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Show , WLhLmj Mill UolL f v) JWM Mil JiMMkiL ABORLOFFICIALS MOVE TO INS J RE STOPPAGE OF INDUSTRY ORDER ME-K ITB CONTINUE iTHEIHJWORK j Steel Walkout Orderec by Irresponsibles, Heac I of Union Declares ir Defining His Stand Says President Wilson Should Have Beer Given Opportunity tc Hold Labor Meeting. I, CHICAGO, Sept. !9. Steam and ope:a-1 ope:a-1 t;ve engineers employed in tiie teei wor'-s j throughout the country will not join ::: : the general strike of steel workers set fo. I Monday, This was announced today h. , H. M. Conierford, general secretary a:i j treasurer of the Internationa; Union o.' ; Steam and Operative Engineers, j A letter has been sent out iron; li e . union headquarters to "every local in e ! country declaring that "the officers -' I the union feel that President V.'U.-mi:: should be piven an opportunity to ho. i j his arbitration meeting, which he has sa. i ot-October o, aitd- iiii members are n.-j n.-j structed to retrain from affiliating tc.eiu-J tc.eiu-J selves in any way with the propostu ; s:r;ke." ; "Some o: the men war.t to strike a;. .i j some don't," said Mr. Comeriord. "Tin. ! majority, iiou ever, are not in favor o. i it. This union affects thousands o me.:, j all of whom wil! be told to keep on work-; work-; ing. ' "The oft'.cers of this union do not pro-j pro-j pose to allov." irresponsible men to go'- -i em the policy of their organization. ! we feel that t!:e men wiio are ordering j this strike are not responsible."- j LEADERS PREPARING FOR BIG STRUGGLE ! TO BEGIN MONDAY j n ! PITTSBURG, Sept. 19. Preparatives , for the test of strength between o reran - ized labor and capital in the steel iruUis-! iruUis-! try throughout the United States, to be-I be-I gin Monday, wt-nt forward toaj.y with ' both sides apparently confident of the outcome. There W(.-re no official state-! state-! mt'iits forthcoming from either side, lut j ini'ornia! talks indicated that they wev reaiiy for the contest. j Representatives ot" steel companies in the Pittsburg district iet it be known I that they Intend to operate their plants, Monday, and also let the impression go out that they do not look for us large n walkout as the union leaders assert will t:ike place. Organized labor expects a big turnout of men. and predicted thai the employers will receive the surprise of their lives. Neither side will venture j figures. Both frankly confess they do i not know how many men wid remain a; ( work or fail to answer the whistle. Monday Mon-day only can tell, j Steel companies, in many cases. iuv : understood to have canvass.-d their men j to get an idea of the number if men who will strike. Union leaders said that, from i their experiences, these canvasses usualiy I prove to be inaccurate, and po;nt-d 10 I past strikes where a majority of men in a plant have signed up i.ot to strike and ' tiien quit when the time came, j It was said tonight that in a nu ruber i of plants some men have a'rea dy tjuii work and sought work in other places. ! It was explained by union leaders hero ; that many men on the night shifts tonight 1 will take their personal belongings out of the mills at quitting time tomorrow morning, morn-ing, as many of them do not work Saturday Satur-day and Sunday nights. All the na tioual leaders of unions involved in-volved in the strike h;d Wt the city tonight to-night for t.'.eir respective headquarters to make final plans for the strike, and much of the activity about th- offic; s of the steel workers' national committee had to do with the preparations in the Pitta-burg Pitta-burg district. While national headquarters headquar-ters are in this city, in charge of William 7.. Foster, secretary -of the national coin-mi coin-mi t tee. it was learned thr.t much of the work will be conducted by district. These districts and the men in caarc, Mr. Foster said, are as follows; Chicago. K. J. Fvans; Cleveh: ml. H. V. Raisse ; Youngs tow;:, J . K. McCaude:: ; . Imi'-r Pittsburg, J. U. Beagham ; OwW- Pittsburg, .1. McCaiirh; P.-f hh-hern. Pavtd Williams; Buffalo. H. C. Thon.p.-oi: : Birmingham. Bir-mingham. Ala.. F. S. Ingram; Pu- bio Colo.. W. H. Young. Reports of strike develop men is wil! be made to the-e districts, and. if important enomrh, will be forwarded to national headquarters. Mr. Foster In answer to queries, said that ail men in nonunion mills have te ; asked to strike. None will be lei t to preserve company property, sueh as keeping keep-ing up furnace fires nad preve-'ft ore from cooling, he said. "The companies have had twelve days' notice of the strike," he said, "and if they have not arranged to look after their furnaces It is not our fault." It was given out here that an importan' meeting of the exeeutK e council of the American Federation of Labor ami representatives repre-sentatives of the unions in the strike wi'l be held probah'y in Pittsburg within two weeks. Questions of tinancinir ihe tv - (Continued on Pac-e 2, Column 2.) Iff ORDERED TO , ME WDBK (Continued Fron Page One.) teyt, it. was .said, will bf; taken up. According- to the letter addressed to President Presi-dent Wilson lust night by the national committee, the unions co-operating in tne strike have a total membership of two million. |