Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1901 — New Plan to Arbitrate Strike. [ARTICLE]

New Plan to Arbitrate Strike.

The plan of arbitration for the settlement of the great steel strike submitted by Simon Burns, president of the Labor Assembly 300, the national organization of the Window Glass Workers, and also head of the Knights of Labor, has been rejected by President Schwab, of the steel trust, but another proposition will be submitted to him by Mr. Burns. “I submitted my plan to Schwab merely as a suggestion,” said Burns at Indianapolis, "and if there is anything in it that is objectionable to the trust officials it can he modified. When I return to Pittsburg I shall take the matter up again with Schwab in the hope of making some kind of an arrangement whereby the strike question can be submitted to arbitration. I think that a start toward a settlement of the strike should be made somewhere at once, as it is hurting bus!* ness. If it is true, as Schwab says, that there is nothing to arbitrate, why, I cannot see where his side would be injured by submitting to arbitration. It would be different, of course, if the matter should be submitted to Interested parties, but that is not the plan.”