Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1905 — BECAUSE IT WAS POLICY [ARTICLE]

BECAUSE IT WAS POLICY

That I* Why th* Amalgamated Compromised with the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company. Pittsburg, July 7.—An offilcal statement is given out by the officers of the Amalgamated Associationof Iron. Steel and Tin Workers in which they make public their reasons for compromising with the Americin Sheetand Tin Plate company in the recent wage conference. _ The statement contends that it was only after it became apparent that the American company had lieen fortifying their position to press their claims to the point of operating tlie plants non-union that tlie association yielded. It further says circumstances were against declaring a strike at this time.