Greene County herald., 1901-09-06
WESTERN LEADERS
Visit Headquarters aud on Their
Reports Depends a Continu.
anCe of the Strike.

feature presented in the steel strike OF
late is the conference Of committee
Of Bayview Amalgamated lodge soi
Milwaukee and the officials Of the
association at the headquarters. The
meeting continued several hours.
Those taking part were J. D. Hickey,
an ex-offioer Of the Bayview lodge,
and I. Q. Cooper, both of Milwaukee,
and President Shaffer, Secretary Will
liams and Assistant Secretary Tighe,
who has just returned from the West.
It is said that the Milwaukee COM
mittee was sent here by direction of
a secret meeting of the lodge to look
into the situation and report at a
meeting to be held upon their return
home. 1t is understood that since
coming here the committee has made
a careful canvass Of the situation in
what is regarded as the center Of the
strike. They have visited the various
mills now in operation and have care
fully looked over the field. There is
no certainty as to what their report
will be to their lodge, but their mis-
sion, it is said, was to arrange, IL pos
sible, for their oo-workers to resume
work in the Bayview mills.
The details Of the conference Of the
Bayview committee and the Amalga-
mated officials have not yet been di-
vulged by either party but the fact
that the committee is here at all,
would indicate that the Bayview
strikers are uneasy. The general be-
lief is that the main object Of tho
committees visit was for the purpose
of arranging some compromise by
which the Bayview plant may re-
sumo, though this is denied.
Simon Burns says: II am interest
ed in this matter as the big strike is
affecting all lines of business, includ-
ing the window glass trade. My pur-
pose is to get the two sides together
and start the mills. If President
Schwab is still opposed to my plan of
arbitration, I will request him to sug-
gest whatever notifications he de-
sires. Anything will be acceptable if
the United States Steel corporation
can be induced to arbitrate and get
the mills started.''
The editorial in the current issue of
the Labor World, the organ Of the In
ternational Tin Workers Protective
Association, and mouthpiece of the
Pittsburg district Of the Mine Work
ers' union and the Pattern Makers
association, is long and bitter attack
on President Shaffer, and demands his
impeachment for calling the present
strike. The demand for impeachment
is made because it is charged Presi-
dent Shaffer compelled the steel
workers to violate contracts because
he expelled the Chicago men and re-
voked their charter without ocnstitu-
tional hearing, ana because the whole
strike Is unconstitutional and has
brought ruin and wreck to men who
have made the Amalgamated Associa-
tion. The editorial gives twenty
four reasons why President Shaffer
should be impeached. l
The World editorial, which is long
one, follows, in part:
els the Amlgamated Association Of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers to be sent
to slaughter In lost fight and saori-
feed on the altar of the mad and sell
fish ambition of this oreature-Shaf-
feri This is no time for sentiment.
1t Is time for facts and plain speak
ing. The fight against the steel trust
is lost but no order comes from ANAL
gamated headquarters, where Shaffer
cowes, to spare the brave men at the
front. Leaders of organized labor for
bid 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 labor's hon.
or and honesty, which Shaffer's acts
have impugned. -
When pressed for some expression
on the Labor Worlds impeachment
editorial, President Shaffer said:
1.-The paper has no standing In the
labor world, and is owned and edited
by men bitterly opposed to me from
the start. My course is above i'm
parchment, and the only damage the
inspired article can do is to create q
bad impression temporarily, but will
not influence thinking people,"
A decided change has come over
affairs at Duquesne. The day men in
the open hearth department. Of the
Duquesue mill are expected to stay
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DIFFICULTY STILL UNSOLvED.
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