Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1901-09-04
TRYING TO SETTLE STRIKE.
Conference Between President
Schwab and Simon Burns Report
ed to Have Been Arranged.
STEEL MEN ON AN INVESTIGATION.
AT Fridays Meeting of Committee at
Pittsburg President Schaffer Was Crit
icaily Cross-Examined on His Attitude
on the Wage Agreement Made with
the Federal steel Company.

P1ttsburg, Pa, Aug. 31.-It is re-
ported here that conference by long
distance telephone had been arranged
for Friday afternoon between Charles
NJ. Schwab, president of the United
States Steel corporation, and Simon
Burns, president of the National Win
dow Glass Workers association.
Mr.. Burns is in this city and is try
ing to arrange another meeting be-
tween the Amalgamated officials and
the officers of the steel corporation
for the purpose of settling the strike.
burns said he expected to hear from
Mr.. Schwab at any moment. If the
latter is still opposed to his plan of
arbitration he will request him, he
said, to suggest whatever modifica-
ton he desired. Anything, he said,
would be acceptable if the United
States Steel corporation can be in
duced to arbitrate and get the mills
started
The most important feature pre-
sented in the steel strike Friday was
the conference of committee of the
Bayview Amalgamated lodge of Mil
waukee, and the officials of the asso-
citation. 1t is said that the Milwaukee
committee was sent here to look into
the situation and report at meeting
to be held upon their return home. 1t
is understood that since coming here
the committee has made a careful can
vass of the situation in Pittsburg,
which is regarded as the center of the
strike. There is no certainty as to
what their report will be to their
lodge, but their mission, it is said, was
to arrange, if possible, for their CO.
workers to resume work in the Bay
view mills.
AT Fridays conference it is said the
committee critically cross-examined
President Shaffer on his attitude on
the wage agreement with the Federal
steel company. Ihe committee prob
ably will start home Friday night
Soon after they arrived at Milwaukee
meeting of the Bayview lodge will
be held to determine the course to
be pursued.
There is no change in the general
situation. The mills operating in this
city are running about the same as
yesterday. Additional men are report
ed at the Star tin plate plant and at
Painters. Every plant in McKeesport
is still idle, but it is expected that a
start will be made at the Kemler tin
plate works at any time. The strikers
in McKeesport are said to have about
given up hope of inducing the men
at Duquesne and Homestead to join
them, but will make another effort to
get the men at Duquesne out Friday
afternoon. Strikers to the number of
several thousand, headed with brass
bands, have arranged to march to
Duquesne, where meeting will be
held in Turner hall, and addresses
made by Stewart G. Sharp, organ
izer of the Federation of Labor. and
others. The procession, it is said, will
then line up in front of the mills and
await shift of turns at $50 o'clock.
The strike leaders admit, however,
that it is doubtful if the men can be
coaXed out.
President Shaffer denied at noon
that there had been any conference
with the Bayview committee.