The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-15
STRIKE IS LOST.
Continued from First Page.1

a fight and called upon to defend our
selves we are fighting on successfully.
know OF no plan for a settlement and
can assure you that no representative
OF the steel corporation has been TO
LneSe headquarters The statement IN
a morning paper that there is a move
ment to depose me and that we are not
working in harmony, is a lie. 1t IS more
than false. it is lie"
Rev. Fitzwilliams interrupted to say:
Brother Shaffer you ought to go east
and mold meeting. They don't under
stand the question there"
That's right said Mr. Shaders and
we may get down there yet have no
report from Mr.. Tighe at Chicago. He
went with full authority to act for me-
IL the lodges do not come out their
charters viii be taken. Brother Tighe
knows my hand fully and has the au-
thOrity. Mr. Kelly of Milwaukee and
Mr. Adams of Joliet are here, but have
not had time to talk to them. If clos
ing down mills and winning men are
a success we are successful Personally
I wish the strikes were settled have
no reports from the Lower Union mill,
but our fight goes well. can not dis
close our plans or tell you of our hid
den strength, that will be shown when
the men come OUT
There was no material change In the
strike situation today. There were no
moves made on either side in the vicin-
ity of Pittsburg and reports from the
other strike centers were to the effect
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the officials of the Amalgamated as
ISOLATION are considering plans to ex-
despite the decision of the local lodges
to remain at work Their organizers
who We're SO successful IN wheeling
district, have, it is said, been given in
structiOns to hold themselves in readi-
ness to start west. There is a secret
conference in progress at the strike
headquarters today but its nature and
participants are not known One re-
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resentative of the Detroit lodge has
reached here and is closeted with Pres
ident Shaffer and his associates. PreSI-
dent Shaffer left the conference for a
time and when asked by a representa-
tive of the Associated Press If Mr.
Kelly was at headquarters said:
Il can not tell you who is meeting
with US. Later in the day I may tell
you something. The general strike sit
uation is very satisfactory. We had
splendid meeting at Wheeling yester-
day and 7 am very well pleased"
None Of the other officials would talk
for publication. President Shaffer said
that the nomination for the presidency
Of the United States offered to him at
Wheeling was a. joke. The short crews
at work in the Painter and Lindsay
& McCutcheon mills resumed work to-
day and no attempt was made at either
place to add to the force. Two crews
are at work at the former and one at
the latter. The lower Union mill of the
Carnegie company is still in operation.
but the final result there is in doubt.
The Amalgamated men are making ev-
cry possible effort to get the force re-
duced to a point where the plant viii
have to close down and the company
seems just as determined to keep it go
ing. Victory will be priced by which
ever side wins. Each claims that it IS
sure of success. The strikers look for
further impairment of the productive
capacity of the National Tube COM
panR and claim every additional plant
closed down brings them nearer to sue
cess. They say they are getting more
encoura cement every day and that
they are receiving all the support fin
ancia1 and otherwise from other unions
than they counted on in their original
plans. McKeesport advfces are to the
effect that there is nothing new in the
situation The strike leaders, have
warned their followers to avoid trouble
and the city is quite orderly Wellsville
reports that those men were brought to
the mill from ScottdaIe yesterday. They
We're allowed to enter the plant without
being interfered with. The strike
breakers are quartered at the mill and
the only demonstrations against them
come when the non-union men go down
into the town.