The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-02

vile plant of the American Sheet. Steel
company, and their effort in this in
stance has been a failure.
The megsage sent TO Mr.. Morgan.
while not 50 stated. is believed to be an
ultimatum to the head of the United
States Steel corporation. It Is viewed
as such by the labor leaders about
Pittsburg If the steel workers do not
get their demand for this conference
the strike viii go on indefinitely
None Of the officials of the organiza-
ton would discuss this p0int To-Day.
They still main tanned their silence. and
said they had nothing to give out. At
noon. after the executive board had
been in session ali morning and in d
formal manner waited for a reply from
Mr.. Morgan. the members decided to
make an official denial of the report
that there was a lack of harmony in
their ranks To the reporters present
they gave out the following;
Statement From Strikers.
I'VE. the members of the general ex-
ecutiEe board of the AmalgamaJed as
ISOLATION. desire to deny emphaucaIly
the reports published expressive OF us
agreement among US. We are dlspOSlng
of the work before the committee as
fast as its Importance viii permit NO
member has expressed any opinion OF
giving any statement of the business,
or of the attitude of other members
Nothing has been made public,
neither viii any report issue from US
until a definite conclusion is reached
We are simply trying to reach settle
ment which shall be honorable and sat
isfactory to all concerned
Whatever differences might hsESe eX-
listed are said to have been aoJusteu
satisfactorily and the board stands as
a unit for its demand for the renewal of
the conference with the manufacturers
representatives. To accept Mr. Nor
gan's propositions as they now stand
would only cOmpliCate matters more
according to the officials Of the associa-
ton Whether Mr. Morgan Will answer
the message of the Amalgamated assoc
ciatiO., or not seems to be a question
and even the association officers do not
| care to state positively that II ne does
not there can be no settlement at TINS
time of the strike Mr.. Morgans ST.
lence is regarded by some as significant
and ominous. Others profess to believe
that he is in consultation with other
officials of the United States Steel cor
poratiOn. and viii answer shortly.
Meetings in Secret,
The secretiveness of the meeting Of
the AmaIgamated men, which has char
aCteriZed the preceding meetings was
continued today. The mem berS OF the
executive board got here early IN the
morning, ana We're confined in the con-
ference rooms of the headquarters all
day, with the exception of a brief lunch
hour. There were the same guards dis
played outside of the Offices, and news
paper men were Kept back from all ap-
proaches to the meeting.
At ( o'clock in the afternoon Presi-
dent Shafer. acting on behalf OF the
board. sent word TO the newspaper men
that there would be no statement glEC1l
out for Dublica ton today, and that
there would be a meeting of The board
tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock, to con
slider matters before it. The meeting
did not adjourn at this hour, however
but remained in session until nearly
E o'clock.
During the afternoon Joseph Bishop
of the board a arbitration OF Ohio was
present for sOEzs time EX-Presl0ent
NJ NJ. Garland of The association was
also in the offices FOR a time, but botn
of them left early. They declined to
discuss the situation in any form, eX-
cent to say that they did not know
what the probabilities were Tor set
tlement.
There We're many rumOTs in the strik-
ers' circles today. Among those inter
esting them the most was that the
American Sheet Steel comnany was
preparing to bring q large number OF
non-uniOn men from the south to take
their places, and that the officials OF
the Demmler tin mill were preparing To
break the strike at that point Every
avenue of approach to these mills is be-
ing carefully watched by the strikers
ana not the least loop hole Is being Iefl
uneuarded.