The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-08-16
STRIKERS APPEAL FOR HELP
NO SYMPATHIC STRIKE NOW
Steel workers Hnve Issued Call to-
the Members and Friends of Or
gnnized Labor to Assist Them FL
nnnciaIly.

President Tighe, National Trustee John
Pierce and John Shaifer refused TO see
any callers. Secretary Williams said:
1--WE are in the fight until an honorable
settlement can be reached We are issu-
ing call to the general public for inan-
cial aid"
Williams gave out copies of the call,
which reads as follows:
40 the Members of Organized Labor
Brethren: As you are undoubtedly aware,
the United States Steel corporation is
now waging a war against organized Ia
Dor by making the Amalgamated asso-
citation the subject upon which to begin
operations. At our last convention it
was unanimously decided TO ask the
United States Steel corporation when set
Ting their annual scale with the Amalga-
mated association that they sign or recog-
nize the scale of the Amalgamated asso-
citation in all their mills. When the mat
ter was preached the matter was peremp-
torily refused. After the holding of sew
eral conferences the demand OF our or
oanization was modified so as to take in
only the mills of three of their constitu-
ent companies, viz, the American Sheet
Steel company, the American lin
plate company, and the American Steel
Hoop company, and where local lodges had
been formed, and where the men were
very DESTROYS of being union men, and we
are now out on a strike for recognition
I'm the conferences which were held by
the representatives of the United States
Steel corporation and the Amalgamated
association the representatives OF the UNI
ted States Steel corporations only argu-
ments were that they did not desire the
Amalganated association to become too
powerful, and that they should hold the
balance OF power. Later conferences were
held with the heads of the steel company
which submitted a proposition that we
sign only for the mills that signed last
year, with the exception of the sheet mills
in Salisbury and Scottdale, which were
signed for the year previously. Their
proposition was rejected, as it meant that
the Amalgamated association would mere
ly have to remain in a quiescent state,
while they were expanding and adding to-
their nonunion possessions.
They are wagng fight for the exter-
mination of the Amalgamated association
and of workmen to combine-a principle
which they have demonstrated to the peo-
+ pie of the United States and desire them
: selves, but persistently refuse to grant
us. This blow is not alone directed at
the Amalgamated association, but at or
ganized labor in general, and should they
succeed in defeating the Amalgamated as
ISOLATION it will affect every organized
i body in the United States.
TO succeed in this struggle it will be
necessary to seek the aid of every organ
/ lied body, as well as the general public,
whose sympathies we know are with us in
S the present struggle. To this end we ask
e that you give us your moral and financial
It aid. a liberal response financially will
e materially assist Us in conducting a vic
y torious campaign for principle which is
+ the inalienable right of every free man.
IF you desire to aid the Amalgamated
association in the present struggle financi-
p ally, all the money should be forwarded to
e John Williams, secretary treasurer, Bis
4, sell block Pittsburg, Pa. Fraternally
a yours, T. j. SHAFFER,
4 president.
lie JOHN WILLIAMS,
n "SecretaryTreasurer.
lie IN. T. TIGHE.
Assistant Treasurer.
g "B. /. DAVIS,
a journal Manager
n Brief Statement.
+ Pittsburg, Pa, Aug. l3.-Presiden
d. Shaifer made a brief statement. He said
N 1--WE have no official information abou
d. the situation in the west. do not believ
re Vice President Davis of Chicago has &C
cepted a superintendency from the trus
OF as reported My only regret is that tn
a. men working in the slave pens of the trus
IT, had not spirit enough to come out AM
cd join the strikers. / will not take an
OK part in calling out the American Fedora
re ton of Labor. Its action must be volun
ct tary. The Amalgamated has not los
On anything, but has made gains"
'e' Gains at McINeesport.
"a Pttsburg. Aug. l3.-The strikers mad
:; gains at McKeespOrt and Belaire and II
-. gard the situation more favorable to then
ut Later.
m, Washington, August 13.-Presiden
A Gompers of the American Federation G
N, Labor says that his organization woul
nd use every possible means in it's powe
tn to assist the Aamalgamated Associ;
-ly tion in its strike. Personally he hope
sst that an amicable adjustment of tn
he trouble might be arranged, and e,
in pressed his willingness to cooperate i