The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-31
WOULD lMPEACH SKATER
LABOR PAPER MAKES FIERCE AT
 TACK ON STRIKE LEADER.

Asks Whether the AmaIgamated Associ-
 ation is to be Sacrificed to His Mad and
 Selfish Ambition-Dec1ares the Strike
 Against the Trust is Lost-An Intima-
 tion of Stock Dealing.
 Pittsburg, Aug. 30.--While there is no
 actual change in the strike situation,
 much transpired to-day calculated to
 produce results in the near future. The
 confidence between the Bayview com
 mittee and the Amalgamated officials;
 the continued effort of President Burns,
 of the Window Glass Workers Associa-
 ton, to bring about arbitration or con-
 ciliation; the scathing editorial in the ; Labor World calling for the impeach-
 ment of President Shaffer; the march
 of the strikers of McKeesport to Du-
 quesne and the decided effect of the in-
 junction proceedings at Canal Dover,
 Ohio all indicate that the crisis is ap-
 preaching and that an important
 change in affairs is not far distant.
 What the outcome will be no man can
 tell.
 The editorial in the current issue of
 the Labor World, the organ of the h.
 ernational Tin Workers Protective As sociation and the mouthpiece of Pitts burg district of the Mine Workers and the Pattern Makers Association, is long and bitter attack on President Shaffer and demands his impeachment for calling the present strike. The de- mand for Impeachment is made because it is charged that Shaffer impelled the steel workers to violate contracts; be- cause he expelled the Chicago men and revoked their charter without constitu- tional hearing, and because the whole strike is unconstitutional and has brought ruin and wreck to men who have made the Amalgamated Associa- ton. The editorial gives twenty-four reasons why President Shaffer should be impeached The fact that George Powell president of the Tin Plate Workers Protective Association of America; L. R. Thomas, president of the Pattern Makers National League, and Patrick Dolan, president of the United Mine Workers of the Pittsburg district constitute the board of control of the publication, and that President ,Shaffer himself, up to within year ago, was a member of the board, would seem to lend considerable weight to the utterances of the paper. When shown the editorial tonight MT. Shaffer said:
 Powell of the Tin Plate Associa- tion was at the head of the workers to-day, and I have understood that the paper named does not represent his as- sociation. The article is beneath my notice and l shall not advertise the paper by commenting on it."
 The march of the McKeesport strik- CTS to Duquesne this afternoon was a disappointment to the strikers, partly because of heavy rain during the pa rade and the meeting in an open lot, and partly because of lack of enthu- siasm. It was expected that at least five thousand of the twelve thousand strikers would participate in the march, but by actual count there were 553 in line.
 The injunction granted the American Sheet Steel Company at Canal Dover, Ohio, against the strikers has had the effect of doing away with all picketing about the mill. The withdrawal of the pickets was on the advice of the local counsel.
 The editorial in the Labor World is entitled Sacrifice Shaffer. Save the The World editorial, which is long one, follows in part: 'Is the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin workers to be sent to slaughter in lost fight and eacri- feed on the altar of the mad and sell fish ambition of this creature Shaffer? | This is no time for sentiment. It is time for facts and plain speaking. The | fight against the steel trust is lost but | no order comes from Amalgamated | headuuarters where Shaffer covers to | spare the brave men at the front. Lead | CTS of organized labor, forbid it in the | name of the cause you hold dear but | which is menaced as long as Shaffer is allowed to live. Forbid it in the name of labors honor and honesty | which Shaffer's acts have impugned."
 Then follows>an intimation of an &C., cusation of stock dealing that Mir. Shaf- fer has repeatedly denied. The edi- torial continues:
 "Impeach him for plunging the Amal- gamated into strike that was unwar- ranted
 "Impeach him for calling out the men last month without giving the subor- dinate lodges chance to vote on the question of strike.
 "Impeach him for making demands that were so arbitrary and imperative that the trust could not with honor sub init.
 'Impeach him for calling a strike on demands that he afterward receded from.
 "Impeach him for calling out the tin plate men in July and the National Steel and Federal Steel men this month after their scales had been signed.
 "Impeach him for violating the constitution in revoking the charters of the South Chicago men without a trial.
 'Irneach him for the blow he has given to organized labor, not only in teaching that union agreements are not contracts to be respected but also In showing that constitutional safe guards are no guarantee to a unionist when a Shaffer is at the head of things.
 "Impeach him for causing the manu- lecturers to say that labor unions must be incorporated, that their pledged word is of no value. "Impeach him for making it impossi- { ole by his breaches of contract and