Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-17
THE IRON MEN MEET.
lrsa, Steel and Nail nalufactarsrs
% Session.
Closed Doors = interview with President
keating-Hot Opposed TO the Amxsa..
mated Association President JM.
retts Views On the Situatioa :
STATE OF AFFAIRS At YOUNGSTOWN.

PIrTsEuRG, August l6.-The event to-day
was the assembIas OF the iron men At the
rooms OF the Iron Assoeiatiog, Fourth svs-
nue.. 1t 10 the second meeting Of that out.
growth Of the great strike, the Association
of Iron, Steel Manufacturers, not the West
ern Rolling Min, or any other mill associar
ton, as has been freely made public. A.
to the nature Of the transactions, The air
is fairly darkened with rumors, but whsa
two such prominent men on both sidsa -
A. F. Keating, Esq, President of ~ above
association snd President yafestk ot thS
Amalgamatsd Association, place thsmr
selves on record In the matter, TO Give pu-
NOR would certainiy Mont q rsaes IN
reply 10 quaati0pA 1k Kssting aid ~. !
SIN the first place our organization has
not yet perfected it, organization, and We
will be engaged in this work. We shall
compare notes and exchange views on the
situation. But this talk Of . combined
step to start up non.union or crush out the
Amaleamated Association 10 all wrong,
Just what action, II any, 10 to DO taken
cannot tell beforehand, but you needn't
look for anything startling"
Mr.. Jarretss Views.
In the course Of Ar interview which II
given below, Mr.. Jarrett said:
"I have received no intimation OF any
kind that the manufacturers to-day desire
10 take any steps looking towards any con
ference with our Association, or towards
compromise OF any kind, or thst they in
tend 10 fight the Association, or attempt 10
start non union or any other way.
~ am here placed In . false position By
some one who says was reelected In sptts
Of my eutspoken opposition to the strike.
and that said that II ! was a candidate
for reelection IL would only be on condi-
tion that would be placed In . position
where | could end the strike. Why, this Is
absurd. could not end the strike II
chose; this would be one-man power. As
to my personal opposition TO the strike,
whatever that amounted to at the begin
ming. Il does not follow that l am now op-
posed, nor is there any evidence thmy SC
tions that am opposed to tho present
How do you regard the present situa.
ton"
Virtually as unchanged as II "" .
month ago, with, perhaps, the exception
of McKeesport, and I do not care to
express myself on that point In fact.
| have not investigated this subject, -
I only reached home last evening
How about the Helmbacher break at 81.
That firm has, as near As can judge,
been unjust, and inclined 10 be tyrannicAl
with their men all along. but l am not
in possession OF the details of tho trouble"
''The news from Cleveland this morning,
is TO the effect that the strike was declared
at an end at a meeting OF union men held
Saturday in that city"
~ would prefer not to say anything
about this. but as passed through Clcvs-
land on Monday and heard OF no such
meeting and had every opportunity 70
| have heard Of IL had II taken place, ] No.
| gard this news as at least improbable.
| There are over seven hundred members ot
| the Union in good standing at Cleveland.
| How about Youngstown
Contrary to published statements, l waa
not called upon TO take action In any mat
ter in Youngstown. On Monday Manager
| Williams. OF Brown, Bonnell & Co.. called
| the men together and made some PROPOSE
| ton, The nature OF this proposal or the
action taken by the men am ignorant ef. y
Mr.. Jarrett then referred ~ tho recon
| strusted constitution, stating that ts pro-
visions would serve TO make the association
more homogeneous, and that such causes as
| led 10 the strike at Cleveland last fall would
| be done away with. That troubles In tho
future could not be done away with except
| by more general legislation, such ~ Was
| now possible in the association.
zone more question, Mr.. Jarrett The
manufacturers have claimed that during
the conference In May. 1881. you solemniy
| pledged the associations word that u GER
lain advances were granted the puddlers
and heaters, no further strikes would bsor-
| dered. Is this correctT'
II am glad you asked that. On that oc'
casion appeared before the Conference.
| Committee Of the Iron Association aud
| asked for certain advances In wages for pud.
oilers, etc. Mr.. oliver jumped up and asked
what was to prevent yearly occurrence o!
! this demand for higher wages. In FsiIy
stated. not as q promise, but n the opinion
| Of an officer OF the Association, that " what
asked WIS granted, II would restore ths
equilibrium between puddlers shd heaters
| and that Il vas not at all likely that any.
| thing of the kind would come up again.
made M pledge whatever, but u has game
abroad that did"