Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1901 — Gompers Replies to Shaffer. [ARTICLE]

Gompers Replies to Shaffer.

President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, in an article in the organ of that body, replies to the charges made by President Shaffer of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers concerning Mr. Gompers’ course in the negotiations for the settlement of the steel strike. Mr. Gompers says the Federation extended no aid to the strikers because none was asked. He flatly denies Mr, Shaffer’s statement that the latter arranged a meeting between J. P. Morgan and Gompers at which Mr. Gompers failed to appear. He says Mr. Shaffer wanted him to call a general union strike, which request he refused.