The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-12
BIG IRON STRIKE.
AMALGAMATED ASSOCIATION OFF,
GERS IN CONFERENCE WITH
TRUST REPRESENTATIVE
MEETING is AT PITTsBURG
Able Pleas Put Forward by Dele
gates of Capital and Labor at
Their Joint Committee
Meeting
ARE TO MEET AGAIN TODAY

PITTSBURG, Pa, July 1.-THE great
labor conference at the Hotel Lincoln to-
day, failed to come to any agreement.
Another conference will be held tomor-
row morning. The object of the confer
ence was the settlement of the strike or
dered by the Amalgamated assoc: alton of
iron steel and tin workers IN, the mills
OF the American Sheet Steel company and
the American Steel Hoop company. The
conference also had another purpose in
view, the prevention of a general strike
in all the mills controlled by the United
States Steel corporation, the two concerns
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
the meeting adjourned for dinner. At 2
O'Clock in the afternoon the second ses-
sion was convened and was continued
nutil o'clock. AS a settlement within
reasonable time was seen to be out of
the question, the conference adjourned to
meet at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. The
Amalgamated association was represented
at the conference by the general executive
committee, the highest body in the as
sociation. 1t is composed Of the national
officers and the vice presidents Of the
various districts
This was the second time in the his
tory of the association that 1t had been
called together.
THE CONFEREES.
The members of the committee are:
President 7, j. Shaffer, Secretar ary-Treas-
urer John Williams, Assistant Secretary
NJ +. Tighe, Business Manager Benjamin
i. Davis
-
Jenkins, Youngstown Ohio ]. II. Nor
gan, Cambridge, Ohio
Vice Presidents-First district, Davis
Reese. Pittbsurg; second district Walter
Larkins, Martins Ferry, Ohio; Third dis
trict, Charles II. Davis, Newport. Ky;
NTH district, Glenn Jarvis, Anderson, Ind. /:
sixth district, John F. Ward. Youngs-
Jams, Birmingham Ala; eighth district.
John Chappel, New Castle, Pa; ninth
district, John w. Quinn, Granite City. Ill.
W. c. Davis, of the fourth district.
Chicago, was not present.
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: L
w. jerks, Of Pittsburg, manager of the
American Steel Hoop company; Veryl
? Preston, Of New York, late president of
me American Steel company; Warner
Arms and w. M. Leeds, New York.
vice presidents Of the American Tin
Plate company, and Charles w. B. Ray,
Of Htttsburg chief engineer of the same
coihpany,
The United States Steel corporation Is
said to have been Indirectly represented
by Messrs. Warner and Preston.
PRESIDENT sHAFFER's PLEA.
At the afternoon session President
Shaffer, in behalf OF the Amalgamated
association, formally presented the case
for the organized workers and the strik-
ers. He laid stress upon the fact that
until this year the union had made no
effort directly to force union in all the
plants of the combine, for the reason
that it was thought best to have that
movement originate and be carried on
among the workmen in the mills Since
last year, however, a. new condition con-
tonted the union men. The officials of
the various companies had plainly indI-
Gated, he said, that they are working
on a policy for operating their nom
union plants in preference to the union
mills and only working the latter when
1t Is absolutely necessary. Tnis plan, he
declared, is forcing the union men to de-
sert the organization in order to get
work. The idle mills being union, and
the union men being rendered poverty
stricken as the price for being mem
bers of the organization, means either
that the Amalgamated association is go
ing to be disbanded soon, or else the
non-union mills win have to be made
union so that equal justice will be given
to all.
1t is a matter of life and death for
the Amalgamated association that the
pon-union mills be done away with, as
Mr.. Shaffer put the situation. The
alleged method adopted by the American
Bheet Steel company Of practically
starving the employees Of the old
Meadow mills in Scottdale into non
union agreement was elaborated on and
the demand made by that company that
the mill be left out of the scale entire
~ in the future was taken as an indica-
tion of what the general plan of the
company IS In dealing with the
Amalgamated association It meant he
said, slow starvation or else complete
surrender to the company and the CIV
ing up of all rights to organized unions
IN their plants,
EMPLOYERS REPLY.
In reply to the statements of President
Shaffer, the officials OF the various COM
panies present gave a general outline Of
their position. They denied any inten-
tion of working Injustice to union work
ingmen in their mills. The feeling for
the Amalgamated association had al
ways been friendly, they said, and they
had no desire to force any trouble
amongst them.
The pleas on both sides were listened
to with the closest attention by mem
bers of both sides. The tone was
amicable and 1t was apparent the manu-
facturers We're prepared to go q long
way to gadn peaceful solution of the
existing difficulties.
The members of the two conference
committees began presenting argum ents
on their different positions In the trouble
and this continued until 8 o'clock in the
afternoon, when, by agreement, the
meeting was adjourned until 10 O'Clock
tomorrow morning. Both sides saio
they had more arguments to present in
support Of their propositions before me
issue is taken up for arbitration.