Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-09-04
EXECUTIVE IS ACCUSED
Bay View Man Charges All the
Labor Trouble on the Anal
gamated President.
DECLARES THE STRIKE is LOST
Steel Magnatcs Claim Victory al
Duquesne; So Do the Strikers
--Burns and Schwab in
Confab.

Plttsburg, Pa, Sept. 2.-steel off.
cials in Pittsburg declared last night
that, all reports to the contrary not
wlthstanding, there is no strike mt Du.
quesne and will be none. They said
all the night-turn men reported for
duty and that the plant is being
worked to its full capacity.
Milwaukee, Sept. 2-Charges that
the national officers of the Amalga-
mated Association had misrepresented
the attitude of the United States Steel
corporation toward organized labor in
order to get the members of the asso.
citation out on strike We're made by ex-
Vice President j. d. Hickey at the
meeting Of the Bay View lodge yes
terday. In a 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
uation as summed up by Hickey was
that the strike appeared to be lost and
it 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.
ton 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 q
man whose experience and standing
in the organization qualified him tC
| speak. Hickey made no recommends
| tion to the lodge as to their future ac'
ton, but 1t is believed that his speech
may cause n change III sentiment, mo-
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 1t ma!
result in bringing Assistant Secretar!
Michael Tighe here again, or somt
other representative of the CRANE
lodge, was the belief of many of TIN
members of the organization. Presi
| dent Redfern stated that so far 1t mp
peared to be the opinion of the major
| ity that the men should not return t.
work until they had been ordered
back by the national officers. .Hicke.
had little to say of the conference II
Pittsburg with President Shaffer ant
other national officers. The confer
ence was mainly of personal nature
in which President Shaffer wa
charged with violating the constitu
ton in ordering the strike.
Statement That Hickey Makes.
4 Hickey said he got his information
from man high in office in the cas-
and that Morgan Offered Shaffer fou
additional mills, for which he wa
willing to sign the scale as an eXper
ment, and then he told Shaffer that
the organization kept faith in thes
four mills and lived up to the agree
ment he would pledge his word that I
two years every mill in the combin
9 would be included in the contract wit
the Amalgamated. This was the mos
0 reasonable proposition which has ey'
0 been made to the association, and
8 was clearly the duty of Presidel
Shafrer to have accepted then an
there. But instead of doing this l
turned it down fatty in a speech
which he declared that all must |
signed for or none"