Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-07-09
STRIKE TROUBLES
WILL Be SETTLED
Prest. Shaffer and Combines Rep
resentatlves Hold Conference.
AVOID KN0TTY QUESTIONS
All Differences win be Amicsbiy Ad'
justed ut Thursdays Meeting ~
Must Also be Final

Pittsburg. July 9.--As the result Of
the preliminary conference between
President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated
association and Warner Arms, repre-
senting the combines interests, last
evening, the Wellsyille trouble, which
yesterday threatened to undo all that
had been done toward effecting q
peaceable settlement Of the strike, was
not referred to today, and everything
pointed TO an amieable adjustment Of
all differences at the general confer
ence arranged for next Thursday In
this city.
President Shaffer said he considered
the questions 10 be considered at the
conference TO be most grave and for
that reason he thought II best to call
In the general executive board, com
posed OF the highest officers Of the as
ISOLATION instead Of consulting with
the conferees who usually meet TO
consider such questions. This board
has only been called together once be-
fore and that was during the trouble
at the Woods plant at Mckeesport last
April. II is composed Of President
Theodore j. Shaffer. Vice President r.
J. William Of Birmingham, Ala, elem
Jarvis OF Anderson, Ind. Vice Presi-
dent Charles S. Davis, OF Newport
KY; Vice President Walter Larkin, OF
Wheeling, w. Va; Vice President John
#. Ward. of Youngstown, Ohio; Vice
President John w Quinn, Of Granite
City ILL.,; Vice President D. H.. Reese
Of Pittsburg, and Vice President John
Chappell, Of Youngstown, Ohio Secre-
taries John Williams, NJ. +, Tlghe and
V. /. Davis, and National Trustees John
Pierce and John II. Morgan
Il am pretty well satisfied that the
trouble viii be settled at this meeting.
said President Shaffer There seems
TO be a spirit of fairness peryading those
to whom have talked officially on the
subject. The meeting will be for the
signing Of the scale for the mills as
whole"
In response to the query as TO who
would make up the combine committee,
Mr., Shaffer said that he did not know,
Persons on the outside who professed
TO know, said that the conference would
In this case be governed for the United
States Steel corporation BY general Of
ficers and not by any Of the operating
'VlltidlH Va tut underlying companies.
Should this be the case Il will mark
a decided departure In the method of
dealing with the Amalsamated associa-
lion.
Joseph Bishop, the first president OF
the Amalgamated association, who "a
secretary OF the Ohio state board Of
arbitration, arrived in Pittsburg today
and went at once TO Amalgamated
headquarters. When seen by a repre-
sentative Of the Associated Press and
asked If the board would join In the
efforts to settle the strike. he said. II
am here to inquire into the situation
and II Our board can be of any assist
ance in adjusting the difficulty we viii
give our services. ! do not care to
express an opinion on the strike"
When seen later President Shaffer
said the conference on Thursday must
be final, as the association will not
waste any more time. He declared
that there would be no compromise
and nothing short Of a complete sur
render viii be accepted.