Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-28
A Committee of the Westinghouse
Electric COmpany's Men Meet
Superintendent C. Pease
AND CONVERSE VERY PLEASANTLY
But the Position of Affairs Remain as They
We're Without Any Prospects Of
Settlement.
CITIZENS LINE MEN AND SHORT HOURS.
Some of Them Call on Superintendent Rugg and Get
Knocked Out.

The Executive Committee OF the West
inghouse Electric Compsny's employees and
Superintendent Pease had a conference of
three hours duration yesterday, and did
nothing. Mr.. Pease, when the meeting was
over, said that the committee was an intelli-
gent body of men, and the committee stated
that Mr.. Pease had received them courteous
Iy. But nothing came Of the love feast and
the position of the respective parties to the
strike remains unchanged.
The action of the committee in calling on
the company was the result of the meeting
on Monday and due to the article printed in
The DISPATCH. drawing attention to pos
sible misunderstanding between the COM
pany and its employees, an account of which
was set forth at length in yesterdays issue.
The committee resolved TO see the company
as soon as possible, and inquired from Mr..
Pesse at noon yesterday il he would see
them in the afternoon. He replied that he
would, and at 2:SO o'clock he and the COM
mittee entered upon heightened discussion
of the matters at issue. A stenographer was
present and took voluminous notes Of what
transpired.
At the conclusion of the session Superin-
tendent Pease was asked for a statement re-
garding the present condition of the strike
and as to what had tr2nspired at the meet
ing. He said, in effect, that he had nothing
to say. The questions at issue between the
company and the employees were fully dis
cussed, but no settlement had been effected.
He had made no offer looking to this end,
as the company would not recede from its
position. He found the men who had called
a very intelligent body, and fully COM
petent to discuss the subject on which they
had called. He said he believed that the
majority of the men would come back to-
morrow, if they were not restrained by three
or four men who were leading them.
"They will come back, he said; ''they
will come back. They recognize they can
not get as good iron work elsewhere as
with U.S.
The committee OF the employees were not
disposed to say much about the result of the
meeting. They acknowledge to having been
courteously received and all that. They
SAID that the matters at issue between them
and the f1rm had been thoroughly discussed,
but that nothing had been settled.
MISSED AN OPPORTUNITY.
There was a very positive opinion after
wards that good opportunity of efecting a
settlement had been lost. And there was an
equally positive opinion that mistake had
been made. This mistake, it was held. was
in not having the Chairman of the en-
ployes' meetings admitted as a participator
in the discussion. This gentleman had ex-
erted himself. it was said, In the interests of
the men; had the points in dispute at his
fingers end, and would have succeeded. it
is claimed, in obtaining something OF a
definite nature from the company with re-
gard to its position toward its men.
A member OF the committee said that the
committee had three times asked the SUPER
intendent to admit him as one OF the COM
mittee, but that he had refused. In short,
the general feeling last night was that the
thing had been bungled, and that the affair
would now continue indefinitely, since the
opportunity for settlement had been lost.