Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-09-11
MORE MEN SECURED.
Steel Manufacturers Said to Have
:; Made Gains.
The Strike Leaders Apparently Not
Discouraged by the Outlook, and
Say Thetr Cause IL ProErexs-
ing Satisfactorily. ~>r

Pittsburg, Pa, Sept. 4.-Develop-
ments in the steel strike show decid-
ed gains for the manufacturers. The
accession of % skilled men to the Star
plant, the increased production at the
Painter and the Lindsay and Nc
Cutcheon mills, the DETECTION from the
strikers ranks of Is machinists and
pipe cutters at the Continental tube
works and so at the Pennsylvania tube
works, the importation of IL men to
the Monessen steel hoop mill and the
installation of three mills on night
turn at the Clark mill all point to an
early resumption all along the line as
viewed by the steel officials.
The Amalgamated officials, how
ever, make the claim that everything
is progressing satisfactorily,~and say
that much of the supposed advantage
of the manufacturers is bluff, and can
not be made good.
Peace Proposals..
New York, Sept. 5.-Terms of peace
in the steel strike were discussed at
length Wednesday at a secret confer
ence in which sat officials of the
United States Steel corporation, lead
ers of union labor and representa-
tives of the civic organizations which
have interviewed. Unusual safeguards
of secrecy were resorted to in order
to preserve the privacy of the pro-
ceedings, but it was evident that no
conclusion was reached and that the
decision either to terminate or con-
tinue the strike must be made by the
strikers.
Rejected by shaffer.
It is said that Mr.. Schwab stated
that the only terms he would consider
we're that all mills, whether union or
nonunion, which had continued in op-
GRAFTON, or, after being closed in the
earlier stages of the strike, had been
put in operation since. should be re-
garded as nonunion mills. On the 9th
er hand, he expressed his willingness
to recognize as union mills those plants
which the strikers had succeeded in
closing and keeping closed. These con-
ditions were contingent upon the lead
ers of the organiza ton giving instruc-
tions to the strikers to return to work
at $3.50 o'clock "Wednesday night.
When Mr.. Schwab had, it is also said
delivered his ultima tum, John Mitchell
president of the United Mine Workers
of America, and Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, called up President Shaffe1
ln ScA1 %a11
more than an hour they talked to him
explaining in detail the terms Mr.
Schwab had offered to the strikers
through the committee.
The result of the conversation was a
refusal on the part of Shaft to accept
the conditions. Shaffer, in fact, told
Gompers and Mitchell that he would
prefer the strike to continue rather
than give in upon these terms, and that
the Amalgamated association would
struggle on and sink or swim, as the
fight resulted.
The Conferrees.
The participants in the conference
were President C. NJ. Schwab, of the
United States Steel corporation
President w. E. Corey, of the Carne.
gle Steel company; Veryl Preston, Of
the United States Steel corporation;
President Samuel Gompers, of the
American Federation of Labor; Pres
ident John Mitchell, of the United
Mine Workers association; Secretary
Harry White, of the Garment Makers
association; Prof. jerks, of the in
dustrial commission, and Ralph M
Easley, secretary of the National
Civic Eedarafinn