Evening star., 1901-08-28
SEEKS PEACE TERMS
President Shafer Uneasy in Spite of
Bold Front.
ATTITUDE OF THE STEEL TRUST
Little Likelihood of a Settlement
at Present.
MEN GETTING RESTLESS
MEN GETTING RESTLESS
Special From n STAFF Correspondent.

Special From STAFF Correspondent
PITTSBURG, Pa, August 2S.-In all of
the rumor, gossip and reports about settle
ment of the strike and what President
Shaffer will and will not agree to, two facts
stand out prominently.
First. That the steel trust has formally
announced that the strike can only be
settled by the return of the men to their
places"
Second. That the American Tin Plate AS
sociation has formally announced that the
mills put into operation during the strike
will be continued non-union and all the
men going to work now will be retained in
their positions"
AS has been stated in The Star, President
Shaffer while maintaining defiant attitude
has. in fact, for several days been feeling
his way toward a compromise. In address
ing labor meeting last night President
Shaffer announced the following conditions
upon which the strike could be settled:
If the United States Steel Corporation
will sign the scale for all mills signed for
last year with the understanding that no
man is TO be discharged for connection or
sympathy with labor organizations and If
the scale is signed for mills where the men
want to organize the strike will be termi-
mated.
These terms are not acceptable to the
steel trust in full. and there will have to be
considerable modification before they are
even taken under consideration by the
trust.
Another tin plate mill was started in
Pftsburg this morning, and fires are burn
ing in three or four more waiting for nom
union men, who are being obtained and are
on the way. Whenever these mills
started, the men are housed and fed inside
50 that they are not subjected to danger
of attack. AT the Star mill in Pittsburg
twenty cots were hauled to the mill yes
terday afternoon and another wagon sup
posed to contain bed clothes followed soon
after The grocery wagon also made sew
eral trips, and everything pointed toward
thu expectation of a long siege. One man
who came from the mill yesterday stated
that the beds had been partitioned off and
partition built around the dining room.
This would indicate that permanent quar-
ters for the men are being made.
The National tube mill men at McKees-
port, as stated yesterday, are very rest
less and may at any moment go back to
work They find that not only are they out
side the pale of the Anal gamated, but as
matter of fact. by striking so hastily, are
even likely to be debarred from receiving
strike benefits from the Federation of
Labor, TO which they belong. 1t will be
remembered they struck in sympathy and
not by order of the Federation.
Anxiety at McKeesport.
All night an anxious crowd of strikers
watched the Demmler mill at Mckeesport
in anticipation of an attempt to start with
non-union men. The fires We're lighted in
the mill, and it looked like business, but
the hp1l~s We re long and M work tppa
The strikers still on picket duty, wait
ing for the non-uniOn men to appear in or
der to endeavor to dissuade them. Police
are also guarding the mill.
Two hundred machinists have gone to
work in the National Tube Works at Pitts
burg repairing the machinery and getting
the mills in readiness to start The mill
managers think that the growing dissatis-
faction among the tube workers will re-
suit in their returning TO their places in
a Few days. The managers are making
preparations based upon this calculation
and are encouraging the men to come back
II the big tube mills start up the strike
In Mckeesport will be seriously crippled.
AT the headquarters of the strike man
ayers today the usual show OF confidence
was made. President Shaffer again denied
ali the peace rumors and insisted that the
position of the strikers was still firm and
tenabe
In the opposition camp the situation re-
mained unchanged. The steel trust nan-
ayers are standing firmly on their position
and are busy at work with preparations
for opening more mills.
Information from McKeesport this after
noon was TO the effect that while every
thing was quiet, there were forebodinrs
OF probable break in the strikers ranks.
1t is said that if the Demmler mill is start
ed up with a good shift of men, that may
be the signal for a stampede of the strik-
ers back TO work The strike leaders at
Mckeesport are doing their utmost to keep
the SllkeFs hrm. y. o. NJ.
Break at Rankin, Pa.
By Associated Press.
PIFFSBCRG, Pa, August 2S.-There was
break in the strike at the McCIintock-
Marshall Company works at Rankin. to-
day, 100 men of the 700 who quit yester-
day returning to work. A number of new
men were also taken on. The company
granted the riveters an increase of ) per
cent and the laborers were advanced l2Il
cents per day.
The works were in partial operation to-
day. The trouble has no connection with
he a eel rgrlr.4 frily