Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-08-08
A FLAT REFUSAL.
Steel Workers Can Get No Fur
ther Concessions.
j. II. Morgan Refuses to- Reopen the
Wage Conference with Annals q "a mu-
ted Association Officials The
Effect VIII be TO Continue
the Big Strike.

| of the two contending forces is
looked forward to with mingled hope
and fear. Hope, however, predomi-
mates and peace is confidently expect
ed by most of those interested.
| The following terms of settlement
of the strike come from an authori-
tative source and can be relied upon,
in all probability as the outcome of
the meeting of the conferees:
| The Amalgamated association is to
| drop contention for the signing of
scale for all mills.
All mills are to be "open" mills in
the fullest sense of the term.
The company is to have the right
to place a non-union man in any
plant and keep him there.
In addition to the plants covered
by the expired scale, it is to be signed
for the following:
| Devices Wood, of McKeesport;
Painter, Lindsay & McCutcheon, and
Clark mills, of Pittsburg, and Mones-
sen plants of the American Steel
Hoop Co.
The question of making the Wells
vile sheet plant and the Monessen tin
plate plant directly covered by the
scale is to be settled by the conferees.
The Amalgamated association is to
have the privilege of organizing the
men in any of the plants.
! Accessions to the Amalgamated as
! sociation have been made in Wells
vile, Pittsburg, Mingo Junction and
| Riverside, W. Va, where one of the
National Tube Co. mills is operated.
| With the American Steel Hoop Co.
| the change has been most sweeping.
| Before the strike, practically all but
! two of the mills were non-union. At
| this time all but one of the mills of
| this company are union and are idle
| from the strike.
| Pittsburg, July 31.-Disappoint-
ment and apprehension pervade the
! air of Pittsburg because of the failure
/ of the executive board of the Anal
| gamated association to ratify the
peace proposals arranged at the con-
ference in New York last Saturday
/ between the national officers of the
Amalgamated association and Messrs.
Morgan, Schwab and Gary, represent
ing the United States Steel Corpora
ton. When the conference opened
| Tuesday twas expected thatan agree
ment would be reached in short
time, but after session lasting from
a:30 a. m. until 6:30 p. N. the meet
ing adjourned without arriving at
any conclusion.
Pittsburg, Aug. Another day Of
suspense and the end not yet. The
third all-day session of. the Amalga
mated association executive board
passed without action being taken on
the New York conference peace pro-
hn
held to-day. The executive board was
waiting for word from j. Pierpont
Morgan.
After the board had heard from
President Shaffer concerning his trip
! to New York last week, it was decid-
ed to request a change in the propo-
sitions of Mr.. Morgan and message
was sent to Mr.. Morgan on Tuesday
night announcing their decision on
this matter. In explanation of this
message, the Amalgamated Journal,
the official organ of the steel work
| ers, says:
"The executive board desires an
other conference with the represen-
tatives of the constituent companies
and will remain in the city until an
answer is received. Upon the result
OF the answer will depend whether
the strike will be prolonged indef-
nitely."
The message sent to Mr.. Morgan,
while not so stated, is believed to be
an ultima tum to the head of the Uni
ted States Steel Corporation. 1t is
viewed as such by the labor leaders
about Pittsburg. If the steel work
ers do not get their demand for this
conference, the strike will go on in
definitely. None of the officials of
the organization would discuss this
point yesterday. They said they
had nothing to give out. At noon,
after the executive board had been
in session all morning and in a for
NAL manner waited for reply from
Mr.. Morgan, the members made an
official denial of the report that there
was a lack of harmony in their ranks.
The Commercial Gazette says: The
Amalgamated executive board last
evening received by telegraph a fiat
refusal from j. Pierpont Morgan to
reopen the wage conference where it
was broken off at the Hotel Lincoln
nearly three weeks ago. The pow
ers of the steel combine insist that
the only basis of settlement will be
on the terms which the financial
hackers of the combine, President
Schwab and Chairman Gary laid down
at the meeting with the Amalgamat-
ed executive in New York last Satur-
day"
A member of the executive board
of the association last night said:
These terms are denominated by
those who have the best interests of
the organization Of the steel workers
at heart as the most unfair, the most
unjust ever proposed to any body of
workingmen by set of employers or
a corporation. The terms are such
that the executive board of the Anal
gamated association cannot accept
and has already gone on record to
that effect"
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