The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-08-03
Negotiations, Transferred From Pittsburg to
New York, Come to Naught at
the First Trial.
Amalgamated Representatives Decline to Ac.
cept the Combines Terms, but
May Reconsider.

New York, Aug. 3.-The steel strike
conference held here to-day failed to ar
| rive at an agreement. The proposals
made by ]. Pierpont Morgan and Charles
| M. Schwab through President Shaffer and
Secretary Williams Of the Amalgamated
Association one week ago are still open,
but the strikers representatives showed
no inclination to accept them.
Representatives Of the strikers left the
conference at which they had failed to
agree, with the announcement that they
will go into secret session themselves
later in the afternoon. 1t was admitted
that there may be action at that meeting
which will change the situation.
At the conference of this morning
Messrs. Morgan and Schwab insisted upon
acceptance c. the terms offered by them
on Saturday last. President Shaffer and
his associates demanded further conces-
sions in behalf of the union. Neither side
would give in and the conferees dis
agreed ana parted, leaving the situation
practically unchanged.
President Schwab went from the confer
ence to the Office of ]. P. Morgan, where
Bacon. He would not discuss the con-
ference or the strike situation.
Combines Sole Proposition.
Soon after the adjournment of the con-
ference D. G. Reid of the American Tin
Plate company, was asked if Mr.. Nor
gan had, as was reported, delivered an
ultimatum to the strikers. He replied
that he did not wish to say anything
which would put Mr.. Morgan in such a
position. He said, however, that the
strikers executive committee had until
4 o'clock to-day to decide wether or not
to accept the only proposition ever made
to them by the United States Steel cor
poration, which was that the men
should go back TO work at last years s
scale of wages. This and no other prop
osition he said had been or will be made
to the Amalgamated executive commit
tee.
President Shaffer at the close of the
conference went to the Stevens house
WILL IAC OCASI <A0SOC1dI1OA
delegates. He was asked for statement
as to what had been accomplished at the
conference, but he declined to speak on
the subject further than to say:
"It's too serious a matter. l must sub
nit certain understand me, not
propositions-to my men, before I can
speak"
He would not say whether or not there
is to be another conference this after
noon.
The Conference.
When President Shaffer and Secretary
Williams arrived the whole party filed
into Mr.. Schwab's Office in the Empire
building Mr.. Morgan had not yet arrived,
but the conference really began before he
came. Mr.. Schwab spoke first and was
talking when Mr. Morgan, who came with
c. E. Dawkins, his English partner, and
Robert Bacon, arrived. Mr.. Morgan fol-
lowed Mr.. Schwab in a brief address to
the representatives of labor, in which he
outlined his position and that of the corpo-
ration. He restated the proposals made
by himself and President Schwab on Sat
urday last and said that they encompassed
all the employers had to offer.
A general discussion followed, in which
the Amalgamated delegation insisted upon
greater concessions than those offered.
The discussion went into details as to
signing of the scale for iron mills, but it
was fruitless.
Mr.. Morgan and the steel officials with
drew from the room to give the labor del
egates chance to confer privately
In their absence President Schaffer and
his associates decided that they could not
accept the proposals of last Saturday and
so informed the steel officials when they
returned. There was some general dis
cussion of an unimportant nature, and the
conference adjourned.
Mr.. Morgan, Mr.. Dawkins and Mr.. Bacon
were the first to leave the building, and
they were followed within few minutes
by the Amalgamated delegation. The lat
ter went at once to the Stevens House for
lunch.
President Shaffer would not say any
thing as to the result of the conference.
He said he and his companions were going
to confer privately and might issue a
statement at or 4 o'clock. He said.
however, that he had no proposition to
submit to them.
No Further Conference.
After the labor men went into session
in the Stevens House a statement was
given out by one of their number that
the proposition made by the steel corpora
tion would not be accepted and that there