Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-06
ONE FAINT CLEAN OF HOPE
THROUGH DARK WAR CLOUDS.
President Shaffer Sends Notices to the Steel Trusts Constituent
Companies, Announcing Coming Strike.
ona Steel Company Federal Steel Company and National Tube
Company Given Opportunity to Bring Pressure to Bear.


kers' strike will be settled was en-
led in statement given out by
p. ,ident Shaffer, of the Amalgamated
Isolation. tonight. When asked If he
would pursue the same policy in order
~e strike in the mills of the Fed
erl steel. the National Steel and the
Nltional Tube companies, as he did in
.4ling out the men in the mills OF the
American Tin Plate Company. he said:
If it had not been for this determine
tim on my part, the general strike
gaiId have been ordered on Saturday
night
Before calling out the tin workers and
after failing TO get any satisfaction
from the officials of the American Sheet
Steel and the American Tin, Steel and
Hoop companies, a month ago, Presi-
dent Shaffer sent a telegram to Vice
President Warner Arms. of the Ameri-
can Plate Company, notifying him that
under Article 10, section 80. of the con-
sitution of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton. he would be Obliged to call out
the tin workers in all of the mills own
ell by thu United States Steel Corpora
ton unless the difficulty was settled
within a period of ten days. AS re-
suit of this notice, Mr.. Arms succeeded
| in getting together another conference
and a vain attempt was made to settle
the dispute and prevent strike which
would involve the tin mills. That con-
ference was the one that broke up in
the Hotel Lincoln three weeks ago last
saturday.
In Order to be Equally Fair
to the other constituent companies of
the United States Steel Corporation
and accord them the same treatment,
| President Shaffer has sent a similar
notice to the officers of the Federal
Steel Company, the National Steel
Company ami the National Tube Com
pany. giving them the same time in
which to make any effort they may de-
sire to bring about settlement or he
VIII put in force this same clause in
the Amalgamated Association consti-
tuition. 1t is presumed that the delay
IN issuing the general order will be at
least until the end of the present week.
Possibly it will not be issued until
next week In the meantime the men
in the mills of these three companies
will be prepared to come out when the
strike order is issued.
The possibility of settlement OF
the strike is based on the bare hope
that the officials of the three addi-
tional companies will bring to bear suf-
fcent influence to urge an adjustment
of the difficulties before the strike order
is issued President Shaffer did not
express any hope that this would be
done nor did he even discuss the mat
ter but the inference was quickly seen
| that there was such a probability in
sight 1t is faint one. though, and
but little interest was taken in it in
the general offices of the Association.
When President Shaffer and the
other national officers of the associa-
ton
Got Down to Business
this morning, they found hundreds OF
letters and kilograms awaiting them.
The burden of work before them was
50 great that they were forced to close
the doors of the Offices and keep out
all callers. Assistant Secretary NJ. F.
1ighe explained the situation to all
who came that the work was of too
serious a character to be neglected or
passed over lightly. Time care and
and for this reason, the officers want
quiet.
At noon President Shaffer came out
and made an announcement to the re-
porters about. that there was little to
be given to them.
1t was nearly 6 o'clock tonight be-
Tore access was gained at the head
quarters of the strikers again. In an in
terview given out at that time, Mr..
Slaffer said he would delay calling out
the other union men IN the mills OF
me United States Steel Corporation for
the reasons stated above. He said that
ne believed that the strike was on for
some time. He was convinced that 1t
would be victory for the workers in
me organization, and that it would be
an lmpossibillty for the trust to crush
EN- by their present methods.
degrading the publication OF charges
that the Amalgamated Association
would be violating contracts with the
Constituent companies of the trust with
which they had signed scales for the
present year. President Shaffer said
mat all contracts and scales are signed
az all times subject to the provisions
OF The constitution of the Ama.Samated
Isolation. This constitution was in
''e hands OF all the officials or the
eompanies affected or likely to be af-
ierted, and they are fully aware of the
PROVISIONS that it contains for this
very difficulty. 1t was false. AMI re
Sdld whoever had deliberately male
tlis statement was either knave or
aehsely ignorant of the true situation.
Vice President Fred Williams,
O. the Alabama fields, of the Anal
samated Association, was in Pittsourg
to-day for a brief time. Mr.. Williams
was particularly interested in the re-
ports of the shipment Of negro labor
rom the south to the mills of the trust.
ne said the stories concerning the
ofhging of colored men from the south
Weret ridiculous. The fact was that
nere were not over dozen skilled
workers to be found in the so'th and
Mese were in the unions. The mill
iaoorers were all in the Federation OF
Labor and made excellent union men.
me experience In the past in bringing
soiored men into the northern Mills
nad proven costly and unsatisfactory to
'ae manufacturers, and Mr.. Williams