Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-07-09
ARRANGED
FOR Thursday MORNING.
OF AMALGAMATED As
ISOLATION AND UNITED STATES
STEEL CORPORATION
ARE TO MEET IN PITTSBURG,
AMALGAMATED VICE PREsI-
DENTS AND CHAS. M. sCHWAB
TO BE AT THE MEETING.

PITTSBURG. Pa. July S.-"That
which | believe will prove the most i'm
portant conference in the history Of cap
ital and labor will open in Hotel Lin
colin Pittsburg, next Thursday morn
ing at 10 o'clock when the highest Off
Gals OF the Amalgamated Association
Eathered from all parts of the country
VII meet with ligh officers in the iron
and steel industries to settle grave
questions.
Every vice president of the Anal
gamated Association from Alabama
north, is hurrying toward Pittsburg to-
night on many Geographic orders. I
nave considered 1t best that they be
called to confer at this time instead of
me regular conferees who have usually
met with us to adjust differences.
AS yet, i am in ignorance as to who
will constitute the committee represent
ing the steel people, for the employer.
! have been informed that President
Charles NJ. Sehwab, of the United States
Steel Corporation, will be present in
person. but do not know this to be a
fact. The laboring mar is at present
confronted with some peculiar condi-
tons which l hope will be adjusted at
the coming conference.
81 believe the strike will be speedily
settled"
THEODORE J.SHAFFER."
The above is the statement made by
President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated
Association late this evening as te
emerged from the Carnegie building
with a party of Amalgamated Associa-
ton officers and officers Of the Amer
lean Sheet Steel Company. 1t was at
the close of one of the most eventfnl
Gays in the history Of organized labor
and was made SO by the decided stand
taken by President Shaffer in the
Wellsville case. The conference to-day
lasted for almost two hour, but what
was said or done was not given out
save through the above statement made
ny President Shaffer. 1t was evidently
decided hat the best interests of both
sides demanded that the wage confer
onoe be held at as early a date as pos
sible in spite of the trouble at Wells
}ville. ut is understood that on hear
ing the statement of Vice President
Ghappell regarding the Ohio situation,
assurance wa given that it could easily
be adjusted and would be. This being
the case the conference was quickly ar
ranged.
President Shaffer tonight desired to
be set right before his people regard
ing his action in passing over the uual
wage conferees and placed the matter
higher. That matter might be under
stood he dictated the following state
ment:
The committee selected by the advis.
DRY board is composed of all national
officers. trustees and vice presidents, be
cause this, the general executive board
has the greatest power in the A. A.
and as the iratter at issue is a genera
one, not affecting wages or mill condi.
tons, and the last convention having
abolished the general conference. this
board can best take up a question af'
fecting the general interests"
Mr. Cha ffar cold f4rtbor.
Il did that / would MOI
treat with the employers until matters
wer e~adjusted at Wellsville, and thai
would declare a general strike or
thursday If matters were not fixed, but
later changed my mind. l am not al
liberty to state what brought this about
but it will come out in good time"
Under the present arrangement the
Nel'sville men will remain at work
pending a settlement or disagreement,
on Thursday.
None OF the combine representatives
who could be seen would talk on the
strike troubles. 1t is known, however
q NiScI toiucut AiAlS, VI Iuc <Auuc
lean Sheet Steel Company, received
President Skaters telegram announcing
bis ultimatum, at Youngstown, where
PIE was attending the funeral of his
mother-in-law, and that Immediately
hfter the funeral he came to Pittsbure
fnd the conference was held shortly
after his arrival.
Earlier reports concerning the strike
Pnd other matters pertaining to Anal
eamated Association interests were as
Follows:
PITTSBIFRG, Pa, July S.-The pre-
m2tory dimissal on Saturday of twelve
nembers OF the Amalgamated Associa-
ion at the Wellsville plant of the
american STEEL Sheet Company may
|erious,y affect the expected settlement
his week of the iron and steel strike.
When seer this morning President
khaffer. of the Amalgamated Associa-
on, was very much exercised over the
nrn affairs had taken
cannot say when or where the
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