Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-02
HICKEY SANS hrs LOST
Reports This After His Investigation
Scores Schaffer and other Lead

Milwaukee, Sept. 2.-The statement
that the steel Workers strike is lost, ac-
companied with scathing denunciatiun
of the officers of the Amalgamated AS
ISOLATION, was made yesterday before a
largely attended meeting OF the Bay
View Lodge by ]. D. Hickey, who last
| week went to Pittsburg to investigate
the situation for the information OF the
Milwaukee strikers.
The Bay View men took no vote on
the course they are to follow, but it is
expected that the statements of Hickey
will have considerable weight with them
and that their effect may be shown Sat-
urday, when the strikers are to hold
their next meeting.
Almost all the members of the lodge
We're present at the meeting, number
having come from other cities where
they have taken places. The session
lasted five hours. Mr. Hickey was for
twelve years vice president of the Anal
gamated Association for this district
and since the present trouble began has
been the leader of the conservatives in
the lodge. He spoke quietly and in an
urimpassioned manner, which gave his
words more effect
He charged that President Shaffer had
deliberately misrepresented the position
of the members of the United States
Steel Corporation in regard to union la
Dor in order to get the members Of the
Amalgamated Association to go on a
strike.
Mr.. Hickey reported that 70 per cent
of the mills are now running, and that
in his opinion the strike is practically
lost.
Mr.. Hickey reviewed the conferences
held between the representatives of the
United States Steel Corporation and the
Amalgamated Association. He main
tanned that the proposition offered by
Mr. Morgan was eminently fair, and
should have been accepted right there
by President Shaffer if he had the in
telests of his fellow workers at heart,
II obtained these facts from man
high in office in the east" said Mr..
Hickey. who was present at the con-
fernce. and / afterward confirmed the
statements from members of the execu-
tive board. Judge Gary. former presi-
dent Of the Federal Steel Company, was
present at the conference and he is now
!:sgh official OF the United States Steel
Corporation. He himself, am informed
, was in favor Of signing the scale for all
the mills in the combine, but this did
not meet with the approval of Mr..
Schwab, who thought 1t too radical q
move.
Mr.. Morgan then offered Shaffer four
additional mills for which he was will
ing to sign the scale as an experiment,
and then he told Mr.. Shaffer that If the
Organization kept faith in these four
mills and lived up to the agreement he
would pledge his word that in two years
every mill in the combine would be in
Guided in the contract with the Amalga-
mated Association.
This was the most reasonable propo-
sition that has ever been made to the
association, and it was clearly the duty
Ct President Shaffer to accept it then
and there. But instead Of doing this he
turned it down fatty in speech in
which he declared that all must be
signed for or none. He apparently
wished to impress the steel officials with
the belief that the association would
compel them to sign for all whether
they wished to or not. The representa-
tives OF the corporation, however, would
not be forced or dictated to in this man
ner and they broke of the conference.
Since that time there has been no con-
ference or offer Of compromise.
me combine has no intention of
opening fight on organized labor and
would not hayeeione SO II they had not
been forced into this position as they
We're by the course taken by Presiden.
smarter There IL no doubt now, how
ever, that they are out to defeat the
association, as they have repeatedly de-
clared they will hold no more confer