The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-11
ORDERED TO
 END STRIKE Shaffer Told to Settle the
 Trouble. THE AMALGAMATED BOARD Is Tired of Waging a Hope
 less War,
THE ANAL LGAMATED BOARD
Steel Officials Say That Every Mill Started Non-Union Will Be Excluded from the Scala
 to Be Signed.

P1ttsburg, Sept. 1O.-Prestdene T. J. Shaffer and his advisers in the general office of the Amalgamated Association hold the power by authority of the Gem eral Executive Board of the organization to settle the steel strike MT. Shaffer and his advisers apparently allowed today to lapse after this authority was vested in them, without closing any settlement. Monday, it is said, the Executive Board directed President Shaffer. together with Secretary-Treasurer Williams, As- sistant Secretary M. F. Tighe and Ben l.. Davis of the Advisory Board, to settle without delay on the best terms obtain able.
 It is said that President Shaffer Is seeking to reopen direct negotiations with the United States Steel corporation in the hope of getting better terms.
 The terms secured by the National Civ- ic Federation were neither accepted nor rejected by the Amalgamated Board ln- President Shaffer, with the aid of his im- mediate advisers, to secure the best pos- sibie settlement The terms Submitted provided simply for a signing Of scales sheet Steel and Steel Hoop Companies, except such as had been started since the strike began.
 shaffer is Dogged.
 The Executive Committee passed its resolution by a bare majority. President Shaffer protested against proceeding with so narrow margin and suggested that the members of the board remain In the city for a possible further conference Monday. At the meeting Monday 1t is said the Executive Board gave the Amal~ gamated President unanimous support for the best settlement that he may be able to secure and that no conditions were im- posed.
 way: President Shaffer has the means to end the strike. How he is going to do it. cannot say, but that Is what he has
 A report from New York today that the strike had been settled was denied by President Shaffer and his fellow ofkiekals. Nothing was known at the United. Eshtss President Shaffer also denied that he or his Advisory Board had been directed or ordered by the Executive Board to set- tie the strike.
 It is said by representatives of the cor porat1on that just as fast as additional mills are started they will be added to the growing list of mills eliminated from tine union list.
 The combine officials are busy with ar engagements to start idle mills. The plant at Chester, w. Va, is scheduled for an early start by the American Tin Plate Company.
 Exciting Incidents.
 The Strlke tOoay Tn In1S Secuon was full of exciting incidents end unless a speedy settlement of the trouble is ef- fected, indications point to exceedingly lively times from now on. That both seems evident. The first evidence of this was shown when gang of bricklayers attempted to enter the National Tube Plant Ut McKeesRort. The strikers turn were turned back yesterday did not ven- ture a second attempt today and the plant is tonight dark and idle.
 It was announced today that the Mo- nongahela Tin Plate Works on the South Side, Pittsburg, would be started soon. In preparation for this move, the company this afternoon endeavored to place in the plants cots and provisions for the benefit of the workers. When the flr st wagon containing fec and edibles crossed the Smithfield Street bridge it dren and the driver was made to turn back. This wagon was followed by a cab containing six negro workmen. When the driver saw the crowd he lost his nerve and at once turned back and drove his load to the Carnegie building. Here he was met hy large crowd and had to make a run for 1t to get into the building safely. After the negroes had fifty in number, succeeded in making its way as far as Fourteenth Street, where the women gathered about 1t and cut the ropes holding the load on the wagon.
 Street Strewn With Cots.
 The driver continued on his way. the cots dropping off at every turn of the wheel until about thirty of them had be- come the property of the women, who numbered about dO0.
 Some of the women went into their houses and came out with oil cans. pour ed the contents over the cots which had been piled in two heaps on Fourteenth Street In an instant two immense bon fires were blazing briskly, while the wo- men executed q war-dance about the fires and pelted each other with pillows and bedding which had fallen from the wag- on.
 ceeded in getting through, were piled in a heap on Fifteenth Street and cordon of police surrounded it to keep back the crowd which had been augmented until if numbered fully 2,O00. mostly women and children. The men kept in the back ground as a rule. apparently content with 1he results of their female sympathlzers' raid. The police had received no notice of the company's move and were not nrcpared to handle such crowd. As soon as a call could be sent in, fifteen or twenty officers were rushed to the scene of action and now the company property is being guarded by them.