The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-08-09
Looks Like Nothing Can Prevent
Strike involving Half
a Million Men.
STEEL TRADE WILL BE PARALYzED
Morgan Is Leading the Owners of the
Great Mills.
While Shaffer Heads the Hosts of La
bor-Battie To Be Begun With
in This Week and No
~ Quarter Asked.

Pittsburg, Pa. Aug. 5.-"Within q
week every union man and every union
man at heart in the employ of the
United States Steel Corporation will be
asked to join in the strike now being
Waged by the Amalgamated AssOcia-
ton. We must settle whether uniOnism
is to stand or fall There will be no
more conferences with United States
Steel Corporation unless the meeting is
asked for by the officials of that cor
poratiOn. The Amalgamated Associa-
ton will not request a peace meeting"
These and several other significant
statements were made last night by
Theodore J. Shaffer, president of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers, upon his re-
turn from the fruitless conference with
J. PierpOnt Morgan and others in New
York
Now Fight to the Bitter End.
1t is now Il fight to the bitter finish
between the great billiOn-dOllar steel
trust and organized labor. Shaffer says
peaceable means within the power Of
man to win victory. No quarter is
to be given and none will be requested
The entire management of the battle
has been placed III the hands Of Pres
ident Shaffer. He has absolute power
to call out every man who is connected
with the organization and he intends
to do it. He is satisfied with the pro-
greSs of the fight to date. He finds
that none of his battle lines have been
broken. Promise is made by Shaffer
that the trust will find that the Anal
gamated Association has strong roots
in many of it's mills.
Has Some More Surprises to Spring.
Shaffer, Secretary Williams, B. l.
Davis, NJ. r. Tighe and John Chappelle
(of Wellsville), came in from New York
about p. m. yesterday. Shaffer said,
when asked when a melting would be
held to order action, "NOne will be
needed. | was given Tat the
New York meeting1 full authority to
act. The meeting empowered me to is
sue Il call whenever in my judgment I
thought it time to act"
"DO you think you will be able to
close all of the mills of the steel cor
poration?"
Il am of the opinion that every one
of them can be closed. We have some
great surprises in store for the trust.
The men have been organized in some
of their mills that they never dreamed
could be touched. We have the SYM
pathy Of the Workmen and they will
not throw any straws in the way of
our absolute victory
Involves Many Thousand Men.
There is scarcely one Of the 100000
employees of the United States Steel
Corporation but what may feel the
strike. 1t may be that the American
Federation of Labor will call out it's
thousands who handle products of the
United States Steel Corporation; the
structural Steel Workers may refuse to
handle steel from the mills Of the
trust; the miners may refuse to dig
coal for trust mills ;the railway organ
iZatiOns may be drawn into the con-
test, although that is not probable.
THE CONFERENCE AT NEW YORK.
Failed to Bring Peace Because There
Were Too Few Concessions.
New York, Aug. 5.-Another effort
to perfect a permanent truce between
the great army Of steel workers and
the giant corporation which employs it
has failed, and now the conflicting
sides are as sharply and widely divided
as ever. The leaders on either side met
here again Saturday morning and after
a day of fruitleSs conference and dis
cussion parted in a spirit that showed
no tinge of cancellation. Neither side
would surrender position or concede
a point in the dispute in which they are
involved and present indications point
to a renewal with vigOr Of the struggle
There were two conferences, the first
between the steel combine magnateS
headed by !. PierpOnt Morgan, and
the Amalgamated executive, headed
by Shaffer, and the second a confer
ence of the members of the Amalga-
mated executive.
1t is needless to say that the first
conference was fruitless. The second
was i'll session for over two hours, at
the close of which the following state
ment was given to the press:
I'VE the members of the executive
board of the Amalgamated ASSocia-
ton of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers,
considering it incumbent upon us TO
|uI1S1l6II Tic DuUlIC TIE press
with reference to the present relations
between our association and the United
States Steel Corporation, present the
following statement: The officials of
the United States Steel Corporation, in
stead of resuming negotiations where
they were suspended at the conference
held on July II, u and Is, have with
drawn the propositions made at that
time and are now offering much less
than they agreed to sign for then
'"The following is the proposition
which the United States Steel Corpora
ton gave us today as it's ultimatum.
1t will be observed that the pre-
amble states simply that the United
States Steel Corporation officials will
advise settlement by the underlined
companies:
'"Preamble = Conditions under
which we are willing to advise a set
tlemept of the labor difficulties: Tin
plate company-Should proceed I'M
der the contract signed with the Anal
afnI asa4s nc Of ,11xr