The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-27
DENIAL ERE IMR. SKATER
Says Civic la, leratiOn Don't
 Represeg Strikers.
Both Sides Still .Ssim That Com plete Victory is in Sight. Mayor Black Acts With
 High Hand.


 negotiations for the settlement of the strike through the mediation of disin- terested parties-officials and members of the National Civic Federation-re- ceived 8 jolt when President Theo. J. Shaffer of the Amalgamated Associa- tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, tonight declared absoIutely that he had no official knowledge of sucn proceed lnss and that if such a move had been started 1t did not have the o1ncial sane tion Of the organization. Nevertheless the subject will not down, and tonight IL Is said the conciliatory committee or the Civic Federation is fully prepared to carry on negotiations and will, if necessary, endeavors to secure the good offices of Archbishop Ireland, Bishop Potter. Daniel Hanna and Seth Low, CO members of their organization, to give such prominence te the committee that the proposal will be received by the steel corporation.
 In the meantime. both sides to the controversy make claims to a victory. The steel men point to the gains they have made all along the line in the way of securing men and starting plants, while the Amalgamated officials say that instead of losing ground the as- sociation is gaining every day, and that while the combine has succeeded in starting few plants. they are not turning out merchantable material and are losing money and breaking valu- able machinery, and in the end will have to ask their old men to come to the rescue.
 The report from Wheeling tonight is that the manager of the Aetna Stand ard Sheet plant of the American Sheet Steel Company received orfders from the general offices to dismantle sheet mill No. i and ship the machinery te Vandegrift. Pa. The work of disman- ting will be commenced at once.
 Mayor Black of McKeesport today fined John Sheridan, a workman in the DeWees- Wood mill. $25 and costs and Sheridan will have to serve thirty days in the workhouse in default of bail. Sheridan has been spotted for some time by the strikers because he said the strike would not succeed and that he wanted to return to work. He was drinking hard Saturday night and was locked up. Today at the hearing no informant appeared against him, but Mayor Black fined him because he heard he had called him names. He then refused a bond for the fine and re- fused to let reporters inspect the dock ct or CTdnSCTIDI Ol lut tdSC tiCS would guarantee the fine and costs.
 Superintendent D. NJ. Pittcock of the DemmIer tin plate mills said tonight the mill would be started this mroning with the old men. The city police and rikers are guarding the plant to- night.
 While the representatives of the Ma tional Civic Federation are working zealously for peace between the steel workers and the United States Steel Corporation, President Shaffer of the Amalgamated Association declared to- day that his association had given on authority to any one to make settle ment nd that any effort that might be made In that direction is being done bv outside parties on their own re- sponsimbility. He announced that so far as the officials of the organization are concerned, they are satished that the attempts of the officials or the trust to operate the plans in Ptttsnurs have been futile and while there IS apparntIy a lot of men at work ana machinery in operation, pfacucaily no product is being turned out
 The officials of the various plants that have been started during the week in Pittsburg say they have made gains in all of them. More men have come to work and the output is in every case increased The Painter plant of the Hop combine started two additlonal mills today and the officials say that before the end of the week these mllls will be working double turn. The star mills are being operated by non-union fin workers and two double mills are turning out satisfactory blacd sheets. Manager Piper claims that the mill will he operated three turns before the end of the week.
 The ndsay-McCutcheon mills In Al legheny have two mills running ana if is expected they will be put on dou- ble turn later in the week. The Clark hoop mills in Lawrenceville are oper- ated in full force in a single turn but they say the six mills will be on a turning out satisfactory black sheets
 The officials of the Upper and Lower Trnion Mills of the Carnegie Company today claimed that there was no diff fcultv in opening their mills. They denied that the refusal of some Of their men to return to work had anect- ed the plants in any way. To all out ward appearances the lower mills were running as usual today though the companv has issued strict iniunctions seainst entrance to the mills or the oices by any one not employed there. At Amalgamated headquarters today | the mail for the ofhclalS was neaNy ana Secretary Williams received number of checks representing contributions | from the Amalgamated Lodges in inde- pendent mills for the strike fund, Trustees Pierce and VicePresident Gibson of the association made tour of the plants supposed to be operating and reported that there was no truth in the report that so much was being accomplished by the plants. The pickets about the Star mills claim to have secured nineteen assertions all told from the plant since men were taken there. It was also claimed that the total number in the mill nearly a fifth are made up of managers and foremen of other plants. Regarding the Painter %4ant it was said that the strikers were keeping away from the mills entirely and paid no attention to --a L L