The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-10
Nothing Done Yesterday by Shaffer's
Executive Board, Which Ad-
journed without Date.
AN EFFECTIVE PICKET LINE
M,KEESPORT STRIKERS SHUT OUT
THE TUBE MILL workbench.
Excitement on the streets, but No Dis
order-Tin Plate Mills Running
Situation at Milwaukee.

PITTSBURG, Sept. 9.-The last efforts to
settle the steel strike have failed. The
general executive board of the Amalga-
mated Association adjourned this evening
without date and without either accepting
any of the peace propositions which have
come indirectly from the United States
Steel Corporation, or making any counter
propositions, according TO official state
ment.
The semi-officiaI report is that the prop
osition secured for the Amagamated AS
| ISOLATION through the Intervention Of the
representatives Of the National Civic Fed
! Grafton was unsatisfactory, and that the
| entire matter of arranging for a settlement
was left with President Theodore j. Shat
! fer The board, in its sessions of three
days, has been clamoring for settlement
| hut satisfactory terms and means were not
| at hand, and the sessions resolved them
selves into an informal discussion of the
| situation
| At the close Of the meeting Of the ma
! tional executive board this evening Presi-
dent Shaffer declared that he had no state
ment to make but subsequently said: THE
board has adjourned, and the out-of-town
members will probably leave for their
! homes tonight. No peace proposition has
been received and none made" Still later
he added that he or no other member of the
board would go to New York during the
night to submit a peace proposition, saying
| that he would be at headquarters as usual
| tomorrow.
The meeting of the board did not adjourn
| I'm hfUh NO q
the board were averse to making state
ments supplemental to that of President
Shaffer 1t was stated by some of the
! members of the board that the adjourn
ment had left matters practically they
| were before the meeting had been called,
| and that the strike must go on as before,
| leaving arrangements for a possible settle
| ment through a coveted direct conference
! between the representatives of the United
| States Steel Corporation and President
Shaffer.
THIRTY DAYS OF STRIKE.
| To-day completed the first thirty days
| since the American Sheet Steel Company,
| the American Tin-plate Company and the
American Steel Hoop Company began their
! attempt to start the union plants of the
| country in the face of the Amalgamated
| Association strike. Aside from the Clark
| plant of the Steel Hoop Company and the
| Upper and Lower Union mills of the Car
| negie company, where the attempt TO rem
| der the strike effective was never sue
| cess, the three companies have, during the
| month, succeeded in placing in operation
seventy-six mills in the Union plants, single
turn. Indications are that the number
| will be doubled within the next ten days
] II the strike is not settled before that time.
While the tin-plate company has put up
the most aggressive fight of the three, the
| steel-hoop company has been most success
| full in the Eastern district and in the
| West the sheet-steel company has met with
he
| in these preliminary skirmishes at a few
| chosen points, all three companies have
now prepared t., carry the fight into every
| union plant without further delay.
| The strike situation in McKeesport
| reached an acute stage this morning, and
| serious trouble was feared as a result of
the efforts of the striking tube workers to
| prevent men from returning to work as
they did Saturday. The effort was almost
| perfectly successful, and where last week
from 800 to 1000 men went back to the mill
not more than dozen were able this morn
| ing to elude the multitude of pickets and
get back into the mill There was great
| excitement result of this turning out
Of the strikers. more than at any time yet
Something over 1000 strikers cOngregated
| about the great plant of the National Tube
Company shortly after midnight, and re-
manned there until this morning. When
the employees who went to work last week
reported for duty at Z O'Clock every ap-
proach to the mill was guarded most Wig
ilantly, and around the main entrance more
than 600 strikers and sympathizers gath
were crowded, and men approached to
go TO work they were met and turned back
| Almost all of the great force who returned
last week reported for duty again, and
there were many more who were willing to
go back, but these were met by the pickets
as they advanced near the mill and forced
TO return home. Not over a dozen escaped
the vigilance of the pickets and succeeded
in getting into the mill.
NO ARRESTS MADE.
About fifty police were on duty at the
mill, but no arrests were made. AS a
result of the disturbances this morning the
big tube mill is idle and completely tied up.
Just what the National Tube Company will
do now is matter of conjecture. AS the
morning advanced the excitement in
creased and by noon the streets were
crowded. A large crowd assembled around
the railroad station and carefully watched
all trains for imported men, Strikers in
skiffs also patrolled the river. Excitement
had not been 50 intense since the strike
began.
At o'clock this afternoon McKeesport
had fewer strikers on the streets than this
morning, the majority of men who did
| picket work around the tube works having
| gone home to bed. They had been up most
| of the night and the suppOSitiOn was that
they were also preparing for like vigil to-
night. Fully 500 men remained about the
| Baltimore q Ohio depot, however, waiting
for something to turn up. The specie :
! deputized citizen policemen patrolled tile
| streets with a Vigilant eye. Nothing was
being done toward resumption i'm the mill.
| At Mckeesport this evening the strikers
| following up their advantage of the morn
ing in keeping the workmen from entering
the National tube works. gathered about
] the gates OF the plant in great numbers
J and warned the few men who came out not
TO return 10 work tomorrow morning Ii
! is generally believed the company will ap-
| peal TO the sheriff or Governor within for
! ty-eight hours for protection.
| At the meeting OF lodges of the Fedora
! ton Of Labor in McKeesport yesterday the
/ question of returning to work in the tube
/ mill was voted on. The butt welders Voted
! TO return. but were prevented from doing so
this morning by the strikers who gathered
| about the mill. The employees OF the rolling
mill of the National Tube Company voted
/ to a man not TO return. At Delmar a crowd
, I of fully 500 strikers gathered around the
plant and while they were orderly they re-
fused TO obey the orders of the fifty deputy
. | sheriffs on guard.
More strikers Return to Work.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. Sept. 9.-Thirty-fve
{ Amalgamated Association men returned 10