Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-31
RlNY THINGS TRANSFERRED
THAT MAY BRING RESULTS.
~ WORLD" ROASTS
SuAFFER AND DEMANDS HIS
IMPEACHMENT.
psvvIEW MEN RETURN HOME
STILL AFTER sCHWAB.
TICKETS WITHDRAWN-Mc-
kEEsPORT MEN MARCH.

.a.~a is no actual change in the steel
s..r situation. much transpired to-
~,alculated to produce results in the
4r future.
Tho conference between the Bay
Nv committee and the Amalgamated
~os.ials. the continued efforts of Pres
...rt Burns. of the Window Glass
H-rkers' Association. to bring about
duration or Cancellation; the scath-
editorial in the Labor World call
.- for the Impeachment of President
.44fer. the march of the strikers of
a. Keesport to Duquesne, and the ue-
ed effect of the injunction proceed
f--s at Canal Dover, Ohio, all indicate
fHat the crisis is approaching and that
~ ~imDortant change in affairs is not
far distant.
What the outcome will be no man
t8n tell.
The details of the conference of the
f.v View committee and the Amalga-
rated officials have not as yet been
f|fyulged by either party. bu the fact
mat the committee is here at all would
f458cate that the Bay View strikers are
uneasy. J. D. Hickey and ]. F. Cooper,
m the committee, have been here since
Monday, but their presence has not
been generally known. The general
ba1ief is hat the main object of the
=f9mmittee's visit was for the purpose
nj arranging some compromise by
which the Bay View plant may re-
sJme. President Shaffer. on the con-
trarv. says the two men did not come
here as representatives of the Bay View
lodge. They were here simply as in
Gyidual members of the A~malgamated
Association to explain in person the
reason for their action in regard TO
general strike order and the reversal
ce that decision after Tighe's visit to
Milwaukee. The lodge did not send
them, nor did it send to me any request
to De allowed 10 30 W WIN
The Two Gentlemen Left.
for home tonight, and it is said a
meeting of their lodge will be held
mon their return to take action on
their report. What that report will be
cannot be learned here.
Notwithstanding the report from
NV York that no conference has been
sald or arranged for between c. NJ.
5 hwab and Simon Burns looking to
a3tLtrltion, the latter has not relaxed
his efforts in this direction and seems
GGernined to bring about some sort OF
d Dlmpromise.
am interested in this matter
sai President Burns tonight, "as the
tg strike is affecting all lines of bust
res>. including the window glass trade.
Nr purpose is to get the two sides to-
gstAer and start the mills. If Presi-
G,a5 Schwab is still opposed TO my
nan of arbitration | will request him
IT, suggest whatever modification he
desires. Anything will be acceptable
il the United States Steel Corporation
can be induced to arbitrate and get the
mills started. It is fo~olishness to say
taere is nothing to arbitrate. / feel
elufdent that something can be done
To bring about a settlement that viii
10 the d~ishonorable to either side and
glsllt in the starting of the mills
The editorial in4the current issue OF
the Labor Word, the organ of the In
national Tin Workers Protective
ASSOCIATION and the m%outhpiece of the
p burg district of the United Mine
Workers and the Pattern Makers As
s1o.ation is
4 Long and Bitter Attack
o. President Shaffer and a demand for
rs impeachment for calling the present
strike. The demand for impeachment
! made because it is charged Shaffer
ea@pelled the steel workers to violate
contracts; because he expelled the Chi
1ago men and revoked their charter
N..4out constitutional hearing and be-
Cause the whole strike is unconstitu-
loaai and has brought ruin and wreck
10 men who have made the Amalgama-
ton.
rae editorial gives tw%enty-four rea-
sons why President Shaffer should be
.npeached.
lie fact that George Powell, presi
cent Of the Tin Plate Workers Pro-
'e''-Ve Association Of America; l.. r.
l-onas. president Of the Pattern Ma
"e'S National League, and Patrick Do
IAN president of the United Mine Work
tS' OF the Pittsburg district, constitute
'"s BOARD of control of the publication,
s"H that President Shaffer, himself up
90 within a year ago, was a member of
tie BOARD, would seem to lend consider
cue weight to the utterances OF the
paper When shown the editorial to-
N-gat, President Shaffer said:
Mr. Powell, of the Tin Workers As
~9lation was at headquarters to-day
and l haze understood that the paper
mentioned doae MT r.n~o~or< lie a.