Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1901 — WILL NOT ARBITRATE. [ARTICLE]

WILL NOT ARBITRATE.

President Schwab Declines ns Representative of the Steel Combine. Efforts to settle the great steel strike by arbitration have fallen flat. President Schwab of the United States Steel Corporation absolutely refuses to consider the proposition. Simon Burns, president of the National Association of Window Glass Workers, who fiad been commissioned by President Shaffer to make such peace overtures to the combine, arrived in Indianapolis on Tuesday to attend a trade meeting and found awaiting him the positive rejection by Mr. Schwab. While disappointed, Mr. Burns has not abandoned his hope of securing a settlement. “I submitted my plan to Mr. Schwab merely as a suggestion,” said Mr. Burns, “and if there is anything in it that is objectionable to the trust officials it can be modified. When I .return to Pittsburg I shall take the matter up again with Mr. Schwab in 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 St is hurting business.”