The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-04
FIGHT TO FINISH IN GREAT STEEL STRIKE
All Efforts to Bring About Amicable Settlement Fail---COnference
 Broken Off.

They declined to make any modified tions of the terms offered by them just one week ago when Messrs. Shaffer and Williams journeyed here for the first conference. MT. Shaffer and the other men of the Amalgamated Asso- citation insisted that more liberal terms be offered to them. There was gen. eral discussion as to the whole propo- sition involved and each mill, the unionization of which has been dis puted. was considered in detail. When either side had fully expressed itself, the steel officials withdrew from the room in order to let the labor repre- sentatives confer privately. The lat ter decided to reject the offer of the steel corporation and when MT. Schwab returned to the room they so informed him. Mir. Morgan and his two part ners withdrew and a little later the Amalgamated men proceeded to the Stevens House and went into execu- tive session."
 Will Fight It Out.
 Before the Executive Board of the Amalgamated Association went into secret session at the Stevens House Secretary Williams said: Tt is hign- ly improbable that 6 settlement will be reached. We are not going to accede to the proposition of Nr. Morgan. We will stick to the bitter end to the men who went out with us."
 It was 2 o'clock when their meeting began and 4:15 o'clock when President Shaffer came into the lobby and an nounced that they had concluded tneir work here and would leave at once Tor their homes. President Shaffer de- clined to say anything in addition to the formal statement of Secretary Will Hams and his companions were equally reticent. Mr. Shaffer asked that the statement be printed in full, saying that the strikers wished the pubic Io understand their position.
 Not an intimation of the future pol fcy of the Amalgamated Association in waging the great industrial battle which it faces could be obtained from any member of the party. Shaner seemed grave and serious despite the vindication which his companions gave him in their official statement, while tbe other Amalgamated men seemed In very high spirits. SRnffer said he in- tended to take the first srain to Pitts- burg. When the Amalgamated men left him, President Schwab went at once to tne office of J. P. Morgan and had a taik with MT. Bacon. He went home carry fin the afternoon as did all the other men who repr5SenLSl the CofPoi o'AOA the final debate of the issues which di- vide them and their men. It was evl- dens that they expected nothing to come from the second meeting Of the Amalgamated representatives then in progress. No statement in behalf or the steel corporation was made ana none of its representatives would talk for publication.
 It is believed here that there will be immediate action from both sides, the expectation being that the steel cor poration will attempt the operation or some of it's mills independent of the union and that the Amalgamated As sociation will call upon those in sym pathy with them to strike. If there are no further efforts at conciliation and the strike is extended. it may de- yelop into the largest conflict of the kind in the history of the country. Fig ures at this time as to the number of men and properties that would be | involved are pronounced unreliable by conservative men who know the trade
 because many of the claims of strength put forward on either side are disputed and can be tested only in actual con flict