Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19
PRIEST. SCHWAB'S WORD
SETTLED THE STRIKE.
JARRETT WAS GIVEN CON-
PLETE AUTHORITY
TO MAKE THE BEST TERMS.
THE INFLUENCE OF COL. G.. WAT
SON FRENCH WAS THROWN On
THE SIDE OF PEACE.

aaLOttC III lIo
treatment of the McKeesport strike will
say:
President Charles NJ. Schwab, of the
united States Steel Corporation spent
an hour Wednesday in conference with
Col. G. Watson French, vice president
of the Republic Iron & steel Company,
and the result is that the threatened
strike against the big Morgan company
is off. A final agreement putting a quie-
tus to the leaven of this great prospec-
tive struggle in the tie-up of the Wood
mills at McKeesport was only reached
yesterday evening. 1t provides for re-
sumption of work at the Wood plant
Thursday with all the old men.
When Col. French left the meeting
of the advisory board Of the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers, on Wednesday afternoon
he did so promising to use his best en-
deavor to put an end to the strike issue
without forcing a back-down from
either side. The understanding was
that to do this he would go beyond the
Pittsburg powers of the American Sheet
Steel Company, operating the Wood
plant, and this he did.
He went directly to the Carnegie
building. President Schwab, of the
United States Steel Corporation, was
there, having returned during the after
noon from a trip of inspection Of the
mills.
The serious situation in relation to
the United States Steel Corporation
and the assurance that President Schaf-
fer of the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, would
carry out Lis threat, was presented to
the new executive of the greatest indus
ul.al corporation Of the world. 1t was
presented from the standpoint of an
executive of another corporation with
$4,000, 600 capital, and who, during
the threatened trouble of that company,
with the Association of workers last
fall, was the leading representative
of his company in its wage scale set
Element.
1t took time to convince the president
of the great Morgan company that he
should act and act promptly to stop
the McKeesport trouble, and what would
subsequently have involved all of the
organized mills of the big company.
Col. French left Mr.. Schwab an hour
after he had entered his Office. He
went to his in the DuQuesne
club. From there he called President
Shaffer of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton by telephone, inviting him to meet
him. Mr.. Shaffer Joined Col. French
shortly after half past six O'Clock and
left him fifteen minutes later.
The Amalgamated president came
away from his meeting with Col.
French in a tremor of excitement. He
would, however, only make the state
ment for which he was quoted in the
Commercial Gazette yesterday, and the
prospects of a settlement were then
brighter than at any time since the
McKeesport trouble had started.
The Amalgamated president had been
assured that another mar higher in his
relations to the American Sheet Steel
Company and United States Steel Cor
poration would be heard from with a
new proposition for the settlement of
the trouble yesterday morning. This
was to be before Dor At II o'clock
John Jarrett, head of the labor bureau
of the American Sheet Steel Company,
appeared at the meeting of the advisory
board of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton. Through circuitous channels
President Schwab, of the United States
Steel Corporation mad practically pass
ed the word to Mr.. Jarrett to settle the
strike difference on terms he saw fit.
The word had gone through President
George G. McMurtry, of the Sheet Steel
Company. An odd feature of the trans
action is neither he nor Mr.. Schwab
had in years before had conciliatory
dealings with the Amalgamated Asso-
citation.
A telegram from the staff correspond
ent Of n Commercial Gazette at New
York last night quotes President
Schwab with the assertion that the
McKeesport strike is endel, Mr.. Schwab
saying that he had just returned from
Pittsburg, and that there would be no
further trouble.
John Jarrett went into conference
yesterday with a new proposition for
the advisory board of the Amalgama-
ted Association. He offered in behalf of
the company to have all the ten dis
charged men reinstated at once In con-
s%ideration of the strike being declared
off. This in part was his proposition
on Tuesday, but when he stated that
George A. Holloway, the president Of
Empire Lodge, composed Of the skilled
men OF the Wood plant, could not be
reinstated, later this proposition was
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