Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1901 — Ordered Steel Workers' StriKe [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Ordered Steel Workers' StriKe

Theodore J. Shaffer, who, In hls capacity as president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, gave out the sheet iron machinists strike order, is himself one of the most skillful sheet Iron rollers in the trade. He is unique among labor leaders the world over. A college

graduate, a former clergyman and a most earnest and eldquent pulpit orator, Mr. Shaffer may bo considered out of hls sphere In a rolling mill, but the theological iron worker prefers that trade to the church. He is a native of Pittsburg, 45 years old, and began hls career hs an iron worker whan

he was still under 20. He next went to college, studied theology, took a church and preached with great success for several years. Oddly enough his health was not so robust In the pulpit as In the mill, and he gave up his charge to return to his trade, to which he has since devoted himself. Ho was first elected president of the Amalgamated Association at Its convention In Cincinnati.

PRESIDENT SHAFFER OF THE SHEET IRON WORKERS.