The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-02
ACCUSES STRIKE LEADERS
ATTITUDE OF THE STEEL TYR USI
 MIsREPRESENTED
Charges Made Before Milwaukee Work CTS Against Amalgamated Officials by Former Vice Presiden Hickey-He De- clares the Strike is Practically Lost Shnffer Charged With Violating the Constitution.
Constitution.

Milwaukee, Sept. 1.-Charges that the
 national officers of the Amalgamated
 association had msrepresented the at
 titude of the United States Steel cor
 poration toward organized labor in or | der to get the members of the associa- | ton on strike were made by Former
 Vice President J. T. Hickey at a meet | ing of the Bayview lodge to-day. In
 a cool unimpassioned manner MT.
 Hickey gave the members of the lodge
 the result of his recent trip to Pitts burg, where he went to investigate the situation in regard to the steel strike. The situation, as summed up by MT.
 Hickey, is that it may take years to
 repair the damage to the association,
 which has already been done. The
 strike is practically lost, he said, as 72 per cent. of the mills are working. MT.
 Hickey made no recommendation to the lodge as to its future action, but it is believed that his speech may cause a change in sentiment, not only in Bay- view, but in other places in the Fourth district.
 President Joseph Redfern of the local lodge presided and when 1t had con- cluded he stated that there had been no vote taken, although no one had questioned the accuracy of MT. Hick- ey's statement.
 MT. Hickey had little to say of the conference in Pittsburg with President Shaffer and other national officers. The conference was mainly of personal nature, in which President Shaffer was charged with violating the constitution in ordering the strike. Many other matters dealing with the history of the association also came up for discus sion. MT Hickey's mission east was mainly to ascertain the exact situation of the strike and to learn every detail of the New York meeting.
 Pittsburg, Sept. 1.-The principal in- terest in strike matters to-day was centered in the Duquesne plant where it was expected the strikers would make a decided move toward closing down the entire works.
 The report from there tonight says the situatio is critical. The two boss melters and all first helpers went to work as usual this morning and all twelve furnaces were charged. Only one second helper went in and all ladle | men stayed out. The strikers made a thorough house to house canvass of | open hearth men all day. At o'clock | the time for helpers and ladle men to 1 go on, pickets were on duty on the | streets and turned back three ladle | men. The night turn is badly crippled | but men were brought from the Bes- | semer department to help out and the mill is running full. Sixty of the day | men are out and the strikers say not 3 man will report tomorrow morning.
 If the open hearth is shut down the forty inch mill must also shut down. This mill supplies Monessen, Wander grift and other tin mills, hence the movement is important to the strikers. Mill officials admit to-day that a strike Is on but say no serious results will fol- low.
 Thirty coal and iron police were brought from Braddock and the night and day borough police with four ex- -ras are on duty. Everything so far las been conducted in an orderly man. Ter.
 A conservative estimate of the mount of strike benefits that are to be paid by the Amalgamated Association o its striking members now idle has )een placed at s40000 every week. This S passing the number at $4 a week. Secretary Williams of the association
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