The age-herald., 1901-08-06
President Shafer is Giving Each Company Certain lime to
 Effect a Settlement
FRED WILLIAMS IN PI7lSBURG
Says the Reports of Negroes Being Shipped From Alabama Are RidIc- ulous-He Believes AmaIeam-
 ated Association Will Win.

Pittsburg, Pa, August 5.--lnterviews were had today with local and national officials of various labor organizations on the Amalgamated strike.
 Simon Burns, president of the Win dow Glass Workers Association, said:
 "The Glass Workers Association Is in thorough sympathy with the Anal gamated men. We will give them sub stantia aid when 1t Is necessary"
 L. R. Thomas, president of the Pat ternmakers' League:
 We will give the Amaioamated As soclation all the assistance in our power"
 !. N. Members of the National Ex- ecutive Board of Knights of Labor:
 "The Knights of Labor have offered and will give them practical aid when they need It."
 John p. Ryan, general secretary of tie Structural Iron Workers:
 'The Amalgamated Association will have the sympathy and help of all or ganlzed labor"
 Pittsburg, Pa, August 5.-Just a faint glimmer of hope that the great steel workers strike will be settled was em- bodied in a statement given out by Presi- dent Shaffer of the Amalgamated Associa- tion tonight. When asked if he would pursue the same policy In ordering a strike in the mills of the Federal Steel, the National Steel ard the 1saSional Tube companies as he did In calling out the men in the mills of the American Tin Plate Company he replied:
 'If it had not been for this determine ton on my part the general strike would have been ordered on Saturday night"
 Before calling out the tin workers Pres ident Shaffer waited ten days. In order to be equally fair to the other constituent companies of the United States Steel cor poration and accord them the same treat ment, President Shaffer sent a note to the officers of Federal Steel Company, the National Steel Company and the National Tube Company giving them the same time in which to make any effort they may de- sire to bring about a settlement, or he will order a. strike.
 It is presumed that the delay in issuing the general order will be at least until the end of the present week. The possi- bility of settlement of the strike is based on the bare hope that the officials of the three additional companies will bring to bear sufficient influence to urge an adjustment of the difficulty.
 Fred Williams Talks.
 Vice President Fred Williams of the Alabama fields of the Amalgamated As sociation, was in Pittsburg today for a brief time. MT Williams was particular ly interested in the reports of shipment of negro labor from the South to mills of the trust He said the stories concern ing the bringing of colored men from the South were ridiculous. The fact was that there were not over a dozen skilled workers to be found in the South, and these were in the unions. The mill labor CTS were all in the Federation of Labor and made excellent union men. The ex- perience in the past in bringing colored men into the Northern mills had proved costly and unsatisfactory to the manu- facturers, and MT. Williams did not be- lieve 1t would be attempted again. Re garding the strike MT. Williams said he was confident there could be but one re- sult-victory for his association.