The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-11-19
MORE TRUBLE
At NEW ORLEANS
QUARREL BETWEEN THEoDone
sHAFFER AND SAMUEL COM.
PERs is RENEWED.
IT Is Fight to a Finish, and Odds
Seem to Favor oompers-Result
Means Passing of One of the
Chiefs.

New Orleans, November 1S-Either
Theodore shaffer president OF the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel and Tin Workers. of Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation OF Labor, is destined to
pass under cloud The eclipse may
emerge at some other time, but an
eclipse there will be for one or the
other. 1t is a fight to the finish and
at present the odds are in favor OF
Gompers.
The trouble which SO suddenly
came to point in the convention OF
the American Federation of Labor this
morning is the echo of the great
strike against the United States Steel
Corporation which was fought anu
lost last year by the Amalgamated as
sociation under the leadership of Shat
fer After his association had been
defeated President Shaffer did not
hesitate to utter charges of a serious
nature against President Gompers as
well as against John Mitchell presI-
dent OF the United Mine Workers. and
Frank Sargent. OF the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen. He asserted that
the organization over wnich these men
presided had, while listening to the
advice Of their leaders, refused to
lend helping hand to the Amalga-
mated association and had even fought
against it in the dark.
Charges Against Gompers.
The charges were leyeled against
Mr.. Gompers in particular and the fol-
lowing extracts from the secret circu-
lar issued by President Snaffer show
more specifically Ineir scope and ma
ture.
In the circular President ShafIer
says:
When we had almost comgsAn~ -
rangements with representatives lof
the American Tin Plate Company for
scale rates and conditions, we we're III
good condition to win without help,
but looked for aid from other labor
bodies, some Of which were pledged
and to the general public, but espe-
cially relied upon the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor, with which body we
have been affiliated ever since its In
ception and toward which we nave
never failed to contribute. Even dur
ing our own strike we contributed tC
the machinsts' union a tax levied by
the American Federation of Labor
"As the strike went on the Apleri
can Federation of Labor gave us moi
a cent The flint glass blowers, the
window glass blowers, the bottle blow
ers and the pottery workers union
gave us help. Perceiying that lack
OF money, loss of public approval, de
sertion by hundreds of our ownpeople
and neglect of other organized bodies
would make it impossible to gain de
cisive victory, we endeayored to save
what we could.
q arranged for Mr.. Gompers Z
meet Mr. Morgan to effect a settle
ment Mr. Morgan gave up his vaca
tion, went to New York and waite'
for Mr.. Gompers, who failed to appea
nor has he since explained why n
neglected our interests.
Mr.. Gompers urged me to hurr1
1rom Pitsburg and sign the wag
scale offered by the trust through
committee or which Gompers and Johl
Mitchell were members.
Why did they want our presiden
to go down to New York? Mr.. Con
pers, by telephone, said to be the pres
ident Of the steel workers as an
vidual recommended that you take
stand for the proposition you hav
made. have done the same an
would do SO again.
1--WE refused to have any furthe
conferences Ter ths object Of ssllin