Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-09-04
EXECUTIVE IS ACCUSED
Bay View Man Charges All the
Labor Trouble on the Anal
gamated President.
DECLARES THE STRIKE rs LOST
Steel Magnates Claim Victory at
Duquesne; So Do the Strikers
Burns and Schwab in
Confab.

AAttSUui :, L u, Sept Z.-SCeel OH
Gals in Pittsburg declared last nigh
mat, all reports to the contrary not
withstanding, there is no strike at Du
quesne and will be none. They sal,
all the night-turn men reported TO
duty and that the plant is beln,
worked to it's full capacity.
Milwaukee, Sept. 2.-Charges tina
the national officers of the Amalga
mated Association had misrepresentet
tie attitude of the United States Stee
corporation toward organized labor il
order to get the members of the asso
citation out on strike were made by ex
vice President j. ID. Hickey at the
meeting of the Bay View lodge yes
ferday. In cool, unimpassloned man
ner Hickey gave the members of the
lodge the result of his recent trip to
Pittsburg, where he went for the pur-
pose of investigating the situation in
regard to the steel strike, and the sit.
nation as summed up by Hickey was
that the strike appeared to be lost and
II may take years to repair the dam
age to the association which has al
ready been done.
No Recommendation Was Made,
Hickey's report was listened to by
all the men with respectful attention,
and although no vote upon the ques-
tion of the returning to work was
taken the result of Hickey's mission
is claimed to be that the truth regard
ing the situation of the steel workers
has for the first time been told by a
man whose experience and standing
In the organization qualified him to
speak. Hickey made no recommends
ton to the lodge as to their future ac-
ton, but 1t is believed that his speech
may cause change In sentiment, not
only in Bay View, but in other places
In the Fourth district.
Reply to Hickey Is Probable.
That Hickey's remarks will be re-
ported In full to the general officers
of the organization, and that it may
result in bringing Assistant Secretary
Michael Tighe here again, or some
other representative of the grand
lodge, was the belief of many of the
members of the organization. Presi-
dent Redfern stated that so far it APP
peared to be the opinion of the major
ity that the men should not return to
work until they had been ordered
back by the national officers. Hickey
had little to say of the conference In
Pittsburg with President Shaffer and
other national officers. The confer
ence was mainly of a personal nature,
In which President Shaffer was
charged with violating the constitu-
ton in ordering the strike.
Statement That Hickey Makes.
Hickey said he got his information
from a man high in office in the east,
and that Morgan Offered Shaffer four
additional mills, for which he was
willing to sign the scale as an expert
ment, and then he told Shaffer that If
the organization kept faith in these
four mills and lived up to the agree
ment he would pledge his word that in
two years every mill in the combine
would be included I'm the contract with
the Amalgamated. This was the most
reasonable proposition which has ever
been made to the association, and 1t
was clearly the duty of President
Shaffer to have accepted then and
there. But instead of doing this he
turned it down fatty in speech in
which he declared that all must be
signed for or none"
AT THE DUoUEsNE CARNEGIE PLANT |
Strikers Say They win Tie 1t Up sure-An
|. the Ladle Men Stay Out.
Pittsburg, Sept. 2.-The principal in |
terest In strike matters yesterday was
centered in the Duquesne plant, where
It was expected the strikers swould |
make Q decided move toward closing
down the entire Works. The report |
from there last night said that the
situation was critical. The two boss |
meters and all first helpers went to
work as usual yesterday morning, and |
all twelve furnaces were charged. Only
one second helper went in, and all
ladle men stayed out. The strikers |.
made thorough house-to- house can
vass of open. hearth men all day. At
p. M, time for helpers and ladle men
TO go on, pickets were on duty on the
streets and turned back three laJle
men.
The night turn was badly crippled,
but men were brought from. the Bes-
semer Gepa&tment to help ont, and the
mill was running full. Sixty of the
d8y turn men were off.
If the open-hearth is shut down T.
forty-inch mill must also shut dow
This mill supplies Monessen, vandt
grift and the tin mills, hence the NOV
ment is important to the strikers. N
officials admitted that a strike was
but said no serious results would {,
low. Thirty coal and iron police WEI
brought from Braddock, and the nigl
and day borough police, with fou' ex
ras, were on duty.
A conservative estimate Of T.
amount of strike benefits that are
be paid by the Amalgamated Assoc
lion to its striking members now
mas been placed at $4,000 every we,
This Is basing the number Of benefit
aries at 10000 with the average ia,
ment to member at "a week. Se,
rotary Williams declares there Will b,
plenty of money to care for al II,
Members, and In cases whr-.
The "a Is ~ nigh for the care OF !.
- - ana his family more will be
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sCRgAB MAKES A PROPOSITION