The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-06
SCKWAB YIELDS ANOTHER
DAY TO TIE STRIKERS
Indications Are, However, That There Is But Little
Chance For a Settlement.
Propositions Made and Rejected by Both Sides at the
Conference Held Yesterday.

New York, Sept. 5.-The conference
OF the members Of the Cancellation com
mittee was resumed at the Ashland
house at . o'clock and continued until
$3.50, during which time there was more
telephoning. When the conference ad-
jOurned Mr.. Mitchell explained the
point reached in the negotiations to be
that the proposition of the Steel cor
poration has not yet been acted upon
by the Amalgamated association. but
that the board viii probably reject it
tomorrow. Nevertheless. he expressed
hope that the strike would yet be annie
ably settled, though he declined to in
dictate how he hoped that this would be
brought about. Mr. Mitchell. While dis
claiming that he spoke for the commit
tee. and saying that he was merely
giving Information fcgt ise accOmmOda-
ton of the press. said;
When all negotiations between the
Amalgamated association and the
United States Steel corporation in re-
gard to the strike were broken of, the
committee on Cancellation of the Ma
tional Civic federation endeavOred to
bring the representatives of both in
terests together or to act as mediatOrs
between them.
I'VE held conferences with the adj
ViSOry board of the Amalgamated aSSO-
citation at Pittsburg and obtained prop
ositiOns from it with authority to sub
corporation. These propositions we
submitted to the corporation at yester-
days (Wednesday's) conference The
company rejected the proposition.
I'VE then discussed the situation at
length with Mr.. Schwab and his col
leagues and obtained from them the
conditions upon which they would
agree to settle the strike, these terms
to hold good until this Thursday
evening.
Wanted More Time
I'VE submitted these terms to Mr..
Shaffer and his colleagues. We were
advised by the representatives of the
Amalgamated association this (Thurs-
day. afternoon that there was not suf-
ficient time to consider the proposition;
that the officers at the Pittsburg head
quarters had no authority to accept or
decline it; that the advisory board is
/ summoned to meet tomorrow friday.
/ The officers of the Amalgamated as
/ ISOLATION expressed their conviction to
US that the proposed terms viii not be
I approved. We entertain the hope that
an amicable settlement of this conflict
( viii yet be reached"
/ It was learned late tonight that at
( the request of the cancellation commit
! tee Mr.. Schwab agreed today to extend
the time for the acceptance of his offer
to tomorrow (Friday) evening. Late
tonight Mr.. Mitchell started for Ha-
zletOn, Pa, on business of the United
| Mine Workers.
! A report from Pittsburg that NJ.
/ Shaffer and Mr.. Williams were sup
posed to have started for New York
was discredited by the positive infor-
nation that the advisory board Of the
/ Amalgamated association will meet in
Pittsburg tomorrow to consider Mr..
/ Schwab's proposition This, it is un-
! derstood. differs from Mr.. Morgan S
: proposition. only that it stipulates the
mills in which theUnited States Steel
! corporation had succeeded in opening
/ as non-union mills should remain nom
union. the company being unwilling to
/ abrogate the contracts which it had
made with the men who are now al
work in those mills.