The age-herald., 1901-07-30
As End of Great Strike Ap- breaches Everybody is
 on the Qui Tive
BOTH SIDES REMAIN FIRM
The Coming Conference of the Leaders Is Looked Forward to With Great Anxiety and Strikers Are
 HopefuI-shaffer Silent.

Plttsburg, July 2s.-Everybody $ on the duivive tonight in strike circles and the two contcnding forces is looked forwarl to with mingled hope and fear Hope, however, predominates, and peace is con- f1dently expected by the majority of those interested.
 The executive committee of the Anal aamated Association will meet in the headauarters of the organization at 1O:00 o'clock tomorrow morning or as soon thereafter as possible and take up the proposition of the United States Steel corporation for the settlement of the steel workers strike.
 This statement was made today by Sec retary Williams of the Amalgamated As scciation There was no change in the position of the two contestants today. Both sides held firmly to the plan of watching each other. The officials of the wood mill of the American Sheet Steel Co., made no effort to start the plant, and indications pointed to their remaining inactive until the strike negotiations are decided one way or the other. The first report of the day. that the American Tin Plate Co. was making an effort to start the Demlor plant with non-union men ana that one set of the rolls was being operated, was afterwards explained as being a rumor that started from the fact that the company had some men at work repairing the plant with the expectation that the strike will be settled shortly. shaffer Refuses te. ak z.
 President Shaffer refused to talk on the strike situation until after the meeting tomorrow or until the decision had been reacbed by the executive committee con cern,ne the preparations of the United States Steel Corporation. It was infi- mated, however, that there was very strcng likelihood that the committee we not adiourn tomorrow until they had met with the manufacturers and formally dis cussed the settlement of the strike. II this should be the case, actual peace IS nossible in a short time Any reference to th, points to be settled is guess work Colonel G. Watson French and J. F. Tay- Tor of the Republic Iron and Steel Com pany had lengthy conference with Presi- dent Shaffer, concerning which 1t was saio that the Republic company was in searcn of a number of skilled men
 One of the most apparent facts in the status of the strike today was the de- +ermination of the strikers to lose no ground in their struggle while peace nego- tiations are being conducted. Most of the ofiicials of the Amalgamated Association exnressed confidence that the strike is neaS an end.
 News received from all points says the progress of the strike today was of reassuring nature. The strikers claim to have more than held their ground since the the strike began and claim to have increased their membership in McKees- port alone to over 1,500 men. Accessions to the ranks of the Amalgamated Associa- ton have also been made in Weilsyille, Pittsburg Allegheny. Mingo Junction and Riverside, W. Va, where one of the National Tube Company's mills Is oper- ated. With the American Steel Hoop Company the change has been one Of the most sweeping. Before the strike prac- tically all but two of the mills were non union. At this time all but one of the mills of this company are union and idle from the strike. The situation of the American Tin Plate Company is well un- derstood All of the mills of that company are working under union rules excepting the Moncssen mills.
 A telegram from Wellsville tonight eays:
 Seven men went to work today who were members of the Welsville lodge of the Amalgama ted Association, making it possible for American Sheet Steel Com pany to put on another crew in Mill No. ?.
 The report from Youngstown, O., says:
 Certain officials say the strike will be settled in day or so; that the fires in two gas furnaces of the finishing mill of the American Steel Hoop Company have been lighted.
 ! It is believed the mills will be started by August 1.