Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-08-06
ALL AMAlGAMA1EO OFFICIALS PRESENT.
Proposition Made by Morgan and
Schwab to Shaffer and Williams
still Open-Entire Executive Com
mittce of Anal mat cd Association
Present mt Saturdays Conference.

Schwab through IreSldent onaHer
and Secretary Williams, of the Anal !,
gamated association, one week ago,
are still open, but the strikers repre-
sentatives showed no inclination to ac-
cept them. The representatives of the
strikers left the conference at which
they have failed to agree with the an
nouncement that they would go into
secret session themselves later in the
afternoon. 1t was admitted that there
might be action at that meeting which
would change the situation.
Would Make No Concessions.
At the conference of Saturday morn
ing Messrs. Morgan and Schwab in
sisted upon the acceptance of the terms
offered by them Saturday last. Presi-
dent Shaffer and his associates de-
manded further concessions on behalf
of the union. Neither side would give
in and the conference disagreed and
parted, leaving the situation practic-
ally unchanged. President Schwab
went from the conference to the office
of j. P. Morgan, where he was closet
ed for time with Robert Bacon. He
would not discuss the conference or
the strike situation.
A Night of Anxiety.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Aug. 5.-A McKees-
port dispatch says: Friday night was
night of anxiety and unrest through
out McKeesport and the excitement
was very noticeable among the strik-
ers. The patrols were doubled and
messages from the Amalgamated
headquarters were expected at any
time. During the early evening con-
fdence was expressed that general
strike would be ordered and that the
tube workers would be thrown out of
work by the closing down of their roll
ing mills. A furry of excitement was
caused by the story of the two men
who tried to rent house to quarter
men who would be brought to break
the strike at the Demmler mill of the
American Tin Plate company. Several
patrols spent most of the night in
looking for the men, who had disap-
peared, and still another crowd kept
inreadiness the material necessary for
a coat of tar and feathers. An organ
izer for the American Federation of
Labor was expected here Saturday
night and lodge was formed among
the tube workers during the day. The
place and hour Of the meeting were
kept secret, but the leaders announce
that $50 men were taken in at the
meeting.
strikers Dened by Plucky Woman.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Aug. 5.-A Wells
vile CO., dispatch says: Deeply en-
ragged by being outwitted by the mill
officials, who Friday afternoon sue
ceeded in running nine new mill work
ers into the mill, the strikers became
desperate and asserted that no more
aecessions must be made to the mill
workers. Accordingly more than 100
of them guarded both entrances to the
mill all night They made extra effort
to be vigilant when the midnight train
from Pittsburgh came to town, but
breakers About two o'clock Satur-
day morning they went to the house
of mill worker named Harry Philips.
Philips wife boards three of the men
who came here few days ago to work
at the mill. The strikers pelted the
house with stones, breaking nearly
all the windows, and demanded that
the mill men who were boarding
there come out. Several shots were
fired with revolvers by the men, but
no one was hurt. Mrs. Philips is a
s,lucky woman, and, armed with a
gun, she wen. out into the crowd of
strikers and dared them to touch her.
She then took the men who were board
ing with her including her husband,
to the mill, she walking beside them
with a loaded revolver in her hand.
and at the same time daring the strik.
ers to interfere. She got the four men
inside the mill and then turned and put
the mob, as she calls them, to rout.
She says that she knows many of them
and viii have them arrested.
Some interesting developments are
looked for before Monday. The plant
is now running five of its mills, four of
Them double and one of them single
turn. Manager Brookman declares
capacity by Monday.
Negroes Being Imported.
Pittsburgh. Pa. Aug. 5.-A party
of SO negroes passed through Pitts
burgh Saturday morning, presumably
to work in the steel mills at Wells
vile or Newburg. From whence
they come could not be learned.
report was received in McKees
port Saturday to the effect that two
car loads of negroes were coming
from Virginia to take the place Of
strikers at the Demmler tin plate
mill. The strikers called meeting
Immediately and appointed a commit.
tee of 20 men to go and meet the
train at Connellsville and If pos sible
persuade the men to return to Tir-
GINA. Great excitement prevails in
the town and trouble is expected if
the committee is unable to stop the
negroes at Connellsville and they
should come on through to McKees-
port.
Drive Colored Men Out.
Cleveland, O., Aug. 5.-As result
of the report that aegroes are being
brought into the city 10 supplant
white workmen in the Newbarg mills
of the United States Steel corpora.
fion. the idle plants are now being
picketed by members of the Anal
gamated association. Five plants are
now idle, the company having recent
Iy closed down the 0. IL and 1s-inch
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