Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-06
PRACTICALLY SETTLED
IS P|IISBURG OPINION,
-sfnI Gil NOTHING DEFINITE CAN BE
SECURED FROM EITHER
SIDE.
tavTsoRY BOARD IN SESSION.
r=fsfDEST sHAFFER HAS AGAIN
DROPPED MYSTERI0USLY
OUT OF SIGHT.

ZpITTSBURG. Pa, September s.
-4 Prevailing opinion in Pittsburg to-
=-at is that the great steel strike is
t.cally settled, but absolutely moth
positive can be learned from either
TO the controversy.
The day was spent by the Amalga-
-=-.a advisory board in secret con-
t5aauee behind doors that were guaru-
loser than ever before.
The newspaper dead line was
wa most e~ffeetually. When the
al adjournment for the day came at
aut $50 p. m, those who had been
side headquarters refused to say a
sard in answer to insistent questions
rolunteered nc statement. When
meeting was over it was learned
lie first time that President Shaffer
zI not been with his colleagues dur
liz the afternoon session and his
|-ereabouts up to IL o'clock tonight
80 unknown. Secretary Williams also
appeared shortly after the adjourn
--lut and he too cannot be located.
IT. is the belief of those who are ia
-H4iar with the strike proceedings
Houghout that two gentlemen have
.arted on another u~nannounced and
terious visit to New York City. 1t
lalieved that the morning session of
oI.ieOrv hoard rnuct have daridpd
son a plan by which President Shaffer
#a'd 20 % New York and complete
.ae arrangements for peace, which it
supposed were started by the con-
3=eeuce yesterday between the steel
H~augates and the presidents of the sew
\ cal trades unions.
I The only approach to a statement of
fHa condition of affairs was made by
trustee John Pierce to-day, who said
+ was impossible to accept the propo-
sition made by the United States Steel
corporation, as by doing so some of
tie members of the ~Amalgamaied AS
ISOLATION would suffer.
1t would be unjust to our mem
hers. said Mr.. Pierce, Ito accept such
erms We have made no ounter pro-
position and still insist on the terms
rsade and are willing to arbitrate the
.Hferences. The committee that visit
n President Sehwab had no authority
rom the A~malgamated Association to
title the dispute. The members were
ling on their own responsibility.
-aF rs it was before the conference was
ibid in New York yesterday. The To-
raj situation is practically unchanged,
Int it is in better shape thar it was
last week. We have made some gains
ard are still confident that we will win.
u will De impossible for the combina-
t-a to operate its plants satisfactorily
#.thout the aid of Amalgamated Asso-
cation men,"
PR. Pierce would not say that all ne
atoms had been broken off, and his
nation that he Amalgamated Asso-
.tiOn is willing to arbitrate differ
e. would indicate that all efforts for
? 3ee have not oeen abandoned.
aside from the mysterious confer
flre, nothing much of a startling ma
ttro transplrod in the strike in this city.
The steel officials claim a big gain in
the addition of 225 men at the National
tube works at Mckeesport, making the
total number at work 625, and Access
sons at the Pennsylvania tube works
and Continental tube plant in this city.
The strikers offset this by claiming
that the Demmler tin mill could not be
started this morning, as officially sched-
ned, because of the Jack Of men.
Manager Lauck. of the Demmler
liant, declared this afternoon that 100
men were ready to go to work, but the
start would be deferred until to-mor-
row..
The only trouble reported from any
lover, where District Manager E. E.
cline, or the Sheet Steel Company, was
h1ocked down mi narrowly escaped
seyere treatment at the hands of a
party of strikers, during a heated dis
ssiop in the bar of the Central Hotel.
he strikers Calm that Cline was the
sressor, and charges will be pre-
-1Ted against him.
Sheriff William C. Mckinley, of Ale
enemy county, will not enter into any
eontroversy with Mayor Robert j.
Black. of McKeesport, regarding the
sending of deputies to guard the plants
OF the American Tinplate Company at
Demmler. The sheriff declares that he
! only performing his duty, vested in
The authority and responsibilities of his
ONCE, and will not be disturbed by the
criticism of McKeesport's. chief execu-
i've.
AS the sheriff Of this county, l will
ny to comply with the laws Of Pennsyl-
Vania, and will send deputies wherever
tAey may be required"
The following telegram was received
to-day by President Shaffer:
"JOIIET I'll. Sentember &.