Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-07-07
STRIKE NAY Be ADJUSTED
BEFORE END Of THE WEEK.
COMPLETED FOR
CONFERENCE AT PITTSBURG
ON WEDNESDAY.
SETTLEMENT IT'S PROBABLE.
BELIEVED REPRESENTATIONS OF
THE TRUST ARE PREPARED
TO MAKE CONCESSIONS.

Of the American Steel Company and
American Steel Hoop Company Will
probably be terminated next week. Ar
rangements were made in this city u
day for the holding of joint confer
ence in Pittsburg between representa-.
lives of both companies which are COM
-onent-of the United States Steel Corpor-
alton and representatives of the Anal
eamated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers, fer the purpose OF ad-
justing the existing labor trouble. The
agreement to meet in conference means
virtually a settlement of the strike in
asmuch as the operating officials of the
hoop and sheet companies would not
have consented to meet the workers
committee unless there was good pros
peet of immediate settlement and 1t
may be accepted as settled fact that
all the mills now idle will be in opera
ton by the end of next week, and the
I~6ustry generally will be averted in its
pcipieney.
1t is stated on good authority that the
conference will be held early next week.
probably before Wednesday, and assur-
knce is given that settlement of the
trouble will be speedily effected. The
operating officials of the steel companies
will meet the workers committee and
hs the question involved is not one of
wages, but the extension Of organiza-
ytion control to so-called non-union
plants, an agreement is likely to be
| readily made.
Some minor differences also exist in
the tin plate trade and representatives
Of the American Tin Plate Company
and the workers will meet to adjust
them.
The strike in the steel hoop and
sheet steel branch was inaugurated in
the plants controlled by the Amalga-
mated Association July list, but opera
tions were continued at all the morgan
! lied mills. The companies agreed to
pension for all the union mills signed
for last year, but the organization con-
tended for the unionizing of All the
Yplants When this demand was made
the scale negotiations were suspended
by the companies, but the question
i will be re-opened next week and an
agreement probably reached. About
) % 900 workmen will be concerned in
! the outcome
statement tonight from promi-
nent Amalgamation Association official
!, as to what brought about the PROPOSE
ton for a conference, gives as reason
the fact that the American Tin Plate
Company was given notice last week
that if the steel hoop and sheet steel
scales were not signed by the manufac-
turers by certain date, naming day
in the close future, the Amalgamated
Association president would be in
structed to enforce the authority him
by the constitution to call out all union
employees of the United States Steel Cor
poration. The provision in the Anal
gamated Associations constitution I'M
der which a general strike order could
be issued against the United States steel
Corporation is found in Sec. SO of Art.
10. 1t reads:
Should one mill in combine or
trust have a difficulty all mills in said
combine or trust shall cease work until
such grievance is settled"
1t was President Skaters interpreta-
ton of this clause, applying it not alone
to the American Sheet Steel Company,
but to the United States Steel Corpora
ton, that produced sensation last
April, at the time of the McKeesport
trouble.
in the present case it is argued by
the Amalgamated people that although
the tin plate and bar iron scales have
been settler, the sheet scale must also
be signed or the others may be declared
void because all of the companies in
volved are constituent members OF the
United States Steel Corporation.
The enforcement of a general strike
order by the Amalgamated Association
would mean that 80 900 men in union
mills would be directed affected.
From both sides tonight the expires
sion is joyfully manifested that all dan
ger of such a misfortune has been
averted and by the end of next week
it is believed all the mills of the coun-
try will be again in full operation.