Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-11
NAN 10 End strike
Executive Board of the Amalea-
mated Association Ready
to Give Up Fight.
shaifer Said to Have Been In.
structed TO Settle Strike
at Once.
Attempt to Start Tin Works Re-
suits in a Small Sized
Riot.

Pittsburg, Pa, 11.-President Shaffer,
1t develops, was ordered on Monday, by.
the unanimous vote of the Amalga-.
mated executive board. to end the steel
strike without delay on the best terms
obtainable. No conditions We're imposed;
This action of the executive board
makes it incumbent on the Amalga-
mated president and his immediate adj
visors to secure a settlement from the
officials of the steel cNrporation whether
additional concessions can be secured
from them or not
Mr.. Shaffer and his advisors appar-
entity allowed yesterday to lapse, after
this authority was vested in them, with
out closing any settlement.
1t is said that President Shaffer is
seeking to reopen direct negotiations
with the United States Steel corporation
in the hope of getting better terms than
those submitted to the Amalgamated
executive board as the result of the en-
deavor last week in New York Of the
representatives of the National Civic
federation.
The terms secured by the National
Civic federation were neither accepted
nor rejected by the Amalgamated board.
Instead resolution was-passed direct
ing President Shaffer. With the aid oS
his immediate advisors, to secure the
best possible settlement in the least
possible time. The terms submitted
provided simply for signing of scales
for all union plants in the tinplate. sheet
steel. and steel hoop company. except
such as had been started since the
strike began.
One member of the board put 1t this
way:
President Shaffer has the means to
end the strike. How he is going to do it
L can't say, but that is what he has to
do
1t was reported this evening that
President Shaffer would leave town dur
ing the night, presumably for New
York. TO offer terms to the steel corpor-
alton officials. Concerning this Presi-
dent Shaffer said:
mo. I am not going to New York to-
night, and do not intend to go to New
York at any other time soon.
A report from New York yesterday
that the strike had been settled was d.
MED by President Shaffer and also by
the Steel Corporation officials. He also
denied that himself or his advisory
board had been directed or ordered by
the executive bbard to- settle the strike.
The Monongahela tin plate works. on
the South Side. Pittsburg. in preparing
to start the plant endeavored to place In
the works cots and provisions for the
benefit of the workers.
Word was sent to the strikers of the
move. and when the first wagon, con-
tanning ice and edibles, crossed the
Smlthfield street bridge 1t was met by a
crowd of women and children and the
driver compelled to turn back. Then a
wagon load Of cots, 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. About thirty cots
fell off and We're seized by the women,
who numbered about 200. They poured
oil over the cots. which had been piled in
two heaps. and Burned them.
The twenty cots which the driver suc-
ceeded in getting thru were piled In a
heap, and a Gordon of police surrounded
ii to keep back the crowd, which had
been augmented until it numbered fully
1000. mostly women and children. AS
soon as call could be sent In fifteen or
twenty officers We're rushed. to the scene
Of action, and now the company proper
ty is being guarded by them.
The bar mill Of the Painter plant on
| the South Side started on a night turn
at 4:30 yesterday afternoon with crew
of thirty men.