The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-08-15
Both Sides Of The Great Steel War
Claim Victory.
PRESIDENT SHAFfER NOT TALKING,
Some of The Workers Refuse to Go
Out On President Shaffer's Orders,
While Aid Is Expected From The
Federation of Labor.

Pittsburg, Specialize iron masters
are claiming victory in the great steel
strike. They base their claims upon
the refusal of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation at Chicago, Joliet and Bay
View to obey the general strike order
OF President Shaffer, and the success
in maintaining operations in other
plants where it was anticipated
there would be serious trouble. The
strike leaders meet the claims of vic
tory with the assertion that their cause
is making satisfactory progress and
that they will show themselves mas
ters CT the situation before the con-
test has progressed much further.
They do not conceal their disappoint-
ment az the refusal CT their Western
brethren to join with them in the
strike, but none of the leaders would
discuss the detection. President Shat
fer refused to meet the newspaper
men who sought him and kept within
the seclusion of his home. The other
leaders who were seen intimated that
there would be developments Monday
and throughout the week which would
materially change the situation. They
would not say, however, what they
had in mind or how their cause was
to gain strength. 1t was said they
were counting upon strong aid from
the American Federation Of Labor and
other organizations Of union labor,
though these bodies have not yet
given any public indication Of what
they will do. The Amalgamated Asso-
citation has developed great strength
in the Wheeling district and has made
gains in some of the Pennsylvania dis
tricts, but it will be Monday before
the lines of cleavage will be marked
with sufficient clearness for count OF
the men. The strike headquarters
were closed Sunday and it was claim
ed that no reports were being received
from the outlying districts as to the
progress of the strike except in a gen.
eral way.
The steel officers were in communi-
cation with their supporters and at IL
o'clock made public the result Of Their
reports. The letter showed that South
Chicago, Joliet and Bay View, at Mil
waukce, had voted to stay in; that the
Ohio works of the National Steel Ccm-
pany at Youngstown, and the King,
Gilbert and Warner plants Of the
National Steel Company at Columbus
had resumed without trouble; that the
Homestead, Edgar Thompson. Du-
quesne, Upper and Lower Union, and.
Howard Axle Works, Of the Carncge
group, employing more than $4,000
men, had resumed without trouble;
that the converting and blooming mills
OF the National Tube Company, at Nc
Keesport, had started without difficult
ty and that Bellaire had been only par
TALLY crippled. They were advised
also that the men of the Boston Roll
ing Mills, at McKeesport, had notiaedths
National Tube Company tnat they
woald go out tomorrow, and that
while the National Tube Company
at McKeesport would be star
ted in the morning, it was
certain that many men would
90 out. They were notified that their
Wheeling plants were crippled and
that it was uncertain what would be
done there. The advices also said that
the Clark Mill here, which has been
running non-union for several days.
would be started up as usual to-mor-
row morning and that there was no
doubt about its successful operation.
The steel officials were elated over
their showing at the Carnegie plants
and in Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin,
and expressed confidence in speedy vic
tory over the Amalgamated Associa