The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-14
Conference Between Steel Trust
and Organized Labor Failed
to Reach Agreement.
STATEMENTS BY OFFICIALS.
Amalgamated Association Insisted
That All the Mills of the Trust
Should Be Operated by
Union Labor.

Pittsbury, Pa. July Is.-After a three
dag session the conference between rep
reseatat.ves OF the American Sheet Steel,
American Steel Hoop Company and Ame,i-
can Tin-P.ate Company, subsidiary COM
ranies of the United States Steel Corpora
ton, ard the General Executive Board Of
the Anal sarnatsd Association Of Iron. Steel
and Tn Workers. adjourned finally at =
O'Clock this ve..ing, without reaching an
agreement In less than an hour later
President Shaffer Of the Amagamated AS
ISOLATION had wired the following order to
all he amalgIm ted lodges in the tin-plate,
steel, hoop and sheet stee, mills of the coun-
try:
Notify your men that the mill is on
strike and will not work on Mo.iday. July
Seventy-Five Thousand Men Affected.
Pres dent Shaffer says that for the present
the three companies named WILL be aifected,
but that later all the union men in the cnl-
ploy of the Federal Steel Company. Nation
al Steel Company and National Tube Com
pany may be called out If it is found neces-
the light At the start, it Is claimed 45, 900
skilled workmen 20,OJ0 unskilied men and
Indirectly many thousands more, will be
Employers' Statement.
After the adjournment of the conference
the following statement was given out by
''lN CAitidiS VI inc lnTSe companies 1ntGT-
ested:
The conference between the Amalga-
mated Association and the sheet, hoop and
TN plate companies failed to come to an
agreement because the Amalgamated Asso-
citation did not recede from its original po-
sion. which was that the three companies
interested should sign for all their mills
without regard as to whether these mills
mad In the past belonged to the .Amalgam
ated Association or not. The manufacture
err; srs did not refuse their rights to organ
N nv 49, H..
In the .Amaigamated Association. who do
not wish TO become assocat on men. claimed
they must respect these men in til -ir wishes
as well as these who are members of the
association.
In order to effect compromise the manu-
Iasturers offered to. sign for several mills
the association. No compromise was offered
by the Amalgamated Association. The
American Tin-Plate Company have only one
nc mill. They requested the pr!vilese
sign the same. This was refused, and the
company was given to understand that the
men In all the tin mills would be called out.
even though the scale has been signed for
all other tin mills. The privilege requested
above would settle ali differences between
the tin-plate company and the Amalgamatel
No Statement From ShafTer.
1t was after s o'ciocle tonight when the
members of the Executive Committee of the
Amalga mated Association fled downstairs
from the confereuce-room in the Hotel
Lincoln. The members looked upconcerned,
and when questioned as to the result Of the
days work declined to say anything They
each referred the incuirers to President
shaffer. who they raid was still in the
conference.room. "A wait for nearly an
hour developed the fact that President
Shaffer had eluded the newspaper men and
had taken a private exit In departing from
the hotel. Warner Arms. vice president of
the American Tin-Plate Company. and
veryl Preston. on behaf of the American
Steel Hoop Company. shortly afterwards
announced that they had but one statement
TO make regarding the conference. This
was embodied in the foregoing ccmmunica-