Show AD SAYS All AU UNION MEN MUST RETURN Then He Is Willing to t Negotiate for Settle Settlement Settlement Settlement ment of the Trouble Pittsburg Aug 31 The steel strikers strikers ers em are claiming tonight the biggest victory since the fight began in the closing down of the en hearth de department department of ot the Duquesne tin works The Amalgamated people claim that the open hearth people have pave struck I and that the entire plant will have bave to close if the men fait fail to return to work i Sunday The Carnegie steel people make light of ot the matter and say the I closing of the open hearth department I today was merely the usual Saturday afternoon close They maintain the themen I Imen men will be on hand for work Sunday e evening as a heretofore and that no stop stoppage page will result They say the trouble at the plant Friday night has been exaggerated very much that instead of a large number of ot men having quit work only onla a few boys were escorted from the mill by policemen and that the places of the ejected ej ted were filled d at once Until tomorrow night it will not be known certainly which side is right in Its contention The Amalgamated peo peole pie le claim to be able to tie up the plant and the steel company say sa they will re resume resume sume sunie without any material inconvenience Inconvenience inconvenience Aside from fro the Duquesne Incident the th reported conference by long distance telephone between President Pr Schwab of the steel corporation and Simon Burns president of the Window Glass Work Workers ers association was the tho only other happening to cause comment It seems I that the two to gentlemen really com communicated with each other by tele telephone telephone telephone phone but what the subject or result i i Is not known Mr Burns Is mysteriously mysteriously silent and says he can say noth nothing nothing j ing just yet yeti i It is learned from other sources that U at during the extended wire conversation I Mr Schwab told Mr Burns that he would not consent to meet any representatives representatives representatives of ot the Amalgamated association association association until all the mills of the United States Steel corporation thrown idle by the order of ot President Shaffer are put In operation again by the former employees of the corporation returning to their work He told Mr Burns it itIs itis itIs Is said that the striking members em ers of the Amalgamated association are no longer employees of the United States Steel corporation Hence there is no 1 reason why he should meet any of ot the association ns Terms of Schwab I i But If it they voluntarily reenter th employ of ot the corporation Mr Schwab is willing to listen to any an grievance they may desire to lay before him with reference to their work and wages It ItI I further intimated that he be will con consent sent pent to allow these grievances to tobe be submitted by the tho officer of their union Mr Burns called caned on President Shaffer this thin aft moon He refused to state what passed fussed a at the conference but he bf heI j I is i hopeful that President Schwab will willa I a him an Interview to discuss the th thI terms of ot strike e settlement sett lement The feature of ol the proposal it is said asit Im Impresses impresses Impresses I presses the president of the steel com combine combine combine bine is putting the men mert back to work woric 0 at once and then adjusting any any difficulties difficulties ties W V E B Porter of McKeesport who was wasa a delegate to the recent convention of the Amalgamated association at Mil Mit Milwaukee Milwaukee waukee said saidI I note an article in the Labor World of or this week stating that this strike Is Shaffers strike I wish it positively stated st ted that every delegate at the Mil Mu Milwaukee waukee convention including myself knew that the strike would be called In incase case the steel combine failed to agree to the terms of the wage settlement as laid down In the convention You can cannot not make it too strong that the present strike had the endorsement of every delegate President Shaffer Shatter cannot take up the refutation of the article but every delegate to the convention should be and Is willing to do so 30 Steel Trust Gains i The steel corporation today continued to add to the number of ot men at work I I I in several of the plants that have re I since the strike began but the th j I Amalgamated people insist that the I additions are of no valie vale and that the i strike situation remains without change I Neither side to the controversy ex expects expects expects much to develop until after La Labor bor borday day outside of the Duquesne proba probabilities probabilities After Monday however It is probable decided ed and effective moves will be made by each Thirty white nonunion miners ar arrIved rIved iFred at Yates from West Virginia to today toI today I day da There was no disturbance A meeting held at Fleming last night I was attended by b all aU the union and non nonunion nonunion i union miners in camp The men both union and nonunion are unanimously Iy lin in favor of ot by the decision of district and national boards The re report report I port that armed guards were being se secured seI Secured I cured to protect property against ag vio violence violence lence received little attention iOri at the headquarters h k Notwithstanding the confidant state statement statement ment merit that President Richardson and andI I the district board have isSued regard j I Ing lag the situation there is an undercurrent j r rent nt of ot feeling that all aU Is not well and that the national board ht hi h 1 received i information that a large pert perot per i of the themen themen I men will refuse to obey The he strike order will not be issued until the national board that the en will obey it Look For Something Decisive It is learned tonight toni from reliable authority in spite of the rig rIb secrecy I maintained bj b rs Burns and andI I Shaffer ShatTer concerning the e telephonic con conversation conversation between Resident Schwab and President Burns that something I decisive may result It is said that 1 President Schwab r refused to hold any I i conference with President Shaffer on I the ground that he no represents I t any of the men inca employed by bythe the car tor torI All AU union men have left the I employ of the company If i these steel steelworkers j I workers return to work at once and I the mills res lP operations in ill full fun the matter Is Sf assume a different I Continued on page pa e 2 C t J I SCHWAB SAYS SAS I MUST MiST I Continued from Page 1 L aspect and a discussion between the officials of the trust and the Amalga Amalgamated mated mate officials can c take place Immediately after this conversation Mr r Burns Burs went to President Shaffer Sharer and urged urge him to call cl a 3 meeting of the executive board of at 01 the organization at once so that the men could be ordered to work at the te earliest moment possible possible possible ble It I Is understood that this order will be issued not later than tan Tuesday and would have been Issued before then the Shad had It I been ben possible to get gt the executive oxe uthe committee of f the organisation tion ton together I President Shatter Shaffer while w le declining to discuss the te matter ratel remained remal d at his office until a late hour tonight and was much occupied Appearances indicated that he was preparing for some Im Important Important movement but nothing could be learned from him of the actual actual sit situation nation A telegram from Smithfield tonight says sas The big bis steel strike has ha at last af at the coke region and as a a re result result sult suit orders have been bOen received from headquarters for a wholesale banking of oC ovens oven for this thib section of Clay coun cun ty t The coke oven m tn and miners miner here have been having prosperous times for f i a long Iong time The miners have been averaging anywhere from to 5 a day while the coke draw drawers ers have fared equally well wel This move will wl result in nearly men being forced Into idleness and many are now leaving for other parts of the region The plants plant will wi work ork five days a week instead of six as has been the general run of things thing for some time Strikers Stiers Receive Benefits A report from Wellsville says To day was payday to both union and non nonunion nonunIon nonunion union men men The strikers striker received their first strike benefits and the nonunion their first frt full ful pay taken together about about 1300 being distributed between the two factions and yet no serious trouble has occurred principally be because because cause the nonunion men have judi kept themselves under cover during the day while more than strikers are constantly constanty on the streets The strikers at Monessen are jubilant tonight over the te result of the trials of three Amalgamated strikers strIker whose cases on the charge of liquor selling came up at Pittsburg Pitsburg The grand jury brought in a true bill bi against the ac men but the te evidence against them was wn not strong enough and the indictment was wa dismissed William El kins chief clerk In the tin tn plate mill mi here was the prosecutor There is still no change in the te local strike sit situation si situatIon The strikers of Canal Dover are pre preparing preparing paring a petition petton for the dissolution of pf the injunction restraining them from picketing the vicinity of the mills mUs and are also an effort efort to get the city council to Impeach the mayor and remove him from office Two of the charges charge will wIl be absence from town beyond the time specified sp by law Jaw without appointing a deputy in his absence and that he is still em by the te trust as a attorney and acting as mayor maor at the same time |