The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-12
NO STEEL SETTLEMENT YET
GREAT CONFER RENCE FAILED TO
 4GKEE YESTERD4T.
Two Sessions Held and Adjournment Taken Until To TO-day-PresidcntS Shofrer
 of tho AmaiSn'natcd Association Pre- sents the Case of Organized Workmen
 Methods of Ono of the Compantes
Vigorously Denounced

Vigorously Denounced.
 Pittsburg, Pa, July 1.-The great la
 bor conference at the Hotel Lincoln 1 to-day failed to come to any agreement | Another conference will be held to-mor-
 TOW morning. The object of the con- 1 ference was the settlement of the strike
 ordered by the Amalgamated Associa- l tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers in 1 the mills of the American Sheet Steel i company and in those of the American l Steel Hoop company. The conference also had another purpose in view, the prevention of a general strike in all the mills controlled by the United States Steel Corporation, the two companies
 in whose mills the strike had been or dered being constituent companies of the great steel combine.
 Two sessions of the conference were held to-day The first convened short ly after 10 o'clock in the morning. At noon the meeting adjourned for dinnex. At ? o'clock in the afternoon the sec- ond session was convened and was continued until o'clock. As a settle ment within a reasonable time was seen to be out of the question the conference adjourned to meet at 10 o'clock to-mor- row.
 At the afternoon session President Shaffer, in behalf of the Amalgamated Association, 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 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. a new condi- ton confronted the union men. The officials of the various companies had plainly indicated, he said, that they are working on policy for operating their non-union plants in preference to the union mills and only working the latter when it is absolutely necessary This plan, he declared, is forcing the union
 men to desert the organization in order to get work. The idle mills, being union and the union men being ren- dered impoverished as the price for be- ing members of the organization, means either that the Amalgamated Association is going to be disbanded soon, or else the non union mills will have to be made union so that equal justice will be given to all.
 It is a matter of life and death for the AmaIgamated association that the non- union mills be done away with, as MT. Shaffer put the situation. The alleged method adopted by the American Sheet Steel company in practically starving the employees of the Old Meadow Mills in Scottdale into non-union agree ment was elaborated on and the de- mand made by that company that the mill be left out of the scale entirely in the future was taken as an indication of what the general plan of the compa- ny Is in dealing with the Amalgamated association. It meant, he said, slow starvation or else complete surrender to the company and the giving up of all rights to organized unions in their plants.
 Tn reply to the statements of Presi- dent Shaffer the officers of the various companies present gave an outline Of their position. They denied any inten- tion of working an injustice toward union workmen in their mills.
 The feeling of the Amalgamated men had always been friendly, they said, and they had no desire to force any trouble among them,
 The plea on both sides was listened to with the closest attention by all of the members of the conference. The tone on each side was amicable and 1t was apparent that the manufacturers representatives were prepared to go a long way to gain peaceful solution of the existing difficulties
 The members of the two conference committees began presenting argu ments in favor of their different posi- tons in the trouble and this continued until 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when by agreement the meeting was ad- journed until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning Both sides said that they had more arguments to present in fa- vor of their propositions.