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GOMPERS TO AID SHAFFER
President of Federation of Labor Hand and Glove with the Steel Workers' Leader.

THEY CONTEMPLATE A BOLD MOVE.
All Members of the Federation of Labor Affected by the Strike Will Be Thrown to the Amalgamation, Adding Thousands to the Membership—Steel Corporation Confident In Ability to Start Mills.

Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 10.—The steel strike situation has undergone little change. The steel corporation made no attempt to re-open the Painter mill and the strikers claim that they blocked the plan to start the plant by winning over the non-union men who had agreed to go to work. The mill officials deny that there has been any interference with their plans and say that in due time the mill will be started up. President Shaffer and his brother officials of the Amalgamated association are still engaged on the effort to secure the co-operation of the American Federation of Labor. They say they are sure of obtaining it and that their complete success is thereby assured. Neither President Shaffer nor President Gompers, nor any of the men engaged in conference with them, has given any intimation of their plans, but it is credited they will make the bold stroke of transferring bodily to the Amalgamated association all members of the Federation of Labor who may be affected by the strike. In the iron and steel trades are many men whose labor has not been sufficiently skilled to admit them to membership in the Amalgamated association. The federation has for some time past been organizing these men and it is said that there exists an agreement between the Amalgamation and federation that, in the event of trouble, they are to be transferred to the former. If such a plan were carried out, it would add thousands of men to the membership of the Amalgamated association.