The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-31
SIGNS POINT TO STRIKES END Shaffer'S Impeachment is Demanded.
 LABOR 3 oRLD EDITORIAL
 Amalgan B ed Associations Presid g ! is Arraigned.
 The Paper Declares His Course Has Not Been in Accord With the Constitution of the Union.


 actual change in the strike situation. much trans nspired today calculated to soon produce results. The conference between the Bayview Committee and the Amalgamated officials, the contin- ued efforts of President Burns of the Window Glass Workers Association to bring about arbitration or conciliation. the scalding editorial in The Labor World, calling for the. impeachment of President Shaffer; the march of the strikers from McKeesport to Duquesne, and the decided effect of the injunction proceedings at Canal Dover, O., all indicate that the crisis is approaching.
 The details of the conference of the Bayview Committee and the Amalga- mated officials have not yet been di- vulged by either party, but the fact that the committee is here at all would indicate that the Bayview strikers are uneasy. The general belief Is that the main subject of the committees visit was for the purpose of arranging some compromise by which the Bayview plant may resume, though this is de- nied.
 Simon Burns said tonight: q am in terested in this matter as the big strike is affecting all lines of business, includ- ing the window glass trade. My pur- pose Is to get the two sides together and start the mills. If President Schwab is still opposed to my plan of arbitration, will request him to sug- best whatever modification he desires. Anything will be acceptable if the United States Steel Corporation can be induced to arbitrate and get the mills started"
 The editorial in the current issue of The Labor World. the organ of the In- ternational Tin Workers Protective As sociation and the mouthpiece of the Pittsburg district of the Mine Work ers' Union and the Pattern Makers As sociation Is long and bitter attack on 1 President Shaffer and demands his i'm peachment for calling the present strike. The demand for the impeach- ment is made because 1t is charged President Shaffer compelled the steel workers to violate contracts; because he expelled the Chicago men and re- voked their charter without cunstitu- ! tlonal hearing and because the whole strike is unconstitutional and has brought ruin and wreck to men who have made the Amalgamated Associa- ton. The editorial gives twenty-four reasons why President Shaffer should be impeached. The editorial follows:
 The editorial is entitled Sacrifice Shaffer. Save the Amalgamated."
 uS w UT lu CdlLoI lnAS hilNAA 10 q lOiS one. follows in part
 "Is it the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers to be sent to slaughter in a lost fight and sacrificed on the altar of the mad and selfish ambition of this creature Slaf- fer? This is no time for sentiment. It is a time for facts and plain speak ing. The fight against the steel trust is lost, but no order comes from hmal- gamated headquarters where Shaffer covers to spare the brave men a { the front. Leaders of organized labor, for bid it in the name of the cause you hold dear, but which is menaced as long as Shafferism is allowed to live Forbid it in the name of labor's honor and honesty which Shaffer's acts have impugned."
 Then follows an intimation of an ac- cusation of stock dealing that MT. Shaf- fer has repeatedly denied. The edjto- rial continues:
 'Impeach him for plunging the Anal gamated into a strike that was unwar- ranted.
 "Impeach him for calling out men last month without giving the sub lodges chance to vote on the queS tIou of strike.
 "Impeach him for making demands Ilidl NCLG SO GAi OlIIdBs dHu imperative that the trust could not with honor sub init.
 "IInpeach him for calling a strike on demands that he afterward receded from. .:-..
 ''Impeach him for calling put tl.e tin plate men en July and the National Steel and Federal Steel men this month, after their scales had tecn signed
 "Impeach him for violating the Amalgamated constitution Tn revoking the charters nf the South Chicago men without trial.
 ''Impeach him for the blow he has given to organized labor, not only in teaching that union agreements are not contracts to be respected, but also in showing that constitutional safeguards a"e no guarantee to 8 unlonist when a Shaffer is at the head of things.
 "lmpcaoh him for causing the manu- facIurers to say that labor unions must be incorporated, that their pledged word is of no value.
 ''Impeach him for making it impos- sible, by bis breaches of contract and l repudiStion of agreements. for organ ized labor to lend practical support to the men he called out. Most of the prominent labor leaders of the coun- try are on record against breach of contract. Shaffer has made it neces- sary for them to appear to be on the side of the trust in this strike.
 "Impeach him for issuing his second strike call without consulting any one when he was framing it.
 "Impeach Shaffer for making this his strike. He was going to get all the glory and the Amalgamated was going to get all the scars, On his own re- sponsibility he signed that New York agreement, and when he repudiated it, the odium was incurred by the organi- zation. only Shaffer's name was signed to the second strike call.
 "Impeach him for going into this strike without funds or the prospect 1 of funds to support it. Strike benefits begin next week, and he has not enough money to last three weeks if every striker gets his due.
 I tsTyopazoh him for nnf arcapfin0 the