Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-08-15
STRIKE SITUATION,
Both Sides Of The Great Steel War
= Claim Victory.
PRESIDENT SHAFFER NOT TALKING,
Some of The Workers Refuse to Go
Out On President Shaffer's Orders,
While Aid is Expected From Tho
Federation CT Labor.

PIttsburg, Special-The iron masters
are claiming victory in the great steel
@ITlke. Ih"y base their claims upon
1he refusal Of the AmaIgamated Asso-
'!afon at Chicago, Joliet and Bay
view to obey the general strike order
"i President Shaffer and the success
in maintaining operations in other
plants where it was Anticipated
rhcrc would be serious trouble The
STRIKE leaders meet the claims of vic
tory with the assertion that their cause
IS making satisfactory progress and
that they will show themselves mas
GERS CT the situation before the CON
@eSt has progressed much further.
heE 90 not conceal their disapDoiat-
ncnt at the refusal Of their Western
n'2snren to join with them in tne
strike, but none of the leaders WOuId
discuss the detection. President Shat
Ter refused to meet the newspaper
men who sought him and kept within
7hc $eclusiOn of his home. The other
1cS ders who were seen intimated that
here would be developments Monday
and throughout the week which would
materially change the situation. They
would not say, however. what thqy
had IN mind or how their cause was
- gain strength. 1t was said thew
were counting upon strong aid from
3be American Federation of Labor and
other organizations Of union labor,
though these bodies have NOT yet
given any public indication of what
they will do. The AmaIgama.ed Asso-
cation has developed great strength
in the Wheeling district and has made
gains III some of the Pennsylvania dis
trIctS, but it will be Monday before
the lines OF cleavage will % mlrkei
with sufficient clcarncss for count OF
'hc men. The strike headquarters
were closed Sunday and it was claim
cd that no reports were being received
from the outlying districts as to the
progress Of the strike except in a gen
Cral way
The steel officers were in c0mmuni-
cation with their supporters and at Il
O'Clock made public the re ult OF tAer
reports. The letter showed that South
waHkCe. had voted to stay in: that the
Ohio works Of the National Steel Com
pany at Youngstown, and the King,
Gilbert AMI Warner plants of the
National Steel Company at Columbus
had resumed without trouble; that the
homestead, Edgar Thompson. Du-
Hncsno, Upper and Lower Union, and
Howard Axle Works, Of the Carneg-e
group. employing moro than $4,000
men, had resumed without trouble:
t1at the converting and blooming mills
Of the National Tube Company, at Me
K"cspOrt, had started without diff .ul-
- and that Bellaire had been only par
tialy crippled. They were advised
also that the men of the B -stOn Eol
ing Milis,at McKcesport. had notifedthe
National Tube Company that they
would go out tomorrow, and that
while the National Tube Company
n McKPesport would be star.
ted in the morning. it wa.
certain that many men would
20 out. They were notified that their
Wheeling plants We're crippled and
that it was uncertain what would be
done there. The advices also said that
the Clark Mill here, which has been
running nOn-uniOn for several days,
would be started up as usual tc-mor-
70" morning and that there was no
doubt about its successful operation
The steel officials were elated over
their showing at the Carnegie plants
and in Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin. |
and expressed confidence in speedy vic
tory over the Amalgamated Associa, |
UOn.