The Penn's Grove record., 1901-08-09
STATUS OF STEEL STRIKE
Conference Between Morgan and Shat
Ter Ends in a Disagreement
IT Is FIGHT TO A FINISH

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Absolute Fo"ei
Employees of the bilIion-pol'ar s'ee'
Trust Placed in Amalgamated Presi-
5.,,,s uop1s-AuN NEGOTIATIONS Broken
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Now yorl, Observation-Disclosures for
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tne se'''e'uen' VI 'n' 't''
came 10 an end IN ms CITY "heh
leaders Of the strike refused to ac-
cent the terms offered bv !. Picrpont
,rauuo p~roetdou. Sbofer and
Nois'"' i'e''S"'
fourteen other OIL the ENeeu-
tive Board of the Amalgamated AS
sociation met Mr.. Morgan and other
u.o,4oHros 81 +bo J-ni+ed sto+ns
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steer NoFPot"'ion III 'ne "l"V1 VI W.
NJ. Schwab, at No. Il Broadway,
about noon. The conference ended
ahrrntIv in an nour
NJ E.aa,Hm D., alton f,i,,ra
ut NNe'U'''e Do"'o' "l'i "''e
to get any concessions at the meet
ing, announced through SeCretaryWl-
liams that the strike would be con
tinued and that orders would be given
TO the union men employed by the Ma
tional Steel Company, the Federal
Steel Company and the National Tube
Company TO 90 on strike. On the
other hand. the mill owners will seek
to open their mills as opportunity
offers and 10 keen them omen with
ont The assistance of the union.
Not a man on either side doubts
that the conflict will be long and
bitterly fought. and all because neither
side would recede enc iota from the
position 1t had assumed.
If was Mr.. Morgan who laid the
ultimatum before the associations
men. 1t was he who told them that
they must accent his proposition, OF
else fight 10 the end. Not only did the
mon reject these propositions, but
they submitted II counter ultlmatum,
The terms of which are so sweeping
that +hey must have known from the
outset that they never would be ac.
cented Inv the other side.
In Pittsburg and throughout the
great steel making region of the Mid
die West the failure of the confer
ence was not unexpected. One steel
man waited in Pittsburg at the tele.
pboDe until he got news of the break.
ing of the armistice. with the add.
tional information that the United
States Steel CORPORATION would de,
vote IFS time and money to driving
the Amaleamated Association out Of
Mi its mills. tGood!' he calculated
That WAS all. He started out with
n smiling face to prepare for the fray
This feeling was general among all
the steel managers in Pittsburg. They
welcomed the conflict. The workmen
were equally ready. Meetings were
held in all the strike centres, and
there were rallies Mt two score other
DIaces In PENNSYLVANIA, Ohio, West
Virginia and Illinois.
According to n Vice-Presldent of the
Amalgamated Association who attend
ed the New York conference, Presi.
dent Schwab alone prevented n set.
Element of the differences. Seven
mills divide the union and the Trust.
According to the President of the
Executive Committee. in whose hands
the whole matter has been placed,
every man within the influence of,
the ORGANIZATION will have to quit his
Mace and everything that can be done
will be done 20 prevent the Trust
from running its mills.
In the meeting that followed the
rejection of the Associations propO.
sition lv ! pierpOnt Morgan. Presi.
dent Sbaffer was made dictator: his
is the power and his the response
biIity TO make the war. and he has
declared himself.