Rock Island Argus., 1901-09-02
NO CHANGE IN STRIKE
Attempt to Bring Out the Carne-
gle Men Seems to Have
Failed.
THE MILLS ARE STILL RUNNING
contending Claims as to Which
Side Has the Best
of 1t.

Pittsburg, Sept. 2.-The steel strik-
ers who have been trying for a week
TO get the employees of the Carnegie
today and failed. Notwithstanding Q
the house to house canvass by the
strikers last night only two men re-
fused to return to work. The plant
is in full operation.
Pittsburg. Pa. Sept. 2.-Steel Off
that, all reports to the contrary not
withstanding, there is no strike at Du-
tluesne and will be none. They said
all the night-turn men reported for
duty and that the plant is being
worked to its full capacity.
Milwaukee, Sept. 2.-Charges that
the national officers of the Amalga-
mated Association had miSrepresented
tie attitude of the United States Steel
corporation toward organized labor in
order to get the members of the aSsO-
citation out on strike were made by eX-
Vice President !. ID. Hickey at the
meeting of the Bay View lodge yes
terday. In Il cool. unimpaSsiOned man
ncr Hickey gave the members of the
lodge the result of his recent trip to
Pitrsburg. where he went for the pur-
pose of investigating the situation in
regard to the steel strike. and the sit
uation as summed UP by Hickey was
that the strike appeared TO be lost and
it may take years to repair the dam
age TO the association which has al
rp1lV hppu done
No Recommendation Was Made.
Hickey'S report was listened to by
all the men with respectful attention,
and although no vote upon the Ques-
ton of the returning 10 work was
taken the result of HHkeyS mission
is claimed to be that the truth regard
Ing the situation of the steel workers
las for the first time been told bv a
man whose experience and standing
in the organization qualified him 10
speak. Hickey made nG recommends
tion to the lodge as to their future ac-
tion. but il il believed that his speech
may cause Il change in sentiment. not
only in Bay View. but in other places
in the Fourth district.
Reply to Hickey Is Probable
That HickeyS remarks Will be re-
ported in full to the general officers
of the organiZati ton. and that ii may
result in bringing Assistant Secretary
Michael Tighe here again. or some
other representative of the grand
lodge. was the belief OF many of the
members Of the organization. Presi-
dent Redfern stated that so far it ap-
peared to be the opinion of the major
ity that the men should not return to
work until they had been ordered
back by the national officers. Hickey
had little to say of the conference in
Pittsburg with President Shaffer and
other national officers The confer
pnce was mainly of a personal nature.
i'm which President Shaffer was
charged with violating the constitu-
tion i'm ordering the strike.
Statement That Hickey Makes.
Hickey said he got his information
from a man high in office in the east.
and that Morgan Offered Shaffer four
additional mills. for which he was
willing to sign the scale as an expert
ment, and then he told Shaffer that If
the organization kept faith in these
four mills and lived up to the agree
ment he would pledge his word that in
two years every mill in the combine
would he included i'm the contract with
the Amalgamated. This was the most
reasonable proposition which has ever
been made to the association. and it
was clearly the duty of President
ShafTer TO have accepted then and
there. But instead of doing this he
turned it down fatty in a speech in
which he declared that all must be
signed for or none
AT THE DUoUEsNE CARNEGIE PLANT
Strikers Say Tney VIII Tie It Up sure-AII
n Ma Ont