Connecticut workman., 1901-10-24

SAMUEL GOMPEItS.
 RALPH M. EASLEY.
 CT why did he not submit the prop oG.tion to the members of his EXecu- i've Board who were then located at Pittsburg? 1 rememDer distinctly that win the arbitration proposition of hls friend, MT. John Stevenson, was u2Ger consideration, the members of the Elk ecutive or Advisory Board, located at Pittsburg were those who decided the question, and MT. Shaffer then assured me that the Executive Board, located at Pittsburg, had been given full power to settle the strike upon any terms which their judgment might approve. WHY COME TO NEW YORK? MT. Shaffer asks in his circular, why lid we want him to go alone to New York, and get an open vote of his Executive Board? To this 1 answer, that the purpose of our telegram of September 4, quoted above, was that MT Shaffer should telegraph the prep osition to his Executive Board, if 1t 1 Nas necessary to consult the members of that Board who were not at Pitts 3urg, and that to expedite the result 1 .hey might telegraph their answers to him to New York. We thought it ad- visabIe for him to come to New York, there to receive the votes, not the l open votes,'' but the telegraphlc votes of hls Executive Board. It re- ruires a peculiar state of mind to con- l true the language we employed III | ne above telegram to make 1t appear ! hat we wanted the members of his 4Hecutive Board to send him an open vote.'
 The other reasons we had in advising Mr. Shaffer to come to New York l were:
 First; that he might have the oppoT- tunity of going over the United States Steel Company's books. and satisfying himself, if there was any satisfaction n it, as to the truth or falsfty of their :ailns as to the output that was eo- ng on in their mills since the strike l began.
 second; if the agreement was made, l hat he. as the official representative | ,f the AmaIgamated Association might 1ake the agreement rather than the l rentlemen to whom I have already re- tired aud myself.
 Inasmuch as the limit of time expir- d without any definite answer from Mir. Shaffer OIL. services could uc long 52 avail, and we therefore Ceased our 5i41oi ts, but even then induiged i'll cle ! VI O' u OClOSolOiy tO IAS Gti1Si4 S9GIi-1I tCNA IS. Cciation or Mir. Shaffer.
 It is doubtful if any one, however .nsophisticated, can be pe1suaded to s >iieve with Mir. Shaffer that because | j: eaniZed labor, and particularly these
 .alons having agreements with their
 .,p.oyars. did not break their con-
 sets and go on strike, they were
 hc:cfore necessarily against the
 .1lalgamated Association. He will
 ave to give better reasons for his
 ;:seouIf1ture than to charge that 10th
 r organized labor bodies were against the Amaiganated Association
 Comparison is invited between the -ernas which Mess. g. Mitchell, Sargent
 tnks. White, and I secured September
 F from the United States Steel Com p.ny for the settle ment Of the strike
 nd the terms s.gned by Mir. Shaffer
 .cptemEer IA.
 CONTRAST THE TWO AGREE
 . MENTS.
 No discririinat:on against the re | employment of any one by the com
 Ccny by reascn of his connection witt 1ne strike, and no question asked al 0 the member ship of any man i1 tn
 .nion.
 The signing Of the agreement for al
 nils which We union last year. ex
 'ept Old Meadow, Saltsburg, Hyd
 Bark. Crescent, Ironda'e, Chester
 Cambridge, Star :.ad Monessen. Th
 CANAL DOVER AND DENf11LDT
 HILLS WE'RE TO BE SIGNED 37OI $ UNION MILLS
 Shaffer's Agreement, Sept Il. Non-union mills shall be representa-
 s such-NO ATTEMPTS MADE T< , ORGANIZE, NO CHAPTERS GRANT
 ID: old charters retained by men,
 hey desire.
 The company reserves the right t
 ,;scharge any empIoye who shall h
 t1te> ference, abuse. CT constraint pre-
 '>:It enot1ze:"' frorl OeacGa.ly follow
 lng his vocation, without reference t
 connection with laboS organizations. CANAL DOVER, DEMNGLER, Ol : Meadow, Saltsburg Hyde Park, Cres i. "ent, Irondale, Chester, Cambridge i, Star and Monessen not included a | ':UiOn mills.
 q Is there another executive officer i. . he American labor movement wh o would sign all agreement with a com 2 1cny, guaranteeing for three years tha > 10 attempt shall he made to organiz , and agreeing to issue no charters t I men who may even of their own wolf = Ion want to organize?
 f | Following the course Of some me f who can not bear the consequences c ! their own lack of judg1;c ent, MT. Shafi Q er has endeavored to blame others fo
 the result of his own actions, the eth in fnjS inCfSncn fnino MT Mifchta ! and myself.
 e MT. Mitchell was in New York, al e ranging a conference with the repre- e 3entatives of the coal companies, an S ! was in the same city attempting | = bring about a settlement of the COT e "rovarsy between the Typograp phice n 'Trion and the New York Sun, whe h MT. Shaffer's circular reflecting upo