The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1901-08-08
GREAT STRUGGLE ON
Second Effort at TrEce Between
Workers and Trust Fails.
WILL NOW FIGHT TO A FINISH

Every Union Man IN the Employ or
Big Corporation Will Be Or
dcred to Join In the Pros
pective Gigantic Contest.
Another effort to perfect perma-
nent truce between the great army Of
steel workers and the giant corpora
ton which employs it has failed. and
leaves the conflicting sides as sharply
and widely divided as ever. The lead
ers on either side met in New York
again Saturday morning and, after a
day of fruitless conferences and dis
cussion, parted in spirit that showed
no tinge of conciliation. Neither side
would surrender a position or coneede
point in the dispute in which they
are involved.
The first conference of the day was
between President Shaffer and twelve
of his associates on the executive
board Of the Amalgamated association
and group of officials of the United
States Steel Corporation, headed by
J. Pierpont Morgan and President
Charles NJ. Schwab. At the end of an
hour the conferees parted, having
failed to reach an agreement. The
second conference was participated In
only nv the officials of the Amalgama-
ted association.
Will Fight to Finish.
'Tt will be fight to the finish. No
quarter will be given. We are pre-
pared~to spend all the money and time
necessary to wipe out the Amalgama-
: ted association in all of our mills"
This was the message that came
over the wires from New York to Off
cials of the United States Steel Corpo-
ration at Pittsburg saturday after
noon. Officials were waiting long after
the usual Saturday afternoon closing
time to get word from the conference
In New York between the executive
board of the Amalgamated association
and the general officers of the big
trust. Two messages came. The first
stated that the conference had ad-
journed between the workers and Mr..
Morgan after receiving his ultimate
decision in the matters in dispute. An
hour before this time second mes
sage came to Pittsbua, announcing to
the steel officials there that the execu-
tive board had decided that they would
not accept Mr.. Morgan's terms.
All Will Be Called Out.
within a week every union man
and every union man at heart in the
employ Of the United States Steel Cor
poration will be asked to join in the
strike now being waged by the Anal
gamated association. We must settle
whether unionism is to stand or fall.
'There will be no more conferences
with the United States Steel Corpora
ton unless the meeting is asked for by
the officials of the corporation. The
Amanlagametd association will not re-
quest a peace meeting" -
These and several other significant
statements were made by President
Shaffer upon bis return from the fruit
less conference.
It is now al fight to a finish between
the billion-doNar steel trust and organ
lied labor. Nd. Shaffer says that he is
ready to employ every peaceable
means within the power Of man to win
victory. No quarter is to be given
and none will bic asked. The entire
management of the battle has been
placed in the hands of President Shat
fer. He has absolute power to call
out every man who Is connected with
the progress of the fight to date. He
finds that none Of his battle lines have
been broken. Promise is made by Mr..
Shaffer. that the trust will find the
Amalgamated association is strong in
many of it's mills: 1t is considered
probable by all interested that the
strike ordered will become general,
calling out the union men in the Ma
tional Steel Company, the Federal
Steel Company and the National Tube
Company.
There is scarcely one of the 100000
employees of the United States Steel
Corporation but wha: may feel the
strike. It may be that the American
Federation of Labor will call out its
thousands who handle products Of the
United States Steel Corporation; the
structural steel workers may refuse
TO handle steel from the mills Of the
trust; the miners may refuse to dig
coal for trust mills; the railway organ
izations may be drawn into the con-