The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-12
LABOR CONFERENCE
FAILED TO AGREE
Efforts to Stop the Strike of
Steel Trust Employees.
WILL MEETAGAINTODAY
BOTH SIDES ARE ANXIOUS TO
SETTLE THE DIFFICULTY.

Pittsburg. Pa, July 1.-THE labor
conference at The Hotel Lincoln today
failed to come to any agreement An
other. conference viii be held tomor-
row. The object of the conference was
the settlement Of the strike ordered by
the Ar,sIgamated Association of Iron,
Steel aid Tin Workers in the mills of
the American Sheet Steel company and
IN those Of the American Steel Hoop
company, The conference also had
another purpose in view, the proven
ton Of a general strike in all the mills
controlled by the United States Steel
corporation. the two companies in
whose mills the strike had been or
dered being constituent companies OF
the great steel combine.
Two sessions of the conference were
held today. The first convened shortly
after 10 o'clock in the morning. At
noon -SC meeting adjourned for dinner.
At ? o'clock in the afternoon the sec
OnC session was convened, and was
continued until 5 o'clock. A. a settle
ment within a reasonable time was
seen to be out OF the question the con-
ference adjourned to meet at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning
The workers organization was repre-
scented by the general executive com
mittee, the highest body in the assOCi-
OtncieIS and the vice presidents of the
different districts. and this was the
second time in the history Of the as
sOCiatiOn that IL had been called to-
gether- The members of the commit
tee are. President. r J. Shaffer: sec
rotary treasurer, John Williams; as
sistant secretary, NJ. F. Tighe; business
manager, Benjamin I. Davis. Trus-
tees, John Pierce, PittsbuTg; Elias Jen-
kins, Youngstown. o.; J. B. Morgan,
Ia = ri
district, Davis Reese, Pittsburg, Sec
Ond district Walter Larl1ns, Martins
Ferry, o.; Third district, Charles H.
Davis, Newport, KY; Fifth district,
Glen Jarvis. Anderson Ind; Sixth dis
trict, John F. Ward Youngstown. o.;
seventh district, F. J. Williams, Biz
mingham. Ala. Eighth district. john
Chappell Newcastle, Pa; Ninth dis
trict, John W. Quinn, Granite City III.
Steel Magnates There.
The steel interests at the conference
were represented by John Warner of
New York, chief of the operating de-
partment Of The Sheet Steel COMPANY.
]. ". jerks of Pittsburg, manager of
the American Steel Hoop CON Dsnv.
Hoyt Preston, New York, late president
of the American Steel Hoop company
w amer A. Arms and ". NJ Leeds.
New York. vice presidents Of the
American Tin Plate company. and
Charles w. Bray OF PitJsburg. chief en-
glneer of the same COMPANY The
United States Steel corporation is said
70 have been indirectly represented by
Messrs. Warner and Preston.
AT the afternoon session President
Shaffer, in behalf Of the ATnalgamated
association, formally presented the case
Tor the organized workers and the
strikers. He laid stress upon the fact
that until this year the union had made
no eIIort directly to force union in
all the plants OF the combine, for the
reason that it is thought best to have
that movement originate ana be car
ried on among the workmen in the
mills
Since last year. however. q new con-
dltion confronted the union men The
ofhciais Of the various companies had
plainly indicated. he said. that they
are working on a policy for operating
their nOn-unlOn plants in preference to
the union mills, and only working the
latter when il is absolutely necessary.
This plan. he declared is forcing the
union men to desert the organization
in order TO get work. The idle mills
Icing union and the union men being
rendered pOverty-str as the price
for being members of the organization
means either that the AmaIgamated as
sociatiOn is going to be disbanded
soon or all the nOn-uniOn mills will
nave 20 be made union so that equal
Justice viii be given TO all.
Matter Of Life or Death.
II was a matter of life and death for
the Amalgamabed association that tia
nOn-unlOn mills be done away with Mr..
Shaner said. The alleged methods
adopted by the American Sheet Steel
company in practically starving the
employees of the Old Meadow mills in
Scottdale into a nOn-uniOn agreement.
was elaborated on and the demand
made oy that company that The mill
be lef- out CT the scale entirely in the
future was taken as an indication of
what the general plant of the company
is in dealing with the ANA gamated as
sociation- 1t meant, he said, slow star
walton or else complete surrender to
the company and the giving uD of ali
rights TO organized union in their
plants.
IN reply to the statements of Presi
dent Shaffer, the officers Of the various
companies present gSve an outline Of
their position. They denied any inten-
ton OF working an injustice toward
uion workmen in their mills The feel