The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-30
END IN SIGHT.
Little Doubt Remains That an
Agreement
Will be Reached by Steel COlOs-
sus and Employees.
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Executive Committee of Anal
gamated Association.
Goes Into Secret Conference on
the Trusts Terms.

great steel strike would be declared off
| before the close of the day was the
general impression here this morning
and the feeling of exultation manifest
ed among the manufacturers as well as
the strikers was the best indication
that both sides were glad that an annie
able agreement of the differences was
in sight.
The hour fixed for the meeting of the
general executive board of the Amalga-
mated association was 10 o'clock. but
an hour earlier than that President
! Shaffer was comforting with the west
! ern members of the board and at $40
O'Clock the entire committee was called
| together Those present were:
President Shaffer, Secretary Williams,
| Assistant Secretary NJ F. Tige, David
Reese, vice president district No. /;
| Walter Larkins, vice president district
No 2, of Wheeling; Charles H. Davis,
| vice president of district No. 8, of New
port, KY; w. G. Davis, vice president
district No. 4. of South Chicago; Glenn
| Jarvis vice president district No. s. of
Anderson, Ind; John F. Ward, vice
president district No 7, of Birmingham,
Ala; John Chappell, vice president dis
trict No 8, of Newcastle; John w.
! Quinn, vice president of district No 9.
| of Granite City, ILL.,; Elias jenkins of
| 4oungston, o., John H Morgan, OF
/ Cambridge, o., and John Pierce of
| Pittsburg, national trustee.
Immediately after the committee had
! uleQ INTO the room the doors were lock-
| ed and sentinel placed outside. Prev
/ ious to the meeting all efforts to get an
| expression from the officials as to its
| probable outcome were unsuccessful.
Secretary Williams stated that they
all had been pledged to secrecy and to
say anything whatever would be a
| assembled President Shaffer placed be-
| fore it the terms upon which the United
! States Steel corporation will settle the
strike and the concessions the Amalga-
71fair T- L han
| conference with ]. P. Morgan last Sat
! urday- A long discussion then ensued.
| If the deal is approved there will be a
| conference with the combine officials
later. Little doubt is entertained how
ever, that the action of President Shat
fer and Secretary Williams will be rat
! flied. The representatives of steel in
| terests are in easy communication by
telephone and conference will at once,
| follow.
The combine conferees will probably be
| the same as at the previous conference
and will include Veryl Preston, late
president of the American Steel Hoop
| company, Vice Presidents Warner
Arms and W. NJ. Leeds, of the Ameri-
can Tin Plate company; John Warner,
| general superintendent of the Ameri-
| can Sheet Steel company and L W.
! jerks, manager of the American Steel
Hoop company.
The important question to be decided
/ is what constitutes a union mill The
/ Amalgamated people claim a mill is
union as soon as they have secured a
| foothold in it. On the other hand the
| steel people argue that a mill is not
union until at least majority of the
| skilled workmen have Joined the Anal
! gamated organization. Upon the set
\ Element of this question it is thought
win hinge the settlement of the strike
The combine conferees are located at
the Hotel Schenley where they were
met this morning Ky W. S. Corey, pres
/ ident of the Carnegie Steel company.
! but like all others interested in the
strike they also refused to say any
thing as to what will be done today
ANXIOUS TO GO TO WORK
/ Mckeesport, Pa, July 30.-An air of
! expectancy pervaded McKeesport this
morning, the strikers at Demlers and
! the big w. Devices Wood plant being
hopeful that the Pittsburg conference
will call the strike off before night
Hundreds of idle men are lounging
around the gates of the mills evidently
ready to go to work as soon as a
| chance be given them. Both mills re-
manned quiet during the night Morn
I ing trains from uD and down the
| Moncngahela, where fishing camps
abound, brought in hundreds of the
better class of strikers who had gone
INTO seciuslon when the strike came.
! They are now ready to return to work
and their influence strengthens the be-
lief that word has been passed that the
strike will be ended within the next 4S
hours.
The rumor that the Demler plant had
| been started yesterday was caused by
/ the management testing some new
rolls.
TODAY'S ACTION FINAL.
New York, July 30.-It was learned
here today upon high authority that
| the action of the executive board of
! the Amalgamated association at Pitts
burg today, when it passes upon the
peace proposals agreed upon at the
conference here on Saturday will be de-
cis1ve. There exists no arrangement
for further negotiations, and peace or
a continuance of the strike hinges upon
the vote. The statement that a group
| of officials of the companies forming
were to go to Pittsburg for a further
discussion with the labor leaders was
erroneous.
The agreement of Saturday was com
plete and its force depends upon its
ratification by the Amalgamated as
SociatiOn and the subsidiary companies
of the United States Steel corporation
formality If the Amalgamated ex-
ecutive board approves the basis of set
Element the strike will be over if it
disa ppr0ves it will continue in effect
and in the same state that existed be-
fore Messrs. Shaffer and Williams met
Messrs. Morgan and schwab-
GOES INTO FINAL SESSION
Pittsburg. Pa, July 30-2:45 D. m
The conference has just resumed af-
ter adjournment for lunch. While the
delay in reaching a decision indicates
that there may be some difference of
opinion among the members as to the
settlement a definite conclusion is ex-
pected before adjournment.
Money! For Roe- co1or;a-