The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-06

Wiu Not be Issued Until the End of This or the First of Next Wcek-A GIimmer of Hope for Il Settlement. Pittsburg. Aug. 5.-Just a faint glim-
 mer of hope that the great steel work CTS strike will be settled was embodied in a statement given out by President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Assocla- tion, tonight When asked if he would
 pursue the same policy in ordering a
 strike in the mills of the Federal Steel,
 the National Steel and the National Tube companies as he did in calling out the men in the mills of the American Tin Plate company, he replied: II It had not been for determination on my
 part the general strike would have been ordered on Saturday night"
 Before calling out the tin workers, and after failing to get any satisfac-
 tion from the officials of the American
 Steel and Hoop Iron Works, President
 Shaffer sent a telegram to Vice Presl- dent Warner Arms, of the American Tin Plate company, notifying him that under article 19, section 35, of the con- stitution of the Amalgamated Assocla- tion, he would be obliged to call out the tin workers in all of the mills owned by the United States Steel Corporation un- less the difficulty was settled within a period of ten days.
 As a result of this notice MT. Arms succeeded in getting together confer
 ence and vain attempt was made to settle the dispute and prevent a strike
 which would involve the tin mills. That conference was the one that broke up in the Hotel Lincoln three weeks ago last Saturday.
 In order to be equally fair to the oth- CT constituent companies of the unlteu States Steel Corporati tion and accord them the same treatment, President Shaffer has sent similar notice to the | officers of the Federal Steel company | the National Steel company and the ] National Tube company giving them 1 the same time in which to make any | efforts they may desire to bring about
 settlement, or he will put in force this same clause in the Amalgamated Asso-
 
 | that the delay in issuing the general
 order will be at least until the end or | the present week. Possibly it will not be issued until early next week. In | the meantime the men in the mills or these three companies will be prepared to come out when the strike order IS 1 issued.
 1 The possibility of settlement of the strike is based on the bare hope that l the officials of the three companies Will
 bring to bear sufficient influence to et- 1 feet an adjustment of the difficulties before the trike order Is issued.
 l President Shaffer did not express any hdbe that this would be done, nor did
 he even discuss the matter, but the in
 ference was quickly seen that there was
 such probability in sight It Is a faint one, though, and but little interest
 was taken in 1t in the general offices or | the association to-day.
 l In an interview given out tonight | MT. Shaffer said he would delay calling out the other union men in the mills Of
 the United States Steel Corporation for
 the reasons stated above. He said that
 he believed that the strike was on for
 some time He was convinced that 1t
 would be a victory for the workers in 1 the organization.
 | Regarding the publication of charges
 that the Amalgamated Association will be violating contracts with the constit- uent companies with which they had
 signed scales for the present year, Pres ident Shaffer said that all contracts
 and all scales are signed at all times 1 subject to the provisions of the consti-
 tuition of the Amalgamated Association.
 The officials of the companies affected,
 or likely to be affected, he said, are full
 ly aware of the provisions that 1t con
 tains for this very difficulty. It was | false. and, he said whoever had de- | liberately made this statement was
 either knave or densely ignorant of i the true situation
 | Vice President Frederick Williams, of | the Alabama fields of the Amalgamated | Association, was in Pttsburg to-day
 for a brief time. He was particularly l interested in the reports of the ship
 ment of negro labor from the south to
 the mills of the trust. He said the sto-
 ries concerning the bringing of colored l
 The fact was that there were not over
 a dozen skilled workers to be found in | the south, and there were in the unions.
 New York, Aug. 5.-A meeting of the
 board of delegates of the Building
 Trad of this city was held to-day and
 the Annalgamated association strike
 WAS considered. After some discussion
 set of resolutions was adopted which attack the United States Steel corpora
 tion and charge 1t with trying to break
 up the unonism of workingmen. l Resolved, That we, ~the board of ] delegates of the Building Trades of New York in meeting assembled 1 pledge our moral and financial support
 to the utmost extent to the stee
 workers in their great strike and that | if the American Federation of Labor considers it necessary to ask us to dc
 so, we will refuse to handle the product
 of the Steel Trust as long as the strike
 lasts. We believe that the winning of
 this strike by the Amalgamated asso-
 citation is of vital importance
 | Washington, Aug. 5.-Secretary Frank Morrison, of the American Federation of Labor, said tonight there were nc new developments of consequence ir the matter of the steel strike from the Federation's standpoint During the day an inquiry had come from the ] Amalgamated association officials re- garding President Gompers' where l I,ax