The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-13
STEEL STRIKE SITUATION
AIR AGAIN FULL OF RUMORS OF 4
 RETIREMENT.

All Denied by President Shaffer-Steel
 Trust Has Refused to Further Deal
 With AmaIgamated Association-
 Proposittons of Strikers Will Hence
 forth be Left in Hands of Local
 Officials.
 Pittsburg, Sept. 12-The air was again full of rumors to-day that the strike had been settled. The absence of President Shaffer from Amalgamat- ed headquarters all day up to p. m. lent color to the report. By many MT. Shaffer was supposed to be in New York in conference with President Schwab and others were convinced that he was in conference with the Ameri- can Tin Plate officials, discussing proposition to call the strike off so far as that company was concerned. When President Shaffer finally appeared at headuuarters he dispelled all hopes by saving there was no change in the sit uation.
 Immediately after arriving at the of flee Mir Shaffer called the national of- ficers to his room for conference which lasted forty minutes. It was impossible to learn what the talk was about as none of the party would talk To an Associated Press representative the president, as he was about to board car for home, said: There has been no conference with the Steel people to- day, as has been reported. have not been to New York"
 President Shaffer said further: 1T was home until very late. I was not feel ing very we'll and did not come down town. That accounts for my absence. MT Shaffer said he had not heard Of any developments to-dar and repeated the assertion that he wan going home to rest and would not leave the city to- day.
 If was said at Amalgamated head ouarters to-day that the steel combine has refused to entertain any further propostions of settlement from the Amalaamated association. This would seem to strengthen the report from New York that the situation is now in inst the shape that it was before the first conference at Cleveland in the hands of the constituent companies for settlement; that MT. Schwab and MT. Morgan have turned the matter over to the local officials and that if anything is done it must be done by them, and not by the officers in New York. With drawn revolvers two officers, one a. coal and iron policeman, the other said to be a regular officer on the South Side police force sat on the top seat Of cab and guarded the workmen going into the Monongahela tin plate plant, on the South Side, this afternoon. great crowd of strikers and sympathiz- CTS pursued the cab to and rom the mill. and when the return trip was be- p,n both officers once more drew their r,,rs and at Fourteenth and Carson s+reets one shot was fired from the cab. | Fortunately no one was nit. The streets in the vicinity of the Mononga- ha,a plant are virtually in state of siege.
 Rv A system of signals and picketing tho strikers of the Monongahela plant are able to mobilize a great crowd on verv short notice. This was worked ta-day to perfection. Up to o'clock the streets about the plant were com r,ratively deserted, but when the word was passed that cab was en route to tho mill with six non-unionists the streets became black with people in a | few minutes.
 When the rig made it's appearance with the armed guard aboard pande- noonium reigned. The crowd hooted and ..,;ceilaS vyara thrown The hOrSas | were whipped into gallop and the mill was reached without serious damage | having been done.
 When the cab started on its return | iourney the former proceedings were repeated. At the corner of Carson and | Fourteenth streets several persons at- tempted to catch the horses by the bri- dies, and it was then that the shot was fired. Great confusion followed, and