The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-12
LABOR AND CAPITAL
CONFERENCE AT PITTsBURG
HAS ONLY BEGUN.
NO AGREEMENT REACHED
norH SIDES PRESENT THEIR POSI-
TIONS.

yres,dent Shaffer Makes Frank
s.o+ement of the Position of the
.ociatiOn-Eviden Discrimina-
49,. I'm Favor of NOn-UniOn Mills
Wakes 1t Necessary to Force Union
.lI-otherwise Ii Must Go Out
% Existence-OficiaIs Disclaim
ANY AntnSOnism to the Union.
WIN Confer Again To-day.
pi+tehurg. Pa, July 1.-THE great labor
.u,orence at the Hotel Lincoln to-day
t.ied to come to any agreement. An
..ner conference will be held tomorrow
earning. The object of the conference
u,s the settlement of the strike, ordered
=, tho AmaIgamated Association of Iron,
ct.el and Tin Workers in the mills of
tbe American Sheet Steel Company, and
4, tbose of the American Steel Hoop
connanv. The conference also had an
otber purpose in view, the prevention OF
general strike in all the mills controlled
bv the United States Steel Corporation
,be two companies in whose mills the
.,rike had been ordered being constitu-
ont companies of the great steel com
bine,
Two sessions of the conference were
held to-day. The first convened shortly
after 10 o'clock in the morning. At
nom the meeting adjourned for dinner
Al . o'clock in the afternoon the second
session was convened and was continued
until o'clock AS a settlement within
reasonable time was seen to be out of
the question the conference adjourned
to meet at 10 o'clock tomorrow. The
Amagamated Association was represent
ed at the conference by President Shaffer
and other officers.
Schwab Was Not Present.
The steel interests at the conference
Il were represented by John Warne' of New
York. chief of the operating department
Of the American Sheet Steel Company;
|LW jerks of Pittsburg, manager of the
American Steel Hoop Company; Veryl
Preston. New York, late president of the
American Steel Hoop Company; Warner
Arms and W. NJ Leeds, New York. vice
Company, and Charles w. Bray of Pitts
burg chief engineer of the same DOM
pany. The United States Steel Corpora
ton is said to have been indirectly rep
resented by Messrs. Warner and Pres
ton.
Shaffer Presents the Case. sa T.
At the afternoon session President Shat
fer, in behalf of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation, formally presented the case for
the organized workmen and the strikers.
He laid stress upon the fact that until
this year the union had made no effort,
directly, to force a union in all the plants
Of the combine for the reason that it
was thought best to have that movement
originate and be carried on among the
workmen in the mills. Since last year,
however, new condition confronted the
union men, The officials of the
various companies had plainly in
dicated, he said that they are
working on a policy for operating
their non-union plants in preference to
the union mills, and only working the
latter when it is absolutely necessary.
Ihis plan, he said, is forcing the union
men to quit the organization in order to
get work The idle mills, being union and
'he union men being rendered poverty
sulcken as the price for being members
VI Inc organization, means that the
Amaigamated Association is to be made
union so that equal justice will be given
the men. 1t is a matter of life and
uesh for the Amalgamated Associated
uet the non-union mills be done away
WIN as MIR. Shaffer put the situation. 1t
meant ne said, slow starvation or else
.ohHete surrender to the company, and
.ne giving up of all rights to organize
unions in their plants.
FOSttiOn of the Companies.
g, IN reply to the statement of President
snaner' the officers of the various com
san'eS sI', present gave an outline of their po-
% suUn' They denied any intention of
HolHlng an injustice toward union work.
neN IN their mills. The feeling for the
sSmalsamated men had always been
I,.enaly, they said, and they had no de-
'%e 10 force any trouble among them.
,s, ,ne plea ON both sides was listened to
su 'he closest attention by all of the
snoers soa. OF the conference. The tone on
49, sac was amicable and II was ap-
'll io,,. mat the manufacturers represen-
70 es % were prepared to go a long way
IN. saln s1a a peaceful solution of the exist
S 1iHiculties Both sides have more ar
,shnts ,Inents TO present before the issue is
AeH up for arbitration.