The sun., 1901-08-04
STEEL STRIKE Will CONTINUE
EXECUTIVE BOARD GETS NO CONs
CESSIONs HERE.

N0H
He Called Out From Federal sseel,
National Steel and National Tubs
Mills Unlisted On Seeing J. I7erpsus
Morgan. Although He Had Nsshius
10 OTer Them-Tin Plate Milh ts
Open Non-Unien-E Hints sf Violence,
The Executive Board OF the ANAL
gamated Steel. Iron and Tin Workers, after
falling yesterday to get any concessions
at q meeting hero with ]. Pierpont Nor
gan, Charles M. Schwab and other msu
interested in the affairs Of the United States
Steel Corporation. announced through
Secretary Williams that the strike would
Be continued and that orders would b.
given to the union men employed BY
the National Steel Company. the Federal
Steel Company and the Ma tional Tube
Company to 60 on strike at O'Clock this
evening. On the other hand. the mill
owners will seek to open their mills as
opportunity offers and to keep them open
without the assistance of the union.
The attitude Of the board was far from
conciliatory, even at the outset Of the con-
ference, and when. subsequently, the steel
company men refused to accede to the
unionization Of the mills which have gone
into the organization since the strike al
prospects Of agreement disappeared. While
it is true that the board were disposed
to give way to some extent on their demand
that they should be permitted to organize
lodges in non-union mills, they stood out
for the recognition Of the union In those
plants which. hitherto independent. have
since the strike become more or less affiliated
with the association. The demand. they
say. was refused point blank by Mr. Morgan
and his colleagues Secretary Williams
OF the Executive Board stated that about
100, 900 men are employed In the mills OF ths
three companies to which an attempt win
now be made to extend the strike.
BETTER TERMS OFFERED SATURDAY wEEK3
Yesterdays conference grew out OF a re-
quest made by the men themselves A week
ago Yesterday President Shafier and Secre-
tary Williams we're brought to New York by
O. B. n. Harvey to discuss with Mr.. Morgan
the men and the employers had made issue.
An agreement was entered into which
was signed by both sides. There appears
to be some divergeno Of statement about
it's terms. Mr.. Shah says the UNDER
standing arrived at Mas that the scale
be ratified and that four non-union mills
should be given to the association II
this be 30 Il is apparently better terms
| than the men got yesterday Another
! statement Is that the terms were lie same
as was offered q week ago Saturday.
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| back to Pittsburg and presented II to the
Executive Board, but II was not accepted.
| IL 10 Understood that at a meeting OF the
board last Tuesday Shaffer denied that he
had put his signature TO the agreement.
but that document exists with his signature
upon 1t cannot be questioned. Not salts
fed with what was accomplished by their
President and Secretary. the board decided
after nearly weeks Ineffective argument
among themselves to come 20 New York
and see what they could do as a body.
Through Veryl Preston Of the American
Sheet Steel Company ii was arranged that
they should have an opportunity Of meet
ing Mr.. Schwab and some other directors
OF the United States Steel Corporation.
RENTED TO LAST YEARS TERMS.
The only terms the steel companies were
willing to offer yesterday are interpreted
in regard to the steel hoop and sheet steel
companies as remitting the men to the
terms of 1900, and a. to the Tin Plate COM
pany az requiring that they resume work
under the agreement of July last which
they broke Immediately after il was signed.
A factor which influences the steel
directors TO offer terms less favor
able than were offered early in July is
that the protracted idleness OF the plants
affected by the strike has brought a con-
siderable expense upon the companies
and that therefore II was not SO practicable
as before TO recur to the scale adopted
last July when the prospect for the ensuing
months OF the year pointed to the utmost
activity in all the mills and consequent
prosperity for workers and employers
alike.
URGENT TO SEE MR. MORGAN.
Soon after 1890 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. the appointed time for the conference,
President Shaffer. accompanied by the
fifteen other members OF the Executive
Board of the Amalgamated Association,
filed into MIR. Schwab's Office in the
Empire Building. II Broadway. Waiting
ton and W. f. Corey. President Of
the Carnegie company. Observing that
Mr., Morgan was not present, Mr..
Shaffer suggested that it might facilitate
things II the organizer Of the steel cor
poration would personally see the mem-
bers Of the board. THIS suggestion was
conveyed II Mr. Morgan by telephone.
bui at first he decidedly objected 10 taking
part in the conference. He told MIR.
Schwab that ho had already informed Mr..
Shaffer of the terms he was willing TO offer,
and that Ii the strikers were unwilling TO
accept his proposition it would be futile
for I'm TO meet them because he would
not recede from the position he had taken.
Mr.. Schwab, however, urged that his
presence was essential, whereupon Mr..
Morgan gave way and said he would come
over. Accompanied by Mr.. Dawkns. his
London representative, and Robert Bacon.
a partner In his firm, he walked from his
Office in Wall street TO the Empire Building
and entered Mr. Schwabs Office. A few
minutes later Daniel G. Reid. President Of
the American Tin Plate Company, arrived
BOARD STATES ITS PROPOSITIONS
Mr.. Schwab intimated 10 Mr.. Shaffer
that he was ready TO listen TO any requests
the strikers might have to make. There
fore Mr.. Shafer after explaining what
had passed in the meetings OF the board
during the week, described several amend
ments, which the strikers insisted upon, to
the proposition which he had submitted asa
result OF his visit to New York on Saturday,
July "a. Several OF the members OF the
board supplemented Mr. Shaffer's remarks
telling why, in their opinion, their demand
should be granted. They denied that their
policy was TO be- one of coercion OF non
union men. They urged that all they
wanted was the right to organize lodge
of the association In non-union mill when
the men working In the mill expressed
desire TO become organized.
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