The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-22
STRIKE AT A STANDSTILL

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 both sides were busy all day, but at nightfall both said there were no an- nouncements to make.
 Veryl Preston was at the office of the Carnegie Steel company and conferred at length with President w. E. Corey and other leading officials. President Shaffer was at the office or the Amal- gamated association all day and spent most of the time in conferring with delegates of strikers. On the streets It was a day of exciting rumors beginning with a circumstantial story of plot to destroy the Monongahela tin plate plant and ending with tale of the removal of the largest plants of the United States Steel corporation to Eng land. Between the two rumor again settled the strike in several ways. At headuuarters bold denial was given to all the interesting stories. It was another day of peace in all the strike districts, although the general prob ability of trouble still holds good at the plants where feeling runs high. John Sternsdorff a rougher from Richmond, Va, who claimed that he was a member of the party of strike breakers brought to Monessen on Sun day by Alabama Joe" Carter, was at strike headquarters to-day. He said that Carter had entirely misrepresent- ed the facts to him and that he had slipped out of the works the first time chance presented itself. He says fourteen men left Richmond, that five | deserted en route and that three left when he did. He placed the number l of men now in the mill at eighteen and said very little work was being ac- complished. The strikers welcomed Sternsdroff and were elated over his statement. When he told them that another party was being formed to come north they took steps to head it off.
 According to the strike leaders only | twenty men who were formerly mem | bers of the Amalgamated association have gone to work in mills that are now being operated partly or in full with non-union men. The steel man
 agers place the umber of assertions at
 higher figure.
 | Assistant Secretary M. F. Tighe of
 the Amalgamated association said to-
 day that he was still of the opinion that
 most of the men in the South Chicago mills would be out before the end of
 the present week. He said he had re- I ceiyed word from the mills, but of a personai nature, and he could not give
 any of the details. President Shafter | said that the strike would be won by | the strikers. He believed that when | he started the strike and he still be- lieved it. He said that he was still prepared to discuss honorable terms of settlement with the steel corporation but that he did not look for any move | in that direction for some time to come.
 President Theodore J. Shaffer of the | Amalgamated Association said tonight
 that he has well defined plans to bring the great strike to close. This IS to
 be done by bringing about such a crisis in the differences between the Steel Corporatio and the Amalgamated AS sociation as will force a settlement
 Just how all this is to be accomplished is A. mystery but it will not be by ar l bitration or litigation.
 In answer to questions about the nu- merous stories going the rounds oi mediation or arbitration, MT. Shaffel dismissed all by saying: we have not heard from the other side; we have no' placed anything before them and know of nobody acting for either side or on any side. We are not hunting for arbitration, arbitration represent ing both sides might be worse than the
 strike itself. Two willing champions
 one for either side, might have worse fight in choosing third party and 1T
 settling the differences than we in the
 continuation of the strike
 q have told the other side that per
 sonally I would consent for disinterest- led arbitration in the hands of such pub lie men as Archbishop Ireland, BishoI
 Potter and Seth Low although l die
 not. as an officer of fhe association suggest such move. was willing tt advise it."