The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-12

masters are tonight claiming victory in
the great steel strike. They base their
claim upon the refusal of the AmaIga-
mated men at South Chicago, Joliet and
Bay View to obey the general strike Or
DER OF President Shaffer and their sue
cess in maintaining operations in other
plants where it was anticipated that
there would be serious trouble.
The strike leaders meet the claims Of
victory with the assertion that their
cause Is making satisfactory progress
and that they will show themselves mas
ters of the situation before the contest
has progressed much further. They do
not conceal their disappointment at the
refusal of their Western brethren to join
with them in the strike, but none of the
leaders would discuss the defections
President Shaffer refused to meet the
newspaper men who sought him, and
kept within the secluson of his home.
The other leaders who were seen init
mated that there would be developments
tomorrow and throughout the week that
would materially change the situation.
They would not say, however what they
had In mind or what their cause was
to gain in strength. 1t was said they
We're counting upon strong aid from the
American Federation of Labor and
other organizations of union labor but
those bodies have not yet given any
public intimation of what they Will do
The Amalgamated association has de-
Veloped great strength throughout the
Wheeling district and has made gains in
some Pennsylvania districts, but it will
be tomorrow before the lines of cleav-
age viii be marked with sufficient clear
ness for a count of the men. The strike
headquarters were closed today and to-
night, and it was claimed that no re-
ports were being received from the out
lying districts as to the progress of the
In a AT.al
The steel managers were In communi-
cation with their superintendent and
district managers and at II o'clock made
public the result of their reports The
latter showed that South Chicago, Joliet
and Bay View, Milwaukee. had voted
to stay in that the Ohio works of the
National Steel company at Youngstown
and the King, Gilbert & Warner plant
of the National Steel company at Colum-
bus had resumed without trouble that
the Homestead, Edgar Thompson, Du-
Quesne Upper and Lower Union, Howard
and Werkle works of the Carnegie group
employing more than 1900 men, had re-
sumed without trouble; that the con-
verging and blooming mills of the Ma
tional Tube company at McKeesport had
started without difficulty and that Bel
laire had been only partially crippled.
They were also advised that the men of
the Boston rolling plant at McKeeSport
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out tomorrow, and while the National
Tube plant at McKeesport would be
started in the morning, it was certain
many men would go out. They were
also notified that their Wheeling plant
was crippled and it was uncertain what
would be done there. Their advices also
say that the Clark mill here, which has
been running non-union for several days.
Will be started up as usual tomorrow
morning and there is no doubt of It's
successful operation. The steel officials
We're elated over their showing at the
Carnegie plants, and in Illinois, Ohio and
Wisconsin, and expressed confidence in
speedy victory over the strikers
LARKIN MAKES STATEMENT.
National Vice President Larkln, of the
Amalgamated association, discussing the
situation in the Wheeling district to-
night, said:
AT the Riverside plant of the National
Tube company the plate and tube mills
will be off Monday morning and possibly
the steel departments. Already we have
taken into membership In the AmaIga-
mated 500 of the 500 skilled men at the
Riverside, and the remaining $50 work
ers in the steel departments have asked
us to call meeting at which they may
organize a lodge. This request has
been granted and the meeting will be
held Monday evening at o'clock at Mo-
afternoons meeting Of the Riverside men
at Mozart hall We took in 100 members
from the tube and plate departments
I'VE have succeeded in tying up the
Bellaire steel plant of the National Steel
company. We organized $50 of the skill
ed men Saturday, and at q meeting this
afternoon there were more accessionS
though l have not yet received my depu-
ties report as to the exact number. But
even without a single accession, this
afternoon we have enough to keep the
plant idle.
THE Labelle plant of the American
company is closed tight as are the
Aetna-Standard mills OF the American
Sheet Steel and American Hoop COM
panies. The Mingo Junction plants of
the National Steel and American Steel
Hoop companies also are closed
I'VE are arranging for a great strik-
ers' rally to be held at the West Vir-
ginia state fair ground in Wheeling next
Wednesday or Thursday. President
Shaffer will be the principal orator. At
the meeting of the Ohio Valley Trades
and Labor assembly this afternoon,
resolutions were passed denouncing An
drew Carnegie, and calling upon the
labor people of Wheeling to vote against
the acceptance of the $4,000 offered
Wheeling for a library building"
Secretary Williams gave out an inter-
view tonight in which he placed tho
blame for the strike upon the refusal
OF the United States Steel corporation
10 arbitrate, and declared that before
the strike was over thousands of mer
in other trades would be drawn into il
to save the Amalgamated association
and the principles for which it stands
He said:
ASKED FOR ARBITRATION.
I'VE agreed to arbitrate, because the
business men and citizens of Pittsbure
urged us to do so. We were willing tC
risk the interests of our organization
in the hands of others in this dispute
if there was any prospect for peace. i
is practically the first time in the his
tory Of our organization that we have
gone thus far. The effect upon the
future would be far-reaching, as it woult
enable manufacturers to ask the sam,
il concession from us and this we hav,
in the past declined to grant because
we feared the results. This arbitration
being turned down fiat and uncondition