The age-herald., 1901-09-03
One Leader Says Trusts Last Proposition Should Have
 Been Accepted
SKATER ENCOURAGES MEN
Makes Speech at Big Picnic and Says He VIII Not Surrender but Will Yet Live to Have His Inning
 With the Trust.

Plttsburg September 2-The big Labor Day demonstrations attracted the atten- tion of the strikers today. but steel man ufacturers went on making preparations for opening the plants that are shut down by the strike and increasing the number of mills already in partial operation. Ev- idences of impatIence are cropping out on the side of the strikers, and it is said that the unlawful acts participated in by the strikers last night and today about tho Star Tin Plant may multiply and spread to other quarters.
 The officials of the Star plant claim to- day that the strikers held up special delivery boy from the postoffice who was going down Twelfth street and inspected the letter before he was allowed to pro- ceed. The matter will be reported to the postal authorities at once. It is also charged that the strikers stoned the company carriage on Pennsylvania av- enue this morning but did no special damage to the occupants. The aggressive ness of the strikers was further demon- strated this afternoon when a mob sur rounded William Jones. a colored man who was mistaken for non-union man from the Star works. He had narrow es- cape from serious injury
 Pickets Withdrawn.
 During the parade most of the pickets were away from the Star mills and the company started In several new men. Of the lot that arrived in Pittsburg early to- day, it was said that a good many of them were for the Demler plant, in Mo Keesport and were now in that plant, where operations to begin in short time The failure of the Amalgamated people to cripple the Carnegie open hearth plant at DuQuesne this morning is looked upon by the steel officials the death blow of the strike in the Carnegie mills at least.
 of we had known what we do now, the last offer of the United States Steel Corporation at the Hotel Lincoln con- ference in July would probably have been accepted" said Ben I. Davis of the ad- yisory board and executive comittee of fhe Amalgamated Association, and recog- nized as an official representative of President Shaffer in all his utterances to- day. However, that is past and gone and we are now in a fight with the cor poratioa.
 Surrender Urged. Some of the people inside and out of the order are now urging on us that the strikers be ordered back to work, prac tical surrender of the Amalgamated As sociation. This will never be We will enforce recognition of our national or ganization by the United States Steel Corporation Our men, especially the old members, those in the sheet mills and tin mills will stand up till they starve.
 Such attacks as those of J. D. Hickey in Milwaukee yesterday are purely per sonal'
 officials of the American Tin Plate Company in the Carnegie building today said many tin plate workers continue to apply for places in the mills but that they fear the molestation of the strikers. A telegram from McKeesport tonight says:
 .sThe delay in starting the Demmer mill it seems, is due to Mayor Blacks s. hestancy in guaranteeing police protec- tion ,The company, 1t is said, appealed to Governor Stone and he promised to send State militia if necessary
 The Picnic.
 The meeting and picnic at the grove here today was somewhat marred by rain, but between four [. thousand and five thousand men attended. The principal address < were made by President Shaffer and Wm. J. Brennan, counsel for the Amalgamated Association.
 Mir Brennan preceded MT. Shaffer in an address that wrought his hearers up to high pitch of enthusiasm. He advised them to guard the ballot as "the ark of labor's covenant" and told them that 1t was their ultimate salvation The old ways of fighting by laboring men will be abandoned, he said, and up to date methods employed. His remedy at pres ent was
 ''Enjoin and restrain the banks from loaning your money to the trusts"
 Giving mass of statistics he said:
 "Of the 6,1070o0 depositors in the banks, one-third of them, at least, must be union men and friends of labor. When labor commences a run on the banks MT. Nor gan will know that there Is something to arbitrate. Six billions of dollars cannot be paid with one billion of gold g, ,5Oo,- 100000 of deposits cannot be paid with 31, OO.000 of gold; $2,300000.0O0 of loans cannot be paid with 1.000. .0oO, 900 of gold Demand your money. Have every friend of labor demand his. Deprive the trust of its life-money. Be united to a man and the trust will cry for quarter within a week."
 President shaffer's Speech.
 President Shaffer said:
 'sWhat we need today is not the men who will recall the mistakes of Irons and pebs. Don't let us say with some of the newspapers that Shaffer will go where Debs and Irons went"
 This remark was the signal for pro- longed applause.
 What is the remedy for this trouble? It Is in combination Let the working men combine. Let them use their ballots in their own behalf. Let the live as they marched today.
 "For years we have been treating with the employers on these questions. When the trust came we wanted to be. conserya- tive, but when the combination of trusts came we saw that we must be vigilant cannot go into the details of the de- Alterations, but suffice it to say that the trust decided to extinguish our organiza- tion, and last March 1t told the workers