The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-08-02
STRIKE CONFERENCE
be VI LEADERS ON BOTH SIDES
TO Be HAD TODAY.
PEACE CONFIDENTLY EXPECTED
As a Result or Meeting to Consider h
Propositions of the United States
steel Corporation-The Terms OF Set
Element to be Observation-Disclosures
Compromises and Yielding of Points
on Both ~Sfdes-Both sides Continue
on the Lookout tor S~urprises-No
Change In Situation at Mills.

Pittsburg, July 29.-Everybody is on
the qui vive tonight in strike circles
and the coming conference of the lead
lers of the two contending forces is
Hooked forward to with mingled hope
land fear. Hope. however, predominates,
and peace is confidently expected by
by the majority of those interested.
THE executive committee of the
lAmalgamated Association will meet in
the headquarters Of the organization
lat 10 o'clock tomorrow morning or as
lsoon thereafter as possible and take
iup the propositions of the United
States Steel Corporation for a settle
iment of the steel workers strike"
This statement was made today by
lSecretary Williams, of the Amalga-
MATED Association. Beyond this he
declined to discuss the strike in any
form. There was no change in the po-
|Sition of the two contestants, today.
Both sides held firmly to the plan of
watching each other.
The officials of the wood mill Of the
American Sheet Steel Company made
no attempt to start the plant, and indi-
lcationS pointed to their remaining in
lactive until the strike negotiations are
decided n way or the other. The first
report of the day that the American
Tin Plate Company was making an eff
fort to start h Dempler plant with
non-union men and that one set of rolls
was being operated was afterward ex-
Iplained as being a rumor that started
from the fact that the company had
lSome men at work repairing the plant,
with the expectation that the strike
will be settled shortly.
The officials of the Steel Companies
now here preserve silence as to the con-
ference of Saturday between the leaders
Ion either side of the strike and the pos
lsibility of a settlement. 1t is believed,
however. that the terms of peace out
lined on Saturday will be ratified by
the executive board of the Amalgamat-
led Association on Tuesday and that
There will be an early reSupmtion of
work. Both sides are silent as to the
terms of the new pact, but various
Iclaims of victory are being made in be-
half of the strikers. On that point a
man interested in the steel trade said
Ito the Associated Press:
Take some salt with these claims of
victory. Wait until the new agreement
lis signed and it's contents published
before you award any decision as to
gains on either side"
President Schwab was at his office
las usual today, but declined to talk
the conference or the prospective
J. P. Morgan is believed
Ito have N to Bar Harbor.
The following terms of settlement of
the strike and the programme for to-
come from an authoritative
and can be relied upon in all
human probability as the outcome of
the meeting of the conferees. The
terms of probable settlement are:
The Amalgamated Association is to
|drOp contention for the signing of a
|scale for all mills. All mills are to
be open mills in the fullest sense of
the term.
The company is to have the right to
place a non-union man in any plant and
keep him there.
In addition to the plants covered by
the expired scale it is to be signed for
the following: w. Devices wood, of
McKeesport; the Painter, Lindsay &
McCutcheon, and the Clark Mills, of
|Pittsburg, and the Monessen plants of
THE American Steel Hoop Company.
THE question of making the Wellsville
sheet plant and the Monessen Tin Plate
plant directly covered by the scale is
Ito be settled by the conferees.
The Amalgamated Association is to
have the privilege of organizing the
men in any of the plants.