The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-09-06
EXECUTIVE IS ACCUSED
Bay View Man Charges All the
Labor Trouble on the Anal
gamated President.
DECLARES THE STRIKE rs LOST
Steel Magnates Claim Victory at
Duquesne; So Do the Strikers
Burns and Schwab in
COnfab.

Pittsburg, Pa, Sept. 2.-Steel Off
Gals in Pittsburg declared last night
that, all reports to the contrary not
wlthstanding, there is no strike at Du-
quesne and will be none. They said
all the night-turn men reported for
duty and that the plant is being
worked to it's full capacity.
Milwaukee, Sept. 2.-Charges that
the national officers of the Amalga-
mated Association had miSrepreSented
tie attitude of the United States Steel
corporation toward organized labor in
order to get the members of the asSO-
citation out on strike were made by ex-
Vice President J. d. Hickey at the
meeting of the Bay View lodge yes
terday. In a cool, unimpaSslOned man.
ner Hickey gave the members of the
lodge the result of his recent trip to
PittSburg, where he went for the pur-
pose of investigating the situation in
regard to the steel strike, and the sit
uatiOn as summed up by Hickey was
that the strike appeared to be lost and
it may take years to repair the dam
age to the association which has al
ready been done.
No Recommendation Was Made.
Hickey's report was listened to by
all the men with respectful attention,
and although no vote upon the ques-
ton of the returning to work was
taken the result of Hickey's mission
is claimed to be that the truth regard
ing the situation of the steel workers
has for the first time been told by q
man whose experience and standing
in the organization qualified him to
speak. Hickey made no recommends
ton to the lodge as to their future ac-
tion but 1t is believed that his speech
may cause q change in sentiment, not
only in Bay View, but in other places
in the Fourth district.
Reply to Hickey Is Probable.
That Hickey's remarks will be re-
ported in full to the general officers
of the organization, and that it may
result i'll bringing Assistant Secretary
Michael Tighe here again, or some
other representative of the grand
lodge, was the belief of many Of the
members of the organization. Pres1-
dent Redfern stated that so far it APP
peared to be the opinion of the major
ity that the men should not return to
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back by the national officers. Hickey
had little to say of the conference In
Pittsburg with President Shaffer and
other national officers. The confer
ence was mainly Of personal nature,
in which President Shaffer was
charged with violating the constltu-
ton in ordering the strike.
Statement That Hickey Makes.
Hickey said he got his information
from a man high in office in the east
and that Morgan Offered Shaffer four
additional mills, for which he was
willing to sign the scale as an expert
ment, and then he told Shaffer that If
the organization kept faith in these
four mills and lived up to the agree
ment he would pledge his word that in
two years every mill in the combine
would be included in the contract with
the Amalgamated. This was the most
reasonable proposition which has ever
been made to the association, and it
was clearly the duty of President
Shaffer to have accepted then and
there But instead of doing this he
turned it down fatty in a speech in
which he declared that all must be
signed for or none"