Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-11
PRIEST SHAFFER ORDERED
TO END THE STEEL STRIKE.
AMAleAMATEp EXECUTIVE BOARD
SAID TO HAVE GIVEN In
sTRUCTIoNs
THAT THE TROUBLE MUST END.
SERIOUS DISTURBANCES At Mo.
kEEspour y ON THE SOUTH
SIDE, P~irTsBURG.

I'll obttA1t itst Stpts ius-ITt>i-
dent Shaffer and his advisors in tho
general office hold the power by au-
thority of the general executive board
to settle the strike.
On Monday the executive board d.
rected President shaffer together with
Secretary Williams, Assistant Secreta-
ry Tighe. and Ben I. Davis to settle
without delay on tho best terms obs
tainahle.
Since then there has been no action
but It is said that President Shaffer Is
seeking to reopen direct negotiations
in the hope of getting better terms
thar those submitted to the Civic Fed
Grafton.
These terms were neither accepted
nor rejected by the board. Instead, u
resolution was passed directing the best
possible settlement In the least possible
time.
The terms submitted provided SIM
ply for signing of scales for all union
plants of the Tin Plate, Sheet Steel and
Steel Hoop companies. except such M
had been started since the strike be-
gan.
The executive committee passed ita
resolution by a bare majority. Shat
fer suggested that the board remain
for further conference. At the meet
lua, Afaalnxv thn h,avI na IN thu nrau.
ident unanimous support for the best
settlement that he may be able to Sc
cure, with no conditions.
President Shaffer has e~ndeavored
through Chief Engineer G, w. Bray, Of
the American Tin Plate Company to
re-open direct negotiations, but fall
ed. and the combine stands to offer no
better terms than those given the Civ
&c Federation.
II Is said by the corporation that as
fast as additional mills are started
they will be eliminated from the un-
ion list.
The combine officials are busy with
arrangements to start idle mills. The
plant at Chester, w. Va, is scheduled
for an early start.
The day here was full of action, and
Indications point to lively times.
Early to-day a gang of bricklayers
attempted to enter the National tube
plant at Mckeesport. The strikers in
great number turned them back. No
violence resulted, but had the work.
men Insisted on their rights to enter,
some one would surely have been hurt.
The tube workers, turned back yeBter-
day, did not venture a second attempt
to-day.
This notice was posted on the fence
around the Demmler mill at noon.
Referring to notice Of August 9th,
issued by the American Tin Plate Co..
we state that the same conditions ex-
list to-day, no negotiations are on foot
for a settlement of the strike and the
Demmler mill will now and forever af-
ter be run the same as other mills or
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
The Monongahela rim Plate company
this evening endeavored to place In the
plant cots and provisions. When tho
first wagon crossed the Smithfeld street
bridge It was met by a crowd of women
and children and the driver told to turn
back. He obeyed and the crowd repoiced.
When the driver of a cab containing six
negro workmcn saw the crowd he trun--
ed back to the Carnegie building.
A wagon carrying 50 cots got to Four
teenth street, where women cut the ropes
holding the load.
The driver continued, the cots dropping
off at every turn. Women poured oil ov-
err The cots and two huge bonfires were
soon blazing, while the women did a wal
dance and pelted each other with pill
lows and bedding.
The men kept in the background. con-
tent with the women's work.
The bar mill at Painter started on
night run today, with rs men. The Star
tin plant and Lindsay e. McCutcheon
claim increased production of better quail
ity and expect to be in full operation
soon.
Reports from other portions of the dis
trict show no material change.
Al McKeesport onigh three workmen
were set upon by strike sympathizers and
badly beaten.
For the most part the crowd is foreign
and the toughest mob McKeesport has
seen for many years. Twenty-Five extra
policemen nave been sworn in and num-
erous arrests have been made. The
strikers claim to be innocent of any vio-
lence. g