Show i THE SMELTER SITUATION Answer of the Operating Committee is Anxiously Awaited Hanager Jones of the Germania smelter will leave for that temporarily temporar-ily crippled plant this morning to confer con-fer with Superintendent Tucker and tomorrow will bu prepared lo submit lo the strikers time companys answer What this will bo cannot be Intelligently Intelli-gently surmised The management Itself It-self had not learned when Interviewed last night while at Denver where the operating committee Is In communication communica-tion with the ofllcers In New York It Is quite well understood that the company com-pany has until Wednesday In which to transmit the message on which so much depends The curbstone or that portion of it that always takes gratuitous hand In the adjustment of such conflicts expresses ex-presses the belief that at least some concession will be made the men and urges that ihq local management has always leaned In hint direction An ugly story In circulation during the afternoon was that the company hud elecldcd to allow Ihe two blast furnaces fur-naces that went out commission when the walkout occurred to remain Idle Jmlellnliely and lo forward time ores they would otherwise be railed on to reduce to company plants in neighborIng neighbor-Ing Slates as thin laltLM have already been clamoring for Tlab ores and can be made lo kusen the burden of the Germania to thai extent That such a plan has been seriously considered by the I operating committee Manager Jones would not deny How he feels personally about It In would not say Upon labor the effect would be serious Indeed It would retire at least 10 percent per-cent of that which was required to take care of the Germania when all its furnaces were in operation and the hope Is expressed that any move so calamitous lo wageearners may bo averted Meanwhile the strikers are patiently awaltlng the decision of the company and until that comes there Is nothing lo indicate other than that the shun Ion will Continue unchanged At a meeting of employees of the Germania smeller held at Murray last night the reports of Hit meeting held by the men last Friday as published in The Tribune and the Herald came up for discussion and the men were very bluer In their denunciation of the manner in which the Herald had misrepresented mis-represented affairs at that gathering That part of the Heralds report which stated that the men were too ignorant to properly conduct their meeting and quollng the men as saying that If they were out oi work for a week their fain lllts would starve to death was especially espe-cially Oensurcd The Tribunes report of time meeting was Indorsed fully by thoso present That the intn should llnd room for criticism of the Heralds report of Fridays meeting is not strange as that paper has persislently and maliciously misrcpreHenled and overdrawn conditions existing at the smelter ever since the trouble bigaji The committee consisting of George A Graham George Eatcliel Ed Holla day Fred Watford E Erlekson Peter Stromnexsund Joseph Long which was appointed to confer with Manager T R Jones of the smelter and listen to the reply received from the Eastern management In regard to the request of the men for an Increase In the scale of wages will meet with Mr Jones to day at 1 oclock It is confidently ex pected that an amicable selllement of the dllllcultles between the men and the management will be reached as both sides have manifested from the start u disposition lo 1e reasonable and Just |