The Indianapolis journal., 1901-07-12
OficiaIs of the Steel Plants Charged
with Discriminating Against Or
ganized Labor.
PUNISHMENT FOR MOLDERS
MEN WHO VIOLATED AN INJUNCTION
MUST GO TO PRISON.
Fines Also Assessed-Strikers Severe
1y Arraigned by County Judge
Stewart at York, Pm.

PITTSBURG, July 1.-THE great labor
conference at the Hotel Lincoln to-day
failed to come to any agreement. Another
conference will be held tomorrow morning.
The object of the conference was the set
tlement of the strike ordered by the Anal
gamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers in the mills of the American Sheet
Steel Company and in those of the Amer
lean Steel Hoop Company. The conference
also had another purpose in view, the pre-
vention of a general strike in all the mills
controlled by the United States Steel Cor
poration, the two companies in whose mills
the strike had been ordered being constit-
uent companies of the great steel combine.
Two sessions of the conference were held
to-day. The first convened shortly after
10 o'clock in the morning. AT noon the
meeting adjourned for dinner. At o'clock
in the afternoon the second session was
convened and was continued until o'clock.
AS a settlement within a 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 rep
resented at the conference by Presi-
dent +. j. Shaffer, Secretary
tary NJ. F. Tighe. Business Manager
Benjamin o. Davis: trustees: John Pierce.
Pittsburg; Elias Jenkins, Youngstown, O.;
]. H. Morgan, Cambridge. o.; vice presi-
dents: First district. David Reese, Pitts
burg; second district, Walter Larkins,
Martins Ferry. O.; third district, Charles
H. Davis, Newport. KY; fifth district.
Clem Jarvis. Anderson, Ind: sixth district.
district, F. j. Williams, Birmingham, Ala;
eighth district, John Chappell, New Castle,
Pa; ninth district. John w. Quinn. Granite
City, Ill. w. c. Davis, of the fourth dis
trict was not present.
The steel interests at the conference were
represented by John Warner, of New York,
chief of the operating department of the
burg, manager of the American Steel Hoop
Company; Veryl Preston, New York, late
president of the American Steel Hoop Com
New York vice presidents of the American
Tin Plate Company, and Charles W. Bray,
of Pittsburg. chief engineer of the same
tion is said TO have been indirectly repre-
sented by Messrs. Warner and Preston.
AT the afternoon session President Shaf-
fer in behalf of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation, formally presented the case for the
organized workers and the strikers. He
laid stress on the fact that until this year
the union had made no effort, directly, to
combine for the reason that ii 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 confronted the union men. The
officials of the various companies had
plainly indicated, he said, that they are
working on policy for operating their
norunion plants in preference to the union
mills, and only working the latter when ii
is absolutely necessary. This plan, he de-
clared, is forcing the union men to desert
the organization in order to get work. The
idle mills, being union, and the union men
being rendered poverty-stricken as the
ton. means either that the Amalgamated
Association Is going TO be disbanded soon
or else the nonunion mills have to be made
union, so that equal justice will be given
TO ALL 1t was a matter of life and death
for the Amalgemated Association that the
nonunion mills be done away with. as Mr.
Shaffer put the situa ton. The alleged
method adopted by the American Sheet
Steel Company in practically starving the
employees of the Old Meadow mills, in Scott
dale. into a nonunion agreement was elab-
GRATED on, and the demand made by that
company that the mill be left out of the
scale entirely in the future was taken as
an indication OF what the general plan Of
the company Is In dealing with the ANAL
gamated Association. 1t meant, he said
slow starvation or else complete surrender
to the company and the giving up of all
rights to organized unions in their plants
In reply to the statement Of President
Shaffer the officers of the various COM
panie5 present gave an outline OF their
position. They denied any intention Of
working an injustice towards union work.
men in the mills. The feeling for the Anal
gamated men had always been friendly
they said. and they had no desire 10 force
any trouble among them.
The plea on both sides was listened to
with the closest attention by all of the
members of the conference. The tone on
each side was amicable, and IL was appar-
ent that the manufacturers representa-
tives were prepared TO go a long way to
gain a peaceful solution of the existing
differences.
mittees began presenting arguments in ia
vor of their different positions in the trou-
ble and this continued until o'clock in
the afternoon, when, by agreement, the
meeting was adjourned until 10 o'clock to-
morrow morning. Both sides said they
had more arguments to present in support
of their propositions before the issue is
taken up for arbitration.