The age-herald., 1901-08-16
EFFORT BEING MADE TO = SETTLE STEEL STRIKE;
 CONTEST HOTLY WAGED
Mill Owner Coner With Strike Leader and Terms of Peace DScussedReport Has That the United States Steel Cor
 pOration Will Absorb the Republic Iron and Stee Co.,

Pittsburg, August 15.-One more effort is on foot to settle the strike. B. NJ Gala well, formerly a mill owner of Mingo Junction, is known to have conferred with the strike leaders with view to sketching basis of settlement, which he plans to place before the officials of the steel corporation. He is believed to be the mysterious man who conferred with President shaffer for more than two hours today.
 Both sides vigorously denied that they had either made overtures or received proposals. but 1t Is known positively that the plan Is under consideration.
 It Is believed here that under certain circumstances the contending sides could be brought together and a settlement ef- fected.
 President Shaffer in a significant state ment made today said that personally he was for peace, and that he was fighting only because he was on the defensive and forced to fight.
 Contest Waeed With Vigor.
 Meantime the contest between the two great interests Is being waged with vigor and slightly varying fortune The Steel Corporation seemed to be somewhat stronger at the lower union mill of the Carnegie Company in this city, although the strikers are still working hard to crip- pie or close 1t. The corporation also added to the forces at Wellsville and an nounced that at last it had the plant run ming to it's full capacity. Three hundred men employed at the Seamless Tube plant at McKeesport, an auxiliary of the Ma tiona1 Tube Company, joined the strik- CTS It is said they quit because they would not handle non-union-made mate rial.
 MT. Shaffer's Statement.
 President shaffer made the following statement:
 "I will say officially that the Amalga- mated Association has submitted no prop osition to the Steel Corporation nor has the Steel Corporation offered and propo- sition directly to the Amalgamated Asso- citation. We have not heard from the Cor poration officially since our last confer ence in New York. I will say, however, that certain men formerly connected with
 
 of Roanoke and Judge s. W. Williams or Wythe. The body was stampeded TOT nearly two hours and county after county changed votes from one candidate to an other The first plank of the platform reads:
 "The Democrats of the State of Virginia reafffrm their allegiance and unfalferlng devotion to the national I3emDcratic party and declare their admiration for It's iean- CTS from Jefferson to Bryan, who nave borne the party standard In victory anu defeat" .-,,. One plank declares for a fello"-sei wants bill and another reads:
 we declare unalterable opposition to the criminal trusts and to every lnegai combination of capital. We denooilce such trusts as a serious menace to puoiic welfare. restricting the opportuHitles anu absorbing the substance of the people. They are the direct product or partial pa and unjust legislation and reckless muI- 'l tinlicxtion of corporations without sult- able provisions for their control. The rights of American freemen must not pc sacrificed in the interests or corporations banded together for their destruction We arraign the Republican party Tor both its failure to enforce existing laws and to enact others against the trusts