The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-05
The BATTLE ROYAL
STRIKING STEEL WORKERS TO
MAKE SUPREME EFFORT.
NO QUARTER WILL BE ASKED.
NOR WILL THE ASSOCIATION Ex-
TEND ANY.

That Within a Week Every Union
Man i'm Fact md at Heart in the
Employ of the Combine VIII BE
Requested to Join in the Demon
stration-Shaffer COnsuIts With
Federation Official.
Pittsburg, Aug. 4.-"Within a week
every union man and every union nan
at heart in the employ of the United
States Steel Corporation will be asked
to join in the strike now being waged
by the Amalgamated Association. We
must settle whether unionism is to
stand or fall.
There will be no more conferences
with the United States Steel Corpor-
alton unless the meeting is asked for
by the officials of that corporation. The
Amalgamated Association will not re-
quest a peace meeting
These and several other significant
statements were made tonight by
Theodore j. Shaffer. president of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers, upon his re-
turn from the fruitless conference with
j. Pierpont Morgan and others in New
York
1t is now a fight to the bitter finish
between the great billion dollar steel
trust and organized labor.
No Quarter Given or Expected.
Mr.. Shaffer says that he is ready to
employ every peaceable means within
the power of man to win a victory.
xxyiI
be requested. The entire management
of the battle has been placed in the
hands OF President Shaffer He has alb
solute power to call out every man who
is connected with the organization and
he intends to do it. He is satisfied
with the progress of the fight to date.
He finds that none of his battle lines
has been broken. Promise is made by
Mr.. Shaffer that the trust will find that
| the Amalgamated Association has
strong roots in many of it's mills.
Mr.. Shaffer. Secretary Williams, B.
| l. Davis, NJ. +. Tighe and John Camp
| bell of WellSville, came in from New
York over the Baltimore and Ohio road
| at about o'clock this evening. They
were expected by the Pennsylvania, but
| Mr.. ShaEer enjoys mystery, and his
| chief pastime now is eluding reporters.
| The president and his advisors did not
4 Sea of Reporters.
II have simply been whirling
through a sea of reporters since l left
Pittsburg," said Mr.. Shaffer, land the
tide does not seem to have turned the
other way. There is not much that 1
can say about the situation at pres
ent.'
"Will there be a meeting of the ad
visory board tonight to order a gen.
eral strike?" was asked.
mo. l always endeavor to prevent
Sunday meetings when / can. We held
none on the train to-day" was the re-
ply.
''Will there be a netting to-mor-
| row."
None will be needed. The fact of
the matter is that we held one in New
York last evening"
"Was there any action taken at that
meeting about calling all of the men in
the employ of the United States Steel
Corporation?"
II was given full authority to act.
The meeting empowered me to issue a
cali whenever in my judgment l
thought it was time to act"
when will that call be issued?"
"The depends upon a number of
things. 1t is difficult to say just the
exact day that l will be ready to ex-
ercise the authority vested in me-"
'Is the order likely to go out to-
night?"
Il would hardly think so / am of
the opinion that 1 could not prepare
myself to issue the order tonight"
"Will you do anything in the matter
this EVENING"
NO / will not 1 am going home to
rest and will wait until tomorrow to
resume the cares of my position
Cannot you fix some definite date
when this order will be issued?''
within "a Week.
you can say that within a week
every union man and every union man
at heart in the employ of the United
| States Steel Corporation will be re-
requested by me to join the Amalga-
mated Association in winning this
strike
"Do you think you will be able to
close all of the mills of the steel cor
| poration?
81 am of the opinion that every one
| of them can be closed. We have some
| great surprises in store for the trust.
| The men have been organized in some
of their mills that they never dreamed
| could be touched. We have the SYM
pathy of the workmen, and they will
| not throw any straws in the way of
our absolute victory"
Mr.. Shaffer said that the stories that
| Mr.. Morgan had been ugly during the
conference on Saturday were untrue.
| He said the gentleman had been cogr-
teous and businesslike throughout the
entire meeting, and If he had lost his
temper it was after the adjournment
| of the gathering.
Are you afraid of Southern negroes
being brought into break the striker"
No Fear OF Negroes.
mot in the least. The negroes of the
| South are thoroughly organized. We
have not been overlooking that detail.
| They make the best kind of union men.
| The 800 colored men brought from the
South to assist i'm starting the plant of
| the Latrobe Steel Company, in. Chicago,
were all members of the union. When
they discovered what was wanted of
| them they returned to their homes"
Reverting to the failure of the strike
| settlement Mr.. Shaffer said:
mo explanation was offered by the
| company for their refusal to grant any
hetvar terms or to consider the propo-
| sitions of the Amalgamated Associa-
| ton in any form. They seemed to have
| made up their minds suddenly to give
no consideration to the men and would
| not vary from this determination.
"Don't blame Mr. Morgan for all
| this" said Mr. Shaffer as he went on.
MIR. Morgan knows absolutely moth
|