| Show ARMY OF LABOR IN BATTLE I I WITH THE IRON MAST MASTi MASTERS 11 i fi II t of Steel Workers Go GJ Out in Response torl to rl I i President Shaffers Strike Order I i I II peaceful Struggle is Looked for Jor and and Both Sides Are Full Fun i Ii I of Confidence I Pa PL Aug 10 The griat r t teel strike on the general order o er of ot otI f I President Shaffer of the Amalgamated A te teI I became effective today t Thousands of workers let lei leh their r to tG return ItU at some indefinite time in tu ini tuu i Uw u future either victorious over the 1 I Won troD masters or in humble defeat The i j order ori r to strike was generally obeyed wherever thu tho workers were organized r 1 I i and enrolled In tn the lodges of the Amal a but it K will ill be Monday before an accurate count can an anbe be made en oi o the mn men who have gone i out A gat eat majority of the mills II close oi 01 0 Saturday and reopen Sunday v and the he true test teat of ot strength of S the tM contending aides Idea will be furnished the lb m nun men who return urn to work tomor tomorrow r row 1091 or Monday Th The policy of ot the American Am rIan Federa Fedora Federation Federation Fedoration tion of Labor has bas not nt been fully tull dis lIls disclosed closed elo d yet and that fact contributes another element of uncertainty ta t tie tle situation tion The action of ot the executive board of the mine workers at t Indian Indianapolis apolis apolla today in resolving to support rt t the lie e strike cheered the Amalgamated me JIle and they are confident that the Federation Win will aid them to the fullest H extent The closing hours bours of ot labor larked lacked spectacular action This city which is Ic the strike center was waa calm and undisturbed und l There was no violence The polite issued an order suspending for fer forthe the time being the vacation system They do hot ot anticipate trouble but want to have every man here ready lor br duty in C cs se M trouble comes The They ay f n 1 President Shatter Shaffer has lisa counseled peace ful tul methods and they hope the rn and their sympathizers will heed I Jin bie hi advice The strikers held heid a series aeries of demon demonstrations I in the outlying towns and President Pr ent Shaffer spoke a final word of encouragement to his industrial troop I Great at throngs of workers turned out to t I I I greet and cheer the leader and to L 1 maintain the contest upon which they r have hav ave entered i Another er KOTO by tha to tIa Trust TrustA I i A striking development de of the lay ay was an official announcement of ot the American Tin no Plate company to he f f ct that certain plants crippled by t te e strike would be dismantled dismantle and re cc moved tt to ta Monessen The 1 to nal ital an n given Kiven hy y T Tto i r to th the Associated Press Pr aZtec alter a Ier I coa h of the tb of the I pany pan follows com 1 The officers of the American Auerhan Tin Ta Ti Plate company cO compa authors tile the tb Jq ing statement Since the relations relation be I tween t n the American Tin Plate and the workmen at Monessen have been mu IDU t 1 satisfactory insuring steady a id ij profitable operation n it has been deter mined to more than double the plant j jat at that point p int and aad w tOme come me of the mills now idle on account of the strike de e dared in violation of the contract contracts signed by the Amalgamated tion will be dismantled dl and moved to Mone uen sen Undoubtedly this win will be b done In ase aRe of works worb In which the sen nt of the employees decays tIe the U re Ie of work t at the same came time It t was wu waun un officially announced that there th re was a chance ehan that the plant of the American Steel Hoop company at Warren 0 O would be b torn down and removed to t t eme community more favorable to the corporation The order of ot yesterday I directing that the DeWees Wood plant at be dismantled mantled dl was wa al ai l ready being bel carried out fut and the an I I ement from the American Tin PIa Plate tl company eomy created a marked Im un pr ion Rei RIe of the strikers in Minted aisted that the company was as aa not act net I lug ing in 11 t good faith in the announcement 1 an a that even if it was it could not II t i t I win with such nick method Opponents JJ of i th tM the strikers n counted the plan another I victory I and aa declared that the strike v yf i i must action fail b hi the face of suck such decisive I I are Q It QI The not bOt on either side did tars tary an activity today Seere Ws the only re who spent th the entire day at a the strike Re He headquarters said that tile a would be j til thie e closed l sot Bot reopened until Monday ino He den denied i edge fdge of f h y denite anti and declined move moe for P eCe 1 ace ti to taUt ta about the situa None on of nt 1 would dk mated lea leaders n I President the with wib Federation of of Ute the American Labor hut but all who were approached on the I there re had SUbject denied tbt been bce part to t tie he any a to the era played pIaye by the Fed J e t Corey of pall Pat Ie n the Carnegie rom corn I stead tead U i he for tor Homer Home I earl ear 1 i west tIo home r h kwa reached her hernoon fron Y M ill h hiU orty after noon t Iu r u i 8 III 15 iU 1 I hi fai ta ere ere on a Su I iv j Tw T steel ste el I tonic enle eo Me Mer Ic ltd r u tt l p PE J a i ente fir n TH THor ir v I lose ISe loser said at 2 L r or orI r h ora rera ra a rite i c I I h ir Id V Ir ite ha ba han B tk s n n ni niI i ib t 1 r 1 I r 1 b 11 into I l nt rike rikes i 1 c r f It n of I tai t ta tS a S TAT 11 j rg the Str St kers hl hgan tan hh i ur r c C tl tI any arly t tc j He c I 1 rung rig i 1 U inel Ne Nev 1 v n pan r i t I r and I i ii th ts ta d i s he hiar ar arat Jr JrP I i ii jt at a t 4 SeC P aik aiki t it t Case y t br itt t i 4 iT fr i r for tr ti T 0 h c ss s he 4 e S r Thi his foi T in fl ou OJ i n ress E sll to settle settler r w f r d to arbitrate i Artall Acial 1 J association Uon se sene e l J nan man ne tru trust t select se t i it L 1 jl 1 t h third Elk tIc i i 1 i Wish 1 of the i gel 5 b Shafer Shaf er said aid i I ib hI a 5 matter of wages and d e 1 i j the Lib d POt to t the I J ii i t b all ons to the con connot a J fl ill not Mt pe t the I I i iL L to I tension of unionism union because they state that the Amalgamated association must not become too strong We can ean make our own deductions relative to the meaning of this expression President Shaffer Shafter stated that the newspapers had been criticising him because he had not stated whether or not there would be an effort to call out ou t the carpenters carpente men and all other organizations in an effort to gain ain favorable termination He added We dont want revolution This is merely a strike I wish it under stood that I stand for no violence Our interests e esta ts will not permit acts acta an to country and law We W will avoid them if the trust will per mit us It ia w often otten asked of me Will you win out The Amalgamated as 18 sedation will win out or it will wm cease to exist We realize realise tha that wages are at stake and labor conditions are at issue laue If It our organisation organization dies I hope it w u HI Ill not have h ave died in vain I 3 Banks Help Trusts Trust President Shaffer hurried Mc from New Castle ana ann to night addressed a big mass meeting at Whites s opera house boWIe Shatter Shaffer was loudly cheered when he appeared and the meeting m ting was very enthusiastic Uc The strikers strike claim that as a result of the meeting the National Tube A Roll RolI lug ing mill men will strike In the course of his hill address President Shatter Shaffer made the following statement I 1 have received from some sonic one a letter saying that the workingmen have a lot of money in the banks which is ia being belD used by the trusts tru ts This is is true The trusts are supported by the banks Men draw raw out your money mOMY not to bring brine trouble tro ble on the banks or impair Impel the credit of the house but I to assert rt your right to defend yourself I na your Do not let Jet t your money be wed used against you Only this thi week I was called on the telephone by a tin manufacturer who sold BOld out to tc the trust cud and is now an independent manufacturer in this state He of fend fared me a compromise I called a meeting of my advisers ens and tots tais man with another came to a made meeting H He his proposition te me inc and I asked ed him to put it in writing He would not do it and that proposition was waa just what WES wee wanted Speaking of the threat to 10 dismantle the th e mill President Pre Shaffer Shafer said The men WAO made j Ai Use The v now hOW threaten our and 41 deny our liberties I rights call cali on Oft you u I men of McKeesport CK to throw roW off tie the ia and et at f spoliation revenge renn and r This Thi le Is no RO tune time for tor weakness no time thue for tor truce tru ro 10 time for cowardice You Tou cannot I you will not surrender for tor i l it means re Je I au auction tion of ot wages and ignominious slav I ery cry Let Lei our garments become thread bare let some of us toil ton until we fall into our graves but remember this even if it the Amalgamated I be overt overthrown brown it would W only mean m n a I greater brotherhood of ot man which would attain a glorious victory I to Arbitrate I The reference made by President t Shatter Shaffer at New Castle today to the will lagnese in of the Amalgamated association to arbitrate was followed here tonight by the announcement on behalf of ot the strikers that on Friday an offer to arbi irate was formally submitted to the I United State Stat Steel corporation corpora lion Ac I cording to this statement the offer was referred to J I P Morgan whose reply I rejecting it was This is no time for arbitration r The subject was discussed di on Friday by President Shaffer President Gom Gem pore ners Joseph Bishop Frank Morrison I M M Weyland and an official of the American Tin Plate company and s II basis for the submission of ot the question agreed upon It is believed I that President Shaffer I opposed the plan i at first arst but was finally won on over Oer and agreed reed to certain concessions in behalf I of ot the Amalgamated strikers are using the incident In their light fight They say that they went rent much further than could be expected and that they have been put PDt on the Ute defensive def in a fight which threatens the existence of their organization Sec rotary Williams made the following statement to the Associated Press Prea PressA A disinterested party called caned at the Amalgamated headquarters rt rs and offered to use us his hi services looking lo king n t the arbi arbitration arbitration of the matter in between the Amalgamate 4 p and the United States St I 1 c The proposition plO to a arbitrate bit rate was turned umed down by the Ur d States corpora corporation lion tion Mayor Rack B ak oe of o McKeesport Issued a formal element t might defending his toward t Iho f ln ed State States Steel eel cot aion i ion Af Sf r to the if f the tru o ci dismantle the th D Do Dowe we Ho Voi o i le he says avs rc Th h as which the trust trum gives give fo to i c r moal i h that the mayor and pe perI U f McKeen In t are arp hostile to the thO tri tn t oth words because the pe pep t of f the city and chief ex fa fai t th t h ho oppress against the tle tt e op opprE pr pu v t auae h ir sympathies ar are arelt wiP lt ti t ti j rod 1 n and agai ast th the v who hi ho seek t f enrich themselves I by 1 J Daunted r t 1 the trust will seek or It t i her fields field I Sympathy For Workers her hn in all au the broad expanse of I Ith th tb Tea t nion can the United Statts Stat s I I Ste 1 Irp find a place where j I IthE th thE ii n pa t hies cf f the people peo le will ill not j I v 4 I t With wih those wh groan unde under th the the i i of f the theo oppressors where in all an I th the jle ie world can an they go where they Cal cai raD m an the th inexorable punishment I th h tude metes out to t rapine and r ice Y What iut boots it that the place of ot oppression oppre sion means a different rent name if it the oppression goes goe on 00 Continuing the thi mayor declares that talk taUt of t te e removal of the mill is an anold old ld story When the trust bought the property I roperto he says it WES was w s claimed that t there ere wes was not ground enough and that th no would have to be moved Of f treatment of the Ule trust hj it h says say The trust mills here today pay taxes tees on oi assessment valuations of a trifle over 4 per ir er cent of their own alue v w On the ther hand the man who owns ow as his own house s taxed to of the real j value of his hi home i me W v re cc r t tie trust rust t taxed on OB the came basis ba it would take thousands of dollars dUan annually from the trust coffers co en I have served carved lI in the councils of the city dt ana an n I i know what I am talking ap a ut wh run n 7 assert ae ert that every request t made by the mills here for the vaca Continued on n page 2 J So rc ARMY Of O lA WITH IAO MASTERS MAE Continued frUits from Page Pase 1 tion of the streets for special privileges and special benefits has ban been granted They have never been backward In ask asking asking ing ng What they wanted They have h ne neer nev never nevor er or asked in vain If It the mill is removed he says there will wilt be another to take its place In conclusion Mayor Mayo Black declares s that he be is 18 heart h t and soul with the men en engaged engaged engaged in the strike A committee representing the citi citizens citizens zens aces of Dubois Pa have hafe forwarded a 1 statement to J 1 P Morgan offering to give a bonus of to have the th McKeesport McKee port mills moved to Dubois Dubols Cannot Estimate Strikers Numbers At this morning Sunday Sunda there is such a conflict in the strike reports that an estimate of the men who have Joined the strike is impossible It seems certain that the men employed by bythe bythe bythe the National Tube company at Mc McKeesport McKee McKeesport Kee port will go out The strikers claim that they will get more men in inthe Inthe Inthe the two Pittsburg mills of the Car Carnegie Carnegie negie negle company but the steel officials say that none of ot the men will wUl go out opinion at Wheeling W V I Va awards the strikers men in that district Nine hundred hun red men will leave the Republic works here in all I probability There is doubt as to the outcome at Monessen Mone sen Trouble was anticipated there tonight but none came caine me Sharon reports that the men in the National plant will not go lO out Connellsville re reports reports reports ports that the men are not affected that the tin workers went out on the firSt order and that the United States Steel coke workers are not organized Youngstown 0 O says that the general order will have no effect in Mahoning valley as the mills affected went out outlast outlast last Jaet month Scottdale telegraphs that the general gen ral order will have no effect The men at Bellaire 0 O will go o out but Leechburg and Hyde Park report that the men are re with the steel cor potation portion 1 When the general edict of President Shaffer of the Amalgamated association tion don went Into effect every mill of the National Tube company for which the union scale scab has heretofore been signed became nonunion At the entrance to the Republic mill of ot the National Tube company on the South Side tonight was posted this notice Notice This mill will start non nonunion nonunion nonunion union Monday morning Joseph fers Superintendent The notice that was posted on the entrance to the Republic mill tonight was a of the one that was posted at the entrances of ot all the here heretofore heretofore heretofore union mills of the National the Federal Steel and the National Tube I companies It is the most decisive step I that the trust has 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