibly the steel departments. AL
ready we have taken into membership
in the Amalgamated $50. of the 800
skilled men at the Riverside. The re-
manning $50 workers in the steel de-
partments have asked us to call a