The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-31
PRESIDENT OF AMALGAMATED AS
ISOLATION ATTACKED BY PITTS
BURG LABOR WORLD
DEMANDS HIS IMPEACHMENT
Editors of the Organ Charge Leader
of Steel Strikers With Having
Ordered an UncOnstItu-
tionaI Strike.

scciation, to bring about arbitration or
Cancellation, the scathing editorial in the
Labor World, ca ling for the impeach-
ment of President Shaffer; the march OF
the strikers of McKeesport to Duquesne,
and the decided effect of the Injunction
proceedings at Canal Dover Ohio, all in
dictate that the crisis is approaching, and
that an important change in affairs is not
far distant. What the outcome will be,
no man can tell.
The details of the conference of the
( Bay View committee and the Amalgamat-
ed officials has not yet been diyulged by
either party, but the fact that the COM
mittee is here at al would indicate that
the Bay View strikers are uneasy. J. D
Hickey and ]. F. Cooper, OF the commit
tee, have been here since Monday, but
| their presence has not been generally
known. The general belief is that the main
object of the committees visit Aas for
the purpose Of arranging some compro-
mise by which the Bay View plant may
resume. President Shaner, on the con-
trary, says the two men did not come
. here as representatives of the Bay View
lodge. They were simply here as indi-
vidual members of the Amalgamated as
ISOLATION 10 explain in person the rea-
son for their action in regard to the gen.
eral strike order and the reversal OF that
decision after T ghe's visit TO Milwaukee.
The lodge did not send them. nor did
it send to me any request to be allowed
10 go to work. said President Shaffer.
The two gentlemen left for home to-
night, and 1t IS said a meeting of their
lodge viii be he'd upon their return to
take action on their report. What that
! report VIII be cannot be learned here
Notwithstanding the report from New
Y ork that no conference has been held or
arranged for between c. NJ. Schwab and
Simon Burns looking to arbitrati n, the
latter has not relaxed his efforts in this
direction. and seems determined to bring
about some sort Of compromise.
sHAFFER DENOUNCED.
The leading editorial in the current Issue
of the Labor World the organ of the In
terEational Tin Workers Protective as
ISOLATION, and the mouthpiece OF the
Pittsburg district of the Mine Workers
union and the Patternmakers' associa-
ton, is long and tier attack on Pres.
dent Shaffer, and demands his impeach-
ment for calling the present strike. The
demand for the impeachment is made be-
cause It IS charged Shaffer compelled the
steel workers to violate contracts; be-
cause he expelled the Chicago men and
revoked their charter without constitu-
tlonal hearing; and because the whole
strike is unconstitutional and has
brought ruin and wreck to men who
have made the Amalgamated association.
The editorial gives twenty-four reasons
why President Shaffer should be i'm
peaehed
The fact that George Powell president
of the Tin Plate Workers Protective AS
ISOLATION of America; L. r. Thomas.
president of the Patternmakers' National
league, and Patrick Dolan. president of
the United Mine Workers of the Fittsburg
district, constitute the board of control of
the publication, and that President Shat
fer himself UP to within a year ago was
member of the board would seem to
lend considerable weight to the utter
ances. of the paper
The editorial is entitled Sacrifice Shat
fer; Save the Amalgamated."
The World editorial which is a long
one, follows in part:
rs the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers to be sent
ID slaughter in lost fight and sacrificed
on the altar of the mad and selfish ambi-
non OF this creature Shaffer? This is no
tlfne-for sentiment. 1t is a time for facts
and plain speaking. The fight against the
steel trust is lost, but no order comes
from Amalgamated headquarters where
Smarter covers to spare the brave mcn
at the front. Leaders of organized
labor forbid 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 Shafer's acts have
imrugned."
Then follows an intimation of an ac-
cusation of stock dealing that Mr. Shat
fer has repeatedly denied. The editorial
continues:
RED-HOT ROAST.
"lmEeach him for plung.ng the Anna ga
mated into a strike that was unwar-
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last month without giving the sublodges
strikei
'1mpeach him for making demands that
were so arbitrary and imperative that
the trust could not with honor submit
1lnpeach him for calling a strike on
demands that he afterward receded
''Impeach him for calling out the TN
plate men In July and the National steel
and Federal Steel men this month ate,
their scales had been signed
Impt ach him for NiO,at ng the Amalea-
mated constitution in reyoking the char
ters or the South Chicago men without
a trial.
"lmpeach him for the blow he has given
20 organized labor, not only in teaching
that union agreements are not contracts
TO De respected, but also in showing thar
constitutional safe guards are no guar
the head of things
'Impeach him for causing the mann
Iacturers to say that labor unions must
is of no value!
"I1npeach him for making it impossible
bE MS breaches of contract and repudja-
ton OF agreements, for organized labor
70 lend practical support to the men re
called out
Most of the prominent labor leaders Of
the country 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
"lmpeach him for issuing mis- second
strike call without consulting anyone
/ when he was framing it,
lmpeach 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 responsi-
bility he signed that New York agree
ment and when he repudiated II the
odIum was incurred by the organization
| Only Skaters name was signed 20 the
second strike call.
''Impeach him for going into this strike
without funds or the prospect of funds
to support 1t! Strike benefits begin next
week, and he has not enough money to
! last three weeks if every striker gets his
due.
''Impeach him for not accepting the
Hotel Lincoln propositions of the trust
which gave him four more sheet Dlants
than the Amalgamated had last year
''Impeach him for his crazy advice to
the Workingmen of the country TO draw
money out of the savings banksI
"'Impeach him for getting the Fedora
ton Tube workers TO strike and then
leaving them up in the air
''Impeach him for having no other
weapon with which TO fight the trust
than the effect he expected the strike
We trust your grocer to sell
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