The age-herald., 1901-08-31

the SLecl LTuSL IS lOSL, put no DTuSf from Amalgamated headquarters where Shaffer covers to spare the brave men at the front. Leaders of organized labor, forbid 1t 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 the blbor's honor, md honesty, which shaffer's acts have im- pugned."
 Then follows an intimation of an accu- sation of stock dealing that MT. Shaker has repeatedly denied. The editorial con- tinues:
 ''Impeach him for plunging the Amal- gamated into a strike that was unwar- ranted.
 'Impeach him for calling out the men last month without giving the sub-lodges a chance to vote on the question or strike.
 "Impeach him for making demands that were so arbitrary and imperative that the trust could not with honor submit.
 "Impeach him for calling strike on demands that he afterward refused "Impeach him for calling out the plate man in July and the National Steel men this month after their scales hao peeil signed. ,uo- mated Constitution in revoking the char ters of the South Chicago men "ithou. a trial.
 "Impeach him for the blow he has glV- en to organized labor not only in teaching that union agreements are not contracts to be respected, but also in showing .hae constitutional safeguards are not suaI. antee to a unionist when Shaner ID as the head of things.
 l. "Impeach him for causing the mahu- lecturers to say that labor unions must be incorporated, that their pledged word | is of no value.
 "Impeach him for making it impossible, | by his breaches of contract and repudia- 1 tion of agreements, for organized labor | to lend practical support of the men cali | ed out. Most of the prominent labor leao- | CTS of the country are on record against | breach of contract. Shaffer has made 1t necessary for them to appear to be on l 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 Association was se- ing to get all of the scars. On ms own responsibility he signed that New fork agreement, and when he repudiated IL me odium was incurred by the organization. Only Shaffers name was signed to the second strike call.
 "Impeach him for going into this strike without funds or the prospect of funds 10 support it. Strike benefits begin next week, and the organization has not enough money to last three weeks If every striker gets his due.
 Impeach him for not accepting the Hotel Linville proposition of the trust. which gave him four more lheet mills tran the Amalgamated had last year.
 'Impeach him TOT his crazy advice to lhe Workingmen of the country to draw money out of the savings banks.
 'Impeach him for getting the Fedora tion of 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 to have on the trust in the stocks In Wall street.
 "Impeach him for holding out assur- ances that organized labor would sup port the strike when he had been 'n- formed by labor leaders that they could do little or nothing for the strike with out jeopardizing their own regulations and the good standing of their unions. "Impeach him, finally, for having in- | volved the Amalgamted Association in a tangle of broken contracts and repudi- | ated agreements which will work 1t long | injury In tying up the organization in hopeless groundless strike and for pre- ferring to humiliate the Amalgamated Association than himself now that he can find no other way out of the diffi- cuty than surrender.
 Since Shaffer will not sacrifice him. self, he must be sacrificed. The Amal- gamated Association must be saved and Shafferism go. Sacrifice Shaffer and save the Amalgamated Association"